Best Track On Flaming Lips [i]THE SOFT BULLETIN[/i]

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This has always been my favorite Flaming Lips album, and I figured this would make a good first real poll for me. So many great tracks, and textures, and even though it is more streamlined, it still retains plenty of quirkiness. Plus the internal digs on "Spiderbite Song" are pretty humorous (if you have the US version).

Poll Results

OptionVotes
"Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" – 5:17 5
"Race for the Prize" ("Sacrifice of the New Scientists") – 4:18 4
"The Gash" ("Battle Hymn for the Wounded Mathematician") – 4:02 4
"The Spark That Bled" ("The Softest Bullet Ever Shot") – 5:55 3
"A Spoonful Weighs a Ton" – 3:32 2
"Race for the Prize" (Mokran Remix) – 4:09 1
"Sleeping on the Roof" (excerpt from "Should We Keep the Severed Head Awake??") – 3:09 1
"Suddenly Everything Has Changed" ("Death Anxiety Caused by Moments of Boredom") – 3:54 1
"Waitin' for a Superman" ("Is It Gettin' Heavy?") – 4:17 1
"What Is the Light?" – 4:05 1
"The Spiderbite Song" – 4:02 (U.S. Only) 1
"The Observer" – 4:11 0
"Slow Motion" – 3:53 (UK Only) 0
"Buggin'" (Mokran Remix) – 3:16 0
"Waitin' for a Superman" (Mokran Remix) – 4:19 0


Heroin Kills (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:07 (fifteen years ago)

This is really really hard. "Buggin'" is just beautiful but "Waitin' for a Superman" always tugged hard on my heartstrings, maybe because I'm a comics nerd and so the idea of the messianic Superman trying his best to save us all but just not being able to do it is full of pathos and drama for me.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)

The Flaming Lips - The Soft POLL-etin

ciderpress, Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:09 (fifteen years ago)

God this is a great record all the way through though. Probably holds up best of any of the big turn-of-the-millenium instant-classic rock records.

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:10 (fifteen years ago)

d'oh. Search didn't pull it up when searching for Soft Bulletin, thanks to someone punning the word POLL in there :(. wasn't even on the first page.

Heroin Kills (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:11 (fifteen years ago)

LOL well come to look at it one difference is mine has the Mokran remixes and the UK track? hehe

Heroin Kills (Brad Nowell's Soiled Undergarments), Sunday, 9 May 2010 19:17 (fifteen years ago)

The Spark That Bled 4EVA!!!!!

kornrulez6969, Monday, 10 May 2010 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Sunday, 30 May 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

The Gash! ELO & Queen kickin it with Led Zeppelin's rhythm section. Only way WAY more nuts.

ImprovSpirit, Monday, 31 May 2010 02:34 (fifteen years ago)

Voted "Suddenly" mainly for the "Driving home the sky accelerates" part which is so much magic, and feels like a direct current from Clouds-era lips. But really it's a tie between that and "Spoonful" "The Spark That Bled" "Spiderbite" "The Gash".

Adam Bruneau, Monday, 31 May 2010 02:43 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 31 May 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)


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