The Flaming Lips (formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983) are a Grammy-award winning American alternative rock band.
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".
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...
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(LiveDaily.com) The Flaming Lips [ tickets ] have reshuffled their forthcoming road schedule in the wake of multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd's recent and--so far, at least--unexplained hospitalization.... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) The Flaming Lips [ tickets ], Alice in Chains, Widespread Panic, Limp Bizkit, and Earth, Wind & Fire are among the acts playing at this year's Beale Street Music Festival [ tickets ], which runs from April 30-May 2 as part of Tennessee's Memphis in May... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) The Flaming Lips [ tickets ] have begun to put together a tour schedule for the first half of 2010, striking out on the road in March to support the band's recent flood of new releases.... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) R.E.M. [ tickets ], Dwight Yoakam [ tickets ], Michael Buble [ tickets ], Regina Spektor [ tickets ], Jack's Mannequin, The Flaming Lips [ tickets ] and Randy Travis [ tickets ] are among the eclectic mix of acts featured on an upcoming holiday album entitled "Gift Wrapped: 20 Songs That Keep On Giving." The Warner Bros.... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) No doubt with the event's signature mantra "Worship The Music" in mind, Voodoo Music Experience festival-goers turned out in droves to enjoy a more laid back lineup under clear blue skies on Sunday (11/1).... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) After flirting with the mainstream so successfully that their "Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" ended up as the improbable soundtrack to a salad dressing commercial, perhaps The Flaming Lips [ tickets ] had no other choice but to go back and rediscover their inner... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) Michael Buble [ tickets ]'s "Crazy Love," which last week debuted atop the US album chart, will stay put after posting a 55% increase over its debut-week sales total.... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) San Francisco's 3rd annual Treasure Island Music Festival again featured a bounty of artists. The thoughtfully designed two-day schedule offered fans a clear choice of either electronic-based, DJ-oriented talent, or rock and roll of a more traditional bent.... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) Plus: David Archuleta [ tickets ], Five for Fighting [ tickets ], more
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"Christmas in the Heart"
(Sony)O' come all ye faithful and get an earful of Bob Dylan's 33rd studio set, the holiday offering "Christmas in the Heart." The... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) The experimental space-rock of The Flaming Lips [ tickets ] has been described in many ways, but generally speaking it's pigeon-hole resistant. Perhaps it's time for a new genre for artist like them--"anything-goes rock?"... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) Britain's Academy of Contemporary Music has opened a satellite location in Edmond, OK, and members of local act The Flaming Lips [ tickets ] will get involved with students.... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) The Flaming Lips [ tickets ], MGMT [ tickets ] and The Decemberists [ tickets ] are among the two-dozen acts scheduled for San Francisco's third annual Treasure Island Music Festival [ tickets ] this fall.... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) The Flaming Lips [ tickets ] have set up a few road dates in August ahead of the expected release this fall of the band's new double album, "Embryonic."... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) It's official: Oklahoma is now hip. Until recently the song most of us associated with the state was Merle Haggard's "Okie from Muskogee." Yesterday, Governor Brad Henry declared the 28th of April "Flaming Lips Day" punctuating his defense of... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) The Flaming Lips [ tickets ]' song "Do You Realize??" will be named the Official State Rock Song of Oklahoma today (4/28), despite attempts to thwart the voters' decision to have the tune represent their state, according to a press release; as part... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) The Flaming Lips [ tickets ], moe. and Los Lobos [ tickets ] are among the acts who will perform in Washington, DC, this weekend as part of a three-day event that will mark Earth Day.... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) The Flaming Lips [ tickets ] will act as artist curator for the second annual East Coast All Tomorrow's Parties [ tickets ] Festival, which has been moved from Labor Day weekend to Sept. 11-13, at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, NY, according to a press... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) As a child, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne dreamed of making a film. Finally, seven years after starting the project, "Christmas on Mars" is in art theaters and on DVD.... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) Alt-rock eccentrics The Flaming Lips [ tickets ] have nailed down plans for their second annual Halloween celebration, set for Oct. 25 this year in the band's Oklahoma City hometown.... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) The Flaming Lips [ tickets ] will hit the festival trail this summer, and will also premiere their long-awaited "Christmas on Mars" film at a couple of upcoming events.... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) Coldplay [ tickets ], Jay-Z [ tickets ] and Nine Inch Nails [ tickets ] are three of the acts organizers of the Pemberton [ tickets ] Festival have tapped to headline the three-day Canadian outdoor music event.... continued
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(LiveDaily.com) R.E.M., The Cure [ tickets ], The Flaming Lips [ tickets ], Death Cab for Cutie [ tickets ], Modest Mouse [ tickets ], The Hives [ tickets ] and a slew of other acts have signed on for this spring's Sasquatch! Music Festival in Washington.... continued
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Track listing: The Yeah Yeah Yeah SongTime Travel?? Yes!!Why Does It End?
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Track listing: The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading With a Suicide Bomber)Vein of StarsMr. Ambulance DriverThe W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)The Sound of Failure/It's Dark... Is It Always This Dark??It Overtakes Me/The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)Goin' OnHaven't Got a CluePompeii Am GötterdämmerungThe Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight and Puts on His Werewolf Moccasins
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Track listing: Race for the PrizeA Spoonful Weighs a TonThe Spark That BledSlow MotionWhat Is the Light?The ObserverWaitin' For a SupermanSuddenly Everything Has ChangedThe GashFeeling Yourself DisintegrateSleeping on the RoofThe Spiderbite SongBuggin'
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Track listing: You Got to Hold OnTime Travel... Yes!!
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Track listing: Wayne's IntroFree RadicalsEnthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential FearWith YouWhole Lotta Love / Can't Stop the SpringShine On Sweet JesusSpace Age Love SongMoth in the IncubatorWhen You SmileSleeping on the RoofThe Observer
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Track listing: UnravelMy ShipSpeed of SoundIt's a Bit of Pain2HBPeopleFlimGalileo (edit)Up the Down EscalatorSeven Nation ArmyPlayground for a Wedgeless FirmSaudadeMonochromeSleep Comes DownRiver ManOn FirePyramid SongAnother Green WorldThe Jist
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Track listing: Protonilus Death MarchSyrtis Major
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Track listing: Assassination of the SunA Change at Christmas (Say It Isn't So)I'm a Fly in a Sunbeam (Following the Funeral Procession of a Stranger)Ego Tripping (Ego in Acceleration) (Jason Bentley remix)Ego Tripping (Self-Admiration With Blow-Up) (Cilione & Camaione remix)Do You Realize?? (Postal Service remix)Sunship Balloons
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Track listing: Fight TestThe Strange Design of ConscienceFight Test (Primitive demo With Helium Voice)
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Track listing: Fight TestCan't Get You Out of My Head (KEXP version)The Strange Design of ConscienceThank You Jack White (For the Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)The Golden AgeKnives OutDo You Realize?? (Scott Hardkiss Floating in Space vocal mix)
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Track listing: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1Can't Get You Out of My Head (KEXP version)Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1 (Sessions @ AOL version)
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Track listing: Shine On Sweet JesusUnconsciously Screamin'Rainin' BabiesTake Meta MarsFive Stop Mother Superior RainStand in LineGod Walks Among Us NowThere You AreMountain Side(What A) Wonderful WorldLucifer RisingMa, I Didn't NoticeDrug MachineStrychnine / Peace, Love and UnderstandingLet Me Be It
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Track listing: Do You Realize??Up Above the Daily HumXanthe Terra
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Track listing: Fight TestYoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1Do You Realize??All We Have Is NowYoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 2One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-21Ego Tripping at the Gates of HellAre You a Hypnotist??Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)In the Morning of the MagiciansIt's Summertime (Throbbing Orange Pallbearers)
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Track listing: Take Meta MarsMountain SideThere You AreFive Stop Mother Superior RainRainin' BabiesUnconsciously Screamin'Stand in LineGod's a Wheeler DealerAgonizingOne ShotCold DayJamShe's Gone MadGolden HearseUnconsciously Screamin'Stand In LineFive Stop Mother Superior RainI Want to Kill My Brother; The Cymbal Head
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Track listing: Bag Full of ThoughtsOut for a WalkScratchin' the DoorGarden of Eyes / Forever Is a Long TimeMy Own PlanetWith YouUnpluggedTrains, Brains & RainJesus Shootin' HeroinJust Like BeforeShe Is DeathCharlie Manson BluesMan Prom PakistanGodzilla FlickStaring at Sound / With YouKiller on the RadioBatman ThemeAnyway, Anyhow, AnywhereHandsome Johnny
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Track listing: Michael, Time to Wake UpChrome Plated SuicideHell's Angel's Cracker Factory (edit)Thank YouCan't Stop the Spring (remix)Jesus Shooting Heroin (live)My Own Planet (live)After the Gold RushDeath Tripping at SunriseDeath Valley '69The Spontaneous Combustion of JohnU.F.O. StoryFryin' UpRight NowBegs and Achin'The Last Drop of Morning DewMiracle on 42nd StreetDrug Machine in HeavenHari-Krishna Stomp Wagon (Fuck Led Zeppelin)Shaved GorillaRedneck School of Technology
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Track listing: One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday MorningOde to C.C., Part 1Ode to C.C., Part 2Groove RoomJesus Shootin' HeroinTrains, Brains & RainCommunication BreakdownOne Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning (live)The Ceiling Is Bendin'Everything's Explodin'Prescription: LoveCan't ExistThanks to YouCan't Stop the SpringLove Yer BrainMaximum Dream for Evil Knievel
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Track listing: Race for the Prize (Mokran mix)A Spoonful Weighs a TonBuggin' (Mokran mix)What Is the Light?The ObserverWaitin' for a SupermanSuddenly Everything Has ChangedThe GashSleeping on the RoofRace for the PrizeWaitin' for a Superman (Mokran mix)The Spiderbite SongFeeling Yourself DisintegrateThe Spark That Bled
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Track listing: Waitin' for a SupermanRiding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) (Zaireeka disc 4 mix)Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair (Zaireeka disc 4 mix)
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Track listing: Race for the PrizeRiding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) (Zaireeka disc 1 mix)Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair (Zaireeka disc 1 mix)
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Track listing: Bag Full of ThoughtsJesus Shootin' HeroinOne Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday MorningChrome Plated SuicideMichael, Time to Wake UpHell's Angels Cracker FactoryUnconsciously Screamin'God Walks Among Us NowStrychnine / Peace, Love, and UnderstandingDeath Valley '69Thank YouMa, I Didn't NoticeAfter the GoldrushI Want to Kill My Brother; The Cymbal Head
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Track listing: Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't UnderstandRiding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)Thirty-five Thousand Feet of DespairA Machine in IndiaThe Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the GnatHow Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)March of the Rotten VegetablesThe Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now
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Track listing: Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't UnderstandRiding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)Thirty-five Thousand Feet of DespairA Machine in IndiaThe Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the GnatHow Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)March of the Rotten VegetablesThe Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now
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Track listing: Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't UnderstandRiding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)Thirty-five Thousand Feet of DespairA Machine in IndiaThe Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the GnatHow Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)March of the Rotten VegetablesThe Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now
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Track listing: Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't UnderstandRiding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)Thirty-five Thousand Feet of DespairA Machine in IndiaThe Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the GnatHow Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)March of the Rotten VegetablesThe Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now
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Track listing: This Here GiraffeJets Part 2 My two Days As An Ambulance DriverLife On Mars
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