On The Soft Bulletin, producer Dave Fridman assisted singer Wayne Coyne, and multi-instrumentalists Steven Drozd and Michael Ivins create a more symphonic sound with synthesizers and studio techniques, in a way that emphasized the songs’ melodies, and more subtle artistic nuances. The band’s one “alternative” radio hit was the funny “She Don’t Use Jelly,” for 1993’s Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, which opened doors for an opening slot on the summer tour opening for Stone Temple Pilots and The Butthole Surfers, and then headlining the side-stage for Lollapalooza’s tour the following summer.
Prior to the release of The Soft Bulletin, The Flaming Lips were viewed as primarily a guitar driven punk band, albeit with quirky lyrics, and the band’s previous album, Zaireeka, was an experimental effort on four discs intended to be played simultaneously on four different stereos.
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While the Lips’ have released several live concert DVDs (my favorite being 2007’s U.F.O.S at the Zoo because it captures the same show that I got to take my 9-old-son to where we wore Santa suits and danced and jumped around on stage beside the band, and had a laser flashlight battle with the alien vixens from space on the other side of the band at a key moment in the show), and have full concerts available to view on youtube, until now they’ve never released a live concert audio album.
Fire Note Says: The Flaming Lips join together with the Colorado Symphony to recreate their 1999 masterpiece “The Soft Bulletin” at the landmark Red Rocks Amphitheatre.Īlbum Review: Back in 2016, somebody had the smarts to imagine a 20th anniversary celebration of Oklahoma City’s Flaming Lips’ breakout 1999 release, The Soft Bulletin, complete with a live album recorded at the picturesque Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Chorus filling in for the synthesizer generated orchestrations on the original recording.
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