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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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1957 - Elvis Presley bought the Graceland mansion from Ruth Brown-Moore for $102,500. The original building had at one time been a place of worship, used by the Graceland Christian Church and was named after the builder s daughter, Grace Toof.
1958 - The first Greatest Hits compilation is released, and it s by Johnny Mathis. It s a huge hit, and the format catches on quickly. The Mathis album stays in the Billboard 200 album chart for over nine years, a record not broken until Pink Floyd s Dark Side Of The Moon.
1967 - Working at Abbey Road studios in London, The Beatles finished the recording of She s Leaving Home after adding backing vocals to the track. Harpist Sheila Bromberg, who was part of the string section heard on the track, became the first woman to play on a Beatles recording.