With a Little Help from My Fwends
by The Flaming Lips
Metascore
59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
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  1. Magnet
    Nov 12, 2014
    60
    It's still, ultimately, a novelty rather than something that's likely to become part of your life. [No. 115, p.55]
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  2. Uncut
    Nov 11, 2014
    60
    Not everything works as well, but its entertaining enough and a portion of proceeds go to charity. [Dec 2014, p.76]
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  3. Pitchfork
    Nov 10, 2014
    55
    The Lips’ Fwends are so intent on tripping up the songs’ rhythmic momentum and weirding up the basic melodies with hammy vocals that they ultimately reinforce their sturdiness. They’re trashing all the furniture in the house, but not bulldozing any walls to open up new vantages.
  5. Consequence
    Oct 27, 2014
    50
    We’re left with a decent covers album that will probably fare better than their Dark Side tribute.
  6. Mojo
    Nov 19, 2014
    40
    It's largely horrible, but sometimes impressively so. [Dec 2014, p.94]
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  7. Q Magazine
    Nov 13, 2014
    40
    There's been a strong sense of diminishing returns. [Dec 2014, p.109]
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  8. Rolling Stone
    Nov 5, 2014
    40
    Coyne's kaleidoscope eyes were too big for his own good this time.
  9. The Guardian
    Oct 30, 2014
    40
    Their approach is to drench the Beatles’ basic song structures in all manner of disorienting 21st-century effects. But the vaunted weirdness is undermined by ho-hum predictability.
  10. Slant Magazine
    Oct 27, 2014
    40
    Most of the covers on With a Little Help from My Fwends don't aim for creative rearrangement; they tend more toward pointless sabotage.

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4.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 22 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 22
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 22
  3. Negative: 9 out of 22
  1. Jiano74
    Nov 10, 2016
    0
    A cover album of The Beatles is band enough but Sgt. Pepper you couldn't have picked a more iconic album to ruin. At first I listened to thisA cover album of The Beatles is band enough but Sgt. Pepper you couldn't have picked a more iconic album to ruin. At first I listened to this and thought this is bad a score of 2 would be right then I listened to the original and compared and a score of 2 is being generous this cover "album" is dreadful.… Full Review »
  2. atmosphericrex
    Aug 14, 2015
    2
    What was the need for this? It's a bunch of half-baked attempts to modernize the music of a timeless album. It's like re-recording theWhat was the need for this? It's a bunch of half-baked attempts to modernize the music of a timeless album. It's like re-recording the entirety of "The Dark Side of the Moon" with the lead singer of Black Flag, Henry Rollins. Oh, wait, The Flaming Lips already did that? Damn.… Full Review »
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