Seeing The Flaming Lips in Paredes de Coura was a revelation. All the visuals, the clever videos, the juxtapositions of “bad” and good”, of “noises” and “melody”, produced one of the best gigs I've ever seen. Then I've listened to the album
The Soft Bulletin and I got its meaning immediately. Perhaps it wouldn't be so fast if I hadn't seen the gig before. It would take a while to penetrate in The Flaming Lips world without seeing them on stage. This is how pop should be.