Clouds Taste Metallic
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| Studio album by The Flaming Lips | ||||
| Released | September 19, 1995 | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, noise pop, neo-psychedelia | |||
| Length | 47:31 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Producer | The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann | |||
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Heady Nuggs: 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997 cover.
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| NME | (5/10) |
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Clouds Taste Metallic is the seventh album by the band The Flaming Lips, released on September 19, 1995. It is the last Flaming Lips album featuring guitarist Ronald Jones, and the last album presenting the group as a guitar-driven, alternative rock band.
It was projected to be their first commercially successful release after the major success of "She Don't Use Jelly" from their previous album. Despite an alternative mix of "Bad Days" earning a spot on the soundtrack to Batman Forever, this album failed to garner the same commercial success that was generated with Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, but over the years since then, it's been regarded as one of their best releases among critics and fans, much like later releases that have helped define the success they have today, and has achieved cult status among fans who are very much into the Ronald Jones era of the group. The album's recording is heavily featured in the Fearless Freaks documentary. In recent years, Wayne Coyne himself has also opened up on how proud he is of the album, which all led into some retrospective promotion of the album on its 20th anniversary.
In 2014, after being absent from their live shows for nearly two decades following Ronald Jones's departure, the band decided to try out the songs live again after Wayne and Steven witnessed some live footage of them playing The Abandoned Hospital Ship in 1996 with Christmas Light back drops which Wayne described as: "We saw a video from around I think 1996 when we were doing the big Christmas Light back drops. And there was a video going around of us playing 'Abandoned Hospital Ship' where when all the Christmas lights would explode. Cause Steven had played drums on that and we thought, 'Why don't we just try that?' Literally the first time we tried that it really worked. It wasn't really connected to Clouds Taste Metallic being 20 years old, but I think all those things did start to combine." With a lineup consisting of seven members at this point, the band was able to give these songs the proper live treatment that had been missing for many years after Ronald Jones left the group. Up to this point, Wayne and Steven felt that it could not have been done justice to play the songs themselves without him in the band, since much of the album's expansive guitar driven sound came directly from him, and it would've required a large amount of new members to replicate everything that was played on the album. On December 30 & 31 at the The Warfield, more songs would end up being played live in preparation for their 20th anniversary concert at First Avenue.
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