I love pretty much anything by this band BUT the first two records (Yerself is Steam, BOCES) with Baker as lead vocalist were probably some of the psychedelic releases going and taught the Flaming Lips all they needed to know, ha: (the piece I wrote below gives a good flavor of that era) https://magnetmagazine.com/2015/08/19/magnet-classics-mercury-revs-yrself-is-steam/
coreydubrowa oo thanks for sharing! i’ve been obsessed with this record for years but never dug into the rest of their discography. excited to read your piece and finally check out the rest!
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pro tip, dreams don’t always make sense - so when weird/bad stuff happens, you can shrug it off and be like wow what a weird dream bro 🤷