The Soft Bulletin Companion was originally a limited-run promotional CD-R that featured alternate mixes, leftover tracks, and other oddities caught on tape between ’97 and ’99. But a newly unearthed compilation reminds us that these oppositional releases were actually products of the same recording sessions with producer Dave Fridmann, and proves the two records really weren’t so fundamentally different after all. The Soft Bulletin, by contrast, was a universally praised classic that’s been feted with a symphonic live-album remount and a Pitchfork-produced documentary. The dense and difficult Zaireeka was released in a limited edition (due to its bulky four-disc jewel-case packaging) and has never been made available for streaming or download.
The two records represent the polar extremes of the Lips’ canon. Then, just two years later, the Lips distilled all that free-ranging exploration into the pristine orchestral rock of The Soft Bulletin. Released in 1997, Zaireeka was the play-at-home version of those site-specific events, presenting eight unwieldy songs spread over four CDs that were designed to be played simultaneously on four different players. After their underperforming 1995 album Clouds Taste Metallic failed to yield another “She Don’t Use Jelly” and guitarist Ronald Jones checked out, remaining members Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins, and Steven Drozd liberated themselves from the pressures of writing hits-and the creative limitations of being a guitar-rock band-by conducting various synchronized-tape experiments with fleets of car stereos and battalions of boomboxes. Its complex layering of instrumentation was considered a departure from their previous releases and earned the band rave reviews.Over the Flaming Lips’ four-decade career, there was no more crucial turning point than the period spanning 1996 to 1999, when the Oklahoma group narrowly escaped their imminent fate as alt-rock has-beens and transformed themselves into the megaphone-wielding pied pipers of the 21st-century festival circuit. Initially released back in 1999, The Soft Bulletin is The Flaming Lips’ ninth album overall.
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were able to debut “new arrangements for each song that use the full orchestra to greatest possible effect.” Under the guidance of renowned conductor Andre de Ridder, Wayne Coyne & co. The concert event took place May 26th, 2016, and saw the psych rockers accompanied by a 68-piece orchestra and 57-member chorus. Stream it in full below via Apple Music or Spotify.įirst announced during an appearance on Kyle Meredith With… earlier this year, the new live collection captures the Lips’ inspiring full-album performance of The Soft Bulletin at Colorado’s famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
The Flaming Lips are back with their new live album, The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra.
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