The serious/proper/not-weird album is The Soft Bulletin, which is generally regarded as their greatest work alongside its follow-up Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. When they approached their long-time label Warner about doing their four-CDs-play-at-once experiment Zaireeka, Warner agreed, but with a condition - the US$200,000 advance had to produce both Zaireeka AND a serious/proper/not-weird album. The Soft Bulletin remains one of my favourite Flaming Lips albums, despite me struggling with it to start with, and theres enough been said and written about it already that I will concentrate on the format, rather than the content, for this review. Released in 1999, it was a moment when the group essentially started. EP and the under-rated Clouds Taste Metallic) failed to do anything other than confirm them as a weird one-hit wonder band. The Flaming Lips Soft Bulletin was a watershed moment for the Oklahoma City rock band. alternative rock and turned into a pied-porte to the piping megaphones of the 21st. In the Flaming Lips’ four-decade career, there has been no turning point more crucial than the period from 1996 to 1999, when the Oklahoma band narrowly escaped their impending has-been fate. Their follow-ups to the Jelly-producing album Transmissions From The Satellite Heart (the Due To High Expectations. The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin Companion Album Review. The Soft Bulletin's songs are generally slow and soft, and explore various themes, such as love.
The Soft Bulletin is a departure from The Flaming Lips' earlier work, which was mostly lo-fi noise rock.
Six years on from the "only in the '90s" success of She Don't Use Jelly, the band was at risk of following their heroes The Butthole Surfers into cult-worship-only oblivion. The Soft Bulletin is a departure from The Flaming Lips' earlier work, which The perfect album, and by far the magnum opus of The Flaming Lips. The Soft Bulletin saved The Flaming Lips.
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