the latest fave
the stuff that drives my latest groove
The Flaming Lips:
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Warner Bros. Records, (2002)
9362-481412
"Even by their standards, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is astonishing.... Plainly, this is music abnormally alive with possibilities."
Uncut, Album of the Month, 08.01.02
The Flaming Lips:
The Soft Bulletin
Warner Bros. Records, (1999)
9-46876-2
"...brilliant...already compared to The Beach Boys' great lost album Smile for the sheer reach and innovation of the music it contains...The Flaming Lips are making music that no one else is anywhere near to touching—intricate, melodic and starkly beautiful."
NME, 04.10.99
do you realize?
krill 01.18.08
I have been listening to alot from The Flaming Lips lately. I consider everything from 1999's "The Soft Bulletin" onward to be genius. My favorite Lips song is "Do You Realize?".
Flaming Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne —live in the plastic bubble.
The Flaming Lips are known for their lush, multi-layered, ambitious arrangements, existential lyrics and bizarre song and album titles. They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die".
at war with the mystics
'At War With The Mystics' follows the Flaming Lips tradition of not treading back over old ground, with the band initially looking for a more playful, less heavy lyrical tone on this record, while also looking to make a slightly more rock-based record than recent efforts. As ever, the development took them to some unexpected places. The resulting mix is not particularly easy to summarise, with doses of existential space-rock protest songs, commentaries about social responsibility and some really weird pop tunes.
u.f.o.s at the zoo
Steven Drozd, multi-instrumentalist for the Flaming Lips, live in concert.
"From the opening sequence of the concert—an enormous spaceship descending in a cloud of smoke and lights to release the band on stage, with singer Wayne Coyne revealed atop the silver craft in a giant plastic bubble preparing to roll down a ramp and into the audience—it's clear that this is not your typical rock concert. No, my friends. This is epic. This is the kind of concert they'll be watching in 2025 and saying 'Man, why don't we have concerts like that anymore?' "
—Z. Freeman, Austin, TX
"It's that shocking collision of whimsy and intelligence, and the desire to entertain at all costs that makes these Midwestern provocateurs one of the most important bands working today, and this one of the best concert films around."
—Jaan Uhelszki
the fearless freaks
Fascinating music documentary following The Flaming Lips tranformation from 80's punk noise band to one of the most ambitious recording artists of the last millenium. These guys are truly freaks, but they overcome their personal quirks and the adversities of their upbringing to record some of the best pop music ever. Watching The Lips morph from grubby kids on the fringes of society to critically acclaimed artists is fascinating and offers hope to any bright soul who just happens to be nearing the end of his/her first decade as a fry cook at a fast food chain.
"The Fearless Freaks is the most intimate portrait of a band you're likely to see... as heartwarming and heartbreaking as the band's music itself."
—Rolling Stone
