i can understand that. i guess the internet has just made me impatient about hearing stuff i'm excited to hear. then again, if i hadn't listened to it, i wouldn't be going around spreading the good word to my friends and on twitter & ilx!
― caulk the wagon and float it, Friday, 11 May 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I have to admit I start off with the intention of waiting but I almost always cave in and find the download as soon as I see people talking about the album I'm interested in. I'm pretty sure I'll be back on this thread in a few days talking about having heard this album. Embryonic totally made me fall in love with this band again just as I was losing interesting in them. Didn't bother with Dark Side of the Moon but looking forward to this.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
it's a "fun" and "zany" listen
― caulk the wagon and float it, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
another Snarkout Boy about, I see
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
u callin me snarky? i like the Flaming Lips record in a very unsnarky way. i think that it is good.
― caulk the wagon and float it, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
was referring to poster Walter Galt, who I haven't seen before
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 11 May 2012 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snarkout_Boys_and_the_Avocado_of_Death
ahh, well done. my pop culture knowledge has failed me.
― caulk the wagon and float it, Friday, 11 May 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, the Badu collab is all I hoped for (which was pretty high, given 'Embryonic' is top two or three albums of the last decade for me, and 'Mamas Gun' is probably top 5). Some of the stuff already issued on the EPs remains very good. All of the other non-EP new stuff left me bored or worse. Really hope they don't go back to "zany"--'Embryonic' is so fantastic.
― Soundslike, Sunday, 13 May 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
I really love Heady Fwends; the middle of the album has so many great sounds. I think some truly good tunes got overshadowed by the novelty of it all. I wish they'd release all the other stuff from the limited EPs.
― She Got the Shakes, Sunday, 18 November 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
"I was stuck near the food court, wasn’t able to cross the airport to get to my gate. Flight left without me, all because of Wayne Coyne."
http://www.thelostogle.com/2012/11/19/wayne-coyne-brings-grenade-to-okc-airport-tsa-shuts-down-airport-people-miss-flights-and-lose-money/
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
<img src="Http://www.saidthegramophone.com/images/theterror.png">
welcome to 1995
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://Http%3A//www.saidthegramophone.com/images/theterror.png
http://www.saidthegramophone.com/images/theterror.png
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, straight out of 1990.
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
Cool cover. Maybe it's time to revisit these guys, don't think I've listened for three or four years at this point...
― skip, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
It just occured to me how much teal & orange these guys have done throughout their career.
― how's life, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
reminds me of CD bargain bins
― sean gramophone, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
weird, but i think i ended up listening to this mix: http://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/one-off-zygotic-after-the-flaming-lips-embryonic-2009/ more than embryonic itself.
― tylerw, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
That's what I was thinking, sean. Is it the font?
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
The first thing that came to mind was Under Rug Swept.
― how's life, Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
Was pretty bored with these guys until Embryonic, which is probably one of the best things they've done since the 80s, and I got all excited again. But then that Heady Fwends thing made me kind of sick of them again. Pile on that the bullshit Wayne pulled with the Badu sisters and I'm not sure if I even care anymore.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 24 January 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
I'm hoping they've saved all the good stuff from the past few years for this. I agree w post-Embryonic lapse in quality tho i do support them cos they seem to still have a tireless work ethic. I haven't even listened to that radio drama they did yet. Was that any good?
Cool album cover tho. Not too keen on the font...
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 24 January 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
I've been waiting for a font like that for 15 years.
― how's life, Thursday, 24 January 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
I just hope they stay dark and Krauty, with no bunny suits or confetti. Not that I didn't love the boombox experiments-through-Yoshimi period at the time, but man, Embryonic is a big leap upward. . .
― Soundslike, Friday, 25 January 2013 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
Hmm, pretty inscrutable:
http://twitter.yfrog.com/emz41viqsrkrvykvslojeysyzhttp://twitter.yfrog.com/n6czohyqgjumljbkfbeexzezzhttp://twitter.yfrog.com/b9i43luijytduyvxbwxyscwnz
But this track is on the album, and it was one of the best of the weirdly-released things they were doing over the last couple years (along with parts of the 24-hour track and a few others):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py6y_AHOcx0
― Soundslike, Friday, 25 January 2013 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
This new record looks promising. I'm super happy that the band has gotten weird again. That whimsical happy Yoshimi phase was pretty hard to take.
Not sure why there is so much animosity towards the Heady Fwends project. I actually think it was one of the best records last year. Besides the Nick Cave track there isn't a real clunker in the bunch. The Lips were always a drug band. In the early days it seemed to be of the more "psychedelic" variety but both "Embryonic" and "Fwends" seem to emanate a "harder" vibe. And, font choices aside (does it really matter?) I sense this new record will be in the same vein as the last two. One can hope anyway.
― kwhitehead, Friday, 25 January 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
I'm super happy that the band has gotten weird again.
did you miss embyronic?
― mh (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 January 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
I love Embryonic becuase it's weird. And distrurbing.
― kwhitehead, Friday, 25 January 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
And they are putting out a Zaireeka vinyl remaster too. Which is even more insane than the CD version. I imagine four record players keep in sync w each other far less than four CD players.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 January 2013 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Aw man i just heard the new single and it is wretched.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 January 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
Cool video tho.
Oh ok it was written for a car ad.
VP of marketing at Hyundai, Steve Shannon, told Billboard, "The Flaming Lips are very much like Hyundai. They're a little offbeat. They've been around a long time and they continue to reinvent themselves."
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 25 January 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
I get this weird cockroach vibe from the Lips these days. Like, Wayne has it all figured out, and after the nuclear apocalypse, the Flaming Lips will be the only band standing.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 25 January 2013 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
ha a guy who managed a local record store when i was in college already thought they were cockroaches by soft bulletin. he couldn't believe the shitty noise band he saw opening for dino jr in like 1986 was now the college radio supertramp
― da croupier, Friday, 25 January 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
Hah I brought a giant plastic cockroach to the first gig I saw them at ('99) and Wayne signed it.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 26 January 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
The "Sun Blows Up Today" song, I sort of like the droney bits, but overall the production is just crap. How on Earth do you have Steven Drozd in your band and end up with drums that sound this lousy? That is unforgivable.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 26 January 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
Don't think Drozd plays drums for the band anymore, hasn't for years.
― kwhitehead, Sunday, 27 January 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
Drodz still drums a bit on the records. Embryonic has him and Kliph Scurlock pounding away together on some tracks. Sure there are clips of this.
Thought Heady Fwends was awful, a real backwards step after the pretty great Embryonic. Sun Blows Up Today is dreadful, but as it's a non-album track I'll let em off the hook for now. Really hope the new album is a good un...
― Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. (Stew), Sunday, 27 January 2013 13:45 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone listening to the new one? Weird album.
― afriendlypioneer, Sunday, 24 February 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
Wow, this really is weird album. I'm glad it's nothing like Sun Blows Up Today which sounded like a At War With Mystics outake. I think I'm going to need a lot more time with it just like Embryonic. It's such an understated album, really beautiful in places.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 25 February 2013 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I'm going to be able to listen to it too often. It's very slow and dense and completely absent of their zany starry-eyed optimism. That's not a bad thing, but it just seems like one of those albums you can only listen to as a whole if you want to really enjoy it. And it's not a whole that I want to listen to lots.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 25 February 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
It's very slow and dense and completely absent of their zany starry-eyed optimism.
WANT
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, 25 February 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, really, that only makes me more interested.
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 25 February 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
I like it. I think many of you will too.
― afriendlypioneer, Monday, 25 February 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
I'm digging "Ashes in the Air" on Heady Fwends (the Bon Iver tune) quite a bit.
Do people think this is a "silly" record? Because I'm not hearing that based on the first three tracks.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 25 February 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
I am curious also as to why so many folks disparage Heady Fwends. I find it fantastic nearly despite itself. One would think the very idea of a record like this is a terrible one but, I think they pull it off quite well. Can someone explain to me what they find so repellent about this? I'd love to know.
― kwhitehead, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
The tracks I heard seemed like repetitive jokes. I haven't listened to the whole LP, though. I never really wanted to because they didn't pick any musicians I'd really like to hear them collaborate with. I remember the Neon Indian track being particularly poor.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
But I'll say I'm a big fan of bands that do these kinds of things. It seems like they really lifted themselves out of a rut after At War with the Mystics. They were coming close to being an inessential band that keeps making the same type of record. Embryonic was a nice kick in the ass and The Terror continues down that path...
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
This thread makes me sad. My boyhood hero Wayne Coyne is actually in real-life a total dickhead.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
Kliph only drummed on some of Embyonic, if I remember right. And he left afterwards. I know there was a lot going on, but he seemed really irritated with Wayne running around with Kesha and I assume the mid-life hedonism/crisis that Wayne was going through around that time. Wayne as a freaky workaholic was much better than Wayne the insufferable stoner.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:27 (four years ago) link
He's also credited on The Terror but idk how credits/reality line up for them
― unpaid intern at the darvo institute (Simon H.), Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
there's interviews where he talks about the terror sessions, it seems pretty clear he played on it too.
― ufo, Thursday, 17 September 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
It’s only been a week but I've already cooled considerably on this album.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 19 September 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
All these TV specials on John Lennon in honor of what would have been his 80th birthday reminded me of the only time I saw the Flaming Lips, at Irving Plaza in NYC. Wayne Coyne says, "this song is dedicated to everyone whose birthday it is today!!" and people in the audience get really excited, yelling that it's their birthday, or it's their friend Sarah's birthday, or their dog's birthday... And this one guy in the front row keeps shouting "it's John Lennon's birthday!! it's John Lennon's birthday" over and over. Wayne seems to be ignoring him at first, then finally he says (in a slightly annoyed tone)"yeah yeah, i know, it's John Lennon's birthday. But he's dead, y'know? Why should we celebrate his birthday when there are all these people whose birthday it is and they're here to enjoy it??"
idk about this guy, but thought that was cool.
― Deflatormouse, Saturday, 17 October 2020 07:23 (four years ago) link
Surprised by how much I like their new one. The only track I don’t really care for is “Brother Eye,” and even that’s listenable.
― spastic heritage, Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link
I like it with reservations. I enjoy the music, and Wayne's schtick doesn't bother me like it had been starting to. My main problem with the new one is that Wayne doesn't take a break often enough. As much as American Head gets compared to the Soft Bulletin, that album had a lot of long bad-ass instrumental sections.
I kept wanting Wayne to take a break with the new one. And sometimes he'll sing the same thing repeatedly, seemingly to fill up space, when singing it once would work much better. I need to listen to it more, maybe I'll get over these issues.
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 18 October 2020 04:01 (four years ago) link
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/flamings-lips-day-san-francisco-stern-grove-18299291.php
"We’re very grateful to embrace August 20 as The Flaming Lips Day in San Francisco," the band's frontman Wayne Coyne said in a statement. "We’ve had many shared moments in this city and we feel grateful to be a part of the creative and eclectic fabric of the San Francisco music scene that makes this city so special.”
While tickets cost nothing, this Sunday's show — that also includes a DJ set from Neon Indian aka Alan Palomo — is sold out. Some tickets will be released at random this week for those who registered at www.sterngrove.org.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
Last great album was The Terror, which was their best since Soft Bulletin.
― Cow_Art, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 22:46 (one year ago) link
That one song off the latter is all over this film trailer I just watched.
― Blecch on Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link
No sorry, off Yoshimi. DO U SEE??
― Blecch on Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:09 (one year ago) link
I actually saw the strangest show in San Francisco featuring the Flaming Lips. It's was all about audience participation. I'm still not sure what the hell is it was, it seems to be called "Boom-Box Experiment #4"
https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-flaming-lips/1998/bimbos-365-club-san-francisco-ca-73f81271.html
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:37 (one year ago) link
Wow, it's online. Haha I was at this thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coBvv2r1gQU
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:40 (one year ago) link
I think that was one of the precursors to Zaireeka, when they were playing around with the idea of orchestrating sounds from many sources.
― enochroot, Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
Yeah, iirc, there was also one where Wayne had a bunch of people play tapes from their cars as they were dispersed around a parking garage.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 17 August 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
I was not at the one that Bee OK references but I was at the one that j/v/c2.0 refers to. Can confirm it was wild.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
also as an aside, I want to say that I often misjudge how good "Hit To Death" is, might be their best album when all is said and done.
― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 17 August 2023 17:46 (one year ago) link
I know this was covered in the Rolling Obituary thread, but thought worth bumping in their proper thread... been a really rough few days for this band.
First, Nell Smith, a young musician they collaborated on an album of Nick Cave covers with a few years back died at the age of 17, in a car accident. And Steven Drozd's 16 year-old daughter went missing on Saturday.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 17:40 (three weeks ago) link
drozd's daughter has apparently been found!
― hott ogo (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 18:00 (three weeks ago) link
Oh, that's great news! Hadn't seen that update!
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 8 October 2024 18:06 (three weeks ago) link
wonderful news
― nxd, Tuesday, 8 October 2024 18:08 (three weeks ago) link
Haven't listened to them for a while but have felt for them (for want of a better phrase) over the last couple of days.
― djh, Tuesday, 8 October 2024 19:07 (three weeks ago) link