Peppers album justice, despite all of its troubling flaws.
”With A Little Help From My Fwends” does actually do a decent job of doing the original Sgt. Many of the tracks on here contain some legitimately interesting ideas within the stagnant musicianship, leaving a thought of what could’ve been had this album been more consistent, more organized. Said lack of vigor drags down this album, and bogs down the quality of the product. And part of that is the saving grace of this particular album, for many of the guest artists on ”Fwends” sound incredibly unenthusiastic (most notably, Cyrus on her two appearances). There’s just not enough of them on here, leaving the listener wanting more of them and less of the dozen bands and artists featured on this album.Įntitled ”With A Little Help From My Fwends”, this is a smorgasbord of noise, psychedelics, and most of all, typical Flaming Lips nonsense. Here, while the cover suggests it’s a Flaming Lips album, the final product is barely such a thing. This year has been eventful for the band, with an accompaniment album to Pink Floyd’s ”The Dark Side of the Moon” (an April Fools’ prank), an edit of the astounding ”7 Skies H3”, and the debut EP by side-project, Electric Wurms, entitled ”Musik, Die Schwer Zu Twerk” - in English, it’s loosely translated as “Music that is hard to twerk to”.
Not only is the promise in such a collaboration wasted, but the ideas that lie beneath it are just half-baked and barely developed – a troubling problem with recent Flaming Lips projects, with a decent few exceptions. However, the potential in an album such as this is simply wasted on obnoxious sound effects, filters, and pointless cameos (Electric Wurms and Moby, anyone?). As with the other two albums, there’s an abundance of potential in this cover album.
#The flaming lips with a little help from my fwends series
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, the third in a series of cover albums by the band. This time around, the Lips have covered The Beatles’ ”Sgt. The Flaming Lips have yet again gathered their friends and musical acolytes together to create a psych-pop supergroup (albeit with some oddities in the lineup up, such as Tegan and Sara, and the one and only Miley Cyrus, twerk extraordinaire) to tackle what is considered by many to be one of the greatest albums of all-time, if not the greatest. Review Summary: "What would you think if I sang out of tune-would you stand up and walk out on me?"
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