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The Flaming Lips - Telepathic Surgery Audio CD

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The Flaming Lips Band: The Flaming Lips
Title: Telepathic Surgery
Rating:
Release Date: 1993-07-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Drug Machine in Heaven 2: Right Now 3: Michael, Time to Wake Up 4: Chrome Plated Suicide 5: Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon (Fuck Led Zeppelin) 6: Miracle on 42nd Street 7: Fryin' Up [*] 8: Hell's Angels Cracker Factory [*] 9: UFO Story 10: Redneck School of Technology 11: Shaved Gorilla 12: Spontaneous Combustion of John 13: Last Drop of Morning Dew 14: Begs and Achin

I'm Not Quite Sure Whether It's A Step Up Or A Step Down...
This album has even more varying moments than Oh My Gawd!!. .

It starts off with a bland riff, but once the vocals come in, it lifts the entirety of the song "Drug Machine In Heaven. " "Right Now" is definitely a lot better. It's got a nice lick that travels from one channel to the other, and the melody isn't bad, either! "Michael, Time To Get Up" is pure filler. This includes Wayne playing some random guitar very loudly next to Michael's head to wake Michael from sleep, but to no avail. "Chrome Plated Suicide" has pretty bad vocals, but it's one of the best arranged tracks on here. The next track is very boring and bland, but "Miracle on 42nd Street" gets better after repeated listens. "Fryin' Up" is a nice track. . . Not much to be said here.

I have not heard the 25 minute version of "Hell's Angel's. . . ", only the three minute version. It's not bad, but I can't imagine it being much better after adding 22 more minutes to this. "UFO Story" has a nice story that's only good for a few listens, followed by some dull guitar and some pretty piano which goes on for a bit too long. "Shaved Gorilla" is as boring as they get, and the next three songs are pleasant to listen to, but don't do much for me. The extended outro of "Begs And Achin'" is very pretty, though.

There is not much to be said about this album, but the Flaming Lips are getting a lot better at making music. Parts of this are extremely dull compared to the last two albums, though, so it's another four star album for these guys.


It surprised me hardcore


All during this time, I owned everything from Priest to present (with the present changing and new albums purchased as time went along). My whole life, people have always told me and reviews have always declared that the lips' early stuff was "trite" "inaccessible" "ridiculous" "the acid that acid eats" "impossible to listen to" ETC. I never really liked Priest (I know THAT stepped on some toes) and figured that all these people were right about early lips stuff.

WHATEVER. I went out on a limb and downloaded a few songs off of this record to see if it was worth finding a place to buy it from. I downloaded "Begs and Achin'" "Chrome Plated Suicide" and "Drug Machine in Heaven. "

I ordered the record in a matter of hours.

This record rawks, let no one deceive you. Priest and HtDitFH are steps down from this, though I enjoy the latter greatly. This record is raw, yet polished, insane, yet almost beautiful. It's nearly impossible to describe. It's noise, it's insanity, it's friggin' awesome. Nothing gets me up in the morning easier that "Drug Machine in Heaven" and it just gets better as the record goes on.

Easily half of the tracks on this record are instant classics.

Don't buy into carping reviews about this record. This album rules. And rules good and hard.


Pretty gnarly, dude
This was a pretty rockin' Flaming Lips album. My brother first got it for me at a used record store. I had heard "She Don't Use Jelly" on the radio late at night in the 90's and I loved it. I wanted that song so bad but instead my brother found this album for me. After a few listens I decided that it was pretty damn good. It's not as magical and floaty sounding as their newer albums but it still has a lot of good stuff.


Wild Album, Best of the Early Years!
This is probably the bands best 80's album (although Oh My Gawd!!! comes quite close to earning that title). Not nearly as brilliant as Priest Driven Ambulance, but definatly a wild, heavy album. No Lips collection is complete without it. Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory is worth the price of admission alone!.


That's heavy, dude!
Next to Oh My Gawd!, this is definately one of the weirdest Lips albums. The Lips continued their spaced-out journey with their 3rd album, Telepathic Surgery, in 1989. The cover is also priceless: a man standing in front of a barren field, holding a hubcap to his face.
The stand-out tracks include:
1. the brief but strange "Spontaneous Combustion Of John" and "Shaved Gorilla"

2. the hilarious "UFO Story" where Wayne tells the band about his encounters with UFOs as a kid, complete with a beautiful piano ballad stuck right in the middle.

3. "Chrome-Plated Suicide", which deserved to be a chart-topper

4. The 25-minute plus epic "Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory", which contains endless guitar and drum solos, backwards vocal samples, an opera singer, motorcycles revving, an answering machine, tape loops, and more. Worth the price of the CD alone. It also never appeared on the vinyl or cassette version, and never even was released as a single!

If you're looking to dive into the world of the Lips, here's a good place to start. Buy it, as Wayne would sing, "Right noooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!" :-).


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