Why isn't this praised as one of the greatest albums of

>>71558862

its generic pop indie rock shit.....

>>71558880
That's a lot of words spent saying nothing anon

>having a cute but vapid gimmick is now "brilliantly experimental"

>>71558880
You very clearly haven't even so much as googled this album to have made that comment.


>>71558916
What made it "brilliantly" experimental was the fact that the music itself was accessible and great. The experiment came from physically listening to it, turning the album into either A: a social listneing experience with friends/other fans, or B: an equipment junkies wet dream

>>71558862
The reason no one cares is because the album is too much of a pain in the ass to actually listen to.

Neurosis and Rosetta did the multple disc gimmick better

>>71558958
>having a vapid gimmick makes the album "brilliantly experimental"

I'm a big Flaming Lips fan but I wouldn't say that it's even one of their best. I really like Riding To Work in the Year 2025, The Train That Runs Over the Camel But Is Derailed By The Gnat, and March of the Vegetables. But the rest of the songs are a little too all over the place.

It's a transitional album clearly so lots of good stuff was created but lots of other stuff was a bit messy. Which is to be expected. They were writing and recording it at the same time as The Soft Bulletin, which I think is a 10/10. So obviously they were working towards great things with the Zaireeka concept.

The reason that this album doesn't get any real praise is because of the asinine (but cool) idea of buying a 4CD release where you play all 4 CD's simultaneously is way too weird of a concept for normal music listeners. It's a tedious idea and ruined the potential of the album going anywhere. I think that the boombox experiments were genius but it didn't translate to a commercial release. Fun fact, Krist Novoselic was present at one of the boombox 'performances' where people held the boomboxes on stage and Wayne and Steven 'conducted' groups of people with hand gestures. There's a lot of good documentation on the boombox experiments so finding the one where Krist is there isn't hard, he even waves to the camera I think.

>>71558862
cuz how the fuck would i play 4 discs simultaneously?

Because it's sandwiched between Clouds Taste Metallic and The Soft Bulletin.