Oh My Gawd!!! Explained

Oh My Gawd!!!
Type:Studio album
Artist:The Flaming Lips
Cover:Oh My Gawd!!!.jpg
Released:January 6, 1987
Genre:
Length:48:00
Label:Restless
Producer:The Flaming Lips
Prev Title:Hear It Is
Prev Year:1986
Next Title:Telepathic Surgery
Next Year:1989

Oh My Gawd!!! (also known as Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips) is The Flaming Lips' second album, released on Restless Records in 1987.

Production

According to liner notes on a 1998 compilation, Wayne Coyne and Michael Ivins were experimenting with sleep deprivation while recording this album.[1]

Track listing

Notes

Retrospective reviews

Critics have noted the album's similarity to the music of Pink Floyd, particularly on the track "One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning."[2] [3] Zach Schonfeld, writing for Paste, described Oh My Gawd!!! as the Flaming Lips' "most eclectic early offering", albeit with "plenty of the band’s hooky hillbilly-punk in between." Brad Shoup wrote for Stereogum that "in time, the Flaming Lips would learn to incorporate their experiments into the songs, rather than cramming them in for the hell of it. But their glee at what they get away with here is infectious."

Personnel

The Flaming Lips

Technical personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Shoup. Brad. January 16, 2013. The Flaming Lips Albums from Worst to Best: 11. Oh My Gawd!!! (1987). July 20, 2020. Stereogum.
  2. Web site: Schonfeld. Zach. July 31, 2018. The Flaming Lips: Hear It Is/Oh My Gawd!!!/Telepathic Surgery Reissues Review. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200720021150/https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-flaming-lips/the-flaming-lips-hear-it-isoh-my-gawdtelepathic-su/. July 20, 2020. July 20, 2020. Paste. en.
  3. Web site: Ingalls. Chris. August 8, 2018. Take a Dive Into the Flaming Lips' Salad Days with 'Seeing the Unseeable'. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20200720021741/https://www.popmatters.com/flaming-lips-seeing-the-unseeable-2593698978.html. July 20, 2020. July 20, 2020. PopMatters. en.