The tracks which are included do highlight The Flaming Lips and it is, a fantastic collection of songs which make up disks 1 and 2, from early classics, early in their Warner Bros output I should say, such as Slow Nerve Action, Bad Days and one of their few actual “hits” She Don’t Use Jelly, to mid period classics as Do You Realize?, Race for the Prize, The WAND, The Spark That Bled and crowd favourite Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt 1 and ending up to date with more recent output including Silver Trembling Hands, Is David Bowie Dying? and There Should Be Unicorns all pointing to the genius of The Flaming Lips creative musical journeys.Īnyone who is into The Flaming Lips knows that aside from their album output they have a treasure trove of b-sides, compilation tracks and unreleased tracks. To anyone who has seen a Flaming Lips’ show will know they love to slip a cover version into their set list, currently they are doing a fantastic tribute to David Bowie with Space Oddity and have in the past done one the greatest covers of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, alongside using Black Sabbath’s War Pigs as a protest against the second Gulf War and their Bush baiting version of The White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army, all of which could have been included as these are part of what makes The Flaming Lips such an unique and magickal band. There are some glaring omissions, the Fight Test, A Spoonful Weighs A Ton and Enthusiasm For Life Defeats Existential Fear Part 1 being the most obvious tracks. Song wise, over the first two discs, are some of the finest Flaming Lips songs from every album they released, with the exception of cover albums, many of the 2011 output and the soundtrack One Beyond Hopelessness and the 24 Hour Song Edit 7 Skies H3. Would it contain a collection of great tracks in chronological order or would it be sequenced into a flowing movement of songs flowing into each other? And with a band with such a prodigious number of excellent songs how many glaring exclusions would there be?įirstly, though, the artwork does indeed do this Oklahoma psychedelic band justice, however that is just the packaging and it’s the content which is most important. The question as to when a compilation would appear what would they do with it?. The Flaming Lips, what an outstanding band, an outstanding selection of tunes and a series of albums which whilst are definitively The Flaming Lips, are all very much made up of different inspirational vibes.
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