The Flaming Lips tapped into that magic musical voodoo which sends a shudder down the spine and hits you like an arrow through the heart and soul.
Seriously, this version literally makes me tear up each time I listen to it. For starters, look no further than the expanded epic guitar solo on”Feeling Yourself Disintegrate.” It is is just spectacular (in fact, stop what you are doing for a moment to listen to it now here while you’re reading the rest of this review)! Thus, don’t expect to hear a carbon copy of the original album on The Soft Bulletin: Live at Red Rocks! They do many different things to tremendous wonderful effect. This recording sounds much more organic in that sense, complementing the music more intimately than the layered synths and effects gracing the original album.Īnother great thing about a release like this is that it gives the band the chance to revisit ideas they may have had in the past or which have evolved over time and endless tours.
#FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN LIVE FULL#
However with The Soft Bulletin: Live at Red Rocks, with the full orchestra and choirs, I can hear more of the parallels my friends were talking about.
And in retrospect I still feel that sort of statement doesn’t do the album or The Flaming Lips justice (In some ways they did something more, it could be argued - and I say that as an enormous Brian Wilson fanboy - but that is another discussion entirely!). I wasn’t yet a full Lips believer at that point so I just took that concept in. A little personal perspective: when this album came out, some friends overhyped it a bit to me, calling it the Pet Sounds of the 90s. On this recording the band is doing the entirety of its 1999 breakthrough smash The Soft Bulletin. I can hear every word he sings which is pretty remarkable when you consider that it’s a rock recording - which typically has the vocals somewhat buried in the mix - and it is a live recording with a Symphony and a Choir! The first thing I noticed on this recording was how good singer Wayne Coyne’s vocals sound. On The Soft Bulletin: Live at Red Rocks you hear not only The Flaming Lips with its guitars, synthesizers, multiple drummers and general madness but also a full 69-piece Symphony Orchestra and an 56-person choir! That’s a huge undertaking! That is no small task to pull off folks and kudos must go out to Producer David Fridman for pulling off this minor miracle… Now, I don’t know if this is a digital or analog recording but I suspect it is the former and that’s OK because they did a fine job creating a modern live rock recording in conjunction with a symphony orchestra. The performances are exemplary and most importantly the sound is really good, which is no small feat given the magnitude and scale of the performers on stage here. I’m happy to report that The Soft Bulletin: Live at Red Rocks was worth the wait. As it turned out, I ultimately gave up waiting and special ordered a copy! Given my travel schedule this past month of January, I’m just getting around to reviewing it now. This was perhaps due to the fact that there were reported problems with distribution across the country. When I first heard that The Flaming Lips were doing a concert at Red Rocks in Colorado with a symphony orchestra several years ago, the first thing I thought was: ‘gosh I hope they release this as a concert album!’ Late last year on Record Store Day/Black Friday that album was released but it was sort of rolled out with not quite the fanfare I expected to see. The Flaming Lips are featured on our 2018 list, The 30 Best Bands of the Past 30 Years.Twitter Facebook Email Print LinkedIn Pinterest SMS WhatsApp It’ll be released as a silver 2xLP on Record Store Day, June 12, before wider release later this year.ġ1/12 Syracuse, NY – Crouse Hinds Theaterġ1/20 Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theaterĥ/2 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroomĥ/3 Vancouver, British Columbia – Commodore Ballroomĥ/26 Liverpool, England – Invisible Wind Factoryĥ/30 Aylesbury, England – Waterside TheatreĦ/1 Bexhill, England – De la Warr PavilionĦ/2 London, England – O2 Forum Kentish Townħ/22 Galway, Ireland – Galway Int’l Arts Fest The Flaming Lips have also announced their first vinyl release of The Soft Bulletin Companion, a promo record that originally accompanied the release of 1999’s The Soft Bulletin. and pick up again in spring 2020, eventually making their way to the British Isles in summer of 2022. The band launch their first tour dates in over a year, in support of last year’s American Head, this summer/fall in the U.S. The Flaming Lips are touring North America and the UK.
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