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The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics Audio CD

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The Flaming Lips Band: The Flaming Lips
Title: At War with the Mystics
Rating:
Release Date: 2006-04-04
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song 2: Free Radicals 3: The Sound of Failure 4: My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion 5: Vein of Stars 6: The Wizard Turns On... 7: It Overtakes Me 8: Mr. Ambulance Driver 9: Haven't Got a Clue 10: The W.A.N.D. 11: W.A.N.D. 12: Pompeii Am Gotterdammerung 13: Goin' On

At War with the Mystics
This album has a rating of 3 out 5 written all over it and I agree with Allmusic, Tiny Mix Tapes and Rolling Stone in their assessment of the album. At War with the Mystics being The Flaming Lips 11th studio album is a straight forward rock album that has psychadelic elements but on the whole sounds like generic rock with lyrics that one has heard before. To call this album psychadelic is not correct. As I wrote earlier it has psychadelic elements but on the whole this is psychadelic light. The booklet has a very strange cover with a man close to a volcano or something that is supposed to resemble a volcano. All the lyrics are included but we do not get a list of whom plays what on the album which is a shame. 3/5.


Less lingering
If only unable to compete with their last two fantastic outings, the entire package-particularly the first side-flows well enough to produce another agreeable neo-psychedelia entry. Creative strain can be heard in some crude implementations of melody and druggy effects, resulting in less memorable music. .


At War With Themselves
The Flaming Lip's title this album At War With The Mystics. I despise hypocritical behavior. What do they do? Espouse mystical BS and perpetuate flaming hypocrisy. They title a song "W. A. N. D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)". Where is the will? Nowhere to be found. What is the will? A made up explanation to explain what people don't understand. Human Behavior. A completely mystical description. The same way people made up the word god to explain the creation of the universe is the exact same way they use the word will. The same way people used the concept of ghosts to explain things they didn't understand is the exact same way they use the word will. Using the mystical concept of a will is the exact same thing they condemn. What a bunch of hypocritical ignoramous' They also say, "You can not know yourself". Yes you can. I came about through a process of evolution. Like my genetics my behavior results from consequences(contingenices of reinforcement, natural selection). I will do exactly what my evolutionary history, environmental history and the current situation determines. So will everyone else. Let's hope that one day people are actually taught and reinforced for true scientific understanding because watching this hypocritical BS shoveled down my throat, when The Flaming Lips have written some awesome songs, is painful. Please Wayne get an education. Read About Behaviorism by B. F. Skinner. Learn the science of human behavior. It will allow you to truly write some outstanding observational songs instead of the awful BS on this album. Your mystical lyrics reinforces the idea that there is only one self initiating magical force in the universe and it is in the brain, the will. URGH!! Please get an education so you can write some decent songs.


Worse than the Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips are finished as a creative force; this is an ineffective, mealy, synth choked frisbee. Unpossible, you say? Don't spend your money to find out. I used to think Jaan Uhelszki was a good critic, but that editor's review is so off I don't know what the blazes she was listening to when she praised this bomb. The Flaming Lips know it's awful-and that's why the only two singles issued from this brain flotsam happen to be the only two songs on "Mystics" that even remotely have any life in them whatsoever. The rest of it sounds like something between Gary Wright and early Pink Floyd fugues, both of which are listenable but this, this wretched flurry of blurp and whah is decidedly not.

I know, I'll get alot of flak by insulting the great and momentous Soft Bulletin. Tough. Flaming Lips post-Clouds is for emo-retards and people with more than a casual pot habit. Wayne Coyne should actually be sent to Mars so he can warble and write the dumbest song titles in rock and roll far away from anyone's BS-sensitive ear canals. What's really frightening is that they will probably make another record even more idiotic than this because there's obviously so many damfools still following these jokers who can't tell dog-do from Duncan Hines. .


Great
It is a great artistic album. I love Flaming Lips. I don't like every single tune, but worth getting. Check out the tracks before you buy, to make sure it is your thing. If you aren't familiar with them, then Yoshimi is the best starting album for this band, because that album really is better.


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