S8E400 - The Flaming Lips 'The Soft Bulletin' with Jonathan Hischke
For our 400th episode (!!!) we're joined by musician Jonathan Hischke (Hella, Dot Hacker, E V Kain), who brought us a record that got under his skin when he first heard it in 1999 - Rob's too! - and continues to astound: The Flaming Lips' beautifully...
For our 400th episode (!!!) we're joined by musician Jonathan Hischke (Hella, Dot Hacker, E V Kain), who brought us a record that got under his skin when he first heard it in 1999 - Rob's too! - and continues to astound: The Flaming Lips' beautifully trippy kinda-masterpiece 'The Soft Bulletin'.
"Will the fight for our sanity
Be the fight of our lives?"
Songs discussed in this episode: Race For The Prize (Feat. The Colorado Symphony & Andre De Ridder, live at Red Rocks) - The Flaming Lips; Eye Opener - Dot Hacker; Striking Out - E V Kain; Infektion - The Flying Luttenbachers; She Lives in an Airport - Guided By Voices; She Don't Use Jelly, Christmas At The Zoo - The Flaming Lips; Easter Theatre - XTC; Race For The Prize, A Spoonful Weighs A Ton, The Spark That Bled, The Spiderbite Song, Buggin', What Is The Light, The Observer, Waitin' For A Superman, Suddenly Everything Has Changed, The Gash, The Gash (Feat. The Colorado Symphony & Andre De Ridder, live at Red Rocks), Feeling Yourself Disintegrate, Sleeping On The Roof - The Flaming Lips; Waitin' For A Superman (The Flaming Lips cover) - Iron & Wine
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Jonathan Hischke
Musician
Jonathan is a musician- primarily a bass player- who grew up in Nebraska and now lives in LA. He has played with many acts including Hella, The Shins, The Sound Of Animals Fighting, Norah Jones, Cigar, Broken Bells, Mark Lanegan, earthlings?, The Flying Luttenbachers, Nels Cline, Le Butcherettes, Ruins, Joan Of Arc, Linda Perry, Masters Of Reality, Anywhere, Zach Hill, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Sweethead, Eva Gardner, RX Bandits and Juliette Lewis among many more. His band Dot Hacker's first album was the subject of an episode of That Record Got Me High, an honor indeed! Recently Jonathan released his first solo album, a collection of free improvisations titled "Conditional Gratitude (For Mortals And Machines)" on the Handmade Birds label (and on Bandcamp).