"I still don't think we have an idea of what the public is going to like, we have no idea what is hip music or cool music or trendy music or anything. And we were glad that it was turning out really great. "We were just very glad to be making this insanely complicated record with our friend Dave Fridmann – who is a great, great producer – in his great, great studio. They were making music for themselves, and for people who were like them.
"But even by the time we made it, we had already gone through the most tumultuous kind of understanding of your music versus your production and who you are, and your art is and all that."īy 1999, The Flaming Lips were making music because that's what they loved to do. "If you were talking to me and I was like 22 years old when all that happened, I probably would be a completely different type of person," Coyne says. This experience in music – including the success of that single – meant the band were able to deal with their newfound acclaim in a more measured way. "We had already recorded quite a few records by the time we made The Soft Bulletin." "We began in 1983, so we were almost 20 years old as a band before we made that record," Wayne Coyne recently told Double J's Karen Leng.
The band had tasted fame with their 1993 hit 'She Don't Use Jelly', but The Soft Bulletin saw the band broaden their sound, bringing in more intricate arrangements and leftfield sounds, and garner mammoth, widespread acclaim for it. Listen to The Flaming Lips' J Files right now
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