At War With The Mystics de The Flaming Lips

CupidsQrushdEgo a écrit :

I agree with everything you said hotterthanjuly. But I think Goin On' is one of the weakest songs they've ever written.. and coming right after the awesomeness of Pompeii makes it kind of underwhelming. This album has slowly but surely gained my love. I used to always think this was probably their worst, but I really quite enjoy it now. Just have to be in the right mood to listen to it (but I guess you could say that about a majority of albums).

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innerspeaker a écrit :

Dunno......sort of reminds me of Abbey Road-era Beatles - very melodic, soaring dream-pop song with a touch of psychedelia. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

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hotterthanjuly a écrit :

But "The Sound of Failure" sounds nothing like The Beatles.

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innerspeaker a écrit :

The Sound Of Failure is fucking magnificent - Beatles-tier songwriting.

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PinkFloydrulez a écrit :

soul music.

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hotterthanjuly a écrit :

@surfingelectrod: Because being underrated has nothing to do with being commercially successful. At War With the Mystics happens to be more of the former than the latter, as Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots has outsold it considerably. And I don't understand how people can say At War With the Mystics is overproduced, as if its two predecessors aren't similarly lavish and over the top in its arrangements.

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hotterthanjuly a écrit :

@baacardi: Disagree completely. "Pompeii am Götterdämmerung" ends too abruptly to work as a proper album closer. It sounds like a penultimate track, as it should be, and the relaxed beauty of "Goin' On" contrasts well, making for a far more fitting conclusion. No one can say one track doesn't fit when no two tracks sound alike.

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baacardi a écrit :

Goin' On just does not fit on the end. One of the weakest tracks on here, straight after one of the best and most epic... Pompeii would be a perfect closer.

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surfingelectrod a écrit :

How can people say that this is underrated when it's one of their most popular and commercially successful albums? I think it's a mess. The b-sides are better than some of the album tracks and everything is just too overproduced... there's too much shit crammed into every song, and the dumb pop songs are some of the Lips' worst. The spacey prog stuff is good, though.

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fingolfin92 a écrit :

5.1 mix is amazing!

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Sosen a écrit :

Magic, it's all a bunch o' magic.

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murderbydef222 a écrit :

I wish I hadn't waited so long to cop this. Every song is so well-put-together, they're each their own symphony

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alexwlevine a écrit :

Underrated. [16] Awesome introspective album!

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Sen0r_Cardgage a écrit :

Underrated. [15]

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johnnydepth76 a écrit :

Vein of Stars is easily the best track here.

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Streetee a écrit :

This is actually my favourite Flaming Lips album.

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Cox_of_Seagulls a écrit :

This took me a lot longer to appreciate than their other albums. It only just dawned on me the other day how amazing this is.

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jonnyj24 a écrit :

I agree it's one of their better album covers, it's like: "f@$#! it's a wall of exploding paint! I need to think about what to do next!"

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