O___O

HOLY SHIT

That's prog right there

holy shit

song is everything i dreamed it would be and more
only listened to the first two hours though...

rofl

5/5

i pressed replay

it was over too soon

prob the best thing ever tbh

trying to be rush BUT THEY NEVER WILL

Dream Theater take heed

...challenge accepted.

they should play it live

stfu kill this the flaming lips

awaiting a 'review' from someone whos heard the whole thing

You guys do realise that this is a 6 HOUR SONG!!!!

That's 360 minutes

did rush ever make a movie about santa claus on mars?
didn't think so

the Satan's Tango of music, length wise that is

did rush ever make a space bible rock opera

fucking ridiculous

that is the ugliest avatar i have ever seen in my life

O____O [2]

i know right

SJP is a horse

no no, not in the least bit so....

pretentious as shit

she's a foot

isn't it raising money for charity?

yeah it's for charity not to mention it's just them having fun making a ridiculous jam session
i can't think of anything less pretentious

"Part One of "I Found a Star On the Ground", the six hour Flaming Lips song from the Strobo Trip EP."

EP?! Seriously?

do something pretentious/stupid/arrogant
say its for charity before you get judged

I'm going to listen to the full thing, then post a review on it. Wish me luck

Ridiculous? Ridiculous.

Even if it's not for charity...it's wayne it can't be pretentious

it's six hours cause people pay to have their name in the song.

Hey.. let's be honest for a second. If this 6 hours is even half good, it's more quality music than most bands put out in their entire careers. Let's not forget this band has some incredibly wonderful albums in their name already.

don't listen to andcas he's out of his element

fuck yes gonna listen

it's a nice gesture but any band who thinks people want
to listen to them for 6 hours is pushing their importance

this shit made my firefox crash.

I don't think something like this is pretentious. It's called thinking outside of the box. This might be the whackiest concept they've thought of (or anyone for that matter) since Zaireeka.

If someone says pretentious one more time I'm going to kill a pig.

pretentious

Lol, do they think they're like breaking ground or something? Been there, done that... I already have a song that's 10 hours long in my library.
Bull of Heaven does this stuff in their sleep, only it's drone.

btw, pretentious.
I hate pigs.

heroin

gonna review this

not if i review it first btch

1 minute in


oh god i hope this never ends

now their fans will have something to twirl their flags and act retarded to

not liking the flaming lips is like not liking life.

double posts suck

well he is from michigan

I'm about an hour in... slightly bored....

omg

How can anyone sit through this whole fucking thing and remember it all?

...it's for fucking charity/ fun. No one is making you listen to the whole thing.


p sure everyone bitching has never heard do you realize?? live

fuck charity i pay taxes that's more than enough

i know people who think 6 minutes is too long for a song

It's barely keeping my interesting, i'm an hour and 39 minutes into the song.

It's barely keeping my interesting

This is totally boring.

"if btbam tried this sputnik users would lose their minds."

lol the site would stop working every few days from the madness.
O WAIT

Of course it is, a three part six hour track without segments = boring even if Opeth and Radiohead did it.

At least if this were on Youtube there would be no "I RAPED THE REPLAY BUTTON" comments

this sounds fucking cool

haha omg

would be cool if it was a six hour song that never repeats the same note

Interesting. Will listen...tomorrow.

pretty decent after an hour and a half, it's super repetitive but that's to be expected

Is not good.

What the actual fuck?

can't weight to lissen

Life's too short.

The Flamings Lips have gotten really weird

six hours is too much anything

I never cared about them but this is fucking retarded, boring and pretentious.

It's the second time in my life I use the word pretentious to insult a band and that's saying alot.

I listen to some pretty long songs, but 6 hours is just completely unrealistic.

I mean, I guess it's possible to make a good 6 hour long song.

But what the fuck is this shit?

waste of time and energy

doesn't beat that antarctic drone doom band who did like 30 hour songs or something but hey this is proggy

why is something prog or pretentious if it is long?

more importantly why are people so stupid

I don't think they intended this to be taken seriously...

That automatically makes it not pretentious. Just brilliant

the word pretentious is awesome it gets people so butthurt over defending the validity of artistry

the word pretentious is pretty good when people understand its actual meaning and dont shout it out like some knee-jerk reaction to anything different

pretentious: Attempting to impress by affecting greater importance, talent, culture, etc., than is actually possessed.

^ Does not describe FL at all.

Even if they don't impress you they have droves of hard core fans and don't need to impress anything upon anyone.

argumentum ad populum

granted I haven't listened to this song but I think its overall concept meets the required criteria of musical masturbation to immediately label this as

pretentious

That doesn't make any sense.

Maybe unnecessary, baffling, tiring, overambitious, grandiose, pompous, arrogant or egotistic.

But I literally think pretentious by definition is incorrect. I'm not sure any of those are correct either but pretentious is imo the poorest choice of wording.

i love how some opinions changed after people actually listened to the song. it's too much

yeah i think a lot of people use 'pretentious' in place of 'arrogant' or 'egotistical' all too often

"The Doors meets Merzbow"

so true

i need to get myself some weed for this

people who try and alter the definition of pretentious to claim artists they feel are musically
profound aren't pretentious are just exhibiting a knee jerk reaction which is just as ridiculous as
the people they accuse of the same knee jerk criticisms in labeling anything with the slightest
level of ambition with that wonderful word

That doesn't make any sense.

Maybe unnecessary, baffling, tiring, overambitious, grandiose, pompous, arrogant or egotistic.

But I literally think pretentious by definition is incorrect. I'm not sure any of those are correct
either but pretentious is imo the poorest choice of wording.

yeah i think a lot of people use 'pretentious' in place of 'arrogant' or 'egotistical' all
too often

you dumb fucks it's not pretentious, it's ridiculous. they obviously know a lot of their own fans won't even be cool sitting through a 6 hour jam. just more quirky awesomeness from one of the coolest bands ever.

anyone know why editing a post makes formatting spazz out so much?

I listen to dark ambient albums with tracklists that look like this

http://i.imgur.com/xJobj.jpg

I know pretentious

it's almost like the flaming lips got this idea from the onion news network

Just give up meatplow, it's not pretentious

Haha, those guys really are still kicking ass after all.

Just give up meatplow, it's not pretentious

I'm a star on the ground

imagine if your cunt was 6 hours deep. thats how i feel

lol

hahahaha how is it an EP if it's at least 6 hours long?

fuck I love The Flaming Lips

Doing a search of the word pretentious in this thread

what the actual fuck

Agree with everyone/anyone who says this is retarded.

gonna go listen to the whole thing right now

I lasted 1 minute 59 seconds

Lol, do they think they're like breaking ground or something? Been there, done that... I already have a song that's 10 hours long in my library.
Bull of Heaven does this stuff in their sleep, only it's drone.

btw, pretentious.
I hate pigs.

If you think that they are doing this because the FL think that they are important enough to have a 6 hour song, then they are, in your opinion, pretentious.

37 prententiouses

The Dark Side of the EP

gonna have this playing my entire work shift tomorrow

If you think that they are doing this because the FL think that they are important enough to have a 6 hour song, then they are, in your opinion, pretentious.

I think I am one of the few people that listened to the whole song.

Now to get some migraine medicine......

this has gotta be some sort of record.

seriously, though, 6 fucking hours? that's longer than a lot of current bands' discographies.

The Chosen Priest and Apostle of Infinite Space says sup

this has gotta be some sort of record.

according to that list it's still at least the 28th longest song of all time which is pretty impressive

2 hours in. I already feel like I've achieved something.

Wow, I skipped around and there are some really, really grating noise sections. I can't imagine listening to all of that. Don't try to be a hero, sputnikers. You aren't accomplishing anything.

But whatever, nothing serious here. It's not pretentious until they release a stereoscopic 3D music video for it.

Didn't Bull of Heaven release a song that was 6 years long?

Meatplow's Guide to Pretentiousness

Pretentious -

6 hr long Flaming Lips song
Matana Robert's jazz album
Classical music that is all just one violin playing for an hour and a half
Muse - The Revelation
Radiohead Fans
First Wave Industrial Music

Non-Pretentious

Whiskey Dick
Pantera
Superjoint Ritual

well man I tried my best come on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjCtHgNEcV0

basically, two dimebag guitars and singer who looks like Jay Link meets ZZ Top is the benchmark for non-pretentious

"that's not a guide that's a list"

and a lame one at that!

seriously, any song longer than one hour is automatically pretentious to you people, wtf?

songs should all be 2-3 minutes long and have singing and guitars in 'em

otherwise it's musical masturbation

'musical masturbation'

my favorite.

If you want to review this you have to listen to it at least 5 times to let it sink in ;D

Who is this Bull of Heaven, and more importantly why it isn't in sputnik db?
48 pretentiouses btw.

6 hours is how long a day of school lasts for me...and its so painful to sit through.

"If you think that they are doing this because the FL think that they are important enough to have a 6
hour song, then they are, in your opinion, pretentious."

If they expected you to pay for it I MAY concede your point but for now I'll just call you the sole
member of the "Song length propriety commission".

Ha. Can't beat CardboardCat's 8 hour...

not a fan, although, i think their first release -here it is- is one of the best records of the 80's.

1.5 hours in

Pretentious? More like celestial.

I feel like I'm riding a magic carpet through time and space.

Well, I finished it up last night, then went to school, reflected on it.
In all honesty, 6/10. I don't know if you guys will agree but I found it entertaining, but not enough to keep my interest. However I stuck it out.

That's 1/4 of a fucking day

You can listen to it 4 times a day MAX

wtf

^math how does it work?

hit the windows key

type 'calc'

press enter

all problems solved

Ehh, maybe when I'm hungover on the weekend I'll give it a spin, but this is pretty ridiculous.

This isn't pretentious its fucking stupid. Even if my favorite band released a 6 hour song I'd be like seriously? wtf.

And for the one posting the fucking pretentious definitions... you do realize words have multiple definitions right dumb ass? So just because the first one that popped up when you googled it and copy and pasted it into here doesnt mean posting a 6hr song isnt fucking pretentious. (not saying it is, just saying pretentious can also mean pompous and/or arrogant for those disputing otherwise)

Also, LOL at dude talking about chorus being good. I'm surprised this bitch has structure

Maybe if a band that was actually good released a 6 hour song i'd enjoy it,

been listening to this for about 5 minutes, it's horrible

@nash we all know that words have multiple definitions. Doesn't change anything in this case, so why mention it?

And what's stupid about it?

nash is mad lol

@tkxxx7
Because someone posted A definition for pretentious and was like see? this is what it means. you're all dumb for using the word incorrectly.

And its dumb because its 6 hours. who wants to devote a fourth of their day to one musical entity. plus what if by some divine intervention you did enjoy it. you gonna buy 3 CDs of one song and listen to it all in a row? or take up 1/4 of your ipod memory?

And i'm not mad about the song im indifferent. I'm mad at people for acting like they are so literally intellectual when they are being stupid. Correcting others on the use of the english language when they are wrong to begin with

"And its dumb because its 6 hours. who wants to devote a fourth of their day to one musical entity. plus what if by some divine intervention you did enjoy it. you gonna buy 3 CDs of one song and listen to it all in a row? or take up 1/4 of your ipod memory?"

It'll probably be a download but ya I guess

pretty much sucked. so yeah. thanks for the 6 hours of shitty music FL

I'm 10 minutes in and already can't take it.

Fuck waterboarding, play this noisy crap at a loud volume and terrorist will talk.

Even if it's a download... you'll have to sit at/near/ or by your computer for 6 hours at home.

I guess if someone plays wow and likes TFL then it would rule for a saturday afternoon....

EP?! Seriously? [2]

Nah, just leave it on overnight

do you, like, not ever download big files?

kinda sounds like Silver Apples

yotimi or yoshimi

Hmm... it is the length of an acid trip...

she's a black belt in karate

And i'm not mad about the song im indifferent. I'm mad at people for acting like they are so literally intellectual when they are being stupid. Correcting others on the use of the english language when they are wrong to begin with

there are albums i've heard 7-8 times from start to finish so i don't see what the harm is in giving this at least one good listen

anyone got the full song yet?

And I though Teramelos's 54 minute song was too much...

.

Let's talk about how impressive it is to play a song for 6 hours

ahhhhhhhhwwwwwwhhhhhh

This song was honestly kind of irritating, only made it through about an hour. 7 Skies on the other hand is immeeeeeeeeeense