Zaireeka (4xCD)
A combination of the words Zaire and Eureka, Zaireeka is a term coined by Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne symbolizing the fusion of anarchy and genius. It's a perfect title; Zaireeka is the culmination of the Lips' helter-skelter brilliance. Pushing the concept of interactive listening into new realms of possibility, the work extends Coyne's infamous "parking lot experiments" into not merely one album, but four separate discs that can be played separately or in groups of two, three, and four with multiple stereos. (Properly synchronized multi-disc playback requires more than one person ? it's literally a party album.) Between combining the discs and toying with volume, balance, fidelity, etc., the options are truly limitless. No two multi-disc performances can be repeated, thanks to the space-time continuum and discrepancies from one CD player to another.
| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 | Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand |
| 2 | Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) |
| 3 | Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair |
| 4 | Machine in India |
| 5 | Train Runs Over the Camel But Is Derailed by the Gnat |
| 6 | How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) |
| 7 | March of the Rotten Vegetables |
| 8 | Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now |
| Michael Felix
- Seattle, WA, USA |
| Absoulutely Breathtaking.Worth every cent you will pay to get a hold of this quadruple disc, out of print, monster of an album. No two playbacks of this album will ever be the same, and that makes it unlike any CD you will ever own. This is truely an album ahead of its time. Kind of like a mix your own "Soft Bulliten." | |