The Flaming Lips

foxyluva · #1 08-13-2006, 06:32 PM

How effing cool are these guys!!??

I have only just been introduced to them, and already the album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" has become one of my all time favourite albums!

Who else here is a Flaming Lips fan??!!

carrie721 · #2 08-13-2006, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by foxyluva

How effing cool are these guys!!??

I have only just been introduced to them, and already the album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" has become one of my all time favourite albums!

Who else here is a Flaming Lips fan??!!

oh, sorry, at first i thought you meant you had some horrible STD.

i like "do you realize?" but overall, they're a little too soft-art-rock for me.

trackaghost · #3 08-13-2006, 06:57 PM

I feel almost this thread is for the benefit of me, because I adore the Lips and my obsession had re-emerged with the release of their new album, At War With The Mystics (click on the chart in my sig and you'll see they're my most played band).
I'm a long time fan, I first saw them live in the mid 90s.
If you love Yoshimi you definitely have to buy The Soft Bulletin, which IMO is their masterpiece. I also love their rockier stuff like Hit To Death In The Future Head, Transmissions From The Satellite Heart and Clouds Taste Metallic - all great!
Happy to see other Lips fans here. It warms my heart.

foxyluva · #4 08-13-2006, 07:11 PM

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oh, sorry, at first i thought you meant you had some horrible STD.

You would wouldn't you

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I feel almost this thread is for the benefit of me, because I adore the Lips and my obsession had re-emerged with the release of their new album, At War With The Mystics (click on the chart in my sig and you'll see they're my most played band).
I'm a long time fan, I first saw them live in 1995.
If you love Yoshimi you definitely have to buy The Soft Bulletin, which IMO is their masterpiece. I also love their rockier stuff like Hit To Death In The Future Head, Transmissions From The Satellite Heart and Clouds Taste Metallic - all great!
Happy to see other Lips fans here. It warms my heart.

I have got quite a few of the groups albums at work, I just took home "Yoshimi" to listen to a couple of nights back. Now that I know I love them you can be sure I will be getting the other albums

My friend however did tell me that the new album is on the boring side - he did rave about "The Soft Bulletin" though.....

xxxmx · #5 08-13-2006, 07:15 PM

i loooooove the flaming lips! they are the BEST live. wayne crawls into an inflated bubble and rolls over the crowd. i've had a few dreams where i shared that bubble with him....

yoshimi is a great album, Do You Realize?? is hands down my favorite track from that album. the new one is good but i'm not obsessed with it. the Hit and Clouds albums are probably my favorites - they're the ones i've listened to for years and years and years. Satellite Heart got me started on them, but i lost that album almost immediately and never bothered to replace it.

mmm. wayne...

i have band friends who were thisclose to getting me onstage to dance with the band at langerado but that didn't work out. i'm fine with that. i had a better time staring at wayne from the front than i would have sweating my ass off in a furry costume, waving a flashlight for two hours. wayne...

trackaghost · #6 08-13-2006, 07:19 PM

The new album is patchy but there's still some fantastic stuff on it: The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song, The WAND, It Overtakes Me, Free Radicals, Haven't Got A Clue, they're all top stuff.
I would recommend listening to The Soft Bulletin, then Clouds Taste Metallic. If you like Clouds then try Transmissions From The Satellite Heart and At War With The Mystics. I warn you though that their 1980s stuff is very different. They were hugely influenced by the Butthole Surfers back then, and it's very trippy, weird and punky. Their first few records aren't much cop but from In A Priest Driven Ambulance on it's pretty solid stuff.
You should check 'em out live too. Now that is an experience.

foxyluva · #7 08-13-2006, 07:22 PM

There are some really heavy lyrics on "Yoshimi" - like this one;

"Do you Realise that everyone you know will die?"

I was like - Wow

trackaghost · #8 08-13-2006, 07:25 PM

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i loooooove the flaming lips! they are the BEST live. wayne crawls into an inflated bubble and rolls over the crowd. i've had a few dreams where i shared that bubble with him....

yoshimi is a great album, Do You Realize?? is hands down my favorite track from that album. the new one is good but i'm not obsessed with it. the Hit and Clouds albums are probably my favorites - they're the ones i've listened to for years and years and years. Satellite Heart got me started on them, but i lost that album almost immediately and never bothered to replace it.

mmm. wayne...

i have band friends who were thisclose to getting me onstage to dance with the band at langerado but that didn't work out. i'm fine with that. i had a better time staring at wayne from the front than i would have sweating my ass off in a furry costume, waving a flashlight for two hours. wayne...

I love you xxxmx! I've had two opportunites to meet Wayne and both times fate has stood in my way. I guess I too am meant to just stare at him from afar.
Let us share our Wayne love with this picture:

estranged4life · #9 08-13-2006, 07:30 PM

but they do have my respect since they are originally an Oklahoma based band (Originally from Norman-Home of the University of Oklahoma).

They have an upcoming gig at the OKC Zoo Amphitheatre which will be sold out.

BlackWidow · #10 08-13-2006, 07:35 PM

I thought you meant an STD - Like "Your walls are flaming!"

foxyluva · #11 08-13-2006, 07:36 PM

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I thought you meant an STD - Like "Your walls are flaming!"

What is it with you people and STD's

foxyluva · #12 08-13-2006, 07:41 PM

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He is hot!!!!

carrie721 · #13 08-13-2006, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by BlackWidow

I thought you meant an STD - Like "Your walls are flaming!"

um, way to steal my joke!

xxxmx · #14 08-13-2006, 07:55 PM

a) yes, trackie, we will be BFF.

b) do you realize how hott wayne is?? (youtube might be on the sketch right now)

c) do you realize that the chick at 1:09 looks like christine??

d) wayne...

xxxmx · #15 08-13-2006, 07:59 PM

even when he looks like this?? drool. DROOL.