Beesley has been pals with the Lips since around 1991 (the band had been around in one form or another since 1983), and he's been shooting footage of the band the whole time. And perhaps the best thing to be said about The Fearless Freaks, Bradley Beesley's new documentary on the band, is that it sounds the same tone, plucking the string of human pain and hope even as the psychedelia and flamboyant stage antics reverberate. That flavor - bizarre means beautiful, tweaked meets touching - is the Flaming Lips. It was a weird album, no doubt - lead singer Wayne Coyne's thin voice is an acquired taste - but even for all its bombast and audacity, it was unassuming, unapologetic, and had me in tears many times. My father had died not long before, I had just moved to a new city on my own, and here's this sweeping, rich, experimental and melodic record about accidents and science and mortality and love. It was more than a record for me at the time. There was a period of time, about nine months, where The Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin invaded every part of my life.
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