I love The Flaming Lips. I thought Embryonic was their best since The Soft Bulletin. The combination of jazz fusion with dark psychedelic rock along with The Flaming Lips' usual songwriting sensibilities is just terrific, and a great comeback after their brief slip into mediocrity with At War With The Mystics. It still doesn't touch most of their 90's material, though.
Most people have mentioned Transmissions as a classic, and it is, but I submit that their true masterpiece is Clouds Taste Metallic. That album is just perfect from start to finish, and I mean it. From the opening piano notes of "The Abandoned Hospital Ship" to the closing glockenspiel of "Bad Days", Clouds just never stops delivering with its insanely perfect songwriting, and its totally uplifting, and never cheesy, crazy brand of happiness.
Just make sure you listen to it a couple of times. I thought it was boring as hell the first time I heard it.
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