except for the fourth arm I approve this concept album , beacause seems out of the normal formal gesture , the rules of the listener interaction are postpone or in advance , in a puntual conception of the tecnologhy , the pourpose is really sperimental , a steam punk advangarded thing .........
Me and some of mines a few times had three going. Intentionally never keeping track of the order of disks or which ones in which player. And there was always big disparities between cd players. Like one would be a standard late 90's pretty nice " dad" cd player with lidgit surround sound real speakers woofers etc then one would be maybe a standard $35 walmart boom box then a pretty nice self contained cd/tape/vinyl "oldest son" bit better than a boom box or sometimes a portable cd player with those little aux plug in speakers lol or maybe through a Hughes and kettner atax80 guitar amp. Picking 3 random cds and 3 random players mentioned above would always give each attempt a crazily unique identity or experience it was as fun for me hearing it about a dozen different ways and seeing people who had no idea and just heard about it and are now hearing it their reaction. Plus, not always but for a time so happened would regularly and must admit usually was on cid, mushys, rollin, or if the 70's white crosses and 80's Conans Wherewolf hehe awesome times and experiences. F u to h if high horse judge, i don't down grade straight ground level sidewalk good boying if that's how you did your got through, and this stuff is totally enjoyable 100% mind altering free, but lol this is a bit different tip then speed freak drunks shouting every word of Minor Threat so lol but whatev A.true fly your freak flag album and the #1 winner of its different every time. Oh, and takr heed track 6 or 7 with the super high and low frequencys we can't tell we can hear but effect you in a weird way oh yes it is true. I've seen people some knew it was coming some didn't during those parts cry, laugh, etc uncontrollable it WILL fuck with your full of blogger or gel tab head
Played this album on two cd boomboxes and the school tv (using it's DVD player) during high school health class. Amazing. This brings back a lot of memories
No single recording can ever capture the magic and wonder of hearing Zaireeka coming from four separate sound systems. It's an overwhelming experience to be in the middle of 8-point surround sound, and as the drift slightly out of sync it is incredible disorienting. Everyone's bucket list should include a Zaireeka listening party with friends. :D
I did it a lot in college with my flatmates. We wore out Soft Bulletin when it came out. Then we found out about Zaireeka in a magazine. Remember going to Amazon that must have been a new thing then and ordering it because we could not find it anywhere. It was an experience but very difficult to make them synch. I remember trying to do so in between fits of laughter while on acid because we just were not able to. W gave up. Should have been released as a single fully mixed together album.
@@cactaceous there was a 5.1 dvd floating around bootleg sites for a while. it was perfect! I found it on a torrent page way back when. but who knows where that is now! I would love to hear this in surround again, and the sync was slightly off on this dvd as well. made for a very intense wtf experience that had me smiling the whole way through! Yay Lucy and Flaming Lips!
I can’t even imagine. You had to comment on the notion of commenting, so what is it? Is it the most amazing thing you have heard, or heard of? Two words would work, here.
Today is the *22* year anniversary of when "Zaireeka" was released. 🤓 EDIT- 12:11 P.M.: *finishes album 47 minutes later* This was the first Flaming Lips album that I ever listened to.
Love the way you did it!!!! Me, my sis, her boyfriend, and his bro with 4 different style record players and we were all various stages of drunk sooo with 4 needles spinning at slightly different speeds and 4 tipsy ppl we got what we got but sounded amazing to me anyway...
Thank You! Its great to finally hear it all together! I just listened to an interview where Wayne spoke about the fact that Zaireeka and Soft Bulletin were made simultaneously and I can definitely hear that at times, here.
Thank you for making this. Back when it came out, my friends and I got together and played them all at once... but only once. I’ve wanted to hear it since. Now I finally have! ❤️💪🏽👏🏻😁
Hey, cales4utube: thankyouverymuchthankyouverymuchthankyouverymuchthankyouverymuch - mercy beaucoup - tropo grazie - muchas gracias - dômo arigatô - lol'shoye spazibo - vielen dank - MUITO OBRIGADO!!! Since so many years, I was resigned already to the never satisfaction of the dream of listening to Zaireeka! And I'm a huge Lips's fan, man! So incredible what you got to do! You made a dream come true! Ooo-Hooooooooooo!!!
The most beautiful thing about this album is that it’ll never sound the same way twice. There isn’t a ‘perfect’ way to hear it; to me, it certainly doesn’t include a “flawless” mixdown. That just ruins the beauty of the experiment. Great job though :)
VERY COOL!!!! Even though you're supposed to be able to get a decent "song" from using just 2 or 3 of discs/albums synchronized and playing simultaneously, I could never get all 4 to work together.
I did. Check out my other videos. I uploaded each one separately so anybody could have a Zaireeka party with any computer or mobile device via UA-cam. You just need 4 screens. ツ
That is very interesting and awesome. I have never heard the albums together. In fact I had never bought this set because I knew I would not be able to listen to them as intended.
It's close but not quite synced properly. It's got to be a lot harder to do with vinyl because of speed variations. There used to be a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix that someone made. I found it on kickasstorrents years ago. Flaming Lips released a decent amount of their music in digital surround but they never got around to giving Zaireeka the Dolby treatment. It's unfortunate since it's the only album I know of that was meant to be heard in surround. It would be perfect for a 7.1 set up. Since there are 4 discs & each are stereo, there are 8 channels. If all the tracks from each disc could be separated by left & right, the center speaker would have to share 2 tracks. Preferably the right channel of disc 1 & the left channel of disc 2. By no means am I discounting what you've done here. It's amazing what you have accomplished with 4 vinyl discs. But for the sake of timing, Zaireeka's release on vinyl was an odd choice. Impossible to sync perfectly. No way could you get every turntable running at exactly the same speed to the nano-second. They just aren't accurate enough. Very interesting. Great work!
Maybe that was the point though, I think Wayne once said that every listening experience will be slightly different. That was his intention all along, I think.
@@lenwennerberg1631 I have tried to recreate the bootleg version I found years ago. I was able to extract it from an old hard drive. I made my own mix & applied it to the video. If you are interested in seeing & hearing it, here is a link: ua-cam.com/play/PLSIDKtBh6NMmsFlrrCsUmKWTv_0Ww0thf.html
men i dont know if it was becaouse of your turn tables , or whate ever, or the magic of the expriment that zaireeka is butr in your mix i heard part i neever heard before and awesome new way of mixing the ( the big old bugs i sthe new baby ) is where i heard the biggest chnge,
we had a listening party in chicago where they had couches and had 4 sound systems set up in the venue. Bands covered the flaming lips b4 and after zaireeka and like a dummy I was in a bunny costume on stage in the middle of summer. But this album...I remember having cars around campfires and we would blast it. loved trying to sync it up. always sounded a bit different....genius.
It’s 4 albums recorded as entire separate stand alone records but they are meant to be played simultaneously for an “extra experience” .this is 1997 so it was really experimental.
cales4utube I love the video, you got a nice sync going. Just wanted to let you know in case you were going to fix it or buy a new turntable. Mine's speed is all wonky right now but I think I'll just replace it.
When you say that it's a little fast on the turntable, do you reckon it could be tweaked a little bit by lowering the pitch? Should this person's turntables have a pitch control - most turntables do, well, I know most 60s & 70s vintage ones do. The 80s and 90s turntables tended to be cheap and basic [obviously not ALL turntables, but you get what I mean], it was only around 2000 when audiophiles began picking up on vinyl again and turntables started to become flashy and expensive, but at least now with stuff like pitch control again! =o) Just to throw this in here - In 2003, I got my whole stereo system out of a SKIP! And there's NOTHING wrong with it (Ok, so now it needs a new belt, but no big whoop, y'know?)! I asked the person why they threw it out - I was being honest, and knocked on their door to make sure that this [older - in their late 50s] person really didn't want it. They said they'd decided to 'update' their system and just wanted to buy a new one, as they'd had this old one [brand new at the time!] since 1976!!! So, by now I was almost drooling with anticipation and my good luck! I'd picked up a vintage Technics seperates system, and by pure chance and synchronicity, not just ONE, but TWO amps exactly the same! Another friend of mine was throwing hers out cos it was 'crackly', in other words, just the connections needed cleaning! LOL! I didn't know she even had it. It was just by the aforementioned pure chance that I'd gone around to hers the very day she was cleaning out her cupboards and throwing shit out! Madness! Nothing wrong with these things at all apart from needing a dusting inside and out! Otherwise they would've ended up at the landfill site! Crazy! =oD So, for nothing, I'd picked up :- an SU-3500 Amp (x2) (1976) an SL-1500 Turntable (1976), an ST-7600 Receiver/Tuner (1976), an SL-PG420A CD Player (1992), and an RS-X990 Double Cassette Deck (1988) Anyway, sorry to waffle on, seemingly unrelated to my original question at the beginning! I just couldn't resist telling at least someone! LOL! =o)
Can someone test my 4 videos that have a cube sound test like Zaireeka? The test of four earbuds worn at once to create visuals with layering sound points starts at 1 minnute in when the 4 tracks say CUBE SOUND TEST. Can you tell me what shape it created and what direction? I'm wondering if it is a flat triangle or the 3d triangle or a pyramid of somekind or if it just sounds like a fly buzzing around with no visual memory activated or whatever. I'm too poor to buy two more sound players. I plan to build my current album into this if I like the restults. the songs in my video list are: 1.) 360 choose your own adventure: US Intelligence collaboration ap fusion(timetravel proves GOD exists) 2.) 360 choose your own adventure: US Intelligence collaboration ap fusion (time travel) 3.) US Intelligence collaboration ap fusion (Universe traveled in a min) 360 choose your own adventure 4.) Alien Intelligence doesn't exist :360 choose your own adventure: US Intelligence collaboration ap fusion Anyone know of any experiments like this one out there?
Yes I know its about the experience, but I can't get over how much out of sync these are. And this is after 15 years of hearing the 4:1 mix I made of the cd.
Actually quite the opposite! One of the main points of there being four separate disks to play is so whenever you and three other people try to time it, it will always be slightly off everytime. It makes the listening experience unique each time.
The most beautiful thing about this album is that it’ll never sound the same way twice. There isn’t a ‘perfect’ way to hear it; to me, it certainly doesn’t involve a “flawless” mixdown. That just ruins the beauty of the experiment. Great job though :)
finally I get to hear them together, its pretty awesome! i never had 4 players and 4 hands to do it, back in 2001
except for the fourth arm I approve this concept album , beacause seems out of the normal formal gesture , the rules of the listener interaction are postpone or in advance , in a puntual conception of the tecnologhy , the pourpose is really sperimental , a steam punk advangarded thing .........
Yeah it was HARD AS FUCK to make it work
Me and some of mines a few times had three going. Intentionally never keeping track of the order of disks or which ones in which player. And there was always big disparities between cd players. Like one would be a standard late 90's pretty nice " dad" cd player with lidgit surround sound real speakers woofers etc then one would be maybe a standard $35 walmart boom box then a pretty nice self contained cd/tape/vinyl "oldest son" bit better than a boom box or sometimes a portable cd player with those little aux plug in speakers lol or maybe through a Hughes and kettner atax80 guitar amp.
Picking 3 random cds and 3 random players mentioned above would always give each attempt a crazily unique identity or experience it was as fun for me hearing it about a dozen different ways and seeing people who had no idea and just heard about it and are now hearing it their reaction.
Plus, not always but for a time so happened would regularly and must admit usually was on cid, mushys, rollin, or if the 70's white crosses and 80's Conans Wherewolf hehe awesome times and experiences. F u to h if high horse judge, i don't down grade straight ground level sidewalk good boying if that's how you did your got through, and this stuff is totally enjoyable 100% mind altering free, but lol this is a bit different tip then speed freak drunks shouting every word of Minor Threat so lol but whatev
A.true fly your freak flag album and the #1 winner of its different every time.
Oh, and takr heed track 6 or 7 with the super high and low frequencys we can't tell we can hear but effect you in a weird way oh yes it is true. I've seen people some knew it was coming some didn't during those parts cry, laugh, etc uncontrollable it WILL fuck with your full of blogger or gel tab head
I don’t have any friends. So, thank you for this.
I heard this on Spotify years ago and didn't get the point, I had no idea you had tonplay all 4 at one, fucking amazing sound.
Played this album on two cd boomboxes and the school tv (using it's DVD player) during high school health class. Amazing. This brings back a lot of memories
Never ever heard this album before, even as a longtime Lips fan. So thank you for posting it. And "The Big Old Bug" is the new favorite song now!
No single recording can ever capture the magic and wonder of hearing Zaireeka coming from four separate sound systems. It's an overwhelming experience to be in the middle of 8-point surround sound, and as the drift slightly out of sync it is incredible disorienting. Everyone's bucket list should include a Zaireeka listening party with friends. :D
If only I had enough cool friends
I did it a lot in college with my flatmates. We wore out Soft Bulletin when it came out. Then we found out about Zaireeka in a magazine. Remember going to Amazon that must have been a new thing then and ordering it because we could not find it anywhere. It was an experience but very difficult to make them synch. I remember trying to do so in between fits of laughter while on acid because we just were not able to. W gave up. Should have been released as a single fully mixed together album.
@@cactaceous there was a 5.1 dvd floating around bootleg sites for a while. it was perfect! I found it on a torrent page way back when. but who knows where that is now! I would love to hear this in surround again, and the sync was slightly off on this dvd as well. made for a very intense wtf experience that had me smiling the whole way through! Yay Lucy and Flaming Lips!
Man I’m so ready to “trip” into the middle of a endless abyss filled with this album coming from four corners of the abyss.
I’ve done it once with the cds. But never with the vinyl. Gotta take some lsd
just getting into this band and this album is probably the most amazing thing I've ever heard of
Heard "of" or "heard"?
@@Lachenmann7 imagine having the time to correct grammar on a 5 year old comment
I can’t even imagine. You had to comment on the notion of commenting, so what is it? Is it the most amazing thing you have heard, or heard of? Two words would work, here.
This is the most amazing thing I of ever heard've
Ever heard I of is the most amazing thing
Today is the *22* year anniversary of when "Zaireeka" was released. 🤓
EDIT- 12:11 P.M.: *finishes album 47 minutes later*
This was the first Flaming Lips album that I ever listened to.
Same here. I was somewhat disappointed when I heard Soft Bulletin for the 1st time. I thought they'd sold out somehow..
Cool story bro
Nobody ask tho
Love the way you did it!!!! Me, my sis, her boyfriend, and his bro with 4 different style record players and we were all various stages of drunk sooo with 4 needles spinning at slightly different speeds and 4 tipsy ppl we got what we got but sounded amazing to me anyway...
that's is exactly what its supposed to sound like. spot on!
Thank You! Its great to finally hear it all together! I just listened to an interview where Wayne spoke about the fact that Zaireeka and Soft Bulletin were made simultaneously and I can definitely hear that at times, here.
So, it's not possible for me to listen to this in my car or on my phone. That sucks. Thanks for the upload guess I can make an MP3 of this.
Amazing album hands down 🙏
I heard flaming lips “spin” this live on the xingolati cruise. Thanks for this upload.
Thank you for making this. Back when it came out, my friends and I got together and played them all at once... but only once. I’ve wanted to hear it since. Now I finally have! ❤️💪🏽👏🏻😁
Still remember the first time I heard the second track with all 4 CDs at once. Unbelievable.
I've done this on CDs, which don't desync so much. I love that every time you do this on turntables it'll be slightly different!
Thank you kindly, this sounds truly awesome
Finalmente consegui ouvir esse clássico alternativo
It's beautiful to watch (and listen of course). Thanks!
Hey, cales4utube: thankyouverymuchthankyouverymuchthankyouverymuchthankyouverymuch - mercy beaucoup - tropo grazie - muchas gracias - dômo arigatô - lol'shoye spazibo - vielen dank - MUITO OBRIGADO!!! Since so many years, I was resigned already to the never satisfaction of the dream of listening to Zaireeka! And I'm a huge Lips's fan, man! So incredible what you got to do! You made a dream come true! Ooo-Hooooooooooo!!!
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@@typicalfurry2747 It must be on purpose as some of the words are spaced while others are not.
The most beautiful thing about this album is that it’ll never sound the same way twice. There isn’t a ‘perfect’ way to hear it; to me, it certainly doesn’t include a “flawless” mixdown. That just ruins the beauty of the experiment. Great job though :)
evanisovich 🙌🏼🙌🏼Thank You 🙌🏼🙌🏼
VERY COOL!!!! Even though you're supposed to be able to get a decent "song" from using just 2 or 3 of discs/albums synchronized and playing simultaneously, I could never get all 4 to work together.
Honestly it sounds nice when the turntables are a little faster than usual. Makes it sound serene and energetic
I had a fan made mix of this I downloaded off soulseek around 2006. I wish I still had it.
Thanks for sharing mate. Maybe one day someone should make a video for each of the cds so we can play whichever ones we choose. that'd be cool
I did. Check out my other videos. I uploaded each one separately so anybody could have a Zaireeka party with any computer or mobile device via UA-cam. You just need 4 screens.
ツ
Oh sweet. So worth it.
That is very interesting and awesome. I have never heard the albums together. In fact I had never bought this set because I knew I would not be able to listen to them as intended.
Always wanted to go to a Zaireeka listening party
Bestialidad absoluta!
Muito louco, muito bom !
Always wanted to hear this on mono
It sounds really cool if you change the speed to .75
Puerto Riconnect nah man try it faster
Or do both...or even all three speeds,... Now I'm going to have to create that,, thanks .
Nice, thanks for that looking
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It's close but not quite synced properly. It's got to be a lot harder to do with vinyl because of speed variations. There used to be a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix that someone made. I found it on kickasstorrents years ago. Flaming Lips released a decent amount of their music in digital surround but they never got around to giving Zaireeka the Dolby treatment. It's unfortunate since it's the only album I know of that was meant to be heard in surround. It would be perfect for a 7.1 set up. Since there are 4 discs & each are stereo, there are 8 channels. If all the tracks from each disc could be separated by left & right, the center speaker would have to share 2 tracks. Preferably the right channel of disc 1 & the left channel of disc 2. By no means am I discounting what you've done here. It's amazing what you have accomplished with 4 vinyl discs. But for the sake of timing, Zaireeka's release on vinyl was an odd choice. Impossible to sync perfectly. No way could you get every turntable running at exactly the same speed to the nano-second. They just aren't accurate enough. Very interesting. Great work!
Maybe that was the point though, I think Wayne once said that every listening experience will be slightly different. That was his intention all along, I think.
@@lenwennerberg1631 I have tried to recreate the bootleg version I found years ago. I was able to extract it from an old hard drive. I made my own mix & applied it to the video. If you are interested in seeing & hearing it, here is a link: ua-cam.com/play/PLSIDKtBh6NMmsFlrrCsUmKWTv_0Ww0thf.html
Beautiful
great job!
Thank you for posting this.very nice
men i dont know if it was becaouse of your turn tables , or whate ever, or the magic of the expriment that zaireeka is butr in your mix i heard part i neever heard before and awesome new way of mixing the ( the big old bugs i sthe new baby ) is where i heard the biggest chnge,
Do go on brought me here!
AWESOME!! thanks!!
So...the 33 rpm Record Vinyl ... Announces itself as a CD . Interesting.
Wonderful!
always leaves me dicombulaed!
Mission accomplished....
Just got this on vinyl if anyone wants to do the experiment
spotify podría tener la versión superpuesta en vez de tner los 4 discos por separado, c´ømo hacés para oírlo sino?
Thank you for making this. I love it.
So cool thanks
we had a listening party in chicago where they had couches and had 4 sound systems set up in the venue. Bands covered the flaming lips b4 and after zaireeka and like a dummy I was in a bunny costume on stage in the middle of summer. But this album...I remember having cars around campfires and we would blast it. loved trying to sync it up. always sounded a bit different....genius.
Wow!
has anyone resource to the 4 albums as mp3? Nowadays it would be much easier with portable speakers ;)
Alright, I've plugged this into my 5.1 sound system. Let's see what happens.
What happened?
Not as great as the real thing.
Thank you been missing this for years used to own this album/collection of albums don't anymore
awesome!!!
Thanks heaps
crazy thing :)
How is it when I play everything together after lining up the tracks, it's only a little over 10 minutes long?
Clouds Taste Metallic = Rubber Soul 🔘 Zaireeka = Revolver 🔘Soft Bulletin = Sgt Peppers
Yo, what about yoshimi tho
@@magiusicgician4102Abbey Road?
What does it say CD...? Oh lips I love you anyway.
Okay I'll Admit
That I Really
Don't Understand
It’s 4 albums recorded as entire separate stand alone records but they are meant to be played simultaneously for an “extra experience” .this is 1997 so it was really experimental.
@@dustinknotek3411 he was quoting the lyrics of the song
@@dustinknotek3411 r/woosh
가지고 싶다 어떻게 가지지
Your turnable(s) is/are a little fast. Compare to an mp3 versions and you'll hear it.
Thanks for watching!
I knew going into it that it couldn't be perfect. Just having fun.
cales4utube I love the video, you got a nice sync going. Just wanted to let you know in case you were going to fix it or buy a new turntable. Mine's speed is all wonky right now but I think I'll just replace it.
When you say that it's a little fast on the turntable, do you reckon it could be tweaked a little bit by lowering the pitch? Should this person's turntables have a pitch control - most turntables do, well, I know most 60s & 70s vintage ones do.
The 80s and 90s turntables tended to be cheap and basic [obviously not ALL turntables, but you get what I mean], it was only around 2000 when audiophiles began picking up on vinyl again and turntables started to become flashy and expensive, but at least now with stuff like pitch control again! =o)
Just to throw this in here - In 2003, I got my whole stereo system out of a SKIP!
And there's NOTHING wrong with it (Ok, so now it needs a new belt, but no big whoop, y'know?)!
I asked the person why they threw it out - I was being honest, and knocked on their door to make sure that this [older - in their late 50s] person really didn't want it. They said they'd decided to 'update' their system and just wanted to buy a new one, as they'd had this old one [brand new at the time!] since 1976!!! So, by now I was almost drooling with anticipation and my good luck! I'd picked up a vintage Technics seperates system, and by pure chance and synchronicity, not just ONE, but TWO amps exactly the same! Another friend of mine was throwing hers out cos it was 'crackly', in other words, just the connections needed cleaning! LOL! I didn't know she even had it. It was just by the aforementioned pure chance that I'd gone around to hers the very day she was cleaning out her cupboards and throwing shit out! Madness! Nothing wrong with these things at all apart from needing a dusting inside and out! Otherwise they would've ended up at the landfill site! Crazy! =oD
So, for nothing, I'd picked up :-
an SU-3500 Amp (x2) (1976)
an SL-1500 Turntable (1976),
an ST-7600 Receiver/Tuner (1976),
an SL-PG420A CD Player (1992),
and an RS-X990 Double Cassette Deck (1988)
Anyway, sorry to waffle on, seemingly unrelated to my original question at the beginning! I just couldn't resist telling at least someone! LOL! =o)
keep it! Give up "wrong" as an descriptor option in this
Victoria sent me here.....
Can someone test my 4 videos that have a cube sound test like Zaireeka? The test of four earbuds worn at once to create visuals with layering sound points starts at 1 minnute in when the 4 tracks say CUBE SOUND TEST.
Can you tell me what shape it created and what direction? I'm wondering if it is a flat triangle or the 3d triangle or a pyramid of somekind or if it just sounds like a fly buzzing around with no visual memory activated or whatever. I'm too poor to buy two more sound players. I plan to build my current album into this if I like the restults.
the songs in my video list are:
1.) 360 choose your own adventure: US Intelligence collaboration ap fusion(timetravel proves GOD exists)
2.) 360 choose your own adventure: US Intelligence collaboration ap fusion (time travel)
3.) US Intelligence collaboration ap fusion (Universe traveled in a min) 360 choose your own adventure
4.) Alien Intelligence doesn't exist :360 choose your own adventure: US Intelligence collaboration ap fusion
Anyone know of any experiments like this one out there?
Where can i listen to each disks?
Yes I know its about the experience, but I can't get over how much out of sync these are. And this is after 15 years of hearing the 4:1 mix I made of the cd.
PrankZabba try the 4 separate videos I made of each on by itself and have some fun.
That’s what this is all about.
Why the hell aren't the four discs synchronized?! That's the idea, ain't it?
Actually quite the opposite! One of the main points of there being four separate disks to play is so whenever you and three other people try to time it, it will always be slightly off everytime. It makes the listening experience unique each time.
This iz poopy head
The most beautiful thing about this album is that it’ll never sound the same way twice. There isn’t a ‘perfect’ way to hear it; to me, it certainly doesn’t involve a “flawless” mixdown. That just ruins the beauty of the experiment. Great job though :)