The next Flaming Lips record is out on May 17 in the UK, with a slightly different version out in the US on 22 June. Final tracklists of both versions and some general information can be found below..... full review and long song titles in discography.
The Soft Bulletin The Soft Bulletin
 UK Version released: 17 May
US Version released: 22 June 		"The Soft Bulletin is the next stop in the progression we've forced ourselves into,"
Wayne Coyne, January 1999.
What that actually means is that this is set to be the most accessible, yet most staunchly exploratory, record that the Flaming Lips have ever unleashed on a largely unsuspecting world. This time around Wayne's songs paint tales of love, loss, reality and just a little deep thought. Maybe that's not altogether different from before, but now those songs just seem to make you feel like you're shooting off on some kind of beautiful adventure to look for the feelings that drive your head. Tied to tunes that are rhythmic, piano laden and chock full of ideas and sonic texture, it all combines to become something altogether exciting. It's different, it's new, and it's very very good - courageous, accomplished, as individual as always and yet more listenable than it has ever been.

The Soft Bulletin (US Version)

1 Race for the Prize (Mokran remix) 4.18
2 A Spoonful Weighs a Ton 3.32
3 The Spark That Bled 5.56
4 The Spiderbite Song 4.00
5 Buggin' (Mokran remix) 3.23
6 What Is the Light? 4.05
7 The Observer 4.10
8 Superman 4.15
9 Suddenly Everything Has Changed 3.54
10 The Gash 3.58
11 Feeling Yourself Disintegrate 5.10
12 Sleeping on the Roof 3.10
13 Race for the Prize 4.15
14 Superman (Mokran remix) 3.18

 The Soft Bulletin (UK Version)

1 Race for the Prize 4.15
2 A Spoonful Weighs a Ton 3.32
3 The Spark That Bled 5.56
4 Slow Motion ?.??
5 What Is the Light? 4.05
6 The Observer 4.10
7 Superman 4.15
8 Suddenly Everything Has Changed 3.54
9 The Gash 3.58
10 Feeling Yourself Disintegrate 5.10
11 Sleeping on the Roof 3.10
12 Race for the Prize (Mokran remix) 4.18
13 Superman (Mokran remix) 3.18
14 Buggin’ (Mokran remix) 3.23
Work on the latest 'normal' Flaming Lips record began during the Zaireeka sessions, as some of the songs would have been wholly unsuitable for the 4 CD arrangements used on that particular release. Since then, a continued track of development has seen the band fully grow into the new musical vocabulary that they had begun to explore since reconvening as a three piece in late 1996. Wayne explains the new tack as follows, "We started off wanting to explore. Not necessarily more serious kind of songs, just more emotionally-based songs. I said to the guys, let's just make music that we love."

 Wayne, Steven, Scott Booker, Michael

The band head out of OKC.. to the studio