Flaming Mercury: Deserter's Bulletin (1999)

Of all the "imaginary" albums I've created, this is my new favorite. It's a merger of two of the greatest albums of the '90s (or ever, for that matter), both of which I've written about previously--Mercury Rev's Deserter's Songs and the Flaming Lips' Soft Bulletin . The records have long been linked for fans. They were recorded at the same time, in the same studio, by the same producer (Dave Fridmann), and Fridmann was porting studio tricks and sonic textures he was developing between the two ban...