Hey everyone! I have volunteered to make this weekly post for the foreseeable future since ren already does so much for this community.
This week we have another choice from ren, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by the Flaming Lips! Whether this is your 1st or 100th time listening to this album we want to hear your thoughts.
Tell us what you like about this album. Tell us what you dont like about it. Tell us a story you have about it or a memory it triggers!
And then tell us what albums you want to discuss next! I have picked for next week but I don’t want ren and I picking every week so let’s hear some suggestions!
Upcoming
10/17 - Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)
10/24 - TBD
Previous Discussions
Disclaimer: First of all I apologize if you are seeing this post more than once. Moving forward I intend to make this post on Tuesdays. In fact I made this exact post Tuesday and again Wednesday this week from my midwest.social account but there appear to have been federation issues and it wasn’t showing up outside that instance. So I made a lemmy.world account today to redo the post again.
Don’t forget to recommend some albums you’d like to discuss for future album club weeks! Reply to this comment with ideas!
I was working in the music department at Borders Books & Music when this came out. We were 10 years past the explosion of grunge and while there were some great albums being released, shit just felt like it had gotten stale and bland.
Then The Lips dropped Yoshimi and it blew our minds. It was creative, cohesive, unique, and the songs were well written. We played the shit out of it in the store. Since then, it’s been a constant in my life, always flirting with being in my top 10 albums list (most days I’d put it in there).
My family went through a string of loss over the course of a few years and I spent a lot of time with the album. While it’s ostensibly a song about a failed relationship, Fight Test came to more generally be a song about overcoming loss for me. It became so closely entwined with death that I get tears in my eyes almost every time I hear it now. Not in a sad way, necessarily, just as a reminder that some people I’ve loved are gone and it wasn’t what any of us had planned, but we go on and try to live our lives the best way we can.
With that part said, the two songs surrounding Do You Realize seem like weak points, but not total stinkers.
@kvn2 Only thing I would add is that I highly recommend catching them live if you haven’t.
I remember telling my wife during Flaming Lips at Big Day Out that I want Do You Realise played at my funeral. 20-ish years later I still feel the same.
