Here, Coyne floats high above the everyday muck and, cushioned by soft pillows of celestial synths and strings, realising that his body’s been slowly breaking apart ever since he was born that all life is destined to die.
But on an album where nearly every song’s a gem, from the brittle beauty of The Spiderbite Song to The Spark That Bled’s gorgeous six-minute symphony, Feeling Yourself Disintegrate feels particularly precious. The Soft Bulletin has so many special moments it could easily half-fill a 10 of the Best on its own. It includes a remastered CD and a DVD-Audio disc that contains a 5.1-channel surround sound mix of the album. re-released The Soft Bulletin in the US as a two-disc package titled The Soft Bulletin 5.1. The Flaming Lips’ distinctive use of theme, melody and unorthodox recording techniques accelerated them to an early-career magnum opus that has inspired countless artists,” Vinyl Me, Please Head of A&R Alex Berenson said in a statement.Īrchival Materials Provided by The Flaming Lips, Michelle Martin-Coyne, The Fearless Freaks Directed By Bradley Beesley, Scott Booker, Dave and Mary Fridmann, George Salisbury, Warner Brothers Records “Over the past twenty years, The Soft Bulletin has cemented its standing as a modern classic of American rock music. “Their music isn’t, how you say, universally accessible, and the weirdness gets same-y, but no one else has posited a parallel universe in which the Sixties and the Nineties exist simultaneously, allowing for a peculiarly convincing brand of monolithic robotic swirl.” “Densely textured, awkward but somehow melodic, The Soft Bulletin finds these pop oddballs with their poker-faced humor firmly intact - ‘When you got that spider bite on your hand/I thought we would have to break up the band,’ sings Wayne Coyne in his strained Neil Young-style voice, referring to an accident that could only have happened to the Lips, and did,” Rolling Stone wrote of The Soft Bulletin in a 1999 album review. The album is now considered by many to be the Flaming Lips’s masterpiece, “The Soft Bulletin is a record that’s always with us… and we’re always considering it… we’re always playing it… we’re always celebrating it,” Coyne said of the reissue in a statement. CD release – and is accompanied by a new art print designed by frontman Wayne Coyne. The Flaming Lips will celebrate it’s 20th anniversary of their 1999 masterpiece The Soft Bulletin with a limited edition vinyl reissue this October. The 2-LP reissue, released exclusively through subscription service Vinyl Me, Please and pressed on mustard yellow, preserves the album’s original 13-song vinyl track list – including the track “Slow Motion,” originally omitted from the U.S. The album was released to wide critical acclaim and hailed by critics as a departure from their previous guitar-heavy alternative rock sound, into a more layered and intricately arranged work. The Soft Bulletin is the ninth studio album by The Flaming Lips, released by Warner Bros. But despite this minute imperfection, The Soft Bulletin provides an exquisite soundtrack to have blasting in the car at night.The Flaming Lips offer an oral history of The Soft Bulletin, with intimate interviews examining the stories behind this modern classic. The only downfall is their choice to put two alternate versions of songs at the end of the album. "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate," "Suddenly Everything Has Changed," and "A Spoonful Weighs a Ton" are equally amazing and will leave you with drool dripping from your chin.
Each song is epic and inspiring - I listen in awe every time "The Spark That Bled" shoots through my ears.
THE FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN ALBUM FULL
The songs are often unpredictable and full of crazy tangents. The song structures on Soft Bulletin are close to where they left off on Zaireeka (in fact, some of the songs are leftovers from the Zaireeka sessions). Wayne Coyne's distinct voice slices confidently through the mix with tales of spiders and mosquito bites. Brilliant lyrics and beautiful soundscapes shape the album into a musical orgy. Every note is perfectly crafted from the slightly reverberated guitars to the distorted mechanical drumming, The Flaming Lips have fused together the raw sound of the past with the futuristic sounds of the present. They have definitely perfected the sound that makes up the present day Flaming Lips. Zaireeka was a massive breakthrough for them, but Soft Bulletin is the true gem in their catalog. The Soft Bulletin is absolutely stunning.
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