Clouds Taste Metallic

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The great thing about Flaming Lips records is that each new one renders all its predecessors obsolete. Clouds Taste Metallic continues the fine Lips tradition of quantum improvement. It's an elaborately orchestrated masterwork of crashing cymbals, chiming bells, tinkling pianos, buzzing guitars, chirping birds, humming projectors, exploding cities, cheering crowds, and vocals stacked to the stratosphere. Each song goes gleefully over the top, but every ridiculous element somehow seems just right. While the carnival atmosphere and silly song titles distract you from band leader Wayne Coyne's serious ambition, the album's power bubbles up from hidden depths and eventually overwhelms you. The smoldering packages in "Lightning Strikes the Postman" and the sleeping millions dreaming about killing the boss in "Bad Days" are funny, but they're also unnerving, and the band builds a whole song out of the sad truth that "Evil Will Prevail." The sense that this isn't all just fun and games makes happier moments such as the cosmic orgasm of "When You Smile" sound like something much more than a hippie's wet dream. This album isn't music to take drugs to; it's the drug itself. --Tim Quirk --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Clouds Taste Metallic
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Still my favorite Lips album

The Lips At The Peak Of Their Psychedelic Power

Brilliant, unique, puzzling, etc.

Definitly Try other Lips cd's

Great Album

Clouds Taste Metallic
The Flaming Lips
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002MYC
Release Date: 1995-09-19

Tracks:

The Abandoned Hospital Ship
Psychiatric Explorations Of The Fetus With Needle
Placebo Headwound
This Here Giraffe
Brainville
Guy Who Got A Headache and Accidentally...
When You Smile
Kim's Watermelon Gun
They Punctured My Yolk
Lightning Strikes The Postman
Christmas At The Zoo
Evil Will Prevail
Bad Days

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The great thing about Flaming Lips records is that each new one renders all its predecessors obsolete. Clouds Taste Metallic continues the fine Lips tradition of quantum improvement. It's an elaborately orchestrated masterwork of crashing cymbals, chiming bells, tinkling pianos, buzzing guitars, chirping birds, humming projectors, exploding cities, cheering crowds, and vocals stacked to the stratosphere. Each song goes gleefully over the top, but every ridiculous element somehow seems just right. While the carnival atmosphere and silly song titles distract you from band leader Wayne Coyne's serious ambition, the album's power bubbles up from hidden depths and eventually overwhelms you. The smoldering packages in "Lightning Strikes the Postman" and the sleeping millions dreaming about killing the boss in "Bad Days" are funny, but they're also unnerving, and the band builds a whole song out of the sad truth that "Evil Will Prevail." The sense that this isn't all just fun and games makes happier moments such as the cosmic orgasm of "When You Smile" sound like something much more than a hippie's wet dream. This album isn't music to take drugs to; it's the drug itself. --Tim Quirk

Customer Reviews:

Still my favorite Lips album.......2007-07-24

And it will be yours too. Steve's drum sounds on this album are just inredible. Crystal clear ringing cymbals and snappy snares. First spins sound like they made such huge leaps forward by the time Bulletin and Yoshimi came out, but closer inspection reveals that the Lips were in that whole strata way back then, too. Check out the back-to-back They Punctured My Yolk and Lightning Strikes the Postman for proof. Brainville & Kim's Watermelon Gun are other fun favorites...

The Lips At The Peak Of Their Psychedelic Power.......2007-06-08

Clouds Taste Metallic is the last record by the guitar driven version of the Flaming Lips. The reason for this is that Clouds is the last Lips album to be recorded with Ronald Jones (guitar) as a member of the band. Jones' ability to manipulate brilliant layers of feedback that somehow retain melodic texture is the perfect compliment to the psychedelic vision of Wayne Coyne. Add to this the blossoming musical genius of Steven Drozd and you come away with a psychedelic rock masterpiece of epic proportions. This is the Flaming Lips at their most mighty. You need to own this record.

Brilliant, unique, puzzling, etc. .......2007-02-13

This album certainly took me a long time to get into. I think it is easily the Flaming Lips' best work, with the Soft Bulletin coming in second place. I can hear something new literally every time I listen to it. The key here is the arranging done by the Lips. Take abrasive guitars, whiny vocals, and heavy-handed drumming, and somehow put it together to get a brilliant, beautiful, and completely unique sound. It seems like Beach Boys meets Brian Eno meets The Ramones. I don't know how to describe it. Like I said, it's completely unique. It's the Flaming Lips, and it's amazing. One of my all time top ten.

Definitly Try other Lips cd's.......2006-08-31

Don't let this review get you down on the band. There is surely some good music here. But only on the opening of this CD. After that, its downhill. Nothing Horrible. Just not mentionable.
Buy Yoshime if you want a Great CD. The newer Mystics is good, Soft B. should be a pickup (not the first one).
Simple. Buy Yoshime. Its there best effort hands down. The others will follow. This one will not be played, unless you burn and take the first track off it.

Great Album.......2006-07-11

It's really pretty basic. If you like the Flamming Lips you should own this album. If you are figuring out whether you like them I would probably get "Transmissions from a Satelite Heart." But this one is also another I'd recommend. In my mind, it's much better then their newest alubm

3 for 1: Clouds Taste Metallic/Hit to Death in the Future/the Soft Bulletin

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Three times the fun

3 for 1: Clouds Taste Metallic/Hit to Death in the Future/the Soft Bulletin
Flaming Lips
Manufacturer: Wea/Warner
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00016W7BS
Release Date: 2004-02-10

Tracks:

The Abandoned Hospital Ship
Psychiatric Explorations Of The Fetus With Needles
Placebo Headwound
This Here Giraffe
Brainville
Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
When You Smile
Kim's Watermelon Gun
They Punctured My Yolk
Lighting Strikes Postman
Christmas At The Zoo
Evil Will Prevail
Bad Days (Aurally Version)
Talkin Bout The Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues
Hit Me Like You Did The First Time
The Sun
Felt Good To Burn
Gingerale Afternoon (the Astro)
Halloween On The Barbary Coast
The Magician Vs. The Headache
You Have To Be Joking (Autopsy
Frogs
Hold Your Head
Race For The Prize
A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
The Spark That Bled
Slow Motion
What Is The Light
The Observer
Waiting For Superman
Suddenly Everything Has Changed
Gash
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
Sleeping On The Roof
Race For The Prize (Mokran Mix)
Waitin For A Superman (Mokran Mix)
Buggin

Album Description

Australia only '3 For 1' box set series includes three of the quirky, alternative Oklahoma-based outfit's albums, 'Clouds Taste Metallic' (1995), 'Hit To Death In The Future Head' (1992), & 'The Soft Bulletin' (1999). 37 tracks packaged in three standard

Album Details

Featuring "Hit to Death in the Future Head" (1992), "Clouds Taste Metallic" (1995) and "The Soft Bulletin" (1999).

Customer Reviews:

Three times the fun.......2004-03-12

The Oklahoma phenomenon known as the Flaming Lips has evolved over time, from a gritty psychedelic punk noise to sweeping, surreally smooth alternative rock music. Here three of their better albums -- "Hit to Death In The Future Head," "Clouds Taste Metallic" and "The Soft Bulletin" -- are collected together.

"Hit To Death in the Future Head" is a more chaotic, disorganized album than their later works, but sounds surprisingly like the Beach Boys having a bit of acid experimentation. Mixed in with the swirling acid-pop are gnarling, fuzzy guitars and sweeping soundscapes that hint at their future releases. Not their best stuff, but still very vivid and weird.

"Clouds Taste Metallic" is a strange dream on a spaceship heading for another galaxy. The bubbling psychedelica is enhanced by pianos, cymbals, birds, explosions, and odd background vocals. It's catchy, surreal space-rock, and the gritty sound is offset by the whimsical, carnival-like atmosphere.

"Soft Bulletin" is perhaps the pinnacle of the Flaming Lips' productions. Satin-smooth, bright and almost symphonic, this doesn't lose anything when it drops the grit of previous productions. Instead it becomes a flawlessly off-kilter concoction of strings, percussion, funky accompaniment and plaintive, sweeping sonic feasts. And it's still pretty out-there.

Wayne Coyne's off-key singing might be annoying with more typical rock. However, in these albums it just weaves seamlessly into the music. There's pop, rock, punk, and psychedelica at its best. And the songwriting is unabashedly fantastic -- both in being good, and being... well, fantastical. Plenty of surreal imagery, but with an almost childlike excitement and wonder.

These three albums in the "3 for 1 Box" are a good place to start with the Flaming Lips. While it provides some of the best music the band has made, it also provides a look at how their music evolved. Weird, fun and dramatic.

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