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Anything like The Soft Bulletin album by the Flaming Lips

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ripvanwormer:
Neutral Milk Hotel - completely different from the Lips, but a similar kind of sad, hopeful, triumphant set of songs that the Flaming Lips specialize in. The Aeroplane Over the Sea is one of the best albums of all time.

The Music Tapes - One of the members of Neutral Milk Hotel made this collection of warbling, fragile, high-pitched, experimental extreme lo-fi with dozens and dozens of exotic and homemade instruments. Might appeal to Lips fans.

All the other Flaming Lips albums - They started out more primitive psychedelic punk and only evolved into their lush, superproduced form with Zaireeka. But Zaireeka, The Soft Bulletin, and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots are of a kind (especially the first two, which were both recorded at the same time). I actually like some of their earlier work, like A Priest Driven Ambulance and Clouds Taste Metallic, a little more than I like the Soft Bulletin.

Galaxie 500 - Quirky, soaring, transcendental indie pop.

The Robot Ate Me - Much more modest in scale than the above-mentioned bands, but good.

Islands - Islands are the new version of The Unicorns, with most of the original members. If you like The Unicorns, you'll like them.

Lettuce Prey - Many of his songs are on his website, ltprey.com. Check them out.

Penelope Brain - An Australian who seems to be deliberately emulating the Soft Bulletin, down to songs about sad robots. Pretty good. http://music.download.com/penelopebrain/3600-8618_32-100080660.html

Daniel Johnston - Has been making crazy, off-key but tuneful music longer than any of these other guys. He's for hard-core lovers of outsider music only, though; his lisping voice can get on some people's nerves.

ripvanwormer:

--- Quote from: El Opium ---I think that Deserter's Songs by Mercury Rev will appeal to anyone who likes The Soft Bulletin. David Friddman, who was a Flaming Lips member until 1990 or so and who has continued to produce their albums is the band's leader.
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It was actually Jonathan Donahue who was the Flaming Lips member for a short time (early Flaming Lips albums call him Dingus).  Jonathan Donahue is also the lead singer of Mercury Rev since its former lead vocalist quit was fired.

Dave Fridman was a member of Mercury Rev until they started touring; after that, he concentrated his musical endeavors on producing. He's produced all of the Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev albums for the last sixteen years or so, but he has never been an official member of the Flaming Lips.

The first two Mercury Rev albums are wildly crazy, postmodernist guitar psychedelia. I don't have the third album, but I have a single from it; it seems calmer, but similar in feel (with Jonathan Donahue taking over singing duties). The fourth album is Deserter's Songs, which was made around the same time as The Soft Bulletin. I actually heard The Soft Bulletin for the first time at a Mercury Rev concert; they played bits of it between sets. It hadn't been officially released at the time. Anyway, Deserter's Songs is probably the most Bulletinish of their albums. The last two Mercury Rev albums have been much more orchestral, lushly produced, and over the top. Kinda New Agey too; I don't like them as much.

El Opium:
Woops. I have the third album See You on the Other Side and it's very much a transitional record. Some people would call it Deserter's Song's lite because the band are using the same ideas in a less developed form, but it's still a good record.

jcknbl:

--- Quote ---Islands - Islands are the new version of The Unicorns, with most of the original members. If you like The Unicorns, you'll like them.
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I like the Islands but they're not nearly as good as the Unicorns. Return to the Sea is sorta a disappointment. :-(

ASturge:
I don't know bout all this crap.

T.a.T.u are the fucking shit though, I tell thee.

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