The Soft Bulletin

Holy fuck this was painful

Meh

- meh, hat mich nicht abgeholt - kam irgendwie nie richtig rein in die Platte

What a flaccid snooze. Not a shred of personality to be found in this. Bonus "points" for the book review barely even acknowledging the album itself - the writeup describes the band's appearance at Glastonbury fest in 2000...? Like really, a 17-year-old band appearing on the New Bands stage speaks volumes, and this album backs it up: you sound like amateurs. This has no business being included here. You have wasted my time, 0 stars if I could.

This is a boring album and a slog to get through. The Flaming Lips are a bit too precious.

listening to this for an hour was akin to torture porn for me. maybe if this album was 5 minutes long it would be ok?

Who is the lead singer Kermit the frog? What an embarrassment this is. Fucking shit band. It’s like something 12 year olds listen to when they first discover music that isn’t their parent’s and think they are edgy.

I checked to make sure I hadn't accidentally hit "Repeat All" because I thought maybe it was repeating the album but there were still three songs left. We had Pink Robots so idk why we have this one too.

Off-key

no

The singer was so bad I had to quit halfway through, I just couldn't take it anymore

They thought "experimental music" meant experimenting with being ass lol Actually really enjoyed a song or two, but a broken clock is right twice a day and we can’t give it credit for that

nossa a voz do vocalista é insuportável kkkk nem consegui terminar

Have never liked this band. The lead vocalist is awful. Their songs are disjointed and don’t have any flow. I did like Suddenly Everything Has Changed.

Waste of time.

I remember when all I knew of the Flaming Lips was that “She Don’t Use Jelly” was funny and “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” was disarmingly endearing. Then I saw them in concert (as an opener) and was exposed to the full Lips and all of their excessive indulgence. In lyrics. In theatrics. But while some of the stage show at least keeps you engaged with wondering what ridiculous thing they’ll pull out next, the music wears out its welcome quickly. And lead singer Wayne Coyne doesn’t help. Coyne’s lyrics are insipid and I don’t like his voice. I’ve lost the ability to see it as cute, funny, or endearing. Or maybe I’m just not in the mood right now. Or maybe jumping the shark at least three different times as their opening set got more and more over the top just burned me out on the Flaming Lips forever. I’ll just take my flaming lips from spicy chips and chili crunch from here on out, thanks.

Do not like at all!

I've heard of The Flaming Lips before but never checked them out. Let's just say after this album I will need another 20+ years to listen to them again. I like indie/alternative but this album is an example of alt rock that I hate. No interesting melodies, no interesting moments, the album dragged on and I was already waiting for it to end after the 3rd song. 1/5

Flabberflabber. Slechte zang. Potten en pannen.

Do you like songs that the instruments sound better than the lyrics? If so, then this is the album for you! The background instruments sound way better than the lyrics when they were being sung. Also, the singer's voice is too quiet for the music, he needs to project more. So, that is why I recommend that you don't listen to this album.

Headbangingly dull.

Soft cock music critics wanking their shit raw to this probably. I know I’m not enjoying an album on this list if I’m constantly checking to see how much time it has left. This album is unique in this aspect as it appears to have some sort of eldritch metaphysical quality where time slows to glacial pace, as this was one of the longest 58 minutes I have experienced. There is no circumstance where I would go out of my way to listen to this. It took three attempts to get through it. I thought about why it grated me so much and I think 98% of it is the vocals. They are terrible. Of the 2% it would be the instrumental moments that just sound disjointed and nonsensical, and not in an interesting way, more like a kid playing with the default settings on a cheap Casio keyboard. The redeeming factor is that outside these parts the instrumentals are okay. The album probably would be at least a 3 without the vocal track. Special mention here of something that I couldn’t get out of my head is go to 1:17 in “A spoonful weighs a tonne”. There is a sound that reminds me of the first noise that plays in the looney tunes intro.

I really wanted to like this. I should like this. But oh my god I cannot get past these vocals. Honestly unlistenable.

This is awful. I've never purposefully listened to the flaming lips. The guy cannot sing to save his life... there is hope for me yet!

Never heard this album. I wasn't prepared for lyrics written by 2nd graders or music created by AI. Wait, this crap was created by grown-ass adults? With 8 previous albums under their belt? Also, no more mentioning Superman in a song. That should have been outlawed in about 1990. But here we are, songwriters can't help themselves. "I stood up and I said, yeah".

STANDOUTS: n/a OVERALL: 1.5/5—won't return to ANYTHING here.

Oh my god. No hope for America. LOL!!!

Ok, dit is dus wel echt bagger. Ontzettend saai album waar echt vrijwel niets gebeurd. Elk nummer gaat in de ander over, maar dan wel op de meest oninteressante manier ooit. De zanger heeft echt een ontzettend zeikerige stem waardoor ik me actief irriteer. Hij klinkt een beetje als iemand die al te veel op heeft en eigenlijk niet meer zou moeten zingen maar toch niet bij de karaoke microfoon weg te slaan is... Ik snap echt totaal niet waarom dit in de lijst staat, is het om aan te tonen dat soms een zanger gewoon écht niet kan zingen en dat het heel erg dapper is dat ze dan alsnog het album uitbrengen? Dit komt voor mij echt niet boven 'middelbare school musical' zanger uit, hij klinkt vermoeid, verveeld en ongelooflijk zeikerig. Ik begin me nu, BIJ NUMMER 4 AL GOVERDOMME, ontzettend te irriteren aan de zanger en het album. "It won't destroy you, but it will destroy meeeee" is van toepassing op dit album, want ik overweeg nu zeer sterk om maar gewoon te springen. blegh. Ik vind het ergens een beetje sneu om dit een 1 te geven want opzich is het instrumentaal best ok. Het is alleen jammer dat ze de meest zeikerige zanger aller tijden hebben en dat hij HEEL ERG de frontman is... Maarja, misschien leren ze er dan wat van! Oh trouwens, Race for the Prize is een prima nummer, het is grotendeels instrumentaal dus dan hoor je de zanger wat minder.

Not my thing Find it boring and sinply not a good voice. Lyrics are alright but nohing life changing.

Sloppy instrumentals and vocals, low-quality production, and uncreative lyrics…quite possibly the worst album I’ve ever listened to

Didn’t like this

The opening track "Race for the Prize" grates my nerves - the twanging guitar, synth, or whatever it is sound like it's out of tune, as do the vocals on the second track "A Spoonful Weighs a Ton". A difficult listen - perhaps a bit too "out there" for my liking.

too weird

Coldplay/U2 if they tried to rip off Pavement. This is SO shit. SO middle of the road. SO generic and whiny. Jesus christ the zany symphonic sound is awful. I can't believe how beloved this band was at the time.

Couldn't stand it.

Has to be one of the worst albums I have ever listened to. Just noise and no musical skill. Maybe this is one to listen to so one understands what bad music is.

Weird music for normal people. Not a fan of the voice or the songs. All a bit mannered for me.

unknown

Not for me

voice is annoying the shit out of me

No thanks

Ik kan echt niet langer luisteren naar deze kut stem

The only redeemable track on this album is the one without vocals. I’m not even a person whose first focus is lyrics but the vocalists talk-singing and cheesy lyrics completely ruin anything good the band may be doing.

Sorry, aber absolut nicht meins. Nach zwei Stücken (Remixe übersprungen) geht mir der schlechte Gesang und die nach Zufallsprinzip ausgewählten Magix Music Maker Instrumente auf den Sack. Habe die anderen Stücke kurz durchgescrollt, bin bei nix hängengeblieben. Vielleicht isses ja genial und ich verstehs nur nicht. Schwieriger Einstieg. :)

I owe my life to The Flaming Lips. See, a while back, I got in a horrible car crash, and I was in a 6-month coma as a result. While at the hospital, desperately holding on to the decaying potential that I’d ever wake up, the nurse put on "The Soft Bulletin". Realizing - even from a state of barely being conscious - what album this was, I awoke from my long coma, stood up, and walked to the radio to turn this garbage off.

I’m no music expert but this album sounded very amateur, and tinny, like they recorded it in someone’s garage. None of the songs stood out to me in a good way. Some of the lyrics definitely stood out in a this-is-really-bad-song-writing kind of way. I was pretty glad when it ended.

Don't care for it. Sleeping on the Roof is okay.

Ellers tak. Det var virkelig ikke noget for mig.

The music itself was not bad, but I could only take so much of Wayne Coyne singing. And that amount was much shorter than an entire album.

Nope!

Wayne Coyne is a douche

1. race for the prize - 1 2. a zpoonfull uueighz a ton - 1 3. the zpark that bled - 0 4. zpiderbite zong - 0 5. bugging - 0 6. uuhat iz the light - 0 7. the obzerver - 0 8. uuating for a zuperman - 0 9. zuddenly everything haz changed - 1 10. the gazh - 0 11. feeling yourzelf dizintegrate - 1 12. zleeping on the roof - 2

Favorite song was Sleeping On The Roof as I didn't have to listen to terrible lyrics or voice 😂 We made better lyrics than The Spiderbite Song just messing around (sound better too). Not on this album, but the one memorable song of theirs is She Don't Use Jelly, which is at best fun which is why this album is getting a 1

The singing is really irritating to me. Most songs have some annoying element to the instrumental. Otherwise it might have been enjoyable.

Mostly naff music, some ok moments like those handfuls of fuzz synth in A Spoonful. Wow, I’m scraping the bottom of the barrel here, huh? This freshly laid dog turd is unforgivably irritating as a whole. Oh and I hate this guy’s voice. Absolutely wretched.

I actually disliked this with a passion. It was a long time ago since I heard a record that sounded this bad, it's on demo territory for me. I actually had to check if my headphones were connected properly, just because it sounded so bad. The singer has a quite special style that you may or may not like, but I think he actually sang out of key on some songs which just enhances the feeling that he can't sing. It's a bit of a shame, because 'Race for the Prize' could've been a very good song if it was just executed better. And that is a feeling I have throughout the whole record; every song that could've been good is ruined by bad choices of what sounds and instruments to use, which just makes it sound crap and dissonant (I'm looking at you, distorted bass in 'A Spoonful Weighs a Ton'). It does sound quite a lot like a predecessor to Death Cab for Cutie though, and I can see how many other indie and alternative bands might've been inspired by this.

I can't be objective. I hate the Flaming Lips.

Too unorganized, like they don't know what they really want to sound like, although they certainly nail some melodies on some songs. Favourite song(s): The Spark That Bled.

Not my cup of tea. Very whiny, could not finish.

And why did I need to hear this album? As psychedelic music it's a poorly executed americana attempt, married to a bloody awful vocalist, of man but he's dire. Couldn't find anything to like about this album, 14 meh, whatever, tracks.

The singer is annoying. Honestly couldn't make it through

The first song is good, catchy. The rest of the album takes a sharp nosedive into this weird 90s sadboy pop/alt album and it's just not for me. I wouldn't have liked this when it came out, and I think I hate it more now. Shrug.

Nothing that stood out in a good way in this album.

anteeksiantamattomasti ”itsenäistä”-indie paskaa eli sama homma ku rock and roll kanssa kävi joskus 1960-luvulla STNA kun sen äänen kuuleekin ARGHH VIHA TULEE POSKIPUNILLE EI ILO. Kaikki biisit kertoo PRKL samasta asiasta cliche lyriikoiden kera. Biisiet samahkon kuullosta eli tupla conceptual high artko??? Noh jos albumi annetaan arvosana riipputtamatta sitä sen tekijöistä, genrestä ajankohdasta ja näin ja otetaan vaan tulo tarkasteluun niin onko tämä tuotos hyvää musiikkia omassa pienessä kuplakonteksissaan jota en saa puhkaista sääntö oli siis tämä… objektiivisuus sääntö.. Noh ei täyttä paskaahan tämä silti..

I did not enjoy this

The singer is absolutely terrible, I can't do more than 3 songs of this despite my best intentions. Read on Wikipedia that this is one of the 90s most acclaimed albums... Where did they get this from?

This band was not my cup of tea. I’m more classic rock

tää ukko ei ole edes YRITTÄNYT laulaa... miten voi kuulostaa tolta..parhaat kohtaukset kun suupielet pysyy tiukasti kiinni.... aivan paskaa indiehörinää TAAS KERRAN montako näitä pitää vielä kärsiä eisaatana neljäsosa albumeista generoitu jos meikän saamat indiekopiot on vittu 25% valmista niin ei saatana the observer

horrible

nah

Sorry no, can't get over the vocals

Lame

not for me

i’m ngl this album was ass

Fuck The Flaming Lips I Will Never Like The Flaming Lips (that intro is alright though£

Ugh I dont get it. It was indie music. It was an hour long. It just needed to end. It is better than a one not really a two. I am rounding down

Instrumentell hätt mir das ja voll gefallen aber mit diesen Vocals komm ich überhaupt nicht klar.

2/10

Not my speed.

Sappy instrumentals and awful vocals, make for a near unlistenable album

Straight up did not enjoy this.

Honestly, this pretty much epitomizes my dislike of some indie rock. It just tried too hard to be emotional and whimsical while lacking groove or anything interesting, really. It somehow meanders like jam band stuff while not really highlighting musicianship or propping up any sort of scene or movement. This seems like a band that got into indie rock at the height of its popularity and rode its coattails. So many artists that did it earlier and better. "Pet Sounds" of the 90s my ass. Pet Sounds still sounds better than this imo.

Lol I had people in the 00s recommend flaming lips to me. This was so boring!

This album should be renamed 'If bin juice made a noise it would sound like this'.

Pleasant enough music. Nothing unique to my ear. I don't own any of their music. Based on this album I probably will not be buying any either. Very average. Rate 1-2.

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: None Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Disliked this album so much I had to go back to Yoshimi to see if I had just hallucinated that album being good. Nope, just this one sucks.

Gave up near the end, did not enjoy

I did not like this at all. Had to turn it off after a few songs. Very annoying vocals.

Not keen ...on first listen...poor mans Mercury Rev. Contrived

Surprisingly didn’t like it. Heard great things about them, not anything I was a fan of.

Mye fin instrumental her, men hadde det vanskelig for å bli vant til vokalen. Ble rett og slett litt skjærende til tider. Den eneste sangen som egentlig sto ut var The Gash, den var tung og deilig. Har gitt den flere sjanser, men tror ikke jeg kommer noe særlig tilbake til denne.

Utter nonsense 1/5

Shite. A low one (I know this is decent but I just really dislike these guys)

Just dont like Flaming Lips

sounds good, just not my favorite

Started of well fell hard

SO BORING.

Meh

cool

Cool Sound.

Really cool, but not incredible