User Score
Generally favorable reviews- based on 156 Ratings
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 123 out of 156
-
Mixed: 23 out of 156
-
Negative: 10 out of 156
Review this album
-
-
Please sign in or create an account before writing a review.
-
-
Submit
-
Check Spelling
- User score
- By date
- Most helpful
-
Sep 25, 2020Man what an album. A nice mix of space rock, psychedelic rock, and dream pop. Good stuff I dare say!
-
Jun 20, 2016Good. .
-
Feb 7, 2013
-
Sep 3, 2011
-
Dec 15, 2010
-
TomPFeb 2, 2008Mike, you're an idiot. Radiohead is, I'm sorry, a better band than The Flaming Lips, and their stuff, or anything on this album, is not taken from Pink Floyd, mabye inspired by them, but have you ever even listened to them, or are you just plain ignorant? Anyways, this is still an entertaining listen, if not as enjoyable as Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots or The Soft Bulletin.
-
-
johnT.Aug 2, 2007Only once I gave this a chance did I realize the amazing complexity and possibility of this album. This is an album where you can listen to it a hundred times and discover something new each time. "It over takes me" is an epic in itself.
-
-
DamonTApr 23, 2007Mostly, a very enjoyable album.
-
-
GuyHJan 22, 2007Nowhere near their best but still a decent album. There are signs of a welcome return to the more expansive sound of The Soft Bulletin (Sound of Failure, the end of It Overtakes Me). A couple of absolute duds (Free Radicals, Haven't Got A Clue) and a bit of fodder (Ambulance Driver, Goin' On) bring the rating down.
-
-
Landon__Jan 7, 2007Masterpiece with political undertones. Their best albumt o date
-
-
bolisjOct 3, 2006
-
-
MihaiVSep 29, 2006A succes. I love all the different sounds. That's how a modern album should be: full all experiments, not just playing safe pretty tunes.
-
-
MCSep 15, 2006
-
-
StephenIJun 29, 2006I love it, simple beats, great tunes, awesome music, I love it!
-
-
JonLJun 23, 2006
-
-
AlexAJun 11, 2006Simply brilliant! Best Album of 2006 so far.
-
-
BrendanJun 8, 2006
-
-
BenWJun 8, 2006Incredible album......beyond the 70's throwbacks is the psychedelic trip that we have come to know and love from this band. I am actually enjoying this album more than Yoshimi. First listen maybe a 7/10, then the depth and quality of each track just keeps on growing to form what ultimately develops into the perfect album - the natural progresssion they just had to write.
-
-
MichaelCMay 17, 2006This album is simply mindblowing. Joins Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and The Soft Bulletin in the pantheon of amazing Lips albums.
-
-
RickWMay 10, 2006A fantastic album. I only bought after hearing it the last 8 times i went to my record shop (I dont think they've stopped playing it since it came out!) and it kept growing on me. 'Havent got a clue' is a fantastic tune.
-
-
JulesMay 2, 2006
-
-
RyanGApr 29, 2006This the album that, like The Wall, but not The Wall, all the critics who hit their thirties in the past few decades will never fully appreciate but in time will have it's place atop those life defining top ten lists for anyone who has yet to leave their younger days behind and take life to be more serious than it actually is.
-
-
AaronQApr 28, 2006Not "The Soft Bulletin," not even close... but still a complete mindjob. Definitely gets better and better with every listen. The most enjoyable totally out there album since "Soft Bulletin."
-
-
PrasRApr 25, 2006If this album indeed gets better with more listens it might be a 10.
-
-
PeggyMApr 25, 2006This album is amazing and will make you weep a euphoric weep.
-
-
TimDApr 24, 2006
-
-
BradPApr 24, 2006
-
-
DanFApr 24, 2006
-
-
TBoogApr 22, 2006This one takes awhile to grow on you, but it's worth the wait. It's not quite on par with something like Yoshimi or Transmissions, and it's not something that you can just throw on and listen to any time like those two are, but it's still a pretty damn good album with time.
-
-
JoeHApr 17, 2006Certainly better the more times you listen to it - also better with close listening. Surprising how simple they sound with all the bells and whistles. Still, there are a couple of songs I'll probably be skipping through after awhile.
-
Awards & Rankings
-
Coyne is a shrewd observer of human nature, and an even shrewder songwriter and this album stands as his greatest and most varied work yet.
-
FilterEach consecutive [song] is stranger than the last. [#19, p.88]
-
Los Angeles TimesThe weird part is how well this stuff holds together, a delirious jumble of android psychedelia and Coyne's elliptical wordplay that goes down as easily as warm milk (spiked with acid). [26 Mar 2006]