The Flaming Lips Best Albums To Date
Embryonic, The Flaming Lips 12th album, is coming out this year. It seems like a perfect time to look back at the best albums The Flaming Lips have recorded and released so far. These are their best seven (in chronological order) to date. Will Embryonic replace one of these?
In a Priest Driven Ambulance (1990) - This album took what The Lips were doing in the 1980s and to the next level. In my opinion it's their first good album (I know some old school Lips fans love their '80s stuff, but not me.)
Hit to Death in the Future Head (1992) - I think Hit to Death... is an underrated Lips album that deserves far more praise than it gets. I hear a big advance from Priest... to Hit to Death... as far as sonic experimentation and psychedelia.
Transmission from the Satellite Heart (1993) - Don't judge this album by the novelty hit "She Don't Use Jelly," it's actually a very good album and that song is not a good representative of the rest of the songs.
Clouds Taste Metallic (1995) - I think this is the album that works as sort of the encapsulation of the best of the previous three albums. If you are wanting to start digging into the Lips back catalog after first being introduced to the band with their more recent work, this is probably the album to start with.
Zaireeka (1997) - You can only listen to Zaireeka as intended by playing all four CDs on four different CD players simultaneously. But there are a lot of mix-down versions of the album "out there" that gives some approximation of the experience.
The Soft Bulletin (1999) - The most perfect Lips album to date in my opinion. I think it's easily among the greatest albums of the 1990s. A modern day classic that should be heard by anyone who takes "pop music" seriously.
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002) - This was an exciting new direction in 2002. Sadly I think the Lips overplayed this hand with 2006's At War with the Mystics which is, in my opinion, the worst Lips album since the "bad old days" of the 1980s. - 18758
In a Priest Driven Ambulance (1990) - This album took what The Lips were doing in the 1980s and to the next level. In my opinion it's their first good album (I know some old school Lips fans love their '80s stuff, but not me.)
Hit to Death in the Future Head (1992) - I think Hit to Death... is an underrated Lips album that deserves far more praise than it gets. I hear a big advance from Priest... to Hit to Death... as far as sonic experimentation and psychedelia.
Transmission from the Satellite Heart (1993) - Don't judge this album by the novelty hit "She Don't Use Jelly," it's actually a very good album and that song is not a good representative of the rest of the songs.
Clouds Taste Metallic (1995) - I think this is the album that works as sort of the encapsulation of the best of the previous three albums. If you are wanting to start digging into the Lips back catalog after first being introduced to the band with their more recent work, this is probably the album to start with.
Zaireeka (1997) - You can only listen to Zaireeka as intended by playing all four CDs on four different CD players simultaneously. But there are a lot of mix-down versions of the album "out there" that gives some approximation of the experience.
The Soft Bulletin (1999) - The most perfect Lips album to date in my opinion. I think it's easily among the greatest albums of the 1990s. A modern day classic that should be heard by anyone who takes "pop music" seriously.
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002) - This was an exciting new direction in 2002. Sadly I think the Lips overplayed this hand with 2006's At War with the Mystics which is, in my opinion, the worst Lips album since the "bad old days" of the 1980s. - 18758
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