Some of y'all might remember my critically acclaimed review of "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" where I said that it was terrible...Well, they couldn't make an album that godawful without making one this bad before it.
Well, yes, I'll slow down. "But it's critically acclaimed!" "It speaks to the angsty teenager in me!" "I have poor taste in music!" - NONE of these are excuses for saying that this is CLOSE to the best FLips release. I mean, once again, stupid sounding hippy-dippy pop music with gawdoful harmonies and boring melodies.
I guess around here (and on that 4 disc thing), Stephen Drozd put on the Daddy pants and said "I'm writing all the music now!", and now we get, like, freaking harp glissandos? And 2 versions of the same song? TWICE?! And cheesy sounding string arrangements? I mean, c'mon, let's not try to hide your lack of being able to write a decent melody (something we learned you can't do on "Embryonic") by covering it in crap-funk grooves and overly bombastic horn parts. I mean, it seems like you (the Band, not the faithful reader) is saying "I'M MATURE! LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! I CAN RIDE THE BIKE ALL MYSELF!", but really, you're still just a little kid from Oklahoma.
Now, some songs here are good, but for our purposes, we can say the decline of the FLips I know and love starts here. Plus, this thing's like an hour long. Where's the fun in that? An hour of some pretty arrangements and Wayne's exciting new lyrics about optimism and hope and all that other crap.
Here's a Flipper video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsd2IKwzNI
OVERALL RATING - Whee! Whaaooo! Let's talk about Weezer!
KEY TRACKS - "Race for the Prize", "Waitin' for a Superman"
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