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The Autumn Defense on new Flaming Lips Sgt Pepper album


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I guess when you run out of your own musical ideas you just crank out cover records.

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I guess I misunderstood your post...I interpreted it as "I fell out of favor with them from 1996-2006," which would rule out that 1999 masterpiece.

I read it that way too, but agree 100%.  For a while they were easily in my top 5 favorite active bands but after "At War With The Mystics" they might as well be dead to me.

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I guess I misunderstood your post...I interpreted it as "I fell out of favor with them from 1996-2006," which would rule out that 1999 masterpiece.

Yeah I could have been a little clearer...They had a good run though back in the day!

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Listening to this one a few times this week.  A couple thoughts...

AD gets pretty lost in "A Little Help...", but they definitely add a beautiful harmony in the midst of some Lips-induced noise.

I thought the DSOTM cover was more "Lips-ified" than this one is.  I still like that one better than this one so far.

 

I'll go ahead and say it - Miley Cyrus does a pretty darn good job on Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. 

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They lost the plot after Yoshimi. Which is a shame, because I believe Steven Drozd has more talent in his pinky finger than most bands have collectively. Their uneven output put me on the fence, but the recent firing of their drummer was the canary in their drug-hazed coal mine. 

 

The Sgt. Pepper cover is way more interesting than it ought to be, but never much fun. There are good contributions (Autumn Defense!), and compelling studio trickery, but scrambled together into inanity. Drozd singing "Fixing a Hole" works the best because it's the least mussed-with. The woman singing "She's Leaving Home" sounds lovely, but unfortunately is copy and pasted out of a better performance.

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