The version of the Flaming Lips we have today, the one that has long since calcified into a shtick? With Wayne Coyne in a suit playing ringleader for a fantastical circus, spewing blood or rolling atop his audience in a giant bubble while Steven Drozd leads the band through psychedelic symphonies? That began here in spectacular fashion, with a dozen tracks that rewired the Flaming Lips and, upon impact, rewired quite a few listeners’ brains too. What cannot be disputed is that The Soft Bulletin is the most pivotal release in the band’s career, the one where they cemented their status as legends and established the archetype they’ve been tweaking ever since. (It was released on 5/17/99 in the UK before coming out in the US the following month.) Hailed as a masterpiece upon arrival, the album is still arguably the Lips’ finest creative output, though with a discography as vast and varied as theirs you’ll never have complete consensus on that. One of those albums is The Soft Bulletin, which completes its second decade today. They formed the year I was born, and I am now halfway through my thirties - old enough that today’s teens make me feel like an ancient relic and albums released when I was their age are turning 20. On record they’ve been skuzzy noise-bombers, fuzz-pop cartoon characters, experimental stunt artists, digital folk-pop anthem-slingers, and tripped-out paranoiacs. They ushered Miley Cyrus through the weirdest phase of her public identity crisis.
They were contemporaneous with both 90210, on which they memorably guested, and The O.C., which fomented the Bush-era indie boom they rode to festival ubiquity. They were labelmates with Fear, Wipers, and the Dead Milkmen and were three albums deep by the time Nirvana released Bleach. the Colorado Symphony André de Ridder) Ĥ.4 Sleeping on the Roof (Feat.The Flaming Lips have survived and evolved through an astonishing number of indie-rock life cycles. the Colorado Symphony André de Ridder) Ĥ.3 Feeling Yourself Disintegrate (Feat. the Colorado Symphony André de Ridder) Ĥ.2 The Gash (Feat. the Colorado Symphony André de Ridder) Ĥ.1 Suddenly Everything Has Changed (Feat. the Colorado Symphony André de Ridder) ģ.3 Waitin' for a Superman (Feat. the Colorado Symphony André de Ridder) ģ.2 The Observer (Feat. the Colorado Symphony André de Ridder) ģ.1 What Is the Light? (Feat. the Colorado Symphony André de Ridder) Ģ.2 Buggin' (Feat. the Colorado Symphony André de Ridder) Ģ.1 The Spiderbite Song (Feat.
the Colorado Symphony André de Ridder) ġ.3 The Spark That Bled (Feat. the Colorado Symphony André de Ridder) ġ.2 A Spoonful Weighs a Ton (Feat. The album was the band's breakthrough moment and featured the hit singles "Race For The Prize" and "Waitin' for a Superman".ġ.1 Race for the Prize (Feat. This resulting live album is being released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Soft Bulletin, originally released in 1999.
This entire concert was produced by The Flaming Lips, Scott Booker and their long-time collaborator Dave Fridmann. The Flaming Lips performed the 12-track album in it's original sequence with new arrangements for each song that use the orchestra and chorus to great effect. The performance was conducted by the internationally celebrated conductor Andre de Ridder. The Flaming Lips (Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins, Derek Brown, Jake Ingalls, Matt Kirksey and Nicholas Ley) were accompanied by a 69-piece orchestra and 56-strong Chorus. On May 26, 2016, The Flaming Lips performed their classic album The Soft Bulletin in it's entirety with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado.
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