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The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips
The Soft Bulletin is an album by The Flaming Lips, released in 1999. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 28 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Waitin' For A Superman”, on 12 lists with a best position of #12.
The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips' ninth studio album, came out on Warner Bros. in May 1999 in the UK, with America getting it that June, and it's the sound of an Oklahoma City band that grew up on garage punk and noise pop trading the guitar squall for something enormous and tender. Dave Fridmann produced, and with Wayne Coyne singing, Michael Ivins on bass and keyboards and Steven Drozd playing just about everything else, the songs are built out of layer upon layer of intricate arrangement.
Coyne's cracked, fragile voice sits in the middle of all that grandeur, and "Race For The Prize" and "Waitin' For A Superman" play like pocket symphonies, huge and heart-on-sleeve at once. Critics fell hard for it, hearing a clean break from the guitar-heavy alternative rock of the band's past.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from The Soft Bulletin on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waitin' For A Superman | 12 | #12 | – | 1999–2023 | |
| 2 | Race For The Prize | 6 | #8 | – | 1999–2024 | |
| 3 | Buggin' | 8 | #101 | – | 1999–2014 | |
| 4 | A Spoonful Weighs A Ton | 1 | #407 | – | 2023 | |
| 5 | Race For The Prize (remix) | 1 | #794 | – | 2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.