It’s the sort of gamble that has worked out just fine for Coyne over the last twenty years, and true to form the ensemble managed to cradle the original’s warmth and fragility, adding what the singer has described as more ‘density’ in the process. Challenge accepted, why not also then, just to up the ante one more notch, play the whole thing live at an outdoor amphitheatre, up a mountain?
#FLAMING LIPS SOFT BULLETIN LIVE FULL#
In Lipsville, it also made complete sense to mess with their own legacy by giving The Soft Bulletin’s original vivid tones the orchestration and full choral upcycling it deserved in the first place but the shoestring budget couldn’t afford. Two decades on the album lauded as one of the nineties’ greatest remains a soaring flight of fantasy without which a singular voice may well have ended up lost to Oklahoma’s dive bars. progressively surprised themselves, but even now recalling the sheer scale and audacity of such a total reinvention brings a smile to the face. The recording process was one in which Wayne Coyne and co.
Pretty much everyone knows the background to The Soft Bulletin now, that its effectively unexpected success saved The Flaming Lips from being thrown to the lions of fate after prodigiously talented guitarist Ronald Jones quit, and how they responded by trying to redefine how music was made with weird, suit-frightening results.
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