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The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic (1995)

Track listing:
  1. The Abandoned Hospital Ship 3:35
  2. Psychiatric Explorations Of Th 3:25
  3. Placebo Headwound 3:37
  4. This Here Giraffe 3:44
  5. Brainville 3:14
  6. Guy Who Got A Headache And Acc 4:29
  7. When You Smile 3:13
  8. Kim's Watermelon Gun 3:20
  9. They Punctured My Yolk 4:19
  10. Lightning Strikes The Postman 2:49
  11. Christmas At The Zoo 3:03
  12. Evil Will Prevail 3:12
  13. Bad Days <aurally excited vers 4:35

Notes


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.