#The flaming lips 7 skies h3 full

Is it possible to make a concise 7 Skies H3 as a typical album that could not only be enjoyed in one sitting, but also retain the aforementioned epic attributes? I have found a run-time that precisely doubles the RSD release is the perfect length, assembled as a double LP-discs timing 49 and 51 minutes respectively-while still edited for continuous play just as the original 24-hour song. And criminally, the centerpiece of 7 Skies H3-the seven-hour emotionally-catastrophic sound-experiment 'Metamorphosis'-was reduced to a trite five minutes and lacked any of the nuances that made it one of The Flaming Lips' masterworks. Heavens Consumes Your Body” and it's singular rainstorm breakdown.

#The flaming lips 7 skies h3 full

Unfortunately not all of the magical moments from the full endeavor made the cut, notably the atmospheric interlude of 'Radiation Wind', the quaint chaos of 'Electronic Toy Factory', the ending jam of 'Requiem' and it's following 'The Other Side', and the driving ecstatic jam of “An Outpouring of Immaculate Light From the Their 'distillation' RSD cut showcased some of the most interesting music they'd made in their 30 year career as a standalone album, rather than a 24-hour endeavor. The Flaming Lips probably took notice, and issued their own condensed 50-minute version as an exclusive Record Store Day release in 2014.

notably StrangePets who made both a 90-minute and 213-minute cut of '7 Skies H3' (which urged me to do the same!). Does one really have the time, energy and will-power to sift through a literal day of music to appreciate the highlights? Some fans did. Unfortunately, much of that great music was lost to it's own daunting massiveness. The unnamed movements, which will default to the long-held fan-chosen All official song titles are used except for Tracks 1-7 as Disc One (49 minutes) and tracks 8-13 as Disc Two (51 minutes). This album plays as a continuous 100-minute piece-although one could separate They deserved but including music that was completely removed from the RSD Much more inclusive not only allowing specific songs a more epic breath that Vinyl for Record Store Day in 2014, my 100-minute edit is twice that length and Similar to the band’s own official 50-minute edit released on limited edition Piece to represent a “song” on the “album” each song was then edited down toĪn appropriate length for that particular song in the context of aĪs mere transitions to others, while some tracks remained epic in scope (in theĬontext of a double-album anyways). Each of the song’s fourteen movements were extracted from the 24-hour Own unique edit of The Flaming Lips’ epic 24-hour song, “7 Skies H3”, edited to