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[DISCUSSION: WEEKLY ALBUM CLUB] The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002) (songwhip.com)

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Hey everyone! I have volunteered to make this weekly post for the foreseeable future since ren already does so much for this community.

This week we have another choice from ren, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by the Flaming Lips! Whether this is your 1st or 100th time listening to this album we want to hear your thoughts.

Tell us what you like about this album. Tell us what you dont like about it. Tell us a story you have about it or a memory it triggers!

And then tell us what albums you want to discuss next! I have picked for next week but I don't want ren and I picking every week so let's hear some suggestions!

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10/17 - Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)

10/24 - TBD

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Disclaimer: First of all I apologize if you are seeing this post more than once. Moving forward I intend to make this post on Tuesdays. In fact I made this exact post Tuesday and again Wednesday this week from my midwest.social account but there appear to have been federation issues and it wasn't showing up outside that instance. So I made a lemmy.world account today to redo the post again.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fight Test is maybe my favorite song on the album and I'm no fan of soundalike lawsuits - no shit artists get inspired by and borrow from other artists.

But the Cat Stevens thing was a little more than generic chords. The entire vocal melody was lifted from Father & Son.

Still sucks that it happened, but I think it was fair in the context of our current handling of these things. Here's hoping we can one day fix our copyright system and not have to deal with these stupid assed suits anymore.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Pachelbel's Canon In D Major would ~~disagree~~ agree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Like I said, I don't LIKE the way it works...nor am I a musician or lawyer. I actually love hearing musicians lift from others. I just can understand the decision.