#The flaming lips red rocks full

#The flaming lips red rocks full

I wasn’t yet a full Lips believer at that point so I just took that concept in.

A little personal perspective: when this album came out, some friends overhyped it a bit to me, calling it the Pet Sounds of the 90s. On this recording the band is doing the entirety of its 1999 breakthrough smash The Soft Bulletin. I can hear every word he sings which is pretty remarkable when you consider that it’s a rock recording - which typically has the vocals somewhat buried in the mix - and it is a live recording with a Symphony and a Choir! The first thing I noticed on this recording was how good singer Wayne Coyne’s vocals sound. On The Soft Bulletin: Live at Red Rocks you hear not only The Flaming Lips with its guitars, synthesizers, multiple drummers and general madness but also a full 69-piece Symphony Orchestra and an 56-person choir! That’s a huge undertaking! That is no small task to pull off folks and kudos must go out to Producer David Fridman for pulling off this minor miracle… Now, I don’t know if this is a digital or analog recording but I suspect it is the former and that’s OK because they did a fine job creating a modern live rock recording in conjunction with a symphony orchestra. The performances are exemplary and most importantly the sound is really good, which is no small feat given the magnitude and scale of the performers on stage here. I’m happy to report that The Soft Bulletin: Live at Red Rocks was worth the wait. As it turned out, I ultimately gave up waiting and special ordered a copy! Given my travel schedule this past month of January, I’m just getting around to reviewing it now. This was perhaps due to the fact that there were reported problems with distribution across the country. When I first heard that The Flaming Lips were doing a concert at Red Rocks in Colorado with a symphony orchestra several years ago, the first thing I thought was: ‘gosh I hope they release this as a concert album!’ Late last year on Record Store Day/Black Friday that album was released but it was sort of rolled out with not quite the fanfare I expected to see. Check out the tracklisting below alongside the live version of opening track “Race for the Prize.Twitter Facebook Email Print LinkedIn Pinterest SMS WhatsApp The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra - the band’s live-recorded take on their album The Soft Bulletin, in partnership with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and performed on the stage set upon some of the state’s most crimson and mountain-like structures-can be pre-ordered on digital, CD, and 2xLP formats here. The announcement of the live album coincides with the 30th anniversary of The Soft Bulletin (or thereabouts). The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra-the new version of The Soft Bulletin recorded in a live setting at the Red Rocks music performance venue alongside the Colorado Symphony Orchestra orchestra-features all 12 tracks from the original album performed with a 68-piece orchestra and 57-piece choir (which is just about one person for every Flaming Lips release).

It’s out November 29 through Warner Records. That reportedly changes next month, as the band is set to release The Soft Bulletin Recorded Live at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, a live version of their iconic 1999 record The Soft Bulletin, recorded live, at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater, with Colorado’s Colorado Symphony Orchestra, in 2016. Despite the fact that exactly half of all record stores are permanently leased out by The Flaming Lips’ prodigious discography, the band has never released an official live album.