Zaireeka
The Flaming Lips are known best for their song She Don't Use Jelly. I first heard of them from the song Do You Realize? which is still my favorite song by them. In 1997 they came out with an album called Zaireeka. The album is a four cd set and requires all four cds to be played simultaneously for the full experience. It is best if the cds are played from seperate devices placed in seperate places in the room you are listening in. I listened to the album once last night and I'm listening to it again right now. It's difficult for me to say which disk is the main disk because a few of the songs have the main vocals on disk three but disk one seems to have most of the instrumental. The drum solo on track seven requires all cds to be experienced properly.
Zaireeka is creepy. There are parts of it where all four disks are screaming in pain. There is one track where a good portion of the track on disk one is a shrill squeeling sound that reminds me of Paul screaming (it's painful). The album has to be listened to multiple times all the way through because you can't easily pause it and there will always be some part of a song you missed last time you listened to it. This style of recording would have worked great for a song like Revolution 9.
I can't wait to see The Flaming Lips at Street Scene.
Zaireeka is creepy. There are parts of it where all four disks are screaming in pain. There is one track where a good portion of the track on disk one is a shrill squeeling sound that reminds me of Paul screaming (it's painful). The album has to be listened to multiple times all the way through because you can't easily pause it and there will always be some part of a song you missed last time you listened to it. This style of recording would have worked great for a song like Revolution 9.
I can't wait to see The Flaming Lips at Street Scene.
2 Comments:
Hm.
Sounds like it was made by people who miss quadraphonic audio.
But wouldn't it be a lot easier to put it on a DVD-A disc with surround? Yes, they would not have done that in 1997. But it sounds to me like an attempt to be trendy by making people put more than one CD in. But the human body has two ears, and surround can be simulated just as well with two channels if done properly.
That said, I haven't heard it. So I'm not gonna pass judgement right away. It just sounds more like trendy hype than actual musical creativitu.
By Zeke, at 6:22 PM
Although the human body has two ears the ears perceive sound in multiple dimensions because of the way the ear/mind interprets the sound wave. It is difficult to simulate a true surround sound. Since each cd has two channels in itself you essentially get eight channels so it sounds like you are surrounded by people singing, playing, screaming, etc.
By T-Ray, at 9:55 PM
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