the flaming lips' new album.

[Aaarg]

Yeah, I like to buy things in groups on Amazon so whenever I buy something I check random bands I've enjoyed over the years to see if there's anything new or anything old I might want.


Never heard Built to Spill, maybe I'll have to check them out.

And yeah, the Birthday Party is great. Some of my favorite songs from them: King Ink, Zoo-Music-Girl, Nick the Stripper, Deep in the Woods, Sonny's Burning, Swampland, Mutiny in Heaven, Junkyard.

"Mutiny in Heaven" is the song that got me into them. Late in the band's life, it's pretty manic. One of the best songs I've heard about heroin addiction.

"I jumped--
and fled this fuckin' heap on doctored wings
My flailing pinions with splints and rags and crutches
(damn things nearly hardly flapped!)"

Rrrats in paradise! Rrrats in paradise (I'm bailin' out!)