She Is Death was the new and preeminent psychedelic piece in the style of the first incarnation Pink Floyd. The album Hear It Is (Pink Dust, 1986) contained the group's entire stylistic repertoire.
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The debut EP (LSD, 1984), contained the disruptive and distorted My Own Planet, which made it epic, the "voodoobilly" twist in Bag Full Of Thoughts pulled by the inebriated dancing of medieval poets, and the long "trip" of Scratching The Door, which paid homage the to the first Pink Floyd one immediately understood the anti-conformist genius and anarchy that connected their music. The stellar drumming by English, a worthy successor of Keith Moon and John Bonham, was the ideal accompaniment for the vain strumming of the leader. In their first discs, Coyne showed a melodramatic personality that expressed itself by borrowing the talking-blues "curse" of Lou Reed and the possessed recitation of Jim Morrison. All of which the Flaming Lips have applied to psychedelic rock according to a practice that was not that far off from the creative genius, Frank Zappa.įusing ideas from sources as diverse as Miles Davis, Butthole Surfers, Jesus and Mary Chain, and the Beach Boys, their sound became a repository of "signs" of the pop music culture that transcended the original neo-psychedelic thesis. The music of the Flaming Lips (Wayne Coyne on guitar and vocals, Mike Ivins on bass, Richard English on drums) has been compared to the art of animated cartoons: easily recognizable, rounded forms, a plethora of stereotypes, a collection of spoofs, and a narration that proceeds towards simplification but ends in the implausible. (Translation from the Italian by Nicole Zimmerman) Played simultaneously on four different players. The notable exception was Zaireeka (1997), a set of four discs to be Transmissions From The Satellite Heart (1993),Ĭlouds Taste Metallic (1995) and The Soft Bulletin (1999). Melodies and sound effects in the tradition of early Pink Floyd.ĭreamy litanies and surreal ditties became typical of less and Hit To Death In The Future Head (1992) relied on catchy
The streamlined sound of In A Priest Driven Ambulance (1990) and
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Monumental piece Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory. Telepathic Surgery (1989) reached a demented level of stylistic collage,
Transcendent dirges seemed to fuel each other to ever higher levels of While abrasive rock'n'roll crescendos, psychotic singalongs and The arrangements were creative to the point of being grotesque, The semiotic caldron of Oh My Gawd (1987) was a post-modernist Neil Young's guitar neurosis and Jim Morrison's melodramatic eloquence. The Velvet Underground's overdosed tempos, Oblique lullabies, whereas, in the latter, ingredients included In the former, songs were essentially modeled after Syd Barrett's Hear It Is (1986) was equally versatile in the comic and the tragic Simplified and often implausible situations. Identifiable, stereotyped characters that bordered on parodies, and Ways derived by cartoons: shapes that were grossly naive and easily The greatest and craziest disciples of classic Pink Floyd came out of Oklahoma:īridged the punk ethos and the hippie burlesque.
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