POMPEII AM GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
So the mask has slipped. Wayne Coyne's band [The Flaming Lips] spent the best part of 20 years on music's fringes as amiable oddballs, focused all their energies on 1999's The Soft Bulletin - the best album the Moody Blues never made - and continued the drive into the mainstream with 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.
But you can't keep a good eclectic down and At War With the Mystics is filled with sounds that no one else would throw together: from Herbie Hancock noodling to early Genesis and more than one section where the Lips play like the house band in the kind of cheesy disco that Columbo or Jim Rockford had to visit, every style of suspect Seventies music is on show here. They even rip off 'One of These Days', a highlight of Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii movie, on the ridiculously titled 'Pompeii am Götterdämmerung'.
But you can't keep a good eclectic down and At War With the Mystics is filled with sounds that no one else would throw together: from Herbie Hancock noodling to early Genesis and more than one section where the Lips play like the house band in the kind of cheesy disco that Columbo or Jim Rockford had to visit, every style of suspect Seventies music is on show here. They even rip off 'One of These Days', a highlight of Pink Floyd's Live at Pompeii movie, on the ridiculously titled 'Pompeii am Götterdämmerung'.
[ http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2006/apr/23/13 ]
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