Oh My Gawd Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 1, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Restless Records
• ASIN: B000003BFO
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #103,177 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Further evolving the sound on their debut, The Lips' second LP finds the band mining the psychedelic aspects of their sound even more. Deluxe packaging. Color vinyl. --This text refers to the Vinyl edition.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TAKE THIS BROTHER, MAY IT SERVE YOU WELL...., May 1, 2009

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wally gator "the only" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oh My Gawd!!! [Vinyl] (Vinyl)

I've been trying to build up a collection of early Flaming Lips stuff, ever since I discovered that they have a pretty good set of eighties garage and pseudo-psychedelic titles. I just aquired OH MY GAWD!!! on a limited edition vinyl bit from 2007. It was a toss up between this and their 1989 release, Telepathic Surgery.

I find it hard to believe that I never ventured beyond that Dont Use Jelly song of theirs when I was a kid. While they have had some interesting releases in recent years, the further back you go in the Lips catalougue you can find some really rad stuff. This album for instance is great... smarmy punk fused garage act like a set of bones that hold together the albums flesh of harmonious dirges; a little bit sad and crippled, with scattered sound, but still rather beautiful. Within are plenty of psychedelic breakdowns and a crash fest or two. They put a lot of unique production behind the soundscape as well, the nine minute second track (read the title on your own its too long and crazy for me to remember) switches between rockin guitars to easy beating acoustic and piano grooves. If you like the Lips of modern day art rock fame, I think you may just find this bit every bit as interesting. Its got more of a raw sound to it. Really these guys could bust some heads back in the day...

Telepathic Surgery here I come...

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phase Two of the Flaming Lips quest for sonic perfection, February 22, 1999

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[e-mail] (Chapel Hill, NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oh My Gawd Flaming Lips (Audio CD)

After the release of "Hear It Is" (preceded by their eponymous debut EP), the Flaming Lips spent a while on the road, honing their chops and composing and tightening up the material that would comprise their follow-up. As such, "Oh My Gawd!" thoroughly delivers on the promises made on the first two records - and then some. The songs are more cohesive, the playing is tighter, and the direction, if you can call it that, is considerably more focused. Right off the bat, "Everything's Explodin'" sets the tone for the record with lyrics like, "Boy, you're so loud that you could wake the dead, and some of the living, they're waking, too." Tongue in cheek, perhaps, but accurate; almost everything here expands on the themes on "Hear," from the Pink Floyd-isms of "One Million Billionth of a Millisecond On A Sunday Morning" to the piano-smashing (literally) and Beatles tape-loop of "Love Yer Brain." That, and everything in between, shows a band interested in growing and building on their previous work. "Oh My Gawd!" isn't the ultimate achievement for the Flaming Lips, but it is the next evolutionary step for a rock group already obviously unique in a sea of sameness. The Lips make music for the Lips first, but are happy when anyone else gets the joke; as they put it in "Explodin,'" "If you don't like it, write your own song."

4.0 out of 5 stars More hidden tributes..., July 13, 2007

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Sambson (North Carolina) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Oh My Gawd Flaming Lips (Audio CD)

There's a couple of other obscure references here besides the obvious Beatles samples; like the first 45 seconds, the verses and the ending of "The Ceiling Is Bendin" which are a spot-on cover of the Alice Cooper Bands' song "Levity Ball" (from their first album PRETTIES FOR YOU). Not to mention the classical sample at the end of "Can't Stop The Spring;" any guesses?