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The Fremont has margaritas for 99 cents.

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Band has been trash since Ronald left, and yes I'm including The Soft Bulletin in that assessment.

I have no idea who they are. I have been to the Fremont and the 4 Queens MANY times.

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I enjoyed the Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

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I'll bet they're excellent.

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You know me like that.

It's a small cup. Grab two on your way in or out of the casino.

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Is that the place that also had the fried oreos and twinkies? First place I had them. They were something.

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That is Mermaids. The place with the girls out front in those weird costumes. It's right next to Binion's, I believe.

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Wife and I recently wondered out loud together if we will ever go back to Vegas. Years ago it seemed we went twice a year. But now between so many other gambling and entertainment options plus vegas getting so expensive, it just does not seem worth it.

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this world is totally Fugazi.

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Not a mult.

Many hipster types now feel that way.

Those are some strong songs on TSB.

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-Hank Kingsley

I suppose it's become a more common sentiment these days, especially with the Clouds Taste Metallic anniversary and all the songs/albums they've now recorded with a relatively clean Drozd, but I've felt that way for ages. The only song I completely love on TSB is "The Gash" because it still at least moderately rocks. I can more easily get where the people who go nuts for the pre-Ronald albums than the post-Ronald albums are coming from.

This thread should be frozen and put in a time capsule to show our descendants why we were exterminated.

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I'm not really sure it's a hipster thing. I see the Lips as much more "hipsterish" is their post-Jones incarnations. I mean, I prefer the older stuff myself, but that's probably because it's much more straight ahead rock. I don't think they would be revered the way they are if they had just kept remaking Transmissions, although I would have listened and enjoyed that. I consider The Soft Bulletin a near great record. I like it better than Yoshimi, which I think is pretty widely considered their magnum opus.

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I always thought TSB was the one considered the magnum opus, but I guess that may have just been because of the early Pitchfork 10.0. Yoshimi definitely seemed to be the most popular though and probably has their 3 most played songs since Transmissions. I do think the more modern hipsterish pose these days probably is to praise the earliest stuff, in part probably because Wayne Coyne has come across about as unhip as a person can get for a while now.

I would compare their career arc to Wilco. I like A.M. much better than Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, but there's a level of craftsmanship on the latter that just doesn't exist in the former. I've played in bands with guys who have written songs just like "Casino Queen". Yankee is a different thing. That's the same way I feel about comparing Transmissions (although it was a little weird in its own right at the time it came out, certainly much odder than A.M. which is a quarter step away from being a Chuck Berry record) to The Soft Bulletin.

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this thread makes me feel like I just had a stroke.

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My real serious Flaming Lips days coincide with when I got into the Score/ joined this board. Days spent listening to "The Abandoned Hospital Ship" and spots for Heavenly Bodies and Shoeless Joe's.

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Haha, those simpler days before The Industrial Strip and being told to experience "the Indiana difference."

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