The Flaming Lips' 1999 album "The Soft Bulletin" has always moved me, it's loose story of scientists trying to save the world but ultimately failing as a metaphor for losing a loved one to illness striking a particular nerve in my heart soul, even before my father died from cancer. Despite the heavy content, there are plenty of moments of levity and quirkiness, this being a Flaming Lips record after all, that by contrast make the sadder moments all the more devastating. To me at least. One of those is shift in tone towards the end of "The Spark that Bled" with Wayne Coyne lamenting that "in reality there was no reaction." That line kills me. Every time. Going on a quarter of a century now. Check it out for yourself below, our Daily Jam.
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