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pitchfork's reviews are usually pretty shitty.
at war with the mystics isn't my favourite lips album ever, but i'd say it's better than yoshimi was, and probably deserving of a better review. oh well.
the concert was fucking stellar, by the way! i'm not sure there are any other bands out there right now than could top the flaming lips' stage show. they opened with "race for the prize" and there was confetti and streamers being thrown about, and people off to the side of the stage started throwing a bunch really big balloons out into the room which the whole crowd was bouncing around until they all popped. and then they threw out a bunch more balloons during "she don't use jelly." and there were these really awesome strobe lights and fog machines and people dressed up as santa clauses and martians on the stage. the santas and martians each had a really bright flash light to shine all around whenever they felt like it.
their covers of war pigs and bohemian rhapsody went over really really well live. bohemian rhapsody fuckin' rocked.
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