Magnetic Fields and Flaming Lips

I don't buy CDs much, but there seemed to be a glut of purchase-worthy ones released recently. On a trip to Best Buy last weekend, I considered adding these gems to my stagnated collection:

• The new Pixies compilation
• Morriessey's You Are the Quarry
• The Magnetic Fields' i
• The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Not very new, I know, but I never got around to buying it and liked what I had heard of it.

Morrissey was out because they only had the "gatefold" edition which wouldn't fit in my CD case. What's up with that? I hope it's not a new trend. I do plan to get it eventually.

The Pixies were out 'cause I decided to go with the unknown quantities over the reissue, repackage, repackage.
So it was The Magnetic Fields and The Flaming Lips.

Two days later, I am ready to bargain bin The Magnetic Fields and I think Yoshimi is a modern classic with Pet Sounds-like ambition.

I am going to think about this for another couple of days, though.

Comments

[Jennifer]

I agree with you about Yoshimi. I keep picturing brave little Yoshimi girding herself to take on the scary robots. I haven't heard the Magnetic Fields enough to judge, but it struck me as kind of boring. And you're right, it sounds like that guy Jonathan Richman who sang "There's Something About Mary."

[sidra]

i also agree about the flaming lips album, though i don't really like how they blatantly rip off the cat stevens song "father and son". if you want a good Magnetic Fields album, you should get "Holiday" or "Get Lost". other than that their stuff's a bit bland, and stephen merrit's voice gets annoying after a while. but you should have gotten the morrissey CD, gatefold be damned. that's just because i'm all into it.