Clouds Taste Metallic 1995 Album

The Flaming Lips

Long story short, I am really divided on the unique nature of this one. Is it different because they hit upon some vein of slacker-dom which had previously not been discovered yet, or did they simply take a ton of drugs, cranked things up where it was necessary, and piled on the insanity/senility where it was required, etc., etc.? Or was it a portion of all of those things, and I am simply complicating this too much? My rough guess is that it’s just a little too weird to be 100% essential. But it’s there, and should be a necessary stop in your listening journey through the 1990’s.