Everyone’s Gone To The Moon (Jonathan King) (Greater London Radio )ġ0. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate (Greater London Radio )ħ. The Spiderbite Song (Greater London Radio )Ħ. Up Above The Daily Hum (BBC Evening Session )ĥ. The Spiderbite Song (BBC Evening Session )Ĥ. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate (BBC Evening Session )ģ. Race For The Prize (BBC Evening Session )Ģ. The Big Ol’ Bug Is The New Baby Now (Stereo Remix)ġ. Little Hands (Skip Spence) (Rough Mix)ġ3. The Captain Is A Cold Hearted And Egotistical Foolġ2. Okay I’ll Admit That I Really Don’t Understand (Stereo Remix)ħ. Riding To Work In The Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) (Stereo Remix)Ħ. Thirty-Five Thousand Feet Of Despair (Stereo Remix)ģ. This silver-colored, double LP comes to record stores first as part of RSD Drops.ġ. The compilation includes unreleased songs from the era, plus outtakes and early mixes, B-sides, international bonus tracks and stereo versions of Zaireeka tracks. The Soft Bulletin Companion was originally available as a promo-only CD, hand-made by the Lips’ management, and given to media and radio as the original album grew in popularity around its original release. Once we started to play shows after putting up The Soft Bulletin we just weren’t that interested in playing shows and so our idea was, “well, if we’re gonna play shows, let’s just do whatever,” and that’s when I started to have hand puppets and throw confetti and balloons around.The Soft Bulletin is one of the Flaming Lips’ most popular and best-selling albums. We’re used to lifting 10000 pounds and to just lift a thousand pounds seemed like nothing. All that didn’t seem like anything compared to the stuff we were doing Zaireeka. We’re doing some of these tracks on The Soft Bulletin I hear now that are easily a couple of hundred tracks placing orchestral pieces, flutes, viola players and all this stuff, layering vocals that should be done by a forty piece choir but it’s us going in there overdubbing one at a time. We were working towards things that seemed more emotional and seemed based on the power of the melodies power of the chord structures and all this drama that we would put in it. Previous to us making The Soft Bulletin we probably were wrongly, overly concerned with seeming like we were a cool weird rock group. We thought, “well, we’re going to make this record and if it’s the last record we make and the world doesn’t need any more Flaming Lips' records we would know that we did the thing that we wanted to do.” While the International version has Slow Motion towards the beginning where The Spiderbite Song was and puts Buggin at the very end. The Tracklist shown here is from the Vinyl release, which is the version the band always intended on releasing, as North America excludes Slow Motion but has The Spiderbite Song and two remixes at the end. Warner only agreed to make that album if they made this album on the same budget as Zaireeka, and letting the record label have control of the tracklist. Wayne Coyne was dealing with his father dying of cancer, Steven Drozd got a spiderbite that nearly caused his arm to be amputated (which later turned out to be caused by a heroin injection), and bassist Michael Ivins nearly died in a car accident (the latter two incidents being recalled in The Spiderbite Song.) Not only that, but the Lips relationship with Warner Bros was beginning to be tested after they released The Lips previous album Zaireeka, which was incredibly expensive to produce and highly experimental. The album was made during a rough time in the bands lives. 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, with Pitchfork going so far as to give the album an incredibly rare 10/10, (The same website gave their previous album, Zaireeka, an even rarer 0/10.) and naming it the third best album of the 1990s. ![]() Records on in the UK, Europe and Australia, and on Jin the United States. The Soft Bulletin is the ninth album by The Flaming Lips, released by Warner Bros.
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