I borrowed the Crazy Horse CD from our public library a couple of years ago. It was horribly boring (and I'm a big Neil Young fan). I don't remember the "Mr. Chips" song at all.

I finally bought Yoshimi last week after hearing much of it through CD Swaps. It's pretty good, but more easy-going than I thought the Lips would sound. Is their earlier stuff heavier than Yoshimi?

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Yes... but the sweet spot in their career are the Zaireeka/Soft Bulletin/Yoshimi albums. They're all a bit tamer than the guitar-heavy sonic mish-mash of the older lips, but also have a much stronger melodic sensibility and probably better lyrics. I am a fan of the idiocy of earlier Lips lyrical stylings, though.

Soft bulletin for the win, I might add.

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I enjoy the older stuff just because it's a bit dirtier sounding and absurd. I purchased Yoshimi but just wasn't feeling it and sold it to a used place. It's prettier than the older stuff and it defintiely sounds like they have grown up as musicians but I'm in a harder phase right now. Maybe soon I'll go back and listen to it again. Umfum, definitely peep the old stuff. You'll be glad you did.

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I came at them starting with Yoshimi and working back, like most people I'm sure, so I have a different perspective. I still think Soft Bulletin, though softer, is their best album.

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Sex Piano.

Ah, here it is: Nickelback vs uh...Nickelback

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Sad and hilarious at the same time. I know bands want to establish their own sound, but that's ridiculous. For the curious, "How You Remind Me" times in at 3:43 and "Someday" at 3:27. Also, here's a scathing review of The Long Road by Stephen Thomas Erlewine which mostly explains why the two songs (and albums) sound alike.

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Also, I'm probably the only person who does this, but in certain parts of "Yoshimi Part 1" right before the chorus, I can't help singing a line or two from Bob Seger's "Turn the Page."

One line in particular is "You pretend it doesn't bother you, but you just want to explode..." then into "...Oh-ohh Yoshimi...."

You have to alter Bob's delivery a bit, but they fit right in there.

Or I'm just a goofball.

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