foobar2000 1.3.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2015-01-07 02:54:58
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Analyzed: The Flaming Lips / Clouds Taste Metallic
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR9 -0.08 dB -13.65 dB 3:39 01-The Abandoned Hospital Ship
DR9 -0.54 dB -12.57 dB 3:27 02-Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles
DR9 -1.29 dB -13.26 dB 3:41 03-Placebo Headwound
DR10 -0.64 dB -11.71 dB 3:47 04-This Here Giraffe
DR11 -0.84 dB -14.77 dB 3:14 05-Brainville
DR8 -1.30 dB -11.22 dB 4:29 06-Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World
DR9 -0.73 dB -12.86 dB 3:14 07-When You Smile
DR7 -0.74 dB -9.75 dB 3:22 08-Kim's Watermelon Gun
DR9 -0.46 dB -12.60 dB 4:22 09-They Punctured My Yolk
DR8 -0.63 dB -10.00 dB 2:51 10-Lightning Strikes the Postman
DR8 -1.38 dB -11.88 dB 3:07 11-Christmas at the Zoo
DR7 -0.92 dB -14.49 dB 3:46 12-Evil Will Prevail
DR9 -2.17 dB -14.75 dB 4:38 13-Bad Days (Aurally Excited version)
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Review by Jason Ankeny
The same extraordinary madness that infected the best work of Brian Wilson rears its head on the shimmering and melodic Clouds Taste Metallic, a masterful collection which completes the Flaming Lips' odyssey into the pop stratosphere. The Pet Sounds comparisons are obvious -- two of the highlights are titled "This Here Giraffe" and "Christmas at the Zoo" -- yet not unfair; like Brian Wilson, Wayne Coyne has refined his unique vision into something both highly personal and powerfully universal. Similarly, while Coyne's lyrics remain as acid-damaged and inscrutable as ever, his densely constructed songs convey emotional complexities far beyond the scope of their head-case titles ("Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles," "Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World"); galvanized by equal parts newfound maturity and childlike wonderment, Clouds Taste Metallic is both the Flaming Lips' most intricate and most irresistible work.