The Flaming Lips Discography The Soft Bulletin Warner Bros./PIAS Records - 0555-10109-1 - May 1999 |
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Music reviewers' love of hyperbole means that the term 'masterpiece' tends to be donned on any album passing mediocre these days, but in the middle of 1999 The Flaming Lips put out an album that is well deserving of the description. It is quite superb from start to finish. If I had to make any criticism of the album it would be the superfluous repetition of the singles at the end of the CD version; and here the vinyl version wins out. Not only does the LP tracklist include both The Spiderbite Song (from US CD version) and Slow motion (from UK CD version), but the separating of the album over four side of vinyl works beautifully, with each grouping holding together in its own right, like a collection of EPs; this is to my mind the definitive tracklist.
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![]() Green vinyl, A-side | Detail |
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![]() B-side lable detail | B-side |
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