November 27, 2002

Do the pink robots win?

Christian Crumlish

Last night I saw the Flaming Lips open for Beck and then back him for the second half of his set. Good show, interesting alchemy. I have all of Beck's records except his most recent one. And I only have the most recent Lips record, but I've listened to it a lot and plan to work my way backward in their increasingly noisy ouevre (kind of like surfing back through the Meat Puppets' output).

Outside the Paramount I asked my friends Bill and Jeff if they read the album the same way I do. To me, it sounds like Yoshimi loses to the pink robots. (She sure does a lot of screaming in part two of her battle.) Bill thought I was taking it all too literally, and that it's not a concept album outside of that song or maybe a few others in the first half. Jeff wasn't sure. He thought Yoshimi won.

It may well be that I'm taking the whole rock opera conceit too seriously here....

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Posted by xian at November 27, 2002 3:17 PM
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