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Clouds Taste Metallic

The Flaming Lips

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Album Review

The same extraordinary madness that infected the best work of Brian Wilson rears its head on the shimmering and melodic Clouds Taste Metallic, a masterful collection which completes the Flaming Lips' odyssey into the pop stratosphere. The Pet Sounds comparisons are obvious — two of the highlights are titled "This Here Giraffe" and "Christmas at the Zoo" — yet not unfair; like Brian Wilson, Wayne Coyne has refined his unique vision into something both highly personal and powerfully universal. Similarly, while Coyne's lyrics remain as acid-damaged and inscrutable as ever, his densely constructed songs convey emotional complexities far beyond the scope of their head-case titles ("Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles," "Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World"); galvanized by equal parts newfound maturity and childlike wonderment, Clouds Taste Metallic is both the Flaming Lips' most intricate and most irresistible work.

Customer Reviews

One of The Best Albums of the 90's

I've had this album stashed away on my computer for years, but hadn't listened to it until the other day. I inherited this album as long as few other lips albums from my sister years ago and never gave em a listen. then one day I had my Itunes on shuffle and I went to the bathroom when I came back the song "Bad Days" was playing and I thought I was listening to Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys. I then realized I was listening to the flaming lips. I fell in love with that song instantly and the album followed suit. I recommend this album to anybody who likes good music. One of my favorites of all time. Clever goofy lyrics, great melodies, great crazy noises. This albums full of tunes that will be stuck with you for days and the production is just top notch. You can listen to it over and over and find different things every time. Buy this right now if you haven't already. You won't regret it.

The sky itself, however, has more of an iron taste.

Let's start off with me saying that I absolutely love the Flaming Lips. I am familiar with everything since Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, which is one of the best alt. rock albums I've ever listened to. However, nothing stands up against 1999's The Soft Bulletin. Perhaps that's why I didn't enjoy Clouds Taste Metallic as much as other "Flips" records. Oh well. This is the last "guitar album" the Flips made, and I can see why. They couldn't go anywhere else musically unless they abandoned the guitar-driven sound entirely.

Clouds Taste Metallic starts off with a great piano ballad, The Abandoned Hospital Ship, which is probably THE song to open a movie with. It offers an insight into Wayne Coyne's mind, and his songwriting abilities are well-displayed here. However, from there, the album lacks the usual magic of the Flaming Lips' music. The guitars are still distorted and enjoyable, but there is no conventional unconvention in the music. Everything is just... noisy, and not fun or enlightening at all. Certain songs, like The Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saved the World, They Punctured My Yolk, and Lightning Strikes the Postman, posess the usual endearment and genius of the Flaming Lips. But at times, it seems like the Flaming Lips are losing their sound. The lyrics are lacking artistic direction, and are irritating and immature at times. The production, however, is pretty top-notch. That's always an upside.

Overall, I have to say that this is the first Flaming Lips album to dissapoint me. It's a good album. However, unlike the preceding "Transmissions..." and the following "The Soft Bulletin", it just feels like another record. Nothing unique here, which is very rare in the Flaming Lips discography.

My final rating: ****

By far the best Lips album

Beautifully creative, brilliant, and trippy, with some very touching touching moments. "When You Smile", "This Here Giraffe". Brilliant. In so many ways it is musically better than "Transmissions." I feel that this is an overlooked gem. I keep it on my iPod everywhere I go.

Biography

Formed: 1983 in Oklahoma City, OK

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Even within the eclectic world of alternative rock, few bands were so brave, so frequently brilliant, and so deliciously weird as the Flaming Lips. From their beginnings as Oklahoma weirdos to their mid-'90s pop culture breakthrough to their status as one of the most respected groups of the 2000s, the Lips rode one of the more surreal and haphazard career trajectories in pop music. An acid-bubblegum band with as much affinity for sweet melodies as blistering noise assaults, their off-kilter...
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