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SaucerfulOfSecrets
10-21-2009, 03:55 PM
:D :D :D

this news makes me very happy.....
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/19/flaming-lips-dark-side-moon
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Just days after the release of Embryonic, the Flaming Lips (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/the-flaming-lips) have revealed that the follow-up is already finished. After making their most challenging album in years, Oklahoma's psychedelic sons have recorded a track-by-track cover of one of the most experimental albums of the 1970s, Pink Floyd (http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/pinkfloyd)'s The Dark Side of the Moon.
Although the band revealed few details about the project, they confirmed that it was a collaboration with Stardeath and the White Dwarfs (http://www.myspace.com/stardeath), a kindred group from Oklahoma City that includes Lips frontman Wayne Coyne's nephew, Dennis. Coyne has designed album covers for the young band, who are accompanying the Flaming Lips on tour.
Besides these psyched-out young bucks, Coyne said Henry Rollins and Peaches both appear on the Lips' The Dark Side of the Moon. No release date has been announced, though a spokesperson said the album would "initially" be an iTunes-only release.
Pink Floyd's 1973 album probably needs no introduction. From its production techniques to its artwork, The Dark Side of the Moon has inspired a thousand ambitious, splendid, weird and catchy albums to get stoned to. And while Coyne said Flaming Lips fans have given them carte blanche to "go somewhere where no other band could go, and come back and tell us what it was like", this record isn't exactly alien territory. The Dark Side of the Moon has sold about 50m copies worldwide, making it one of the most successful rock albums of all time.
Coyne confirmed that Embryonic was the Flaming Lips' last album under contract to Warner Music. But after 26 years in the industry, Coyne said they are happy with the major label. "It was never the big corporate label trying to change the weirdos from Oklahoma," he said. "They made it possible [that] we could be who we are. We owe Warner Bros for our whole way of being. We're lucky that we're able to earn lots of money. A lot of bands and artists aren't as lucky as we are."

SPelizzaro
10-21-2009, 04:36 PM
WOWZERS!!!! This should be interesting!

#1Fan
10-21-2009, 11:27 PM
Nice. I love me some Lips.

gingerae
10-21-2009, 11:37 PM
Uh May Zing!! Imagine them doing that on the road :p

PanicintheStreets
10-26-2009, 12:31 AM
So they finally gave up on their music, and decided to make a studio album that people can stand to listen to for more than 30 seconds

ihgg
10-26-2009, 02:26 AM
So they finally gave up on their music, and decided to make a studio album that people can stand to listen to for more than 30 seconds

hehe- not a fan?

Coop
10-28-2009, 03:01 PM
"So they finally gave up on their music, and decided to make a studio album that people can stand to listen to for more than 30 seconds"

QFMFT...i dislike the flips.

SaucerfulOfSecrets
10-28-2009, 06:57 PM
video of the FLips doing Eclipse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZhrFW3X1Xc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZhrFW3X1Xc)

cburger07
10-28-2009, 08:39 PM
i love the flaming lips and cant wait to see them on NYE. hopefully they play some of these tunes that night. im sure they will. they always seem to cover a good song during their sets. sometimes 2

PanicintheStreets
11-03-2009, 03:55 AM
hehe- not a fan?


They have the theatrics of a good experience, but the music of teenage, wrist-slitting girl, and a voice like a crow pecking my ear drums out

KB
11-03-2009, 08:32 AM
They have the theatrics of a good experience, but the music of teenage, wrist-slitting girl, and a voice like a crow pecking my ear drums out

This is an accurate description from my point of view as well. I like the song Yoshimi, but that's about where it ends.

vhbhkc
11-03-2009, 07:22 PM
This is an accurate description from my point of view as well. I like the song Yoshimi, but that's about where it ends.

I have seen the Lips, and will continue to go see the Lips (if it's cheap and convenient) but I look at the music as being solely the soundtrack to the show. In other words, I go for the experience and the music is more like sound effects. Have tried listening to records and I can't seem to make it any further than half way through. Meh.

Pauly's Cheese
11-03-2009, 07:45 PM
They have the theatrics of a good experience, but the music of teenage, wrist-slitting girl, and a voice like a crow pecking my ear drums out
That is the funniest, and most accurate thing I've seen all day :D

cburger07
11-05-2009, 07:50 PM
the lips are a good band in my opinion. really i think their songs are fun and vivacious, full of energy for the most part. and like it was stated before, the shows are more of an experience. what goes on at a lips show is unlike any thing ive been to or even seen. ill continue to go as well. ill actually be there for NYE this year for the 2nd go around.

doggie
11-05-2009, 08:33 PM
why did they put henry rollins on there?

thunderdome
11-06-2009, 01:31 PM
henry rollins is like a fat girl at prom....just happy to be anywehere really....


and yeah the lips is total hipster music. garbage

VERNIXX
11-06-2009, 02:37 PM
The Flaming Lips? My favorite band since my first show in 1986? Well now...

I personally think they need to take a long fvcking break and recharge the batteries. Embroyonic is the worst album they have ever made...half baked Krautrockisms that fail miserably at being psychedelic or challenging, sonic experiments that sound like they were recorded by a bunch of high teenagers with marginal musical experience, and terrible uninspired songs. WTF happened to them? I am someone who loves experimental music, but not at the expense of making amature and half-baked records. Embroyonic is a pathetic record that they should be embarrassed for making, in my opinion. It's like a third rate Harmonium album.

And now...DARK SIDE OF THE MOON?!?!?!?!? Really now. wHY WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING SO CLICHE AND TIRED AS RERECORD A CLASSIC ALBUM?!?!?!?! When I read that they were doing this, I was shell-shocked. Are they really expecting their long time fanbase to eat this out of their hands? hELL NO. Most Flips fans are ecclectic and musically a bit off-center. We expect something different and original and unique. Not something so very marginal and intellectually rote. I honestly think Wayne has lost the plot....as evidenced by 9 years of the SAME DAMN STAGE SCHTICK and a terrible follow up to one of their best albums in years.

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I wont even address the pathetic HIPSTER accusation, especially about a band that has encompassed 20+ years of experimental music. There is nothing even remotely hipster about being 48 years old wearing cheap suits while singing psychedelic love songs about sine waves and tire tracks.

readybeatrice
11-07-2009, 06:42 PM
^^ agreed ^^

dlk2020
11-11-2009, 10:42 AM
The Flaming Lips? My favorite band since my first show in 1986? Well now...

I personally think they need to take a long fvcking break and recharge the batteries. Embroyonic is the worst album they have ever made...half baked Krautrockisms that fail miserably at being psychedelic or challenging, sonic experiments that sound like they were recorded by a bunch of high teenagers with marginal musical experience, and terrible uninspired songs. WTF happened to them? I am someone who loves experimental music, but not at the expense of making amature and half-baked records. Embroyonic is a pathetic record that they should be embarrassed for making, in my opinion. It's like a third rate Harmonium album.

And now...DARK SIDE OF THE MOON?!?!?!?!? Really now. wHY WOULD YOU DO SOMETHING SO CLICHE AND TIRED AS RERECORD A CLASSIC ALBUM?!?!?!?! When I read that they were doing this, I was shell-shocked. Are they really expecting their long time fanbase to eat this out of their hands? hELL NO. Most Flips fans are ecclectic and musically a bit off-center. We expect something different and original and unique. Not something so very marginal and intellectually rote. I honestly think Wayne has lost the plot....as evidenced by 9 years of the SAME DAMN STAGE SCHTICK and a terrible follow up to one of their best albums in years.

[/rant]

I wont even address the pathetic HIPSTER accusation, especially about a band that has encompassed 20+ years of experimental music. There is nothing even remotely hipster about being 48 years old wearing cheap suits while singing psychedelic love songs about sine waves and tire tracks.

Very well put, Embroyonic is a wack album. They need a break.