They also really liked guitar noise (though this mostly subsided after Clouds Taste Metallic), which helped their "credibility" with their indie-rock fanbase even after the band begged its way onto a major label. They clearly love 60s and 70s rock, not only the big names but also the kinds of music that made it onto the Nuggets and Nuggets 2 boxsets, and while the manifestations of this love changed over time, it's never been hard to feel that influence in their music. The big thing about The Flaming Lips is that commercial success is something they've sought the catch is that they've sought it on their own terms, and their own terms are a bizarre mix of traditionalism and futurism that won't necessarily satisfy fans of either. They're not exactly embraced by everybody outside of the mainstream either, though: ultimately, the band (for most of its life) has been making pop music, and what's so exciting about pop music if you, as a listener, have "graduated" onto more exotic things? The band isn't exactly obscure, and they've had some attempts to push themselves more into the mainstream than they've been, but their main impact on the pop culture world at large was basically limited to (a) a bizarre appearance on 90210 where they played "She Don't Use Jelly," (b) "Bad Days" getting used in Batman Forever and (c) "Do You Realize?" getting voted the official rock song of Oklahoma (their home state). One thing that's clear to me, though, is that they tend to get a level of adulation from me and other amateur reviewers like me (not to mention from Pitchfork and other semi-mainstream reviewing organizations) that's disproportionate to the amount of love they get from people on the whole, and this is of interest to me. Their 80s work is fairly hit-and-miss for me, but their 90s albums entertain and interest me on the whole as well as anybody else's could from that era (not to mention that, starting with Zaireeka, they became a top-notch art rock band), and rating the band as highly as I do happens without any hesitation on my part. The Flaming Lips are a pretty bland choice to have as one of my favorite bands from the 90s and beyond, but I'm a pretty bland person, so they suit me just fine. "Yeah, So If It's Sad, Well, You Still Gotta Live Till You Die" The Flaming Lips Completely confused by the rating system? Go here for an explanation.
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