This recent comment by ZenDog brought to mind the lyric, "some words when spoken can't be taken back" in this PJ song, Nothing Man: ZenDog's comment was this: Which when listening to, took me here: Because I was introduced to Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Yoshimi around the same time and they exist in a similar place in my heart/mind...whatever. If you've never listened to the full Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album before, take the time to do so. -So great. Thanks for the journey Zdog.
It was in response to me quoting a Wilco lyric from this great, great song: and words may flay like bullets
once unleashed neither may be taken back
Yoshimi is probably in my top ten (hell, maybe even five) albums of all time. The sounds and textures are so perfectly colorful and descriptive, i haven't been able to find anything quite like it. Maybe i'm alone here, but even the rest of the Flaming Lips' discography i find to be kind of dull in comparison.
Hmm, I wouldn't call the rest of their discography "dull" by any means, but I can see how it would be someones favorite. I happen to like the Soft Bulletin quite a bit and think it may be my favorite Lips album: There are a lot of Lips fans that will go with Clouds Taste Metallic: If I had to choose just one though, I'd go Soft Bulletin. Hard choice though, hard enough that I think calling their discography "dull" isn't apt. But that's just me.
I guess dull isn't the appropriate word. They just haven't made anything that i like as much as Yoshimi. I don't think it's something i could ever describe, Yoshimi touches me in a way their other music doesn't. Not to say that everything else they make is bad. There's the stuff i like, the stuff i don't really get, and Yoshimi. That's why i used the word dull... It's hard for me to listen to their other albums objectively, knowing that Yoshimi exists.
ZenDog -Shout out in the above comment. Sorry, I misspelled your name the first time and when you edit a "shout-out" they don't send a notification. So here you go!