The Flaming Lips' New Album

2008-07-13 by DaveyBoy EMERITUS | 26 Comments
Source: www.bigpond.com.au

They’re one of the most esoteric acts in America and a must-see live band thanks to props like giant bubbles and furry animal suits.

Oklahoma City rockers the Flaming Lips are hard at work at their upcoming new album which, reckons frontman Wayne Coyne, will sound “something like if John Lennon got together with Miles Davis and they discovered computers”. According to the “Do You Realize?” singer, the follow-up to 2006’s At War With The Mystics will be an uplifting listen, although he can’t say exactly when it will be finished. (This is, after all, the band who’ve spent almost a decade making a film about aliens at Christmas, Christmas On Mars, which is due out on DVD at the end of 2008.)

“I’d never want to make it sound like ‘Imagine,’ but some of these songs accidentally fall into that category,” Coyne says of the new tunes.

“We never want to feel like we’ve got the answers to the world, while we’re quietly going insane on our own level.”

Tagged: The Flaming Lips

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McP3000
July 13th 2008
4121 Comments


it will probably be bad like At War With The Mystics was

brandtweathers
July 13th 2008
2006 Comments


“something like if John Lennon got together with Miles Davis and they discovered computers”

that is the single most ****ing pretentious prediction i have heard- potentially ever. ugh. go back to heroin coyne.

MrKite
July 13th 2008
5020 Comments


meh i`m excited about it

robin
July 13th 2008
4596 Comments


same, hope it doesn't suck. gotta accept it'll be similar to their last three albums, anyhow.

ilikemusicthatsucks
July 13th 2008
1063 Comments


Sweet love this band.

Cuban Pete
July 13th 2008
3814 Comments


excited for this

any14doomsday
July 13th 2008
681 Comments


At war with the mystics was pretty awesome I think. I like prettymuch everything they have put out, and im sure this will be no exception... and it was Steven Drozd that had the heroin problem.

Eaeon
July 13th 2008
11 Comments


You people don't understand. They’re one of the most esoteric acts in America and a must-see live band thanks to props like giant bubbles and furry animal suits because the headline said they are. Because they really are.



Jerks.

astrel
July 13th 2008
2615 Comments


At War with the Mystics was one of their crappier albums, but I am still pretty excited for this. Although their ridiculous description of how it sounds is somewhat of a turn-off.

MrKite
July 13th 2008
5020 Comments


i really couldn`t give a shit about what he says it sounds like because i doubt it sounds like ”if John Lennon got together with Miles Davis and they discovered computers”

dub sean
July 13th 2008
1013 Comments


Please don't suck, please don't suck, please don't suck.

Skyler
July 13th 2008
1084 Comments


hopefully this isn't as mediocre as their last album

johnnyblaze
July 13th 2008
3433 Comments


Yeah, the comment is a bit arrogant, but I'll probably be buying this. Each album has a couple gems at the least. Hoping it's like The Soft Bulletin.

francesfarmer
July 13th 2008
1477 Comments


Flaming Lips got nothing on Miles Davis.

descendents1
July 14th 2008
702 Comments


their last album was okay

everyone has an attitude all of a sudden

Jawaharal
July 14th 2008
1832 Comments


hope the album sounds exactly like if john lennon and miles davis found computers so all you fuckers would be wrong

Aficionado
July 14th 2008
1027 Comments


why are all of these users comparing The Flaming Lips to Miles Davis
not a matter of tomato-tomatto (or however the fuck you would verbalize the paralleled pronunciations on the computer)

Eaeon
July 14th 2008
11 Comments


I don't get why everyone is suddenly badmouthing the Flaming Lips.

McP3000
July 14th 2008
4121 Comments


eh just their last album blew

the rest of their stuff is good tbh

robin
July 14th 2008
4596 Comments


they rule.

zeeknDstroy
July 26th 2008
2 Comments


one of the greatest alt bands of all time

martymcfly
October 30th 2008
1 Comments


I hope when all you people who left negative comments download the album john lennon and miles davis come out of your computer and lick your minds open

harikari
January 16th 2009
1 Comments


It's funny how some people here think they're authority figures or something and start talking negative shit because mommy didnt coddle them enough or whatever, but if you've got negative shit to say then keep it to yourself ass clowns..

Chikilicuatre
January 20th 2009
2 Comments


I just want to vomit to all the ***holes who think that At War With The Mystics is a bad album:

"You are pathetic unicellular beings, just able to hear vulgar mainstream noise. Your music taste is as dead as your soul. At War With The Mystics is a masterpiece, the best 2006 album by far. If you don't like this album, then you don't like The Flaming Lips at all, so please stop spreading your hatred worldwide cos you s**k. Love."This Message Edited On 01.19.09

sebfrench76
February 25th 2009
1 Comments


I completely agree with Chikilicuatre!At war... made me fly as high as Yoshimi !In France ,we're a few to know this band,and for the fans,a new album will always be like a jewel!I'm 42 and I feel like a teenage while listening to Mr ambulance driver ,yeah yeah song,the gold in the mountain of your madness,pompei am... etc.This ban has such a sincerity and such an hapiness!It' very rare for me in the current music to find combined arty attitude and love of the life.They are so positives,don't you think?I'm lasting for their european tour and if you have hot news,please,let me know .From Normandy with kisses

pala
August 2nd 2009
2 Comments


I hope it's brilliant cos they have been brilliant on so many occasions. Just not on At War..



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