I also don't think it's an issue that the sound of it is deliberate in fact I think it adds to my point.
It was a matter of convenient timing, really. I didn't 'pick' AWWTM as the lead album for ISF so much as it was the last in a line of several albums that made me aware of the issue, and research on it made me aware that I wasn't the only person who had issue with it. Though, in fairness, I'd hate to have been the mastering engineer on this one. But to Nick's point, I think it's intentional, not simply bad mastering.
#VEIN OF STARS THE FLAMING LIPS CHORDS FULL#
On the whole, the production sounds extremely live one moment full of Drozd/Bonham drum pounding and utterly artificial and studio-fied the next. But there's no question that the lot of it is willfully disjointed - "The Sound of Failure" takes these smooth melodies and maj-9 chords you might find on, say, The Royal Scam and hacks them to pieces with a production you might find on an emo record before ending with one of the Lips' patented Cecil-B.-DeMille-Does- Akira orchestral codas. The idea that there aren't songs here is misguided. The bgd vox on most of it are unprecedented-sounding - almost as if they stole the voices Eno used on Music For Airports, edited them to sing soul and doo-wop, and ran them through a broken Revox. The people who like it do so conditionally, some hate it barring a song or two, others despite it without reservation. Hilarious how little consensus there is for this.
I listened to it 3 times in a row, and then never again. I haven't even thought about playing it again since that first day. The rest of the album isn't quite as embarassing, thankfully. my right eyebrow rises.Ġ:15 - me: "yeah, maybe this is one of those fake album leaks."Ģ:35 - me: god, this is the single? Why is it so long?Ģ:40 - her: it's only been a few minutes. Mind you, we're both huge fans, and had great expectations for At War With the Mystics.Ġ:00 - heads close to the speakers, smiling facesĠ:05 - girlfriend: "are you sure this is the right cd?" me: "just keep listening"Ġ:10 - no more smiles. I wish I had a timelapse video, maybe a picture every 5 seconds, of my girlfriend and I listening to the new "Yeah Yeah Yeah Song". I really can't understand why they chose to lead off the album with them. "Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" and "Free Radicals" are two of the worst songs I've heard in the last few years.
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