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Your eardrums belong to us

Scuzzbopper | Pottstown, PA United States | 06/12/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This was the 3rd Lips album that I heard (after Transmissions and Clouds) and the one that converted me from a casual fan to a diehard. Everything comes together for this album (their last for the strugging Restless Records) as future Mercury Rev frontman Jonathan Donuhue adds a huge musical punch, adding extra sonic walls of blistering guitars and scorching feedback, creating an alternate universe of joyous noise-pop/rock.
Every song is a classic hard-rocking jam, from the pounding "Unconsciously Screamin" to the deafening feedback-laden "God Walks Among Us Now". The album even adds two bonus tracks from the Screamin' EP: "Lucifer Risin" and "Let Me Be It". My favorite, however, is the downright beautiful cover version of "What A Wonderful World".
The Lips never got as head-banging as this again. Click on that Buy button right now!"

Great Early Stuff

Justin Baumgartner | 04/24/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I've been listening to the Flaming Lips quite a bit ever since "She Don't Use Jelly" became a semi-hit a while back. I just recently heard this album for the first time and I'll have to say I'm incredibly impressed and wish I had gotten this a long time ago. The sound on this album is very different from what they sound like now. It's very much a guitar-based sound and the Brian Wilson and 60's pop influences that really came through on their later stuff like "Clouds Taste Metallic" have yet to appear. Yet, this album is startlingly original; there isn't any other band that they really remotely sound like. The songs are all great, especially "God Walks Among Us" and "Mountain Side", two particularly caustic tracks that are incredibly catchy as well. "Mountain Side" in particular gets me; midway through it goes off into this noise breakdown for a few minutes only to go right back into the song again. To top it all off, the album ends with a great, unexpected cover of "What a Wonderful World". How can you get much better than this?"

An amazing album

Justin Baumgartner | 09/09/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"this is actually the album that got me back into the flaming lips. it's really just fine, every song is wonderful and different and GOOD. lots of jesus/god songs, that really have nothing to do with jesus or god, as far as i can tell. i've never heard the american release, the one with the bonus tracks stuck right in the middle of the album, but i know that the ten tracks i have are among the flaming lips best. this album would be worth it on the merit of any of the single songs alone. buy it."