After 20 years the album is still considered a masterpiece along with its follow up, the 2002 ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’. “Since the album came out in 1999 we’ve always kind of played it…we’ve always kind of been with it so it’s never really left us.”
If you had have asked me back then if in 20 years we would be talking about this record, I would have just said ‘oh no, no’,” says Coyne. “We were so lucky that when it first came out it was really picked up by the people that were really hungry for a cool meaningful record and we thought well this is great. The band’s ninth studio album was the turning point for the Oklahoma group, a notion that frontman Wayne Coyne realises. Joining that list in a big way is the album that set the Flaming Lips alight, ‘The Soft Bulletin’. Pixies ‘Doolittle’ turned 30 in April, Nirvana’s ‘Bleach’ hit the same age in June, Blink 182’s stand-out, ‘Enema of the State’ hit 20 as did Red Hot Chilli Peppers ‘Californication’.
2019 has been a year jam-packed with special album anniversaries.
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