Flaming Lips

[Hicksy]

bought their album 'the soft bulletin' yesterday at a Vigin Megastore sale - its very erm... different. i think it will grow on me though - it reminds me a bit of Deus and Sparklehorse although more melodic

:D

[';']

i love them....since the beginning...and it is different. hehe
right now i'm listening to "it's summertime" from yoshimi battles the pink robots :D i heard that sone off another cd, and i went ahead and bought the album. the soft bulletin i have but i never listen to it anymore :?

[Hicksy]

i need to get that album too - do you rate it? :D

[carrie3078]

I don't have the soft bulletin, only Yoshimi. I love that album.

"her name is Yoshimi. She's a black belt in karate" :-D

[dave's girl]

I never really liked them until I heard the new stuff, and now I think they're great :-D . I always just thought they were just silly, although I'm ashamed to say it now :?

[Hicksy]

they are kinda silly when you first hear their music - but i guess thats part of their appeal :shock:

[dave's girl]

yep - I think it just took me a bit of time to get used to them. Either that or I was a very, very serious person a year and a half ago, which I don't think was the case :roll: Justin was on stage with them the other week (at TOTP) :shock:

[';']

i need to get that album too - do you rate it? :Dum i'm not any good at rating albums...at the beginning if your a new listener you'll probably think 6/10 haha but i like it now its moved up a notch 7 out of 10. there are some songs i like and I only listen to those.

[';']

I never really liked them until I heard the new stuff, and now I think they're great :-D . I always just thought they were just silly, although I'm ashamed to say it now :?yeah i thought they were silly at first, but after a long listen to the newest album you'll like it

[Hicksy]

cool :D

[Guy'sChick]

bought their album 'the soft bulletin' yesterday at a Vigin Megastore sale - its very erm... different. i think it will grow on me though - it reminds me a bit of Deus and Sparklehorse although more melodic

:D

dunno them :shock:

[';']

do you realize
i love that song :D
that's a crazy weird video. they even have a commercial for it...

[Professor Peedston]

soft bulletin is BRILLIANT. i love it. yoshimi is incredible in it's own way, but it's not quite as good as the soft bulletin. i'm not as crazy about the stuff they've done before that, although some of it is really good. clouds taste metallic is a pretty good album.

right, i'm done rambling now.

[Chrissy]

i haved reserved it on the library :D

[';']

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20030224/capt.1046046083.grammys_msg314.jpgtheir grammy :D

[mburn]

i havent really got into them yet but does any body here like them or know anything about them? I heard a couple of their music on the radio and they seem great but i want to know more

[badlydrawngirl]

'Yoshimi battles the pink robots' is their recent album. I haven't heard it, but the stuff I HAVE heard is pretty cool! :)

[Hicksy]

loopy :shock: :lol:

[mburn]

lol

[Professor Peedston]

Soft Bulletin - one of the best albums EVER

Flaming Lips - one of the best live shows EVER

they make a coldplay show feel like laurence welk.

[badlydrawngirl]

^what he said :P :D

[badlydrawngirl]

^what he said :P :D

[badlydrawngirl]

DARN YOU DOUBLE POSTS!! *shakes fist*

[Professor Peedston]

baaa!!! *points and laughs* :lol:

[DrPolitik]

the Lips are awesome! They can be one of the best feel good bands around, it all depends on how you look at it..a lot of their lyrics are on the downer/realist side, but with Wayne Coyne's infectious sugary voice and the generally zany upbeat rhythms, meloncholia never sounded so good!

hearing She Don't Use Jelly should put anyone in a good mood :P

[betard]

their live show is just a huge party, its such a fun experience

[DrPolitik]

yeah i was at Glasto when they played before Radiohead..it was a full-on color saturated balloon overloaded birthday fiesta extravaganza!, and dude...the part where he poured the fake blood on himself!! :shock: :lol: It was total good hearted Lunacy, bless 'em:)

[fifi]

i was wondering what happened to him-i thought someone threw a bottle or something up and it hit him!!! :roll: :lol:

[DrPolitik]

:lol: :lol:

He made this little speech about birthdays and said how since he thought being born is the bloodiest thing we humans will ever do, that it would be appropriate to pour blood on himself when they sang that happy birthday dedication to some dudes daughter named Marley ;)

[fifi]

:? :shock: rock stars do the strangest things!!! ;) :lol:

[Buttercup]

yeah i was at Glasto when they played before Radiohead..it was a full-on color saturated balloon overloaded birthday fiesta extravaganza!, and dude...the part where he poured the fake blood on himself!! :shock: :lol: It was total good hearted Lunacy, bless 'em:)

Wow that's cool! I heard that performance was brilliant!!! :)

Yoshimi battles the pink robots is great! :D I love the artwork for it too! I love Fight Test and Do You Realize?

She don't use Jelly is always a good one!!! :lol: :D

[::Hayley::]

their live show is just a huge party, its such a fun experience
I was really really impressed with their live show... they had people dressed up as animals walkin about the stage, he had huuuge coloured balloons bouncing through the audience, there was a smoke machine, little bits of paper were thrown and were floating all over the audience! he had his trademark blood on his face and a red cape on, and he was just a total loony but the crowd loved him! "do you realise" is such an amazing song, it's the one i'll remember the most!

WOOHOO :D

[Dandy Andy]

mmmmmmmmmmm i like grandmothers

[::Hayley::]

do you realize
i love that song :D
that's a crazy weird video. they even have a commercial for it...

*bump*

i love that song too :smug:

i saw them live in the summer... they were keraaaaaaaaaaazy

brilliant brilliant band :D

[The[aussie]Scientist]

Yoshimi is a nice album. Not my fave but nice. :) It is good happy music, and even though it is a bit silly it actually has quite a bit to say. I like the song All We Have Is Now. It has certainly grown on me since i first listened to it.

Is soft bulletin very different?

[Merkaba82]

show some apperciation for this great american band :)

[el_scorcho]

Nicholas....do you realize that you have the most beautiful face? :idea2:

[Merkaba82]

Nicholas....do you realize that you have the most beautiful face? :idea2:



:blush: :D what a lovely song

[::Hayley::]

oooh I love The Flaming Lips :)
They are fantastic live - they're crazy! In a good way of course... :rolleyes:

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is an excellent album :cool:

[::Hayley::]

oooh I love The Flaming Lips :)
They are fantastic live - they're crazy! In a good way of course... :rolleyes:

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is an excellent album :cool:

[Merkaba82]

Have you heard Soft Bulletin or Transmissions from the Satellite heart? Also fantastic albums :)

[::Hayley::]

I haven't heard them :embarrased: !
I will try to download some stuff soon though :cool:

[Professor Peedston]

Hallelujah! Best American band around today!

The Soft Bulletin is one of my favorite albums of all-time. :D

Still not quite sure what to do with Zaireeka. I've only ever listened to the dumb thing twice. :dozey:

[Gas_Man]

i don't think they're as good as a lot of other people think.
i can't take their music seriously

[Professor Peedston]

Begone with ye, heathen! :P

[DavidG]

Lol the flaming lips are amazing lol,

I mean, it isnt music isnt amazingly ground breaking, but the lyrics kill me, i think my favorite lyrics by them is from Bad Days

"You hate your boss at your job, but in your dreams you can blow his head off, in your dreams shoooooow no mercy"

Lol, sorry, that just tickles me lol, its such a cuckoo song... :smug: dont mind me lol :blush:

[Professor Peedston]

They do have amazing lyrics, but I wouldn't put "Bad Days" at the top of the list. :P

I think Wayne Coyne is a genius. Just the concept alone of an album like Zaireeka is great, and the fact that they actually went ahead and did it, let alone made it sound fantastic, is unbelievable. And reading Wayne's liner notes for the different songs is a real treat and further drives home his creative talent (35,000 Feet of Despair: the tale of a commercial pilot who goes insane at the helm of a jet plane in the air and hangs himself in the bathroom, with each disc being a different "voice" in the pilot's head). I would say that that album IS ground-breaking (if completely inaccessable to many people). :D

Anyway... I can't seem to say enough about how great the Flaming Lips are. They're also possibly the best live show I've EVER seen. (Radiohead have got nothing on the Flaming Lips in that aspect)

[DavidG]

They do have amazing lyrics, but I wouldn't put "Bad Days" at the top of the list. :P

I think Wayne Coyne is a genius. Just the concept alone of an album like Zaireeka is great, and the fact that they actually went ahead and did it, let alone made it sound fantastic, is unbelievable. And reading Wayne's liner notes for the different songs is a real treat and further drives home his creative talent (35,000 Feet of Despair: the tale of a commercial pilot who goes insane at the helm of a jet plane in the air and hangs himself in the bathroom, with each disc being a different "voice" in the pilot's head). I would say that that album IS ground-breaking (if completely inaccessable to many people). :D

Anyway... I can't seem to say enough about how great the Flaming Lips are. They're also possibly the best live show I've EVER seen. (Radiohead have got nothing on the Flaming Lips in that aspect)


Meh, I know a guy who has like such a hard on for Radiohead. Don't get me wrong, they are a good band but sometimes, bands like Radiohead and Nirvana really bug me, because people are always saying how amazing they are and sure, they got some good stuff but not every single thing they do is amazing like people make out.

[::Hayley::]

They're also possibly the best live show I've EVER seen.

YES!! I agree... well one of them anyway :rolleyes:
I was like :shocked: for most of it! They think of everything :lol:

[Merkaba82]

sometimes, bands like Radiohead and Nirvana really bug me, because people are always saying how amazing they are and sure, they got some good stuff but not every single thing they do is amazing like people make out.


more often than not it is ;)


and i'm glad to see so much love out there for the lips :)

did anybody see them at Coachella?

[fifi]

I like that song they wrote about Jack White :lol:

[*Justine*]

Flaming Lips are so entertaining live!

[BrothersnSisters]

i figure there are some lips fans around here. anyone heard their cover of seven nation army? i've been searching around for it, i know it exists, but i haven't found it anywhere online. does anyone have it? i heard it's pretty weird, and i love the lips and want to hear it BAD!

[*Justine*]

I love the Flaming Lips, I have not heard this song.

[kimberlina]

i havent heard that.....but my favourite flaming lips song is race for the prize! have u got limewire? ill see if its on there for you....

[kimberlina]

its on limewire...i'll download it and email it to you if u let me know what it is!

[*Justine*]

Can you email it to me too? Please.

[kimberlina]

of course! it sounds wicked just listening to it now just let me know ur addy!

[*Justine*]

s a f r o n j a de @ h o t m a i l .com

[jackie]

the flaming lips are having a new album come out or just did, i'm not sure with the dates but it's completely made up of covers. which the lips always do wonderfully. i know for sure they have a radiohead song on there i have a tracklisting somewhere i'll post it in a minute

[*Justine*]

Still waiting for that file, if someone wants to send it.

[jackie]

found it. here ya go. The full tracklisting for The Flaming Lips 'LateNightTales' is as follows:

1.Bjork 'Unravel'
2.Miles Davis 'My Ship'
3.Chris Bell 'Speed Of Sound'
4.Faust 'It's A Bit Of A Pain'
5.Roxy Music '2HB'
6.Alfie 'People'
7.Aphex Twin 'Flim'
8.Mice Parade 'Galileo'
9.The Chameleons 'Up The Down Escalator'
10.Flaming Lips 'Seven Nation Army'
11.The Chemical Brothers 'Playground For A Wedgeless Firm'
12.Love And Rockets 'Saudade'
13.Lush 'Monochrome'
14.The Psychedelic Furs 'Sleep Comes Down'
15.Nick Drake 'River Man'
16.Sebadoh 'On Fire'
17.Radiohead 'Pyramid Song'
18.10CC 'I’m Not in Love'
19.Brian Eno 'Another Green World'
20.David Shrigley ‘The Jist’

[jackie]

should definitely help trying to find the songs knowing the flaming lips, album name and what artist they were covering

[Drew]

coldplay covered the flaming lips :)

[anima]

Late Night Tales is not a cover album. it's a compilation of songs by other artists, which were chosen by the Flaming Lips. They may be their favourite songs, or the songs that fit the idea of "late night tales"
Other artists do such compilations, too. I have Late Night Tales by Turin Brakes, love it.

[About A Girl]

i love the flaming lips!!! listened to ego tripping like 5 min ago

[BrothersnSisters]

coldplay covered the flaming lips :)
What song?

I must have it now.

[::Hayley::]

I saw Flaming Lips live a few years ago, they were fantastic! :cool: :cool:

I counted 3 other threads about them, but I guess it's good to see another :D

[Joss]

I love them
They freak me out but in a good way :dozey:

[Ondes Martenot]

bump...

anyone heard their latest album? :uhoh:

opinions?

[Plug_in_coldplaying]

no,where can i download it? they r not so good

[maxie1p]

I actually quite like the new album. It's their lush production and sound that does it for me.

For the d/l....check the multimedia section.

[Ondes Martenot]

^ same here it's really good
i'm in love with Flaming Lips atm...lol
listening to some old stuff as well

[Ondes Martenot]

no fans?

[Ondes Martenot]

*bump*

i can't believe i'm the onliest...

[kekita]

I love them
They freak me out but in a good way :dozey:

don't know if you're being sarcastic....but i totally agree (in an un-sarcastic way)

[Ondes Martenot]

:wacko:

now seriously...who the fuck is a fan here?

[putainfromage]

i saw them at the sasquatch festival. oh my god. oh my god.

best show ever. and now i'm a fan.

[Space Cadet]

I haven't heard much, but I've liked what I've heard... seem kind of goofy in a good way.

[Ondes Martenot]

they are great, though i didn't have an opportunity to see them live yet. every review of their gigs that i read described them as an amazing live band. every bootleg that i heard just confirm that point

[putainfromage]

i took a bunch of videos at the show. fucking amazing.
http://liveandletpie.livejournal.com/294568.html
scroll down

[Ondes Martenot]

i took a bunch of videos at the show. fucking amazing.
http://liveandletpie.livejournal.com/294568.html
scroll down

thanks a bunch Kelli, great stuff indeed *downloading*

[ClearAsCrystal]

...do you realize...you have
the most
beautiful face...


:seeingcloudsemoticon:

[Sam]

Bumperooni

Just got "At War With The Mystics" very different, sounds like it is too modern for it's time, at least that is the best way I can describe it.

Awesome, and the lyrics are excellent, especially in "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song".

[Ondes Martenot]

yes, i agree it's different. maybe a bit too much experimental, but i like it a lot

Pompeii am Gotterdammerung is my favourite

[Sam]

I'm still having mixed opinions though, this is just my first listen through right now.

[Lamposts]

Bump!

I heart flaming lips.

[an_cat]

I see them a week from right now!!!! :wideeyed:

[putainfromage]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

sorry, i've been holding that in. kind of.

[kekita]

so lucky you going to see them, they seem really spontaneous.
used -do you realize- for mothers day vid went very well with the theme except i was having trouble with the part that goes -everyone you know some day will die-
so i just added a pic of a good friend who had passed away.

[tams]

wow.i was just looking around and i'm so happy that there's thread for The Flaming Lips:) my first introduction to Flaming's was yoshimi battles the pink robots(so i'm new kinda fan)
i'm totally in love with the last album.

[an_cat]

They are the best live.



Like, no joke.



I don't think I stopped smiling from the second before they came on to 5 hours after they went off.



:heart:

[tams]

so you've seen them live?? great:D
i'm fighting now with torrents to get Fearless freaks dvd:D
in the end i'm sure i'll buy it.

[Sam]

I just had to bump this to say I finally got 'The Soft Bulletin' today. I think it may become one of my new favourites. I started disliking 'At War with the Mystics' very easily before and now I don't really like it. But I love this album.

[tams]

i'm still enjoying their last album but i agree with the soft bulletin. It's their best in my opinion.:)

[njshaw]

I love these guys

I had Yoshimi and Soft Bulletin for ages.. then A.W.W.T.M came out and i loved it!

Starting to get into their older stuff now.

Favourite song is Morning of the Magicians... genius!

Been looking round for some audio of a live show for a while, but with no luck.

[clockpolitiks]

I saw them a couple weeks back. They were amazing. I saw them at jannus landing in my city. It was an outdoor concert with great weather. It was sold out, but it's a small venue. I had a great time. One of the best concerts I've ever been to in my life. The next day they did a free show at The University of Florida. I wanted to go but I had a lot of homework. I only have their last 3 cds but I knew all the songs they played, lol. It was weird.

[kekita]

i would love to see them live!

[Black Rose]

THE FLAMING LIPS TO RELEASE FIRST LIVE DVD
Hometown Oklahoma show caputured in all it's technicolour glory

http://www.uncut.co.uk/media/images/TheFlamingLips050606_W.jpg

The Flaming Lips are to make one of their legendary live performances available to watch on DVD for the first time next month.

'UFOS At The Zoo' sees the band filmed bringing their glittery, inflatable and contume laden, sensory overload of a live show to the Zoo Ampitheatre in their hometown of Oklahoma.

13 tracks of audio from the show recorded last September will also be available to download as MP3s with each DVD recorded in the MVI format (formerly known as DVD albums).

The DVD is released through Warner Bros. Records on September 24.

The trailer for the release is available to watch here.

The full 'UFOs At The Zoo' tracklisting is:

1. "The Freaks Get Restless and Wake the Animals" (interstitial)
2. "The Mothership Descends" (interstitial)
3. "Race For the Prize"
4. "Free Radicals"
5. "Expecting Everyone's Head to Explode" (interstitial)
6. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"
7. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 2"
8. "Should We Free the Animals?" (interstitial)
9. "Vein of Stars"
10. "Hot Dog Eating Contest" (interstitial)
11. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"
12. "The Spark That Bled"
13. "Preparing the U.F.O. Mothership" (interstitial)
14. "The W.A.N.D."
15. "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion"
16. "Santas and Aliens" (interstitial)
17. "She Don't Use Jelly"
18. "Do You Realize??"
19. "How Much Red Duct Tape?" (interstitial)
20 "A Spoonful Weighs A Ton"
21. "Captain America Splits the Audience" (interstitial)
22. "Love Yer Brain"
23. "The Mothership Departs" (interstitial)
24. "The Greatest Audience in the Galaxy" (interstitial)

http://www.uncut.co.uk/news/the_flaming_lips/news/10089

[putainfromage]

now if they'd only finish christmas on mars ;)

[VIVAcious]

Hey all!
Just thought it might interest some other avid coldplayers that Wayne of the Flaming Lips gave Coldplay a mention last night at their New Years Eve concert in OKC. He was talking about how Flaming Lips fans in Oklahoma (which is where the band hails from if you didn't know) and just in general are so fantastic because of the loving, good-spirited, family kind of feel that they create. He was saying all this and then he said how Coldplay had been in OKC a month or so before and the feeling was the same....it was hard to hear him clearly but I think he said that he was actually at the concert, which is exciting as that was when Coldplay did their Flaming Lips cover of Waiting for Superman.
At mention of Coldplay, I of course screamed louder than I had all night hah...

[Black Rose]

Nice to hear you had a good time :)

[Astera]

Ahhh! I was thinking about going to that concert with a friend :/

[VIVAcious]

Well it was a pretty good concert...certainly entertaining as the flaming lips always are. They did a Prince cover of Purple Rain..

[Black Rose]

Haven't these guys got a new double album out in August/September?

All I know is that I'm seeing them down in Portsmouth on Friday the 13th of November :)

[deaths_friend]

if anyone is interested Triple J is broadcasting their headlining performace at Splendour in the Grass live to air at 10pm tonight (Sydney time). i'm not exactly a fan of the band but it should be interesting to listen to.

http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/events/splendour/09/

[SueDeNimes]

After looking up that article about Elbow being on the South Bank Show I found thisNME News (http://www.nme.com/news/the-flaming-lips/47802)
The Flaming Lips to play 'secret' show in Hollywood

Gig will celebrate the release of their new album 'Embryonic'
October 12, 2009

The Flaming Lips are set to play a small show in Hollywood, California on Thursday (October 15), two days after the US release of the band's new album 'Embryonic'.
Taking place at the 1,200-capacity Ricardo Montalban Theatre, tickets will be given out at a 'pop-up' store at the venue and also at the nearby Amoeba Records to first-day buyers of the new record.

For those in the UK, The Flaming Lips will begin a UK tour next month. They play the following dates:

London Troxy (November 10)
London Troxy (11)
Portsmouth Guildhall (13)
Glasgow O2 Academy (15)
Manchester Academy (16)
Birmingham O2 Academy (17)


I bet this will be one fun night!!
Nice idea to give the tickets to people who bought the record on the day it came out!

[Texasluvsjonny]

They were on Conan last night and they were Awesome!

[ricardo]

How come I've never posted here?

[Black Rose]

How come I've never posted here?

Because you should have gone to Specsavers

[Noémie]

Did anyone already listen to their new album, 'Embryonic'?


Their website is actually very funny, they talk about...food :D

Friday 16 October 2009

An early morning today…off to KCRW to perform a few songs on the radio. That was fun. What is not fun though, is LA traffic…after the radio session, we headed off to the airport. Three of our group got stuck in traffic returning the rental vans!!!!!! Right by the airport…they had to switch their flight to an hour later…not a disaster or anything, but annoying just the same.

Made it in to SF. Met up with Steven, Derek and his wife Rachel. Although we'd had Thai the night before, we set off to 2nd Street to have a look at two candidates. On our way however, we passed an Indian restaurant..and thought we'd try it instead.

Bindi
28 2nd St
San Francisco

We walked back to look at the menu in the window and were informed that the restaurant was brand new only having been there a month…hey why not?

On the whole the food was really good. Everyone enjoyed what they ordered. While the menu itself was not very adventurous, mostly curry dishes and tandoori items, my dinning companions all ordered their items hot spicy…a first for Derek.

A couple of quibbles though: the service was a little sluggish, perhaps a part of new restaurant syndrome. The pappadum seemed a bit stale, not as crispy as I like. And no Indian beers…what the?

Mostly good though.

I had: Chicken Chilly as my appetizer.
Pappadum and mixed pickle

Lamb Tandoori Kebab
Prawn Curry
Garlic and Cilantro Naan
Rice (no one makes it with cardamon pods, what up?)

[Black Rose]

Is Embryonic a 2-cd album which can fit on a single disc with spare space?

Or have BangCD ripped me off and given me a copy with less tracks than the normal release

[Noémie]

Is Embryonic a 2-cd album which can fit on a single disc with spare space?

Or have BangCD ripped me off and given me a copy with less tracks than the normal release

:thinking:
There's a deluxe limited edition: 2 CD + 1 DVD, maybe that's the version you're talking about?

Details here: http://www.flaminglips.com/store/product/embryonic-deluxe-limited-edition-2cddvd

[Black Rose]

My copy only has the 1 cd with 18 tracks on

[Noémie]

My copy only has the 1 cd with 18 tracks on

Okay, so you've got the 'normal' edition then.

Actually, on the 'deluxe edition', there are '2 CD with 18 full tracks'...so I don't really understand what's the difference with the normal edition, as there also are 18 tracks on it!!! :thinking:

[strawberryfields]

They were playing 15 minutes away from me at a big music festival yesterday, and I couldn't go. Grrrr :bomb:

[busybeeburns]

http://flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/flaminglips.jpg

From: http://flavorwire.com/42766/exclusive-qa-the-flaming-lips-interview-wayne-coyne-embryonic

As its title suggests, the Flaming Lips’ new double-disc set, Embryonic, truly sounds like it’s still in an early stage. In many cases, these new songs evolved from in-studio jams, where the Oklahoma band chose to title the more jammy tracks after astrological signs, simply to set them apart from each other. Although produced again by Dave Fridmann, this work markedly strays from the orchestral beauty that drove “prettier” albums like The Soft Bulletin. Instead, many of these songs might remind informed music aficionados of Miles Davis’ late ‘60s/early ‘70s jazz-fusion experiments. And while it’s deadly serious, lyrically, in many places, listeners will nevertheless laugh out loud with Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O as she makes various animals sounds during the call-and-response track “I Can Be a Frog.”

We recently caught up with the Flaming Lips’ vocalist and master of ceremonies, Wayne Coyne, and the fearless bandleader proved to be just as engaging in conversation as he is while creating contained mayhem on stage.

Flavorpill: The new album, Embryonic, sounds very spontaneous and experimental. Is that what you wanted to get across?

Wayne Coyne: Well, I don’t know if that would be the main thing. I hope, within the context of those adjectives, that it’s fun to listen to and entertaining and it’s all that as well. All groups are always trying to do new things and have new sounds. But I don’t think we wanted just to be experimental, just for experimentalism’s sake. I hope that it’s fun to listen to, or enjoyable or interesting at the same time.

We didn’t have an idea of exactly what we were going to do. We started to do some more, I guess, jam based — where everybody is sort of playing at the same time — sort of sessions in Steven’s [Drozd] house here in the city, not knowing where they would go. There were a lot of moments when we were playing where it didn’t sound very fresh and it didn’t sound like anything. But there would be some moments where we said, “Oh yeah, that sounds like something different or something exciting.”

FP: The concept of good vs. evil comes up again and again on the new album. The older you get, are you closer to understanding why there is evil in the world, or does it seem even more confusing the more you study it?

WC: Well, I wouldn’t say I study it, as much as I know that this is a conscious choice I believe only humans are able to make. There probably are some animals that are able to make it. To say you’re going to be kind — that’s a big leap. To me, that’s a great humanistic quality, to be loving and to be kind. But I also think that it comes from the exact same place that allows you to be horrible and evil and self-centered and mean — you know; all the things that are bad. But to me, I believe they are the same bundle of molecules and energy, just you’re choosing what to do with it.

With some songs on this record I feel like we’re delving deeper into ourselves and saying, you know, “I’ve never really done, I guess, anything that I would consider to be overly horrendous or evil. I’ve never really killed anybody. I’ve never really considered it all that much.” But I’m not really in situations where killing people comes up that much. I’m in a band. I get to play music. So we don’t know. But I’m also not in situations where I’m forced to be kind and to be loving, against my other judgments. You know, I’ve got a great life. I’ve got a great family.

FP: So what’s caused your latest focus on the concept of evil?

WC: I was intrigued by this movie, The Night Porter — I don’t think it’s based on a true story, but obviously there is truth in it — about this Nazi guard sadistically sexually molesting this Jewish teenage girl. I watched this movie because I couldn’t get the sound to work up at Dave Fridmann’s studio on his laser disc. I watched it three or four times without any sound on it, and I didn’t understand exactly everything that was happening, but I think this silent version of this movie made me sit there and think, “What is going on here?” And so, this movie has a twist in it. Even though she’s being sort of molested by this guard, as the movie unfolds, we find that she’s really become obsessed with the guard and really loves the guard and loves this submissive, dominating sort of relationship they have. And, you know; what was pleasure, and what’s cruel and what’s pain and what isn’t and what’s kind, all gets kind of mixed up.

FP: So, on a lighter side of things, I really love the “I Can Be a Frog” song with Karen O. Did you take it as a challenge to see how many of these different animals she could imitate?

WC: I wish I could say I was being Sonny and she was being Cher, and I would say, “Can you do a helicopter?” And she would just laugh and think I was silly. I wish I could say that because it paints this picture of us being around a microphone and being very playful. But in honest truth, we were doing a vocal session for a song, “Watching the Planets,” and she sings on that song, as well. We were doing a vocal session for that, and she started to make all these crazy noises. She made them throughout these 45 minutes that we were doing this thing. Toward the end of it she said, “You know; why don’t I do a take of this song where I just completely freak out. Would you like that?” And I said, “Well, yeah! I think that would be great.” When Karen O says something like that, you just brace yourself, like, “Oh, well this is probably going to be pretty extraordinary.” So she started to do this thing, and the song goes on for about five minutes, so as she was doing it, in my mind I thought, “You know, I’m just going to make another song out of this.” So I didn’t even have the song “I Can Be a Frog.” It was mostly inspired and brought on by her performance.

FP: Is it a song you’re even going to try to replicate live?

WC: Oh, I think I could do it easily. I would just have the crowd do the noise back to me. We do that sort of stuff all the time.

FP: You seem to have a special relationship with the audience, and it is a collaborative effort when you perform. You can’t imagine yourself just getting up onstage and singing your songs, right?

WC: You know, we played some shows opening up for Coldplay. They were these giant stadium shows in Paris and Barcelona and around Europe and stuff. And you’d think that if you were playing to 60,000 people, they’re bound to respond. Well, they don’t at all. And we kind of knew that. We’ve opened up for big groups before, and these things that our audience is ready to do, these other audiences don’t know what it is. And we would go up in front of the Coldplay audience and we would just simply play. But we do that often enough that we know it still has to be a performance. It still has to be about music. It still has to be about something other than this familiarity that our audience has with our personas and stuff. Actually, I kind of like it. Me and the fellas all sort of remarked after those Coldplay shows of how you really do play for yourselves sometimes. We’re playing sometimes just to interact with each other up there.

FP: How did that special relationship with your audience begin?

WC: We were doing this song — it was one of these weird little songs off of one of our weirder little albums, Zaireeka. I asked the audience — this would be kind of late in the set… I asked the audience to just start to go crazy. And we were gonna play this song, and their applause and them going crazy was just going to be another sonic element. I told them, “This doesn’t have to be real. Let’s just make this sound while we play this song.” And on the video behind us, there was kind of a rocket ship that takes off. And I told them that about a minute into this song, when this rocket ship takes off, I just want you to go apeshit. Just go, whatever level you’re at when you see this rocket ship, just go completely, 100% ballistic. This is all completely contrived. I’m telling them to do it. We would do this song, it would last about two-and-a-half minutes, and at the end of this, you could see in the room that the atmosphere was completely changed. And people after that would just be alive for the whole rest of the 20 minutes.

FP: Are you really the extrovert you portray yourself to be onstage?

WC: I’m not really a musician. I do this “thing,” but I don’t think it could work in any other context. I don’t think I’m really a performer at all. I’m not proud of this, but I know I’m more of an artist. I like creating stuff, and presenting it to the world. And I think part of what I’ve created now, is that persona of me up there on stage.

[kmm1482]

http://flavorwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/flaminglips.jpg

From: http://flavorwire.com/42766/exclusive-qa-the-flaming-lips-interview-wayne-coyne-embryonic

As its title suggests, the Flaming Lips’ new double-disc set, Embryonic, truly sounds like it’s still in an early stage. In many cases, these new songs evolved from in-studio jams, where the Oklahoma band chose to title the more jammy tracks after astrological signs, simply to set them apart from each other. Although produced again by Dave Fridmann, this work markedly strays from the orchestral beauty that drove “prettier” albums like The Soft Bulletin. Instead, many of these songs might remind informed music aficionados of Miles Davis’ late ‘60s/early ‘70s jazz-fusion experiments. And while it’s deadly serious, lyrically, in many places, listeners will nevertheless laugh out loud with Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O as she makes various animals sounds during the call-and-response track “I Can Be a Frog.”

We recently caught up with the Flaming Lips’ vocalist and master of ceremonies, Wayne Coyne, and the fearless bandleader proved to be just as engaging in conversation as he is while creating contained mayhem on stage.

Flavorpill: The new album, Embryonic, sounds very spontaneous and experimental. Is that what you wanted to get across?

Wayne Coyne: Well, I don’t know if that would be the main thing. I hope, within the context of those adjectives, that it’s fun to listen to and entertaining and it’s all that as well. All groups are always trying to do new things and have new sounds. But I don’t think we wanted just to be experimental, just for experimentalism’s sake. I hope that it’s fun to listen to, or enjoyable or interesting at the same time.

We didn’t have an idea of exactly what we were going to do. We started to do some more, I guess, jam based — where everybody is sort of playing at the same time — sort of sessions in Steven’s [Drozd] house here in the city, not knowing where they would go. There were a lot of moments when we were playing where it didn’t sound very fresh and it didn’t sound like anything. But there would be some moments where we said, “Oh yeah, that sounds like something different or something exciting.”

FP: The concept of good vs. evil comes up again and again on the new album. The older you get, are you closer to understanding why there is evil in the world, or does it seem even more confusing the more you study it?

WC: Well, I wouldn’t say I study it, as much as I know that this is a conscious choice I believe only humans are able to make. There probably are some animals that are able to make it. To say you’re going to be kind — that’s a big leap. To me, that’s a great humanistic quality, to be loving and to be kind. But I also think that it comes from the exact same place that allows you to be horrible and evil and self-centered and mean — you know; all the things that are bad. But to me, I believe they are the same bundle of molecules and energy, just you’re choosing what to do with it.

With some songs on this record I feel like we’re delving deeper into ourselves and saying, you know, “I’ve never really done, I guess, anything that I would consider to be overly horrendous or evil. I’ve never really killed anybody. I’ve never really considered it all that much.” But I’m not really in situations where killing people comes up that much. I’m in a band. I get to play music. So we don’t know. But I’m also not in situations where I’m forced to be kind and to be loving, against my other judgments. You know, I’ve got a great life. I’ve got a great family.

FP: So what’s caused your latest focus on the concept of evil?

WC: I was intrigued by this movie, The Night Porter — I don’t think it’s based on a true story, but obviously there is truth in it — about this Nazi guard sadistically sexually molesting this Jewish teenage girl. I watched this movie because I couldn’t get the sound to work up at Dave Fridmann’s studio on his laser disc. I watched it three or four times without any sound on it, and I didn’t understand exactly everything that was happening, but I think this silent version of this movie made me sit there and think, “What is going on here?” And so, this movie has a twist in it. Even though she’s being sort of molested by this guard, as the movie unfolds, we find that she’s really become obsessed with the guard and really loves the guard and loves this submissive, dominating sort of relationship they have. And, you know; what was pleasure, and what’s cruel and what’s pain and what isn’t and what’s kind, all gets kind of mixed up.

FP: So, on a lighter side of things, I really love the “I Can Be a Frog” song with Karen O. Did you take it as a challenge to see how many of these different animals she could imitate?

WC: I wish I could say I was being Sonny and she was being Cher, and I would say, “Can you do a helicopter?” And she would just laugh and think I was silly. I wish I could say that because it paints this picture of us being around a microphone and being very playful. But in honest truth, we were doing a vocal session for a song, “Watching the Planets,” and she sings on that song, as well. We were doing a vocal session for that, and she started to make all these crazy noises. She made them throughout these 45 minutes that we were doing this thing. Toward the end of it she said, “You know; why don’t I do a take of this song where I just completely freak out. Would you like that?” And I said, “Well, yeah! I think that would be great.” When Karen O says something like that, you just brace yourself, like, “Oh, well this is probably going to be pretty extraordinary.” So she started to do this thing, and the song goes on for about five minutes, so as she was doing it, in my mind I thought, “You know, I’m just going to make another song out of this.” So I didn’t even have the song “I Can Be a Frog.” It was mostly inspired and brought on by her performance.

FP: Is it a song you’re even going to try to replicate live?

WC: Oh, I think I could do it easily. I would just have the crowd do the noise back to me. We do that sort of stuff all the time.

FP: You seem to have a special relationship with the audience, and it is a collaborative effort when you perform. You can’t imagine yourself just getting up onstage and singing your songs, right?

WC: You know, we played some shows opening up for Coldplay. They were these giant stadium shows in Paris and Barcelona and around Europe and stuff. And you’d think that if you were playing to 60,000 people, they’re bound to respond. Well, they don’t at all. And we kind of knew that. We’ve opened up for big groups before, and these things that our audience is ready to do, these other audiences don’t know what it is. And we would go up in front of the Coldplay audience and we would just simply play. But we do that often enough that we know it still has to be a performance. It still has to be about music. It still has to be about something other than this familiarity that our audience has with our personas and stuff. Actually, I kind of like it. Me and the fellas all sort of remarked after those Coldplay shows of how you really do play for yourselves sometimes. We’re playing sometimes just to interact with each other up there.

FP: How did that special relationship with your audience begin?

WC: We were doing this song — it was one of these weird little songs off of one of our weirder little albums, Zaireeka. I asked the audience — this would be kind of late in the set… I asked the audience to just start to go crazy. And we were gonna play this song, and their applause and them going crazy was just going to be another sonic element. I told them, “This doesn’t have to be real. Let’s just make this sound while we play this song.” And on the video behind us, there was kind of a rocket ship that takes off. And I told them that about a minute into this song, when this rocket ship takes off, I just want you to go apeshit. Just go, whatever level you’re at when you see this rocket ship, just go completely, 100% ballistic. This is all completely contrived. I’m telling them to do it. We would do this song, it would last about two-and-a-half minutes, and at the end of this, you could see in the room that the atmosphere was completely changed. And people after that would just be alive for the whole rest of the 20 minutes.

FP: Are you really the extrovert you portray yourself to be onstage?

WC: I’m not really a musician. I do this “thing,” but I don’t think it could work in any other context. I don’t think I’m really a performer at all. I’m not proud of this, but I know I’m more of an artist. I like creating stuff, and presenting it to the world. And I think part of what I’ve created now, is that persona of me up there on stage.

It really sucks that people were being so rude when they were playing. If they would have paid attention they would have experienced one of the best bands EVER!

[coldplay_is_louve.]

They need to go on tour. And come here. Like, now. :freak:

[kmm1482]

They need to go on tour. And come here. Like, now. :freak:

YEAH they do! And more near to the Cincinnati area!

[deaths_friend]

so what degree of recommendation does the new album come with? should i listen to their earlier stuff first before i get into Embryonic? i've heard alot of interview with Wayne Coyne lately and he sounds like such an interesting guy and has very strong views on music.

here is a near 40mins interview he gave to australian alternative music station Triple J this week.

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/triplej/zan/flaminglips1_pod.mp3

he is soo incredibly fascinating.

[Black Rose]

Review of last's night's show...

...Fucking amazing, goes right into the top of my 64 concerts.

Why:
Big ballons!
Lead Singer crowd-surfing in big ball
Ribbons!
Dancers on the stage!
Confeci!
Good music which doesn't sound it does on the record!
Smoke!
A grand entrance!
Some good videos!
A good crowd!
Plus the support band setting off the fire alarms LOL

Yes in their words, it's over the top, but it just works

Pics (hopefully) soon

[SueDeNimes]

The support band setting off the fire alarm?? :lol: :wtf:
How did that happen?

Seems like you had a great time, good to hear! :nice:

That bubble thing they do is amazing, it was so awesome in Paris!
Looking forward to see your pics and hear more!!

[Black Rose]

They went OOT with the smoke machine pretty much covering the entire stage with smoke, and one of the roadies opened one of the side stage doors sending smoke into another section of the guildhall, where the fire alarms picked up the smoke.

Plus during the last song of the main set before the encore, one of the dancers on stage had a reaction to the flashing lights, delaying the encore for 10 minutes. But perfect gigs are so boring :P

Plus I managed to get some of the Confeci, that's how powerful the guns were (I was 2nd row in the circle seats)

But it was good of Wayne to do his own sound-checks and camera checks (he has a hairy nose)

[coldplay_is_louve.]

D'aww, they're concerts sound like SO much fun. I want Wayne Coyne to walk on me in a giant ball. :wacky::D

[mikamay]

You're so lucky you got to see them! This is one of those bands I just have to see before I die.

Glad you had fun, though. It's hilarious that he supporting band set off the fire alarms! hahaha. Can't wait to see the pictures.

[deaths_friend]

Flaming Lips are moments away from starting their performance of Dark Side of the Moon at Bonnaroo.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127088792

if you miss this you will regret it!

[Black Rose]

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/6/25/1277506122839/Flaming-Lips-perform-at-G-001.jpg

So amazing

[the_gloaming09]

cool :thumbsup:

[eff-exx]

I would really love to watch their performance.

And by Dargarius's description, it does sound amazing.

[Braddock]

recent pic from poland

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs306.snc4/40621_424392453185_8505613185_4745068_5713202_n.jp g

[eff-exx]

By the looks of it, I think Flaming Lips must be amazing live. But I'm not really familiar to Flaming Lips.

[Braddock]

By the looks of it, I think Flaming Lips must be amazing live. But I'm not really familiar to Flaming Lips.

if you would like me to make you a playlist visitor or private message me

[SueDeNimes]

recent pic from poland

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs306.snc4/40621_424392453185_8505613185_4745068_5713202_n.jp g
That's awesome!!! :lol:
They're great!

Lyvie, you should listen to "Yoshimi battles the pink robots", that's a great album!!
And I've seen them supporting CP in Paris, it was crazy and funny and good!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2568/3900324507_709e7e4bf2_z.jpg?zz=1

YouTube- ‪Flaming Lips - Opening act for Coldplay, Parc des Princes, Paris‬‎

[Lizzybear]

OMG these pictures! They are so crazy, I need to see them live one day. I really love Wayne Coyne even if he is a bit off his rocker. :wacko:

[loudefix]

Lyvie, you should listen to "Yoshimi battles the pink robots", that's a great album!!
And I've seen them supporting CP in Paris, it was crazy and funny and good!
Yes Yoshimi battles the pink robots is a really really good album.

Oh and I remember the Paris show ! It was awesome. I want to see them again !

[the_gloaming09]

bump...

finally gave Embryonic a listen to the other day. I really enjoyed it for the most part, especially the first and last quarter of the album. I feel that the rhythm section was really great! The bass and drums sounded so full and boomy.

I did find however that I got a little bit lost/bored in the middle because the album slowed down a bit. I think that the album should've either been shortened (over an hour long) or put some more of those upbeat songs in the middle

[eff-exx]

I have Embryonic too. I think I'm gonna need to take some time to get used to it.


Lyvie, you should listen to "Yoshimi battles the pink robots", that's a great album!!
And I've seen them supporting CP in Paris, it was crazy and funny and good!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2568/3900324507_709e7e4bf2_z.jpg?zz=1

YouTube- ‪Flaming Lips - Opening act for Coldplay, Parc des Princes, Paris‬‎ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9u3ThevRI4)


Sorry for the terribly late quote. :shame:

I don't think I will be able to find that album here, but I'll try to listen to it. :wacko:
Or maybe I only can find it at a music store further away. :thinking:

[winigwl]

bump. just saw them play with weezer. incredible show. they're soooo damn good live. weezer was fun too. they covered paranoid android. but flaming lips were better. they played a slowed down version of yoshimi which was incredible. LOVE THEM

[admnistramation]

God I love this band.

[The Final Track]

Has anyone made it to the end of I Found a Star? I'm about an hour in, and I actully really like it. And now they're doing a 24 hour song...

http://pitchfork.com/news/44161-the-flaming-lips-to-encase-24-hour-song-in-human-skull/

[The Envoy]

Has anyone made it to the end of I Found a Star? I'm about an hour in, and I actully really like it. And now they're doing a 24 hour song...

http://pitchfork.com/news/44161-the-flaming-lips-to-encase-24-hour-song-in-human-skull/

I'm almost at the end of the song! I've been listening it this week, the first two parts of two hours each part, so I just have to hear the third part and it will be finally ended! I think that I'm gonna hear it tonight. There are really beautiful parts. I found a star on the ground...

And they're doing now even a 24 hours song? OMG FUCK MY LIFE!!!

[The Final Track]

My browser kept shutting down so I lost track of where I was. Almost finished with part 1 now.

Not only that, but it's to be encased in human sculls!

[Italian Plastic]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsb2d2gCcq1qb8vbeo1_500.jpg

[The Final Track]

Haha

[The Envoy]

6 hour song finished! I can say that my favourites parts are the last 17 minutes of part one and the entire third part is the most beautiful without doubt.

[Twisted__Logic]

they're releasing a new album on april 1st & 2nd THE TERROR. anyone excited?

[para-para-parrotdies]

they're releasing a new album on april 1st & 2nd THE TERROR. anyone excited?

This album leaked.

[Black Rose]

That was early

Such a shame both link providers on new album releases are being arses for me.

[Braddock]

Not overly impressed with new album but I'm happy they are doing what they want to do and not sacrificing for hits, especially considering they tend to be just the right side of cheesy on their singles and it'd be so easy for them to tip over the edge and undo a lot of good almost cheesy work with a weak album trying too hard.

[Braddock]

Album is a grower. And I've still only listened to it a handful of times.

Anybody know of any links to downloads of audios of live shows? Not UFO's at the the Zoo. Got that.

Really wanna listen to a few of their live shows throughout their career, full concert.

[Twisted__Logic]

Album is a grower. And I've still only listened to it a handful of times.

Anybody know of any links to downloads of audios of live shows? Not UFO's at the the Zoo. Got that.

Really wanna listen to a few of their live shows throughout their career, full concert.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D605D38F6CA899F&feature=mh_lolz