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Hatfield · **Joined:** Fri January 04, 2013 8:54 pm **Posts:** 1422

Might be blasphemy to even compare the two, but which album do you reach for more frequently?

bune · **Posted:** Tue April 10, 2018 4:55 pm

Yoshimi, but then that's my entry point.

The 5.1 mix they released is outstanding.

PHATJ · **Posted:** Tue April 10, 2018 5:02 pm

Probably The Soft Bulletin but I love Yoshimi too. It’s been a long time since I’ve gone through a Flaming Lips phase. They used to be one of my absolute favorite bands but they lost me after At War with the Mystics.

tragabigzanda · **Posted:** Tue April 10, 2018 5:06 pm

PHATJ wrote:

Probably The Soft Bulletin but I love Yoshimi too. It’s been a long time since I’ve gone through a Flaming Lips phase. They used to be one of my absolute favorite bands but they lost me after At War with the Mystics.

Ditto, though Embryonic was a good record.

bodysnatcher · **Posted:** Tue April 10, 2018 5:29 pm

Soft Bulletin. Dig both albums though, of course. I had a copy of Clouds Taste Metallic on cassette, and the novelty of Zaireeka blew my college freshman mind, but I never really listened to it other than drunken listening parties with 4 boomboxes. Soft Bulletin was just next level. Bulletin and Yoshimi are obviously peak FL, it's hard to pick one. But gotta go with Soft Bulletin bc it was truly the first great Lips album.

Same as above, totally lost me with Mystics. Then Wayne's antics just made me totally lose interest in the band.

epilogue · **Posted:** Tue April 10, 2018 8:38 pm

Soft Bulletin and it's not even close.

LoathedVermin72 · **Posted:** Tue April 10, 2018 9:24 pm

This is a band I have had zero interest in revisiting post-High School

epilogue · **Posted:** Tue April 10, 2018 9:29 pm

Yoshimi doesn't mean as much to me as it does to others. It's certainly not a bad record, but it's not one I really have any desire to listen to and it was the last Flaming Lips album that I bought and listened to from beginning to end. They have a lot of great stuff pre-Yoshimi, but nothing they've done since has been all that interesting to me.

I still listen to Soft Bulletin fairly regularly, though.

Jammer XCI · **Posted:** Tue April 10, 2018 9:30 pm

Clouds Taste Metallic >>>>

Embryonic is really good too but they’ve done jack shit since then worth a damn.

LoathedVermin72 · **Posted:** Tue April 10, 2018 9:31 pm

Oh yeah there are some good songs on CTM

chewm · **Posted:** Wed April 11, 2018 1:01 am

The Soft Bulletin is soooo good.

spike · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 4:18 am **Posts:** 28035

The Soft Bulletin

diesel · **Joined:** Fri January 11, 2013 9:43 pm **Posts:** 198

I had listened to SB prior to Yoshimi but it was yoshimi (and the 5.1) that really grabbed me. but now I think SB is a better album overall.

washing machine · **Posted:** Wed April 11, 2018 9:16 pm

spike wrote:

The Soft Bulletin

and it's not even really that close.

bodysnatcher · **Posted:** Wed April 11, 2018 9:38 pm

i'll do back-to-back listens and let you guys know the definitive answer

LoathedVermin72 · **Posted:** Wed April 11, 2018 9:49 pm

thanks snatch

50 Million Feet of Earth... · **Posted:** Wed April 11, 2018 10:54 pm

I love Yoshimi, but Soft Bulletin by a mile

bodysnatcher · **Posted:** Wed April 11, 2018 11:11 pm

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

thanks snatch

sorry guys, i got caught up listening to a jazz station. i'll get on this.

lennytheweedwhacker · **Joined:** Wed January 02, 2013 3:21 pm **Posts:** 42068

the soft bulletin is such a beautiful album

PHATJ · **Posted:** Mon April 23, 2018 11:03 pm

bodysnatcher wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:

thanks snatch

sorry guys, i got caught up listening to a jazz station. i'll get on this.

The Soft Bulletin vs. Yoshimi

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