For those that follow such things, the story behind The Soft Bulletin is pretty well known. For those that don't here is a short version: Wayne Coyne lead singer and cult leader behind The Lips experienced the death of his father in the late 90's. While this was going on his drummer, a musical savant who basically ended up playing most of the instruments on the album, was in the throes of one hell of a heroin habit. Coyne, in his acid head way, was struck by the profundity of human mortality and together with his smacked out genius put together an orchestral psych pop album that was one of the high points of the 90's.
However by 2002's Yoshimi album...this focus on themes of our short span on this earth and lush keyboard instrumentation was getting a little tired. There are good songs on Yoshimi, but this isn't really one of them. Though I am sort of amused by the DEEP TALKING VOICE on the chorus.
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