Zaireeka was the first album The Flaming Lips made in the wake of guitarist Ronald Jones’ departure. Its ambition and artistic scope made it a challenging album in more ways than one to take in, but it was an important step in the progression of the band’s sound toward the next record they would make.
A project birthed by parking lot, and subsequent boombox, experiments, where fans gathered in parking lots or at concerts and played cassettes of the band’s music simultaneously. It goes some way to explaining the childlike enthusiasm into which his band The Flaming Lips has conceived and fulfilled projects like the Zaireeka four CD release.
THE FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN TORRENT SERIES
'A lot of people look at life as a series of miserable tasks, but after that, I didn’t.' He says the event was a huge turning point for him. In the essay he relates the experience of being held up at gunpoint in his late teens at American chain restaurant Long John Silvers, where he worked as a fry cook. This record was pressed by VMP and you can't get this specific variation anywhere else. Record of the Month VMP Exclusive Pressing. Billboard, and The Ringer, and is the author of Zaireeka, a book in the 33 1/3 series about the Flaming Lips album of the same name. The Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate It’s also reflected in the art chosen for The Soft Bulletin ’s cover, an image captured by Lawrence Schiller, a member of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters cohort in the early 60s who saw the young boy dancing with his shadow. Wayne Coyne’s essay for NPR, entitled Creating Our Own Happiness,gives insight into the thinking of the man who at various times has been called eccentric, oddball or just downright mad. 'I believe the real magic in the world is done by humans.
So where does a band go after releasing the most defiantly experimental record of its career? If you're the Flaming Lips, you keep rushing headlong into the unknown - The Soft Bulletin, their follow-up to the four-disc gambit Zaireeka, is in many ways their most daring work yet, a plaintively emotional, lushly symphonic pop masterpiece eons removed from the mind-warping noise of their past efforts.
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