We were just on to the next thing, you know?”
“We were just so immersed in songs and creating sounds and making albums that we didn’t really even think about that we had to be the dudes that made this record. “I mean, we had already started to make the next record - the Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots record - even before came out. “We would have never accepted, or we didn’t even want to accept at the time, that people would say, ‘hey, this is an important record’,” he explains. To Coyne, these sessions were relatively run-of-the-mill, with no indication that they were witnessing the creation of a genre-defining release. “But, I would say that I think it took a lot of time for it to seem like it is that type of record, which we’re relieved of.”Īt the time that the band were making what would eventually be considered a classic record, they had already begun to look forward to what the future held. We didn’t really expect anybody else in the world to really care, you know? But, I think we’re very lucky that at the right time it just hit certain people. “You just make it with your heart and soul, and we were really just making it because we liked it. “Since it was so long ago, there are, really, elements of it that you kind of just accept we did make it, but we didn’t make it thinking, ‘oh, it’s going to be compared to Pet Sounds,’ and stuff like that. “Well, now that it’s twenty years afterwards, you start to get a little bit more used to what people mean by that,” he explains. However, as Wayne Coyne explains, while he understands the legacy, he notes that this was never the intention of the band when they first hit the studio. In fact, response to the record was so great that it has since gone on to be considered as one of the greatest albums of all time, with some critics labelling it as the “ Pet Sounds of the ’90s”. When The Soft Bulletin was first released, few could have expected the impact it would have in the ensuing years and decades. Check out The Flaming Lips’ ‘Race For The Prize’: To celebrate these upcoming shows, we chatted to frontman Wayne Coyne to discuss how an album so majestic and revered was delivered by a humble rock band from Oklahoma. Now, more than 20 years since The Flaming Lips shared was has been called their magnum opus, the group will make their return to Australia in September to perform the record in its entirety. In fact, publications like Pitchfork – who gave Zaireeka a rare 0/10 rating – cited the album as one of the greatest of all-time, honouring it with an equally-rare 10/10 rating. However, when The Soft Bulletin was finally unleashed onto the world, the overall reception was unanimously positive. By the time 1997’s highly-experimental Zaireeka had divided critics across the board, fans didn’t know what to expect. Having flirted with mainstream success following 1993’s Transmissions From The Satellite Heart, their Clouds Taste Metallic follow-up in 1995 didn’t quite make the sort of splash that the record executives might have hoped for.
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