The Flaming Lips - Feeling Yourself Disintegrate

[skying90]

Meravigliosa

[justanotherjam]

anti-solos rule. 

[ultramanballs]

This is one of my favorite songs, and the Soft Bulletin is just one of the greats. Period. However, if you're thinking in terms of what is to be considered standard music blocking, then yeah, Steven could have done something pretty enigmatic (he's capable) had he thought a bit more on the guitar "solo"--But, It doesn't really sound like he was going for a solo, and it never really does.  Steven isn't writing pop songs, he's writing these landscape compositions you can sort of gently fall into.

[xactxx]

I don't hear any music rules being broken in this song. Enlighten me please.

[Footage17]

Music is filled with rules, but they can and have been broken to accommodate new ideas. Unlike a math problem every problem has multiple answers and none of them are correct. Miles Davis is jazz, the genre that gave the middle finger to classical conformity. This song is good because it feels like riding in the back of a car and looking up at the street lights as they rush past the night sky. Thats how feeling yourself disintegrate feels like to me. How could bad and music even go together?

[TheZachReed]

I don't know if this is a coincidence, but on this album in particular, they kind of channel a mid to late seventies Yes vibe....

[SpleenieMartini]

@TheZachReed I agree! I hear Queen, Pink Floyd and Led Zepp (just to name a few).

[cadmus98]

@TheZachReed This song reminds me of a Marvin Gaye (eg., Mercy Mercy Me), but slowed down and that bloke from Thunderclap Newman on vocals.

[ronniedillon]

Can't help but feel so small when I hear this. It's one hell of a reminder.

[jbp27]

so  beautiful i don t even know...

[Kperson123]

This is so beautiful. I'm wallowing in it.

[jer1ndie]

Best song ever.

[artan234]

Rat tat tat rat tat tat rat tat tat forever~ <3 

[quickieSS]

Two people can't feel themselves disintegrate.

[quickieSS]

I love getting high to this song.

[jbp27]

greatest song ever

[theelk801]

I like most of this song but the guitar solo is not very good. It sounds like whoever played it learned the pentatonic scale a month prior.

[Oddmartian2]

@theelk801 The solo is one my favorite parts of the song...It's really simple but it adds a lot.

[jer1ndie]

@theelk801 I disagree... It may be simple, but this solo is my favorite guitar solo ever because it's so emotional and beautiful! I saw it played live last year and Steven had added a lot more to the solo too...

[dancecamerondance123]

@theelk801 A solo doesn't need to be complicated... If you are sacrificing melody just to show off then you could potentially damage the song's dynamics.

[theelk801]

@dancecamerondance123 @jer1ndie @oddmartian2 What I was saying is not that the solo needs to be complicated but that it's so heavy handed that it just sounds bad. It's largely just going up and down the pentatonic scale and pivoting on the same damn minor third over and over. It doesn't need to be complex, it just needs to be a bit less paint-by-numbers. Miles Davis was very simplistic in his improvisation but what he did play was far more interesting nonetheless.

[tacosaucemafia]

@theelk801 So what! fuck your gay ass scale, this song is awesome and the solo has emotion and that's all that counts. And funny how you throw miles in there, because he would disagree with your comment.

[theelk801]

@tacosaucemafia "gay ass scale"? You clearly don't know anything about music theory, so first of all I pity you, and second of all if you don't know what you're talking about then you DEFINITELY aren't gonna be able to gauge the opinion of Miles. Yes, the solo has "emotion", but it executes said emotion poorly.

[tacosaucemafia]

@theelk801 Executes emotion poorly???? lmao! bro you are a fucking joke! You do realize Steve Jones of the sex pistols couldn't even tune his fucking guitar, but proceeded to make a monumental album that the likes of vai, satriani, batio, Gilbert could never come close to making with their technical prowess. There are no rules in music!!! Stop setting up standards you clown, How can you possibly execute emotion poorly? You are the anti Miles Davis and you know jack shit about Davis.

[theelk801]

@tacosaucemafia See, now you're just showing your ignorance. There ARE rules to music, and you follow them whether or not you choose to acknowledge them. Yes, the Sex Pistols were "bad", but they were performance artists, not musicians. They wanted to communicate their image and ideas and the carelessness with which they played music helped with that. They used music as a means to an end. Miles, on the other hand, was a musician, and definitely followed rules. Kind of Blue was based on new rules

[jer1ndie]

@theelk801 dude, I don't give a fuck what you say. "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" will be my favorite song until my body rots and I disintegrate. The solo is fucking amazing. If you don't like it, kindly fuck off :)

[ANTIanitmetalclub]

@theelk801

That last sentence pretty much contradicted the rest of that whole paragraph. If things such as "new rules" actually exist, then couldn't anything that goes outside these supposed 'rules' of music just be called "new rules"?

"Hey man, you can't just bang on that pan and call it music. Music has RULES you gotta follow."

"Nah, man, these are the NEW rules."

See what I mean?

[MassHero]

@theelk801 What an arrogant prick. Who are you trying to impress? Get off your thrown and leave this page if you're going to spout bullshit.

[jumeau1]

@theelk801 if you are a guitar player and judge the quality of a solo by its complexity, please quit playing.

[quickieSS]

@jumeau1 It's more about capturing the feeling and emotion. I've always felt that the solo for "Have a Cigar" was really in tune with the overall feeling of the song.

This solo makes me feel so good, everytime I listen to this song.

[rex666777]

greatest album i've ever heard

[lunasea11]

How do I type nothing

[GoreyOr]

@lunasea11 By ceasing to move your hands over a keyboard.

[sugar1n]

RA PA PA

RA PAPAPA!!

[rex666777]

greatest album ever in my life.

[Fallingdown232]

what genre would this song fall under?

[spawn22222]

@Fallingdown232 The Flaming Lips.

[Fallingdown232]

@spawn22222 fair enough

[drshoggothshow]

@Fallingdown232 Truth music

[musterdsandwich]

@Fallingdown232 Good, its the only genre i really listen to.

[terryperring104]

@Fallingdown232 - 'Genius' 

[Bumbumawangis]

scvman992000,also one of the saddest songs ever written.

[BobbyBluntandthafunk]

WOW dis this sound amazing last night!!!!

[lslreverbnation]

I was listening to this while on 24 dramamine, i really felt like i was disintegrating, but i don't do pills anymore, fuck pills

[drshoggothshow]

@lslreverbnation Whatever works for you

[Deathraker88]

This... makes me dizzy. Very very dizzy.

[DomSaget]

Saw that live yesterady... and I felt myself disintegrate

[schoenapan]

@DomSaget One of best shows I've seen

[DerrickthePinecone]

I think that "Embryonic" is a better record EVER-SO SLIGHTLY than this album.

[mametz]

@DerrickthePinecone This album, clouds taste metallic, and satellite heart are so damn good tho! I'd hate to argue this though, they are all great.

[Mouse2113]

Even better live, travelled from Aberdeen to London to see them play the whole album at Alexandra Palace, a gig that I'll never forget until the day I die!

[demondayssean]

Saw it live

[jer1ndie]

best song ever.

[spacesuitor]

Nice work covering it.

It really sucks though, when you're looking for a real song but someone has covered it and made the title and videoslideshow to look like the original.

GRR!

[aagold]

@spacesuitor This isn't a cover...

[MarcsYooToob]

i wish they'd go back to this instead of the "experimental" tuneless weirdness... that stuff is bad trip material.

[neonspec]

One of the most beautiful songs ever written.

[Awake2theWorld]

awes0me

[MassHero]

Been listening to the flaming lips for awhile. They emanate such a beautiful calmness about all the intricacies of life, whether scary or astonishing. Their music is like a drug- it's easily identifiable and so smooth and...well, there's nothing like it. Needless to say, next time I pick up some magic mushrooms or acid, I will be listening to clouds taste metallic, in a priest driven ambulance and last but DEFINITELY not least, the grand finale, THE SOFT BULLETIN. This album makes life worth it.

[PLASTICTOLI]

I always tear up every time I hear this song.

[ESCAZO73]

Prepare for take off...

[TheJerrjer]

I love this band.

[arinross523]

they are only a few steps behind radiohead, able to invent their own unique genre

[chedwerks]

@arinross523 Good comment, really true. I've thought they give a modern Floyd vibe too, not that they necessarily sound the same but that hypnotic awesomeness

[arinross523]

@chedwerks yesss, and i think radiohead are a few small steps behind Floyd

[FTZPLTC]

Want this for my funeral.

[georgew985]

Makes dying sound like beautiful fun. I bet it is!

[Trinnan]

@georgew985 What do you think this is?

[MrWoodHimself]

@georgew985 That is exactly what I was thinking the first time I heard At War With the Mystics.

[scvman992000]

One of the best songs ever written. A true work of art.

[Easleytee]

@scvman992000

Your comment does confirm that ignorance truly inspires bliss.

[thewrongsong]

THANK YOU

[Ineversayforever]

whoever you are thank you so much for putting this on youtube because it was no where else to be found<3333333