The Flaming Lips

[ThisUserIsAPipebomb]

Holy cow I love this band. Probably the only alt/indie band I like but from what I know they've got a high rep in the alt/indie world. I figure you all know them but for those of you who don't I'll give you the brief description.

Amazing alternative band from Oklahoma City the Flaming Lips consist of Wayne Coyle, Mark Coyle, Richard English and Michael Ivins. Basically they're a big mix between acoustic guitar and electronica stuff. I'm not even really sure what's going on most of the time, I'm just enjoying myself too much to really listen to what the band is playing. Short story short, they're amazing and I love them.

Do You Realize? (http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0OLYUZRT9O7943P1WUAK1E0LCN)

Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell (http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2MMCPSDBPEYDV09TIWU9GDRFB1)

[Canadian-Guy]

Such a great band. YBTPR is a wicked album, I love "Fight Test."

[AK47]

I heard the new Flips song of the "Wedding Crashers" soundtrack it was pretty tight.

[bubbledeath]

They're recording a new album now. I'm so excited.

[Little Man being Erased]

I be looking forward to that release as well. I have Yoshimi and The Soft Bulletin and I love them both, equally.

[Little Man being Erased]

Easily one of the best live bands EVER.



I'm listening to Yoshimi now...

[Daniel!]

Crazy awsome.

[Sleeper]

They are starting to become one of my favorite bands, They are just simply amazing.

[biografiend]

I have Yoshimi and The Soft Bulletin and I love them both, equally.
me too.

I recently got Zaireeka, aswell, but I havent listened to it yet.

[Modestbob]

The Flaming Lips are great, I have like 5 or 6 of there cds. I cant wait to hear there new album, it will hopefully be a good one. The Flaming Lips always had a feel of being our generations pyschedlic pop to me.

[Smackers]

Yoshimi was a great recording period for them. Ego Tripping is still my favorite song they've done. It has been since I first heard it when the album came out. I'm really excited to hear the new album.

[Indie'd!]

Yoshimi is indeed an awesome album from an awesome band. And I giggle to myself whenver I hear Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 2. It's just so ridiculous!

[The Ashtray Girl]

I got Clouds Taste Metallic recently, so I'm starting to get into that, though I still love The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi. This Here Giraffe rocks my world.

I would love to see them live, I hope they tour in the UK with the new album. That'd be awesome.

[Corduroy Skin]

I saw them live when they were touring with Beck. The Flaming Lips opening for Beck is one of the greatest things the music industry has ever produced. Such a great show, one of the happiest experiences of my life.

[Sleeper]

Are they planning on a new album? I know the DVD came out.

[Mr Observations]

Everyone loves the Lips, c'mon. Wayne Coyne is such a fly guy.

[EightMilesHigh]

I'd love to see them live someday.

[MindlessPickle]

The Lip's are indeed a great band. I've got Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and Transmissions from the Sattelite Heart, they're both two awsome albums. The Yoshimi album is a mixture of acoustic guitar and electronica (as mentioned by ThievesandBastards) while Transmissions is a bit more poppier rock with a few traces of electronica.

[Phunphone]

I recently got "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots" and... it's undescribably beautiful, happy and sometimes hysterical. I love In The Morning of Magicians by a gigantic heart.

[Aeaon]

I have Yoshimi on red vinyl. It's so beautiful. :)

[The Ashtray Girl]

Are they planning on a new album? I know the DVD came out.

They are indeed - At War With The Mystics could be out by the end of this year (although maybe not).

[pete L.]

They went from pretty fun and experimental to a psychedelic riot between "she don't use jelly" and now. I like it all.

[EightMilesHigh]

They went from pretty fun and experimental to a psychedelic riot between "she don't use jelly" and now. I like it all.

Yeah, I love their experimentation. I'm listening to "Fight Test" right now, how could you not like this song?

[Tangy zizzle]

I met Wayne Coyne and that drummer boy.

Nicest man alive.

[Iai]

They covered Bohemian Rhapsody for a Queen tribute album recently.

[MC187]

yeah, i love the flaming lips. i have soft bulletin and yoshimi. their experimentation is great. with some bands, it seems like they churn out the same music on each album but with the lips everything is new and there are always so many layers to the music that make successive listenings that much better.

[MindlessPickle]

They also covered "Cat Stephen"s Father and Son... kinda :P

[JimGuitar]

I really don't like The Flaming Lips. I own both The Soft Bulletin and YBTPR and they're just a bit too..eh, wimpy.

[IamaRadiohead]

Probably my favorite at this moment, Yoshimi battles, fight test, do you realize, race for the prize are all great songs. She dont use Jelly is like my favorite song to play on guitar.

[Modestbob]

I saw The Flaming Lips on Austin City Limits one night at like 1 am on PBS. and it was awsome, because the whole setup looked like some happy sunny LSD trip. And I thought it was funny they covered War Pigs by Black Sabbath and they did "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" with the guitarist dad playing saxaphone.

[marcusthecat]

They went from pretty fun and experimental to a psychedelic riot between "she don't use jelly" and now. I like it all.

oh my god that song vaseline is awesome probably my favorite one, next to fight test and spongebob and patrick confront the psychic wall of energy :thumb:

[Daniel!]

I heard that Spongebob song and it was actually pretty cool.

[Rockafella]

I am starting to really get into them lately, is there an album that anyone here reccomends as my first Flaming Lips album to purchase?

[Iai]

Everyone except Tangy is gonna say Yoshimi or The Soft Bulletin.

I say Yoshimi.

[EightMilesHigh]

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots really is a great album.

[Tomahawk]

Yoshimi, or Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.

I don't like the Soft Bulletin much, it just doesn't click with me, for the most part.

[Aeaon]

Soft Bulletin and Transmissions are my favorite Flaming Lips albums.


I also like that song they did for Suburbia. It's quite good, and has a classic rock feel to it.

[Happymeal]

I'm gonna say that I haven't heard the whole of Soft Bulletin. "The Spark That Bled" is so nice though, it's just oozing with machismo.

[Giaeo]

You should. It's very good. I wish I ownd it though. At least I have it burned. :thumb:

[Captain Blood]

well I dont like flaming lips I actually dont see what peaple like about them.not trying to knock anybody for what they listen to or like but they're way over rated

[GimmeSlack12]

well I dont like flaming lips I actually dont see what peaple like about them.not trying to knock anybody for what they listen to or like but they're way over rated
You're Mom's overrated.

[CSD & the Soul Machines]

*Your

Nice bump...meh

Flaming Lips are crazy good.

[Zebra]

Their best albums are the one's they made in the 80's. I like Oh My Gawd...The Flaming Lips, Hit to Death in the Future Head and Finally, the Punk Rockers are Taking Acid the best. Yoshimi is a solid effort, but some of the tracks toward the middle of the album are just a bore (Are You a Hypnotist?). Zarieeka is very unique and is an incredible listen once you get it properly hooked up.

[CarnageFairy]

The new album is pretty damn good. It's a lot like Yoshimi, but also a lot like their older stuff.

Hot damn.

[sr800bkBassist]

wow, huge bump.

anyway, Hit To Death in the Future Head is mind blowing.
like My Bloody Valentine + Butthole Surfers. crazy distorted fuzzy noisy psychedelic punk rock at it's best.

[Sleeper]

There streaming 'At War With The Mystics' on the Flaming Lips website, I've listened to it about five times. There's only two songs i don't really like, but a great album.

[Aeaon]

I've listened to some of it. Hasn't grabbed my attention as well as I had hoped it would, but it's great anyway.

[lcjs]

It's good, but a bit more pop-sounding than I thought - at times I'm reminded of Simply Red :). Yoshimi still rules.

Anyone else seeing them play at Reading?

[Iai]

They're playing Reading?!?

[soniclovenoize]

They were on Letterman last night... It ****ing rocked!

[lcjs]

http://www.readingfestivalonline.co.uk/lineup.php

A brilliant line-up this year; even better than last year, in fact. It's not perfect, but Radiohead are already playing V Festival so we'll have to make do with Muse. Not that you can tell Yorke and Bellamy apart anyway...

[fingis]

there a great band. i own hit to death in the future head and the soft bulletin.

[Bukowski]

They're playing near me in a month or so, i'd love to see them but it's sold out.

I love them, although i don't listen to them that much anymore. My favorite is probably Transmissions From the Sattelite Heart. They've helped me through some tough times in the past, since you can't listen to the Flips and not feel much happier afterwards.

[neighborhood fascist]

I think Soft Bulletin is a lot better than Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

[YDload]

The only album I have (and its just on my computer) is Clouds Taste Metallic, but there isn't a bad song on it and I think it's just great. Like stoner Muppets.

[Bukowski]

I think Soft Bulletin is a lot better than Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

Well yeah, it is better. Yoshimi isn't all it's cranked up to be for me, it's no more than decent. Although In The Morning Of The Magicians is a perfect song.

[sgrevs]

I have Clouds Taste Metallic, The Soft Bulletin and Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, and the all rule pretty damn hard.

What a band, Wayne's voice is just fantastic.

[neighborhood fascist]

Has anyone ever heard of the band The Orange Peels? Well, the beginning of the first track on their album Circling the Sun sounds a lot like the beginning of "Race for the Prize."

[RetiredAt21]

Really really good band. I love'em.

[Sleeper]

I think Soft Bulletin is a lot better than Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.
The Soft Bulletin has better songs, but Yoshimi is a better album overall IMO. It's mood and tone is great, it gives me a futuristic/fun feeling when i listen to it. The beats are far better in Yoshimi (I'm a big Electronica fan) so Yoshimi is high in my list.

[Tangy zizzle]

It's possible that they've claimed the prize of being my favourite band.

[PECOAE]

I got an advanced copy of At War With the Mystics, and it's bleeping awesome!

The Lips rock!

[Sleeper]

They have the new album on Torrents, but i would rather wait for it tomorrow and buy it. Plus there streaming it on there site, so i don't want to get sick of it.

[Zesty Mordant]

All i have is Yoshimi and The Soft Bulletin and they are both pretty ace. I'll probably pick up the new one.

As well, hopefully I'm not the only person who thinks Zaireeka is a completely unnecessary, impratical, and therefore crappy, album.

[PECOAE]

At War is an awesome album - in my opinion better than anything they've done before.

[Sleeper]

It's definitly different, I'm glad they decided to do more of a rock album.

[MindlessPickle]

Sweet! Flamings Lips are heading to Sweden :D, now I REALLY have to check out their new album.

[Bukowski]

At War is an awesome album - in my opinion better than anything they've done before.

i like the new album and all, but no way!

[PECOAE]

Come on?!

Have you heard the sonic landscaps and atmospheres of the middle group of the songs, or the heaviness of the first and last few?

IT ROCKS!!

[Zebra]

As well, hopefully I'm not the only person who thinks Zaireeka is a completely unnecessary, impratical, and therefore crappy, album.

I strongly disagree. While it is a pain in the *** to get things set up, once you do the sound is excellent. Machine in India is ace and although a lot of songs are hit or miss it's still a strange and interesting listen. Plus I don't think it's really ment to be take seriously.

[PECOAE]

I have to listen to these, apparently.

[MemoryMachine]

Zaireeka is sublime - be bothered to set it up.

[Undisco Kidd]

They really are an amazing band.

I own...
1984-1990: A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm For Recording... By Amateurs
Clouds Taste Metallic
Ego Tripping At The Gates of Hell (EP)
The Fearless Freaks Bootleg
Fight Test (EP)
Hear It Is
Hit To Death In The Future Head
In a Priest Driven Ambulence
Oh My Gawd!!
Providing Needles For Your Balloons (EP)
Soft Bulletin
Soft Bulletin Companion Disks
Telepathic Surgery
The Mushroom Tapes (The Day They Shot a Hole In The Jesus Egg)
Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Zaireeka

:( Finding their older EP's is incredibly hard.

[MemoryMachine]

How much did the Soft Bulletin' companion set you back?

[ThisUserIsAPipebomb]

Right now, Flmaing Lips are playing War Pigs on tv.


It is awesome.

[Sleeper]

I saw there appearance on Austin City Limits the other night, it was pretty short but amazing.