The Flaming Lips from Oklahoma have officially been around since 1983. After years of dabbling in the margins, they scored their first (cult) hit in 1993 with the bizarre She Don't Use Jelly. After that, however, problems followed again, especially in the personnel sphere. All of the band's followers agreed on one thing: The Flaming Lips would one day make a masterpiece. This masterpiece was released
… in 1999 and was called The Soft Bulletin. All the pieces of the puzzle fell in the right place on this album. The songs, the production, the atmosphere, everything was right and the CD was chosen by many critics as album of the year. To make a good successor is not an easy task, but with Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots we succeeded. It has become a kind of concept album with the theme of the death of a Japanese girlfriend of singer Wayne Coyne. This loss inspired him to beautiful songs like It's Summertime, Do You Realize? and In The Morning Of The Magicians. Producer Dave Fridmann (Mercury Rev among others) has given the album a dreamy and sometimes alienating atmosphere. This makes Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots less accessible than The Soft Bulletin. If you give this growth chart a second chance, however, you will see that The Flaming Lips have made one of the most beautiful albums of 2002. (MvP) will realize that The Flaming Lips have made one of the most beautiful albums of 2002. (MvP) will realize that The Flaming Lips have made one of the most beautiful albums of 2002. (MvP)more
