Flaming
Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Eclectic Album of the Year
note from Dan Grote
If you heard a weirder album this year
than the Omaha-based Lips’ concept tale of little girls training to fight
robots (pink robots, nonetheless) and how society climbs back after the
monsters’ defeat, I’d like to hear it.
The following was originally published in our Killer CD's section.
Review by antiGUY
The Flaming Lips are one of those bands
that appear to be too good for the masses. It’s true, when you think about
most music that tops the charts it’s easily accessible and just as easily
forgettable. Not so with the Flaming Lips who with each subsequent release
try to expand upon the musical experience, bring the listener into a new
realm of being and enlightenment.
Headphones went out in the 70’s but this
CD is another good reason to dust off your parents old set and plug them
in so that you can absorb the full experience of the CD. (The same goes
for any Radiohead release). Speaking of Radiohead, that is about the only
current band that comes to mind when you think of Flaming Lips and their
contemporaries. If we were to delve into the past we would think of bands
like Pink Floyd and The Moody Blues, bands that took you not only on a
voyage of sound with their music but fired the imagination as well.
Although, I wouldn’t quite call the Flaming
Lips the modern Pink Floyd, the sonic experience is similar. The Flaming
Lips mix of sounds include a full palette of genres and techniques from
folksy guitar overlaid with hip-hop beats to rocking sci-fi space opera.
True, few could pull off this combination but The Flaming Lips are the
exception, they make it seem as natural as breathing. For that reason alone,
this CD is yet another example of why The Flaming Lips are a band to be
hailed not ignored.
The group’s last album, “The Soft Bulletin”
really raised the bar musically and is almost impossible to top. This CD
does not top that 1999 release but it is a nice companion to it and about
as much as we could hope for.
“Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” is a
heady experience best undertaken when you have the capacity to give it
your full attention and like other Flaming Lips releases, you will find
that you get more out of the album with each subsequence spin. This isn’t
your little sisters CD and don’t expect to see any of these tracks on TRL,
it is much too serious and alas has far too much quality to pander to the
mainstream.
“Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” is a
triumphant follow up for the Flaming Lips and easily one of the top releases
of the year. If you are one who has a mind to take your music seriously
and want your music to take you on a journey of mind and soul then pick
up this disc, grab a pair of headphones and plug in.
CD Info
Flaming
Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Label: Warner
Bros
Rating: 
Tracks:
Fight Test
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt.1
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt.2
In The Morning Of The Magicians
Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
Are You A Hypnotist??
It's Summertime
Do You Realize??
All We Have Is Now
Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia
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