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100
Hardly party music, but remember Dark Side of the Moon? Pass the bong. This is some good shit
12y
100
The Soft Bulletin is absolutely stunning. Zaireeka was a massive breakthrough for them, but Soft Bulletin is the true gem in their catalog.
12y
100
There's no telling where the Lips will go from here, but it's almost beside the point -- not just the best album of 1999, The Soft Bulletin might be the best record of the entire decade.
12y
100
Frontman Wayne Coyne is a natural fabulist, weaving trippy tall tales within the folds of tricky, heartbreakingly frail arrangements.
100
A beautiful mongrel of a masterpiece.
90
'The Soft Bulletin' is a joyous, celestial celebration of sound. Rhythmic and piano-laden, it's heavenly in both its conception and execution.
12y
90
The Soft Bulletin may be the most extraordinary rock record you'll hear all year.
80
The Soft Bulletin echoes the oft-mimiced Smiley Smile by The Beach Boys, with its psychedelic wobbliness, songs-within-songs and airy termperament.
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3y
60
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.
if this was radiohead or pink floyd every single one of you fuckers would be giving this a 100
The Soft Bulletin is The Beatles elevated and updated, with some of the strangest vocals and lyrics possible. It really works. Like REALLY works. The production is very fitting for the journey it provides. The vocals are whiney and almost childlike. The lyrics are so straightforward and blunt, yet feel so out of place.
Hard to explain. A masterpiece in my eyes and the bands crowning achievement up to this point.
Edit: Screw it this is also better than Radiohead
This is better than anything the Beatles and Pink Floyd put out
I will fight you and I will win.
You know why?
Cuz its a fact not an opinion.
The tracklist for this album is trash though (like there's no "Slow Motion" in the tracklist and it ends with a "Mokran Mix" instead of "Sleeping On the Roof smh)
The instrumental is bright and radiant, but the lyrics and vocals sometimes can leave a little to be desired
What a stellar album! This is my second Flaming Lips album, with Yoshimi being one of my personal favorites of all time. This album wastes no time and sounds so good! Drums can be a little harsh sometimes, but it works most of the time. Can’t wait to hear more from The Flaming Lips after this!
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Track List
| 1 | Race for the Prize (Mokran Mix) 4:08 | 95 |
| 2 | A Spoonful Weighs a Ton 3:32 | 92 |
| 3 | The Spark That Bled 5:54 | 93 |
| 4 | The Spiderbite Song 4:02 | 91 |
| 5 | Buggin' (Mokran Mix) 3:16 | 90 |
| 6 | What Is the Light? 4:05 | 90 |
| 7 | The Observer 4:11 | 87 |
| 8 | Waitin' for a Superman 4:17 | 92 |
| 9 | Suddenly Everything Has Changed 3:54 | 92 |
| 10 | The Gash 4:02 | 90 |
| 11 | Feeling Yourself Disintegrate 5:17 | 96 |
| 12 | Sleeping On the Roof 3:09 | 92 |
| 13 | Race for the Prize 4:18 | 97 |
| 14 | Waitin' for a Superman (Mokran Mix) 4:19 | 92 |
Total Length: 58 minutes
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1mo
Can someone explain me please the tracklist for this album, idk if the remixes are from the original versión or what is the order, i cant under stand anything
5mo
Race For The Prize is one of the best songs ever and it’s not even close, I struggle to think of very much comparable
