00-the_flaming_lips-at_war_with_the_mystics-proper_retail-2006.nfo
Artist.......: The Flaming Lips
Album........: At War With The mystics
Label........: Warner Bros / Wea
Genre........: Indie
Catnr........: n/a
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Mar-17-2006
str.date.....: Apr-04-2006
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: n/a
track title time
01. yeah yeah yeah song 04:51
02. free radicals 03:42
03. the sound of failure it's dark...is it 07:18
always this dark
04. my cosmic autumn rebellion 04:51
05. vein of stars 04:15
06. the wizard turns on 03:41
07. it overtakes me,the stars are so big i am so 06:51
small do i stand a chance
08. mr. ambulance driver 04:21
09. haven't got a clue 03:26
10. the w.a.n.d. 03:43
11. pompeii am gotterdammerung 04:22
12. goin' on 03:40
Runtime 55:01 min
Size 89,8 MB
Release Notes:
After two expansive yet winsome epic albums like
The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink
Robots that dealt with the inevitability of death
in the face of life, the Oklahoma City art
provocateurs have abandoned the concept album
approach and done an about face. They've returned
to their earlier canon, channeling their messy
psychedelica through a 70s funk scrim, and yet
again figured out a way to elevate the ordinary to
the sublime--even out-weirding Syd Barrett-era Pink
Floyd on a track like "Pompeii," and precariously
balancing out on the astral plane on "Wizard Turns
On." And while you might be tempted to believe that
this band is just about their cartoonish space
bubbles on pink rabbits, it is at your own peril.
At War With the Mystics is an intelligent and
searing indictment of George W. Bush, his
administration, suicide bombers, superficiality and
undeserved stardom--branding them all sinners of
similar stripe. A song like "Sound of Failure/It's
Dark...Is it Always This Dark?" boldly calls out
pop culture princesses Gwen Stefani and Britney
Spears, but not without first giving them a wet
kiss goodnight. "Free Radicals" is a precious soul
romp that sounds like Prince in his prime, but
instead was oddly inspired by a dream about
Devendra Banhart, and is an sharp arrow aimed
straight at the heart of would-be terrorists. Major
domo and head Lip Wayne Coyne is a shrewd observer
of human nature, and an even shrewder songwriter
and this album stands as his greatest and most
varied work yet. --Jaan Uhelszki
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