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Realistic that it could be the last one we ever made. As Wayne Coyne put it in a recent interview with the NME: “We started to make The Soft Bulletin while being very Pyrotechnics and guerrilla gigs in car parks to the record-release-tour cycle

Weren’t particularly keen on keeping them around for much longer either.Īdd up to a highly promising future for a band that preferred dangerous indoor Mercurial guitarist Ronald Jones had quit due to hisĪgoraphobia in 1996, and Warner Bros., who had signed the band way back in 1990, & Butthead… soundtracking ‘She Don’t Use Jelly’, was now half a decade behind them,Īnd even their most devoted fans were wondering what it was going to take for Over four discs and required the listener to play all of them simultaneously on different CD players. In many ways, The Flaming Lipsĭidn’t really have many options left in the experimental stakes followingġ997’s plainly ludicrous Zaireeka, an album whose mixes were split To be seen in the context of this career arc. That had increasingly been afforded to their Nineties output, the Lips’ ninthĪlbum truly defied even the most optimistic predictions that critics and fans The early summer of 1999 to rave reviews, even compared to the great receptions If there was, then The Soft Bulletin, the ­pièce-de-résistance from Oklahoman trio The Flaming Lips, would surely be the frontrunner. But there didn’t seem to be room, amid all that analysis and retrospective praise, for any discussion of the flipside of that well-worn concept – the ‘utopian masterpiece’, the anti- OK Computer to soundtrack positivity at the turn of the millennium. That album was so influential that the archetype of the ‘dystopian masterpiece’ became one that countless artists have subsequently pursued. Much was made a couple of years ago when Radiohead’s OK Computer turned 20 years old, with dozens of think-pieces and commentators pointing out the feeling of dread, foreboding and pre-millennial tension had accurately presaged life as we’re experiencing it under late Western capitalism.