Individually, these albums sound pretty distinctive. Clouds quickly became a fave and I realized that it was more or less the beginning of the more progressive-rock, pop-leaning trajectory for the band, a directive that took them through At War With The Mystics and into Embryonic, The Terror and to last year’s Oczy Mlody. So, while I’ve followed their path ever since, I’ve also been going back to catch up on things I missed along the way. Like many fans these days, I came on board with The Flaming Lips after that and around the time of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. I first noticed this when I got the album Clouds Taste Metallic a record which pre-dated by several years their critical breakthrough The Soft Bulletin. Records and started having mainstream hits under the guidance of longtime producer David Fridmann. 1 (Deluxe Edition) is that over the course of the three CDs it does capture that sense of continuity permeating much of their work, at least since the early 90s when they were signed to Warner Bros.
To that, what’s kind of amazing about The Flaming Lips Greatest Hits Vol. Are they punk freakazoid weirdos? Are they pop geniuses carrying the torch of Brian Wilson and Pink Floyd? Perhaps they are all this and more. Over the course of their 35-years-and-counting career, the group has morphed in many directions across different incarnations of the group, so much so that at times it’s admittedly hard to get a complete picture of what the band is really about. The prospect of a “greatest hits” collection from The Flaming Lips is both exciting and terrifying.
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