The Reverse Collector

  Artist: The Flaming Lips Title: The Terror Label:  Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death Records Format: CD Cat #: 534627-2 Year of Release: 2013 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2013 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 7/11/25 Sell Price: $4.33 Discogs Last Sold: 6/25/25 NM/NM $9.99 Low: $3.50 Median: $4.27 Average: $5.53 High: $9.99 Current low price: $3.69 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 13 Have/Want: 851/99 Where  Steubenville, OH Time it took to sell: 4 years Where and When Bought:  The Fountain Collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No As I listened a second pass to The Terror, the 13th studio record from the Flaming Lips, I found myself with very little to say about it.  The words "an ambient work" sternly reverberated in the recesses of my brain and very little else.  Would now be the time to cheat and get a ChatGPT(TM) overview?   I don't like to do that when I crank these out, but better that than looking at a 2013...

  Artist: The Flaming Lips Title: Transmissions From The Satellite Heart Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD Catalog Number: 9 45334-2 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1993 Sell Price: $3.38 Sell Date: 1/24/25 Condition: VG+/VG hole punch in booklet Discogs Last Sold: 1/17/25 VG+/VG+ $5.00 Low: $1.99 Median: $3.99 Average: $4.07 High: $13.02 Current  low price:  $1.66 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 51 Have/Want: 2132/152 Where Sold:  Portland, OR Time It Took  To Sell:  12 years Where and When  Bought: used NYC Sounds St. Marks when it came out Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See  It Go: Yes This was a bit of commercial bridge for The Flaming Lips.  Although they had an album on Warner Bros. and Capitol distributed Enigma/Pink Dust for a decade, they were strictly underground, lumped in with other indie rock bands on the club circuit.  I saw them a couple years after this at the 200 capacity Maxwell...

  Artist: The Flaming Lips Title: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Label:  Warner Bros. Format: CD Cat: 9 48142 Year of Release: 2002 Country and Year of Edition: US 2002 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 7/4/22 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 7/21/22 M/M $9.98 Low: $1.00 VG+/VG+ Median: $3.75 Average: $4.73 High: $11.47 M/M Current low price:$1.99 VG/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 47 Have/Want: 3101/398 Where Sold:  St. Charles, MI Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: new internet when released Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B- Sad To See It Go: No My intense dislike of this album when it came out has somewhat dissipated 20 years on.  At the time I thought it was a continuation down a road of something I really didn't want to spend time with.  If I was disappointed at canned live drumming a few years prior, the last thing I wanted was some drum 'n bass shit grafted onto my Lips. Although I have a few more recent albums on my hard drive, ...

  Artist: The Flaming Lips Title: The Soft Bulletin Label:  Warner Bros. Format: CD Cat:  9 46876-2 Year of Release: 1999 Country and Year of Edition: US 1999 HDCD Listed Condition: VG+/VG+  Sell Date: 7/4/22 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold: 7/23/22 VG+/NM $2.75 Low: $0.69 Median: $3.00 Average: $3.43 High: $11.00 Current low price:$0.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 44 Have/Want: 1970/265 Where Sold:  ST. Charles, MI Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: new kims or tower nyc Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Perhaps the peak of the Warner Brothers years for the Lips, this particular album was lauded with hosannas in a way that they never were in 15 or so years of releases.   I have to say I preferred 4 or 5 prior releases to this and none after.  In A Priest Driven Ambulance remains their high watermark.  I will say that each and every cut on this is memorable, so I guess I spent some time with this in ...