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The Flaming Lips - LateNightTales Audio CD

A fair review of the The Flaming Lips "LateNightTales" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Flaming Lips reviews here, or go back to the The Flaming Lips tabs.

The Flaming Lips Band: The Flaming Lips
Title: LateNightTales
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Release Date: 2005-03-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Bjork � Unravel 2: Miles Davis � My Ship 3: Chris Bell � Speed Of Sound 4: Faust � It's A Bit of A Pain 5: Roxy Music � 2HB 6: Alfie � People 7: Aphex Twin � Film 8: Mice Parade � Galileo 9: The Chameleons � Up The Down Escalator 10: The Flaming Lips � Seven Nation Army (Harry Potter�s and George W. Bush�s Severed Head Arm Mix) 11: The Chemical Brothers � Playground For A Wedgeless Firm 12: Love & Rockets � Saudade 13: Lush � Monochrome 14: Psychedelic Furs � Sleep Comes Down 15: Nick Drake � River Man 16: Sebadoh � On Fire 17: Radiohead � Pyramid Song 18: 10cc � I�m Not In Love 19: Brian Eno � Another Green World 20: David Shrigley � The Jist

Light Shines Through A Kaleidoscope
The best description of the series is by it's creator AUSTIN WILDE who states on their website latenighttales. One of the most inspired series ever offered on CD, 'Late Night Tales' offers an intimate look into the personal home listening tastes of each of the artists spotlighted in the series. co. uk; "Our special series gives artists and producers the opportunity to select their favorite tracks for home listening. The series is an ideal opportunity for the artists to express their tastes and musical background and to take the listener on a journey through their musical inspirations. Normally we ask our chosen producers to compile an album of their favorite music that inspired them to make music their profession - their favourite of the favourites. Sit back relax and enjoy. ". I personally share this vision, for years I have asked club dj's to make a mix of the best music that they can't get away with playing at dance clubs (you can e-mail me at nickfromspace@yahoo. com if you want to hear some of those).

The spotlight here shines on WAYNE COYNE of THE FLAMING LIPS. As in the FLAMING LIPS own music, that light shines through a kaleidoscope. Showing off music of all times from todays ALFIE, SEBADOH, MICE PARADE,
CHRIS BELL, NICK DRAKE & DAVID SHRIGLEY; to 90s defining RADIOHEAD, BJORK, APHEX TWIN, FAUST & CHEMICAL BROTHERS; to 80s ingenues PSYCHEDELIC FURS, LOVE AND ROCKETS, THE CHAMELEONS & LUSH; to 70s innovators ROXY MUSIC, BRIAN ENO, & 10CC; the timeless jazz of MILES DAVIS; and a features an exclusive new track by FLAMING LIPS in which they cover WHITE STRIPES 'Seven Nation Army'; this is truely a renaissance man expierence.

A personal description as to the inspiration and reason for the selection of each track is offered in the liner notes. I only wonder if WAYNE was the one who selected the picture of the plastic elephant for the cover of the CD & how much wonderful it would look on LP.

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Up and down, could use a little editing..
No point in adding my blather to theirs. Others have described the CD fairly well. I'll leave it at this: this is a good CD, but not great; it needs some editing. Delete tracks 12-16 and you have a much more concise, cohesive offering.

I don't how who Alfie are (is?) but their song "People" is a definite highlight. Linear, tight, multipart interwoven guitar rock: picture the Strokes with twice the IQ.


The Key
Don't get me wrong, the compilation is brilliant and the music is wonderful, but the key to the whole thing is the notes Wayne scribbled about why he chose each song. The real beauty of this compilation is the liner notes.

Listening to this without reading the notes is a bit like wandering lost around an art museum, enjoying the paintings. It is a great way to spend your time. On the other hand, you could be led by an expert who can explain the finer points, the history, the reason the art is in this collection to begin with. You get all the aesthetic pleasure, plus enlightenment.

Wayne is your personal docent.

He points out reasons for collecting these songs; a beautiful innovation here, a pathetically heart wrenching lyric there, a sublime use of an odd time signature, this band had to be in the collection and this is a good representation of why, on and on. .


Spears and Awkward Hobos: secret review #4
I was a cushion for such waves, a shore for baked items, so good and needed, such sales for the building fund. We didnt even know it was a song, a dvd, something to play in machines, the gears and plastic all remotely influenced, such oblong buttons. They are from Oklahoma City and I miss May avenue, the aged houses of heritage hills and somewhere off 15th street, amongst gargoyles and other creatures they made these songs.

All angry and up to the slide they go, they go.

more secret reviews go to secrettechnology (add the usual web ending withthe dot and all)

Sebastian Bomar.


Interesting Downtempo Mix
This album is a sweet mellow mix kicked off with Bjork's "Unravel" (probably the best song from "Homogenic"), seguing into some Miles Davis (not my favorite by him, but continues the mellow mood), later getting into some music box funk by Aphex Twin and Chemical Brothers. The Flaming Lips are always musically adventurous and experimental, so I knew they'd have to have some cool influences. Near the end we get Radiohead's "Pyramid Song"-- I've never been a huge fan, but this song is by leaps and bounds the best I've heard from them, Thom Yorke distilled down to somber wailing poetry and a simple, eerie piano riff underneath. A definite highlight. Right after that, we get the easy listening song "I'm Not in Love," whose inclusion here makes me see the song in a new light, especially in this extended and uncut version.

You know the Lips know their music, and this mix tape doesn't disappoint. It manages to be downtempo and always interesting at the same time.


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