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Originally Posted by Double X
Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
'The Observer' and 'Gash' are dull, but the rest of the album is brilliant.
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I agree about the Observer. I'm trying to get used to that questionable interlude. The Gash, I thought, was the highlight of an otherwise "meh" second half of an album. If you look at the inside sleeve with that man running and listen to the Gash at the same time, you sort of "get" the song.
Anyways, definitely the
Stone Roses' debut.
If they had cut "Don't Stop," "Fool's Gold" and maybe even "Elephant Stone" out of the mix, the record, to me, would have been flawless, and I might have bought it by now if it weren't for the questionable pacing of the album.
Don't Stop comes in too soon. It's a mess of a song with no groove and five minutes too long. It destroys the pacing of the album completely. Fool's Gold is just redundant - we already have "She Bangs the Drums." And, finally, "Fools Gold" destroys an otherwise fantastic album closer: "I am the Resurrection."