![]() ![]() And the singing? I kid you not, I flashed back to watching Alfalfa struggle with "A Bicycle Built for Two" in the old Spanky and Our Gang TV shows. A friend passed it along, and I learned why the Lips hadn't appeared on my radar screen: Images of white lab coats and Nobel prizes don't work in rock music, and the soaring, heroic synthesizers remind me of the Moody Blues' relentless, cloying Mellotron. The Soft Bulletin hasn't changed that, at least here in Chicago. ![]() Except for their hit, "She Don't Use Vaseline," this Oklahoma band has had little mainstream exposure. But the latest CD from the Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin (Warner Bros. This is the beginning of the greatest pop album since Radiohead's OK Computer, XTC's Skylarking, Elvis Costello's Imperial Bedroom-possibly even Sgt. No, I'm not breaking into fiction or poetry. They're just human, with wives and children. It's so dangerous, but they're driven-theirs is to win, if it kills them. Two scientists are racing for the good of all mankind-both of them working side by side, so determined, locked in heated battle for the cure that is the prize. ![]()
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