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It would be an understatement to say that ZAIREEKA, the four-disc, experimental opus from Oklahoma City's resident post-punk geniuses the Flaming Lips, is not your run-of-the-mill release. Each disc has a partial mix of the same eight songs, so the only way to hear the album as intended is by using four different cd-players at once. Yet, as Lips mastermind Wayne Coyne hints at in the liner notes, that makes ZAIREEKA an inherently social event--invite some friends, tell 'em to bring extra boomboxes.
Price: $ 19.45 / Each
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Specifications:
Zaireeka
Stock Photo Artist: Flaming Lips (The) Release Date: Oct 1997
Format: CD Record Label: Warner Bros.
Number of Discs: 4 Discs UPC: 093624680420
Genre: Rock Duration: Album or EP
Sub-Genre: Experimental Rock
Track listing
DISC 1:
1. Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand
2. Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)
3. Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair
4. Machine in India, A
5. Train Runs Over the Camel But Is Derailed by the Gnat, The
6. How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)
7. March of the Rotten Vegetables
8. Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now, The
DISC 2:
1. Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand
2. Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)
3. Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair
4. Machine in India, A
5. Train Runs Over the Camel But Is Derailed by the Gnat, The
6. How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)
7. March of the Rotten Vegetables
8. Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now, The
DISC 3:
1. Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand
2. Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)
3. Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair
4. Machine in India, A
5. Train Runs Over the Camel But Is Derailed by the Gnat, The
6. How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)
7. March of the Rotten Vegetables
8. Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now, The
DISC 4:
1. Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand
2. Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)
3. Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair
4. Machine in India, A
5. Train Runs Over the Camel But Is Derailed by the Gnat, The
6. How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)
7. March of the Rotten Vegetables
8. Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now, The
Details
Playing time: 42 min.
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)
Recording type: Studio
Recording mode: Stereo
SPAR Code: n/a
Album notes
ZAIREEKA is a 4-CD limited edition release. Each CD contains the same 8 compositions intended for simultaneous playback on up to 4 CD players.
The Flaming Lips: Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins, Steven Drozd.
Producers: Scott Booker, Dave Fridmann, Flaming Lips.
Includes liner notes by Wayne Coyne.
Personnel: Michael Ivins, Steven Drozd, Wayne Coyne (vocals).
Audio Mixers: Dave Fridmann; The Flaming Lips.
Recording information: Cassadaga, NY (04/1997-08/1997).
....As for ZAIREEKA's music, it is an ambitious extension of the kind of psyche-noise-pop that the Flaming Lips have mastered since their mid-80s inception. Gloriously catchy moments--like the chugging rhythm of the opening "Okay I'll Admit It That I Really Don't Understand" or the serene ambient-pop air of "Thirty Five Thousand Feet Of Despair"--float out constantly, only to be eaten up within waves of sound. As pop music goes, ZAIREEKA's about as experimental a trip as you can lay on the average listener before they run for cover, but those who remain will find their stay extremely worthwhile.
Editorial reviews
10 (out of 10) - ...even by the Flaming Lips' synapse-searing standards, ZAIREEKA is a tatanic, bedazzled trip to the furthest reaches of the imagination....the Flaming Lips have released arguably their most beautiful music....To reiterate: a work of genius.
NME (01/03/1998)
...dense, catchy walls of sound that just happen to be emanating from eight speakers...
Magnet (01/01/1998)
Ranked #11 in Mojo's The 50 Most Out There Albums Of All Time - ZAIREEKA is one of the Lips' finest records. In its original format, it's nothing short of a psychedelic masterpiece...
Mojo
...Expensive, odd, but impressive if you get it to work.
Mojo (07/01/2002)
Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - An intended fusion of 'anarchy and inspiration,' musically this was the Lips at their mind-melding zonk rock pinnacle...
Mojo (03/01/2004)
3 stars out of 5 - ...The effect is both thrilling and unsettling...
Q (12/01/2002)
...the Oklahoma quartet has placed the various components of ZAIREEKA's eight songs onto four CDs, ideally to be played simultaneously on four separate stereos....Whether human anatomy is equipped to handle octophonic sound is anyone's guess. - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (11/14/1997)
4 Stars (out of 5) - ...ZAIREEKA's wall-of-surround-sound approach melds droning-rock dissonance with warped, off-kilter pop melodies, producing a totally immersing, post-PET SOUNDS seance...
Rolling Stone (12/11/1997)
Approx Weight: 2.00 lb. / Each
Dimensions (LxWxH): 1.00 x 1.00 x 1.00 in.
NOTE: Items are not refundable
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