#1978 The Flaming Lips - Hear it Is

Straight on from the debut: it's those same aluminum buzzsaw guitars shaped into actual songs. That post-punk churn churns on, newly spiked with anthems, builds, swerves - actual excitement! It gets  samey by the end (Man From Pakistan is a Frankenstein of just-heard tricks) but there's bristling tension, prickling uncanniness, and just enough puckish fun 3.5/5