Damn those Flaming Lips!

I was in the middle of waking up this morning when I decided I wanted to listen to In A Priest Driven Ambulance on the way to work today. Out of nowhere, I haven’t listened to that album in a really long time. Dammit, it’s so good! What happened to THOSE guys? Then I was thinking, it is really pretty inevitable that they’ve gotten so bad. Wayne has always aped a lot off of classic rock bands, whether it’s Yes or Zeppelin or Floyd. And just because I got into them seven years ago doesn’t make them any less twenty-five years old as a band. So I guess it’s really appropriate that take that downward shift like any other band would that they model themselves after. (To be fair, I guess Zeppelin never went downhill, but Page and Plant sure had their moments post-Zeppelin.) It’s still frustrating though, for some reason I thought they could go on forever like it was 88-98. Spoiled being a fan of Sonic Youth or Bob Dylan I guess, who seem to keep their shit together endlessly. Oh well, anyway, Priest, very good album. Can’t wait to get back in the car with it.