The Flaming Lips - Try To Explain (Live)

[connorbowen]

Am I the only one that likes the way they play the song live better than the album version? The barrage of noise and the pounding drums on the chorus is just so much more powerful, dynamic, and emotional. I love the album but I feel like this song missed its full potential by not sounding like this on the album. I remember them playing it last year at a show and it was just so fucking amazing. I wouldn't mind if they released a studio version of the song like this one.

[emanuelecarrafa]

This song is wonderful, the whole "Terror" is amazing!

[brianorr]

They need to produce a live album version of terror! every song sounds so much more powerful with actual instruments!

[MindTheJourney]

one of my favorite albums of all time, truly spectacular 

[shaneydarko]

This song is so powerful and emotional. Love the live version and this amazing video of incredible visuals. Love you Flaming Lips!!!

[Ebayplay]

Oh hell how I love this!!!! I love the Flamings Lips when they drop silly and go for dark. What I've heard from this album is making me very happy.

[TheInvisibledeejay]

Cathartic indeed! loved this live come back to Philly!!

[jamesha]

i saw this concert on TV, they were very good! the guitarist played a double neck guitar with only one neck

[TheTargetedScapegoat]

Heavy in a floating kind of way …
A delicate Butterfly drifting on the wind through liquid Pb (lead) rain …

You guys are always in my top 10!! thanks for all the years of great stuff through all the heavy stuff … oh … ok. I think i get it. Wow, what a Soft Bulletin

[FemcelFurio]

I can agree. But I absolutely love The Terror. Yoshimi and The Soft Bulletin simply had a much more light hearted and cheerful tone that I would like to hear once more.

Either way they're still a great band, and I'm sure no matter what path they take it will continue to be amazing.

[Badman]

This album makes me cry from happiness...saw them on the day of the dead(Nov.1) at santa barbara with tame impala. Compared to the full band of shpongle or Animal Collective, these guys did just as good or better.

Coyne for president!

[MugoiKihaku]

This would be a fantastic concert to attend

[brainproductions]

FANTASTIC SOUND AND VIDEO AND CROWD!!

[faulkingtruth]

Kamp's is an old family grocery store turned into a club, right up the street from me in OKC, and less than a mile from where we both went to school. It's a magical neighborhood tucked in an unlikely state.

[jerrycrow]

Not an easy song to relate to immediately. A few listens have made it work for me! 🙂

[TheTargetedScapegoat]

Lets not forget that Yoshimi vs the Pink Robots were Steve's final days on DOPE. in the book "Sight of Sound" Steven talks about being sick(kickin) on the couch in the studio and forcing himself to get up and record his parts …
for a guy playing drums, writing the tunes, finding melodies and harmonies inside the cracks that INCREDIBLY, as he himself is cracking - I just can't imagine, yet I know some of my closest friends wrote and recorded their best records and songs while in the pit of junk

[theNomadz]

Ever hear the old myth about Dark Side Of Moon as a secondary sndtrk to Wizard of Oz. If you sync The Terror with Muppet Show The Movie, you get the same affect.

[CPDa]

Man I miss this era of the Lips, before Wayne went ape and started doing his crap like kicking Dzrod out of the band, teaming up with Miley, and all the egotistical and glorifying hard drug crap. Back when they were about killing your ego, having fun with friends, loving eachother, and "we had our fun with the drugs when we were kids, now we've grown to learn that we don't need them anymore."

[BandFishHead]

Personally, I find this version better than the album version. On the record, "Be Free, Away" and "Try to Explain" kind of just blend together as just two spacey, synth pad heavy songs between Look...The Sun is Rising and You Lust. Here, the added overall oomph to the chorus makes it far more dynamic and even a little cathartic.

[devalera]

I think this album is wonderful. It is bleak but there's so much beauty in it