The Flaming Lips - 1984-1990 (A Collection of Songs Representing torrent

The Flaming Lips - 1984-1990 (A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for Recording...By Amateurs) 192k



With the exception of the superb In a Priest Driven Ambulance, the Flaming Lips' early albums for the Restless label are at best hit-or-miss affairs; A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for Recording...by Amateurs sifts through the debris to rescue the most enduring material from those LPs, revealing a band still struggling to discover its voice but on occasion capable of flickers of startling brilliance. The best tracks here -- "Unconsciously Screamin'," "Jesus Shootin' Heroin," and "One Million, Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning" -- rival anything in the group's catalog, while even the weaker selections still suggest a truly original musical vision in embryo. Complete with a batch of unreleased covers making the set as valuable to longtime fans as more recent converts, A Collection of Songs proves once and for all that the Lips didn't simply become a great band overnight -- they always had it in them, with the best still yet to come.



1. Bag Full Of Thoughts

2. Jesus Shootin' Heroin

3. One Million, Billionth Of A Millisecond On A Sunday Morning

4. Chrome Plated Suicide

5. Michael, Time To Wake Up

6. Hells' Angels Cracker Factory

7. Unconsciously Screamin'

8. God Walks Among Us Now

9. Strychnine/Peace Love And Understanding - b-side to the 1989 Sub Pop single

10. Death Valley '69 - live in '87, released on the Bob 7in flexi

11. Thank You - live in '87, released on the Bob 7in flexi

12. Ma, I Didn't Notice - b-side to the 1991 Atavistic EP

13. After The Goldrush - from the Neil Young tribute LP 'The Bridge'

14. I Want To Kill My Brother The Cymbal Head - from the compilation 'Guitarrorists'