The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

[groovehouse]

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Etheral, Psychedelic, Melancholic, Beautiful. I don't know what else I can say about this. This is my first ever Flaming Lips anything and I am floored. Buy, download, borrow this latest release from Oklahoma's, The Flaming Lips...


other suggested listening:

Coldplay - Parachutes and/or Rush of Blood to the Head
Starsailor - Love is Here
Doves - Lost Souls and/or The Last Broadcast
Granddaddy - The Crystal Lake
Elliot Smith - anything by this artist
Nick Drake - anything by this artist
Any Wes Anderson soundtrack

[Eddioboy]

I listened to another Flaming Lips record (The Soft Bulletin) extensively, and thought it was great. However, a friend of mine went to a concert, and said they display slides behind the band of disturbing imagery that almost made him pass out.

I like Coldplay, and some Grandaddy too.

Other bands I really like:
Built to Spill - My favorites, and good in concert.
The Shins - Awesome music. They don't really ever rock out, but awesome nonetheless. Check out the subpop records website for a cool video featuring a St. Bernard dispatcher.

[groovehouse]

Oh man, I love "Know Your Onion" by The Shins, great stuff...

how about Belle & Sebastian? "Boy With the Arab Strap" is one of my favs!

[Eddioboy]

I've heard a couple of Belle and Sebastian songs, and I really like one called Womens Realm. Its so positive and upbeat.

Speaking of Grandaddy, I really like the song, Miner at the Dial-A-View.

Ever heard Stereolab? They are good. Two female singers from England, and lots of gutsy music that is too hard to try describing.

I also really like Yo La Tengo, especially the album I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One. Apparently a former country music band that went far afield, and is impossible to distinguish as that now. Now they play moody, experimental-sounding music, with a few rock-outs for punctuation.

I'm pretty new to some of this music, and don't know what some people will recognize or not. I'm pretty sure that the following list of bands are more well known to the general public, and I like them:

Pinback,
White Stripes,
Lisa Germano,
The Strokes

:hang:

[groovehouse]

Stereolab has some great stuff... I have one of their CD's.

Yo La Tengo is pretty good too. I have this one CD where it looks like this guy is about to be adbducted. There's a song on the CD that has 'Tony Orlando' in the title on it. That CD kicks ass.

How about Tortoise? They are mostly instrumental with some great hooks and pseudo electronic stuff.

or what about To Rococco Rot and i-sound? Their latest release Music is a Hungry Ghost - has some real ethereal and dreamy stuff.

so much good music, so little time.

[Wham Valdez]

Yeah well, she don't use jelly for tramissions from a satellite heart.

[Eddioboy]

I got Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robot for Christmas, and like it a lot. I hear from a pal that Yoshimi is the name of an actual girl they knew, who died of a drug overdose (!). Great album, but I also highly recommend (again) the Soft Bulletin, which is really good too.

I heard that one of the girls in Stereolab was killed just a couple of weeks ago. She was riding a bicycle, and hit by a car in England. This is a sad post so far, I know.

I have never heard of Tortoise or Rococco Rot, but I'll look into 'em!

[Wham Valdez]

Well to brighten up your post a little, yes Yoshimi is a friend of the band who has her own band OOIOO (i think that's how you spell it). She's alive and well and really odd. I guess a Japanese Siouxsie or Bjork would be an okay way to describe her. I forget why they used her for the album - I saw a documentary recently with Steven Drozd but I can't remember all the details.

[Eddioboy]

That's good. I don't know how these rumors get started.