Clouds Taste Metallic Flaming Lips

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  • Release Date: 09/19/1995
  • Sales Rank: 19,165
  • Label: WARNER BROS / WEA
  • UPC: 093624591122

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Clouds Taste Metallic

1LISTENThe Abandoned Hospital Ship 3:38
2LISTENPsychiatric Explorations Of The Fetus With Needles 3:27
3LISTENPlacebo Headwound 3:40
4LISTENThis Here Giraffe 3:46
5LISTENBrainville 3:13
6LISTENGuy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World 4:29
7LISTENWhen You Smile 3:13
8LISTENKim's Watermelon Gun 3:21
9LISTENThey Punctured My Yolk 4:21
10LISTENLightning Strikes The Postman 2:50
11LISTENChristmas At The Zoo 3:06
12LISTENEvil Will Prevail 3:45
13LISTENBad Days Aurally Excited Version 4:38

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The same extraordinary madness that infected the best work of Brian Wilson rears its head on the shimmering and melodic Clouds Taste Metallic, a masterful collection which completes the Flaming Lips' odyssey into the pop stratosphere. The Pet Sounds comparisons are obvious -- two of the highlights are titled "This Here Giraffe" and "Christmas at the Zoo" -- yet not unfair; like Brian Wilson, Wayne Coyne has refined his unique vision into something both highly personal and powerfully universal. Similarly, while Coyne's lyrics remain as acid-damaged and inscrutable as ever, his densely constructed songs convey emotional complexities far beyond the scope of their head-case titles ("Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles," "Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World"); galvanized by equal parts newfound maturity and childlike wonderment, Clouds Taste Metallic is both the Flaming Lips' most intricate and most irresistible work. Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

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February 05, 2001: Beautiful and ingenious. This album overflows with warped imagination and inventive arrangements. It's the sonic equivalent of a Terry Gilliam film, wild and wacky. Xylophones, chimes, guitars, and thunderous drums and bass careen everywhere. Varied sound effects are thrown into the mix, including animal sounds, rocket engines, film projectors; it's like a child's pinball machine.

Throw out any preconceived notions or biases you have about these Oklahoma boys. Wayne and Co. tell tales of astronaut lovers separated from each other by the cosmos, boys with splitting headaches who save the world, and a girl named Kim and her very special watermelon gun. All weird, wonderful sci-fi min-epics told with a starry-eyed innocence and sense of humor that is just irresistable

At first it may seem goofy and fluffy, but give it a couple of listens and you may find yourself genuinely moved by these deceptively silly little pop nuggets.

A criminally underrated gem. Evil will prevail, indeed.