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Classic Albums
Artist: The Flaming Lips
Album: The Soft Bulletin
Label: Warners
Released: 1999
In 1994, The Flaming Lips released Zaireeka, which required the listener to listen to each of the four discs in separate hi-fi and sync them up, to create a wall of sound. Unsurprisingly, only the die hard fans could have been arsed to buy the record.
So when The Flaming Lips return in 1999, none one knew that they would have created one of the best albums of our generation, which was on one cd. The Soft Bulletin kicks off with Race For The Prize (Sacrifice Of The New Scientists). This song is one of the greatest pieces of motivational music of all time. It makes me think that nothing on this earth is impossible, as long as I put my mind to it!
Video For Race For The Prize (Sacrifice Of The New Scientists)
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWBdPkWkjkw]
When listening to The Soft Bulletin on your I-POD on the bus, a usually insignificant and mundane bus journey, is transformed in adventure, its like your in space. The album is deals with love, loss, despair and death. But even its darker moments, like feeling your self disintegrate, you still get a feeling of hope from it.
The best track on the album has got be the epic, epic The Gash (Battle Hymn For The Wounded Mathematician). This is an album that you must get as a matter of urgency.
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