 |  | The insanity cause my brain to turn to liquid and drip out my left ear |  |
Ok so it was late one night me and three friends are sitting around my house eating the things that make mario so "super", and we decided to pop in this album. I owned it for over a year before i felt the time was right to listin to it. We were not disappointed at all. Out of the four of us i am the only one who is a huge lips fan the others are either into goth-trance-hop, hard core ghetto rap, and the other is into a lot of alt. (but for some reason never got into the lips). Despite are varried musical tastes we all we simply astounded by what was happening to us. The best part of the album is it allows you to play around with the timing of the sounds and music. We got track one to sync perfectly and just let it play like that for the duration of the album. By the time we reached the last track things were so off from where they should have been (time wise) my one friend who was lying down next to disc one said "yo this dude is ranting about some kinda stuffed animal" and we were like "what the hell are you talking about?" next thing we knew disc 3 kicked in and just yelled "stuffed animal baby" at us and we just lost it. In the end one of us swore he was invisable, one of us was laughing so hard he was crying with mucus dripping from every facial orface, and the remainder of us were just lying there in the dark trying to figure out what just happened to our minds and how soon could we take that trip again. Seriously this album is a MUST BUY for any dirty hippes out there and i feel EVERYONE has something to gain by listing to this very special peice of music.
June 13, 2008Te idea of playing a set of 4 disc, each one with different music arrangements on each track, sounded great; when i actually get the 4 cd's to play altoghether it did sound magnificent. Excellent result this musical experiment, the Flaming Lips are always trying to get the best sound quality on each record and I think this record sound evolve into the later 5.1 surround sound mixes for the Soft Buletin, yoshimi and at war. A masterpiece.
October 23, 2007 | | Garageband + Zaireeka = Awesome | |
With the advent of consumer-friendly mixing/recording software, this album is more accessible than ever. Buy it and experiment with mixing/adding effects/etc; it's a great way to release the inner music producer in all of us.
August 22, 2007| | | Mind Candy...I have found it! | |
It is great to finally own a copy of this 4-disc album by The Flaming Lips. As I'm sure you know, those avant-cooks intend for us to listen to all 4 discs simultaneously... that is, all together on four separate stereo systems, old boom boxes, car stereos... whatever you can find to make it work... synchronized by simply pressing all four play buttons at the same time (you may need to invite some friends over). What you get is, for lack of a better word, an experience. It's fun. You listen intently to what is happening spatially, quirks and clicks become things of wonder. Context becomes the proverbial elephant in the room. It makes you happy.
That being said this is probably (pre-warner bros. aside) the band's least accessible album "musically," often seeming as though they assembled the album from what they swept up off the floor of their last recording session. But that's part of the beauty of the Flaming Lips; that knack about them, I guess... to take something crappy, out of tune, scratched, warped, and otherwise ordinary in their own rights and assemble them with such sincerity and understanding as to create a whole "something" greater than the sum of its parts. Somehow majestic in its banality... Well worth the investment... There is also an entertaining, unpretentious, and comprehensive documentary out on these guys that is definitely worth a watch titled, "Fearless Freaks." Have fun...
August 10, 2007 | | ZAIREEKA by The Flaming Lips | |
Luckily modern technology has come into play in order to listen to the CD the artist wanted you to...
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