SHOULD I BUY, STREAM OR STEAL IT? Tempted as I would be to shell out for this, it can’t hurt to wait and see if there’s a bigger, better version coming down the pipe. It includes a remastered CD and a DVD-Audio disc that contains a 5.1-channel surround sound mix of the album. IF THIS ALBUM WERE AN ACTIVITY, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Spacewalking as the Sun slowly rises over the lip of the Earth. re-released The Soft Bulletin in the US as a two-disc package titled The Soft Bulletin 5.1. HOW OFTEN WILL I LISTEN TO IT? Whenever you want to soak up some Lips and feel a little highbrow at the same time. WHAT WILL MY FRIENDS SAY?‘Are we really supposed to believe that nobody filmed this performance or recorded it in 5.1 audio?’ Pity this disc doesn’t include the non-album encores (including David Bowie’s Space Oddity). If youre 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. WHAT ARE THE BEST SONGS? The shimmering sunrise of Race For the Prize, the bittersweet Waitin’ For a Superman and the groovy Suddenly Everything Has Changed. WHAT 10 WORDS SUM IT UP? Grand, sophisticated, whimsical, lush, trippy, layered, sweeping, weird, melancholy, spiritual. HOW SHOULD I LISTEN TO IT? While rolling around your living room in a giant hamster ball - preferably clad in a tuxedo, with a splash of fake blood on your forehead, just to complete the bizarre picture. All that aside, The Soft Bulletin features some of their best musical and lyrical. Now the original version itself is my personal pinnacle of their catalog, and many others happen to agree, but it sounds even more rich and harmonic with the new sounds. WHAT SHOULD IT BE TITLED? The Sound They Made Was Love - a line from the song A Spoonful Weighs a Ton. The Flaming Lips 5.1-audio version of The Soft Bulletin is something else to the ears. Thanks to the superb stylish orchestrations created by Denver multi-instrumentalist Tom Hager of DeVotchka, the army of additional performers manage to complement these cuts instead of competing with the band’s epic concept piece about life, love, disillusionment and death. WHAT DOES IT SOUND LIKE? The best-sounding drug trip you’ve ever taken.
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And not just any live album: As the overly wordy, on-the-nose title The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre Featuring the Colorado Symphony Orchestra & Andre de Ridder makes painfully clear, this majestically maximalist 2016 live recording finds The Flaming Lips recreating the American version of their 1999 breakthrough disc The Soft Bulletin in full and in order, with the technicolour backing of a 68-piece symphony orchestra and 57-piece chorus. WHAT IS THIS? The first official live release of their three decade-plus career, believe it or not. When they released The Soft Bulletin 5.1 it was supposed to come with the original Lips mixes of said songs with a slightly different tracklisting. The original CD release has the Mokran remixes of Buggin, Waiting for a Superman, and Race for the Prize. If I remember correctly, the reason they were forced to release it originally with the Mokran remixes was because they had to make a compromise with the label after making Zaireeka.W HO ARE THEY? The fearlessly freaky, artfully psychedelic and mind-bendingly theatrical Oklahoma oddballs fronted by corkscrew-maned frontman/ringleader Wayne Coyne. There were different releases of The Soft Bulletin. None of the Mokran remixes as they originally intended. The intended tracklisting as it is on the vinyl is : Only the UK and Australian versions of the CD had Slow Motion on it. I ts a picture you know best in Technicolor form, painted in lurid yellow and blue on the cover of the Flaming Lips 1999 breakthrough LP The Soft Bulletin. Also the Lips said that the vinyl version of the album is their intended version that they wanted released. But they made a mistake and used the original CD so if you contacted Warner Bros. The original CD release has the Mokran remixes of Buggin', Waiting for a Superman, and Race for the Prize. There were different releases of The Soft Bulletin.