Editorial Reviews
The Soft Bulletin
Music Review:
Music Review
Call and Response [Extra tracks]
Music: Spiritually Speaking (then and now)
First Come, First Served [Explicit Lyrics]
Global Meditation, Vol. 2: Harmony & Interplay
Hector Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust
Amazon.com's Best of 1999
The crazed genius of the Lips comes to full flower on the sonically massive and majestic The Soft Bulletin. Head Lip Wayne Coyne compounds the band's penchant for psychedelic freak-outs with a symphonic extravaganza. The result is nothing short of magnificent, not only the best rock album of the year, but among the best recordings of the decade. In 30 years, your grandkids are going to think you're pretty damned cool for having The Soft Bulletin in your collection. --Tod Nelson
Amazon.com essential recording
The Flaming Lips' particular and peculiar genius comes to full fruition on the stupendous The Soft Bulletin. Anyone who had the gumption to actually listen to Zaireeka, a song cycle that could only be heard by playing four CDs at the exact same time on different stereos, knows that head Lip Wayne Coyne and his Oklahoma City brethren had it in them. That album, along with the Lips' Parking Lot Experiments, offered proof that Coyne wasn't playing by the same rules as everyone else. He was growing... read more