Is Discography Dilution A Problem?
Last week, a rather strange rumor hit the internet. Apparently, The Flaming Lips were going to record a “companion” album to The Dark Side Of The Moon. The idea was that you played the two albums simultaneously and that they sync up, just like The Wizard Of Oz. Well, the whole thing turned out to be a big April Fool’s prank, but it’s not hard to see why people believed it, or why it was a bit troubling. The Flaming Lips have been doing a lot of this lately – and there’s a case to be made that it’s been too much. Last year’s The Terror was a wonderful album, and it didn’t get the respect it deserved, but it’s just one of a number of things they’ve been putting out in recent years and the quality tends to vary. First, there was that six-hour long song that no one completely understands the reasoning[...]