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Originally released in 1999 as a promotional CD-R, this collection of alternate mixes and non-album tracks bridges the gap between the bandâs experimental hijinks and pop instincts.
Over the Flaming Lipsâ four-decade career, there was no more crucial turning point than the period spanning 1996 to 1999, when the Oklahoma group narrowly escaped their imminent fate as alt-rock has-beens and transformed themselves into the megaphone-wielding pied pipers of the 21st-century festival circuit. After their underperforming 1995 album
Clouds Taste Metallic failed to yield another âShe Donât Use Jellyâ and guitarist Ronald Jones checked out, remaining members Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins, and Steven Drozd liberated themselves from the pressures of writing hitsâand the creative limitations of being a guitar-rock bandâby conducting various synchronized-tape experiments with fleets of car stereos and battalions of boomboxes. Released in 1997,
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The project was originally released as a promo CD to correspond with the Lips 1999 album
The Soft Bulletin.It consisted of unreleased material, outtakes, early mixes, B-sides, international bonus tracks, and stereo versions of songs from
Zaireeka. The new version will also include a previously unreleased track: an early mix of “1000 ft. Hands.”
Soft Bulletin Companion will be available to the masses this Friday (July 16). The Lips are also heading out on a massive world tour that sees them traversing North America and the UK over the course of the next year. Check out a full list of tour dates
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