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The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin

Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 23 June 1999

YES, THE FLAMING LIPS. When they appeared in the mid '80s, 'Jesus Shootin' Heroin' got college radio time from fans of Butthole Surfers psychedelic stomps, though the Lips spun their own variant with tabs of fairy-tale-sweet surrealism.

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