FLAMING LIPS-Transmissions..LP ORANGE WAX RARE MINT

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May 1, 2005 Sold Date

Apr 21, 2005 Start Date

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THE FLAMING LIPS - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart ULTRA RARE ORANGE VINYL LP

Label : WARNER BROS. Records Released 1993

This album was the first available fruit of the last four-piece line-up for the Flaming Lips. The band had been together for about a year, and this album shows a most cohesive band firing its way onto yet another trajectory, with a set of songs where the chaos has receded and allowed some of the strong pop sensibilities to come shining through. One of the most striking things about this album is the drumming. The Flaming Lips have always had good drummers but Steven Drozd is something else. The drum sound is partly due to producer/engineer Keith Cleversley, but the way Steven hits them is clearly special. The crisp attack of his playing brings a new power to the Lips sound. When you combine that with some great songs and add a layer of new strange but friendly guitar noise, these songs end up sounding like weird pop should. Listening to the change with the guitar noisesmiths, the pleasing thing is that Ronald doesn't try to emulate Jonathan Donahue's slightly frightening way of squeezing sound from his axe, but instead brings his own textures to the band and this breathes new life into the sound. Having new blood to work with quite clearly changed the songwriting dynamic, and there are some Lips classics here as a result.

The first song 'Turn It On' is no exception to the album blue-print of frazzled pop-rock with added sound effects. It has about six different hooks in it, not least the chorus with it's sort of stomp along feel. It's a marvellous opener and it sets up the mood for the rest of the album wonderfully. From here on in it's a gentle rollercoaster ride through upbeat, noisy but gentle songs, and moments of laidback fragility. In short, it's fair to describe this as an incredibly happy and uplifting album. Songs like 'Chewin' The Apple of Yer Eye' are quite quite restful, and indeed most beautiful.

The distant longing sound of the cover song 'Plastic Jesus' (which appeared in the classic Paul Newman film, 'Cool Hand Luke')is quite marvellously set as a prelude to the surging not-quite anger (more displeasure) of 'When Yer Twenty-Two', with it's see-saw riff and thunderous drums. This forms a formidable one-two by crashing straight into one of those perfect album-closers that the Lips do so well, in the form of 'Slow Nerve Action'. This is a totally cool laidback drawl of a song with a woozy riff and strange offbeat crunching drums. At the time, this record was a marvellous reasurance that the Lips were alive and well, and another portent of where the band's ever developing journey through sound could eventually take them.

Tracks -

Turn It On / Pilot Can at the Queer of God / oh My Pregnant Head / She Don't Use Jelly / Chewin the Apple Of Your Eye / Superhumans / Be My Head / Moth In the Incubator / **** / When Yer Twenty Two / Slow Nerve Action

SLEEVE & RECORD : Nr.MINT / Nr.MINT condition

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