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Like with Tame Impala's Led Zeppelin, I'm really fucking irritated that song won't be on the album. Because I love it!
 
Having now actually heard the song, I must say, it seems to me like the Flips weren't content being one hit wonders. Maybe they hung out with Ke$ha a little too much.

It's fucking awesome and I love it, but knowing it's going to be in a commercial, it's a little whore-y, even if the last minute is definitely the exact opposite of radio friendly.

£laming Lip$?
 
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April 2nd.

Love that cover.
 
BoMac posted the Europe release date anyways, so I'm cool with it. Plus, the cover is awesome.
 
The Terror leaked :dance:

And it's on grooveshark so I am going to listen to it in a short matter of hours :dance:

Class is going to suck tonight.
 
Ohhh bullshit!! I'll get on it the second I get home. Easily one of my most anticipated albums of the year.

Definitely buying the vinyl too, it'll look gorgeous.
 
Guh, $40 for the vinyl and $16 for the CD....I'll pick it up when I'm in Chicago on RSD, I suppose.
 
So it looks like this actually leaked days ago, and supposedly the rip is awful. I'm gonna wait.

Sounds fine to me on my douche headphones. No shame in waiting but yeah, there's dynamics to the sound and it isn't particularly quiet/distant-sounding like most bad rips.
 
Well, the title is apt. Sweet Jesus.

If the Flaming Lips' career arc in any way resembled the Cure's, this album would be Pornography.
 
If it wasn't a month until the release I'd wait as well but I caved. It sounded fine to my ears but I'm no audiophile. I'm now just filling space so my thoughts on it won't show up in the threads on the app.

I was pretty disappointed. I was a bit worried that The Terror would turn out to be just an album of the sort of songs they've been making since Embryonic, most of which have been sort of slow, heavily distorted tracks with Wayne's vocals buried deep in the mix. There have been exceptions of course, but most of those ended up on Heady Fwends, which is way better than The Terror. I know it wouldn't fit, but Sun Blows Up is better than anything here. I really like the opening track Look...The Sun is Rising and the ending of Always There...In Our Hearts is great too. You Lust would be good if it went for five or six minutes, there's no need for it to drag out past 13 minutes. Butterfly (How Long it Takes to Die) is marginally better than the one that appeared on the Strobo Trip "EP" (an EP that lasts six hours and 12 minutes) but that's not saying much. I hope it grows on me.
 
And for those over the confetti

"We're deciding what to do with 'The Terror' because it's something of a different mood," Coyne says. "When I see videos of Flaming Lips shows, it's a catastrophe of excitement -- it's light and confetti in your face. So we're going to take a left turn and not do shows like that for a little while. It can be something else -- some new version that we can yet again incorporate into this ever-moving thing that's part of our 30-year path."
 
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