Issue 383

The Flaming Lips


"Maybe it was the cow suit I was wearing; maybe it was because I was dancing on stage with a band I adore; but one of my favourite ever memories is of The Flaming Lips delivering a triumphant version of their beautiful, jubilant ode to mortality Do You Realize?? at the 2004 Big Day Out. It was a funny, sad, joyous moment, given added poignancy by being sung by a man covered in fake blood.

The Mendoza Line
Full Of Light And Full Of Fire
Low Transit Industries/Reverberation

After The Mendoza Line's last album, 'Fortune', left me with a bad taste in my mouth, I was a little wary when slipping 'Full Of Light And Full Of Fire' into the CD player for the first time. However, then I remembered a few years earlier championing 'Lost In Revelry', the band's fourth album and the one that introduced me to this Boston seven-piece. At the time it had knocked me sideways with its near-perfect mix of Americana and power-pop; and I'll be damned if 'Full Of Light And Full Of Fire' isn't even better.

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