Rather than filling the percussive void with new flesh, the Flaming Lips enlisted machines thus began their experimentation with loops and backing tracks. His departure sparked great change, as drummer Steve Drozd chose to pick up the slack on guitar. Clouds Taste Metallic is drenched in these kinds of riffs, played mostly by Ronald Jones, who abandoned ship after the album. The quality oscillates wildly between studio recordings and live performances - sometimes, it's reduced to muddled shit as Wayne Coyne mutters between songs - but the highs and lows make this a beautiful trip for Lips completists.ĭisc one opens with the twinkling keys of "The Abandoned Hospital Ship" before the meteoric crescendo comes showering down. The first disc includes the entirety of Clouds Taste Metallic the second is a 1994 compilation called Due to High Expectations… The Flaming Lips are Providing Needles for Your Balloons and the amassment of oddities that is The King Bug Laughs the third comprises recordings from a live performance in Seattle, 1996, functionally titled Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles (Live in Seattle 1996). Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic arrives in the form of a three-CD set and seven-LP collection. Now, to celebrate its 20-year anniversary, the Flaming Lips have relaunched the collection as part of the Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic box set. The record forever altered the trajectory of their careers, sending the band spiralling off into strange, psychedelic sonic locales that they've been exploring for decades.
On Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic, the Flaming Lips trip backwards through the products of their delightfully paranoid minds - through machine-infiltrated, insect-infested and otherwise nightmare-ridden opuses - to return to their 1995 classic.
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