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intereact!The Flaming Lips
Retail Price (not our price): $24.98
Release Date: 1997-10-28
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...
| Disc 1 | ||||
| 1. | Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 2. | Riding To Work In The Year 2025 (Youre Invisible Now) | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 3. | Thirty Five Thousand Feet Of Despair | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 4. | A Machine In India | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 5. | The Train Runs Over The Camel But Is Derailed By The Gnat | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 6. | How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 7. | March Of The Rotten Vegetables | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 8. | The Big Ol' Bug Is The New Baby Now | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| Disc 2 | ||||
| 1. | Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 2. | Riding To Work In The Year 2025 (Youre Invisible Now) | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 3. | Thirty Five Thousand Feet Of Despair | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 4. | A Machine In India | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 5. | The Train Runs Over The Camel But Is Derailed By The Gnat | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 6. | How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 7. | March Of The Rotten Vegetables | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 8. | The Big Ol' Bug Is The New Baby Now | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| Disc 3 | ||||
| 1. | Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 2. | Riding To Work In The Year 2025 (Youre Invisible Now) | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 3. | Thirty Five Thousand Feet Of Despair | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 4. | A Machine In India | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 5. | The Train Runs Over The Camel But Is Derailed By The Gnat | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 6. | How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 7. | March Of The Rotten Vegetables | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 8. | The Big Ol' Bug Is The New Baby Now | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| Disc 4 | ||||
| 1. | Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 2. | Riding To Work In The Year 2025 (Youre Invisible Now) | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 3. | Thirty Five Thousand Feet Of Despair | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 4. | A Machine In India | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 5. | The Train Runs Over The Camel But Is Derailed By The Gnat | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 6. | How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 7. | March Of The Rotten Vegetables | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
| 8. | The Big Ol' Bug Is The New Baby Now | style="font-size: 10px;" valign="top">1 | ||
Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5
1) Genius [Rating: 5 out of 5]
Te idea of playing a set of 4 disc, each one with different music arrangements on each track, sounded great; when i actually get the 4 cd's to play altoghether it did sound magnificent. Excellent result this musical experiment, the Flaming Lips are always trying to get the best sound quality on each record and I think this record sound evolve into the later 5.1 surround sound mixes for the Soft Buletin, yoshimi and at war. A masterpiece.2) Garageband + Zaireeka = Awesome [Rating: 4 out of 5]
With the advent of consumer-friendly mixing/recording software, this album is more accessible than ever. Buy it and experiment with mixing/adding effects/etc; it's a great way to release the inner music producer in all of us.3) Mind Candy...I have found it! [Rating: 5 out of 5]
It is great to finally own a copy of this 4-disc album by The Flaming Lips. As I'm sure you know, those avant-cooks intend for us to listen to all 4 discs simultaneously... that is, all together on four separate stereo systems, old boom boxes, car stereos... whatever you can find to make it work... synchronized by simply pressing all four play buttons at the same time (you may need to invite some friends over). What you get is, for lack of a better word, an experience. It's fun. You listen intently to what is happening spatially, quirks and clicks become things of wonder. Context becomes the proverbial elephant in the room. It makes you happy. That being said this is probably (pre-warner bros. aside) the band's least accessible album "musically," often seeming as though they assembled the album from what they swept up off the floor of their last recording session. But that's part of the beauty of the Flaming Lips; that knack about them, I guess... to take something crappy, out of tune, scratched, warped, and otherwise ordinary in their own rights and assemble them with such sincerity and understanding as to create a whole "something" greater than the sum of its parts. Somehow majestic in its banality... Well worth the investment... There is also an entertaining, unpretentious, and comprehensive documentary out on these guys that is definitely worth a watch titled, "Fearless Freaks." Have fun...4) ZAIREEKA by The Flaming Lips [Rating: 3 out of 5]
Luckily modern technology has come into play in order to listen to the CD the artist wanted you to...5) An Excellent and revealing experimental piece [Rating: 4 out of 5]
Zaireeka is an interesting experience. It forces one to participate in the music through cueing-up all 4 discs. Anyone want an excuse to get together with friends/family and have an experience listening to some nice music? Get it. It is Flaming Lips music and at a really good time in the band's history. You get a 3-d quality in this music that is simply not possible utilizing any other currently used formats today. Walk from speaker to speaker, and disc player to disc player and you find yourself hearing a different song every time you listen to it. I've always considered improvisation and un-expectedness to be the Flaming Lips strong point. Even their most recent albums have the quality that, the songs are interesting at first, but award the listener with repeated listenings with new parts of the songs that you don't remember hearing before. That is the part of music that I like the most. The little things that you didn't notice the first time. Wayne Coyne shows how the listener's perspective is indelibly tied into the musical result. Where you are determines what the music is like--it is a subjective experience. We feel more a part of an experience on a few levels, on a social level when participating in listening and cueing the discs; on a cerebral level when we realize that we are all different, and our perception is a part of reality; sonically when we understand how the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. It makes one feel more vital in one's place in things.