The Flaming Lips

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The Flaming Lips (formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983) are a Grammy-award winning American alternative rock band.<p>The band is known for their lush, multi-layered, psychedelic arrangements, spacey lyrics and bizarre song and album titles (for example, "Pilot Can at the Queer of God", "Free Radicals [A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with A Suicide Bomber]" and "Yeah, I Know It's A Drag... But Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical"). They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows featuring costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble with which he traverses across the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die".<p>The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers, they scored a hit in 1993 with "She Don’t...