“We got extremely lucky early on in the recording of because we weren’t trying to be commercial and we weren’t trying to sound like anything on the radio or any of that sort of stuff, which we wouldn’t have had a clue of any of that stuff,” Coyne says. Whether it’s the obscure layers of psychedelics, intricate arrangements and sonic exploration or the deeply emotive and thought-provoking lyrics, the album permanently branded fans, critics and new-comers. After 20 years the album is still considered a masterpiece along with its follow up, the 2002 ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’. “Since the album came out in 1999 we’ve always kind of played it…we’ve always kind of been with it so it’s never really left us.” If you had have asked me back then if in 20 years we would be talking about this record, I would have just said ‘oh no, no’,” says Coyne. “We were so lucky that when it first came out it was really picked up by the people that were really hungry for a cool meaningful record and we thought well this is great. The band’s ninth studio album was the turning point for the Oklahoma group, a notion that frontman Wayne Coyne realises. Joining that list in a big way is the album that set the Flaming Lips alight, ‘The Soft Bulletin’. Pixies ‘Doolittle’ turned 30 in April, Nirvana’s ‘Bleach’ hit the same age in June, Blink 182’s stand-out, ‘Enema of the State’ hit 20 as did Red Hot Chilli Peppers ‘Californication’. 2019 has been a year jam-packed with special album anniversaries.
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