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The old thread has fallen to the Archive Gods: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3501888 So here is a new thread to discuss the ongoing sleazefest of blood-filled candy worms that is The Wayne Coyne Experience (feat. Some Other Guys). Wayne and the boys are making a beer with Dogfish Brewery: http://www.middletowntranscript.com/news/20171218/dogfish-head-partners-with-flaming-lips-for-2018-collaboration And that's about all I can find for band news right now.
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# ? Jan 16, 2018 05:51 |
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# ? May 4, 2024 10:14 |
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The Flaming Lips have become too clever for their own good. Make a generic album, Wayne.
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# ? Jan 16, 2018 17:40 |
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Dogfish makes awesome beer. The flaming lips do not make awesome music any more. Seaquench ale and 120 minute are the best beers
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# ? Jan 16, 2018 23:46 |
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Oczy Mlody is frankly an embarrassing record, despite the few bright spots it has.
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# ? Jan 16, 2018 23:48 |
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I get so annoyed with the Lips nowadays. Leave the band Drozd, go be free.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 06:01 |
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Skeezy posted:I get so annoyed with the Lips nowadays. Leave the band Drozd, go be free. I'm pretty sure Drozd has literally sold his body and soul to Wayne, probably involving a Crowley-esque ritual performed while tripping at Bonnaroo with Ke$ha.
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 06:17 |
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I'll preface this by saying that I think they've paid their dues and should have free rein to do what they want, but I've seen them three times, and the last — 2011 — was a loving bummer. They paused the set halfway through to noodle on the iPad; technical difficulties arose, and Wayne got mad at the crowd for being impatient (we were just talking among ourselves).
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# ? Jan 17, 2018 15:34 |
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I had a blast when I saw them 3 times in 2011 - twice were playing all of Soft Bulletin, the other was Dark Side of the Moon - but when I saw them at Riot Fest a few years back it wasn't the same. And their music is poo poo now, and Wayne's a huge rear end in a top hat. Still like listening to the older stuff.
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# ? Jan 18, 2018 18:02 |
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thrilla in vanilla posted:Dogfish makes awesome beer. The flaming lips do not make awesome music any more. Agreed on both counts. The lone bright spot in the Lips going to poo poo has been that it led me to finally seriously look into Mercury Rev and realize that I should have done that far earlier than I did.
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 11:18 |
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I should also have prefaced my post above by saying that the first two times I saw them, they opened with "Race For The Prize" and there was confetti flying and everyone was happy and it was the drat best
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 16:31 |
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Ikari Worrier posted:The lone bright spot in the Lips going to poo poo has been that it led me to finally seriously look into Mercury Rev and realize that I should have done that far earlier than I did. Yeah the Rev are loving amazing, especially the perfect trio of Boces/Yerself is Steam/See You On the Other Side their later stuff is great too but i wish Donahue would make another psych gently caress record. Spotify has some great live albums by them.
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# ? Jan 22, 2018 18:29 |
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Yeah, it kind of sucks The Flaming Lips have not been that great for nearly a decade. I saw them once in 2010 and it was real fun, but now I would kind of be embarrassed calling myself a fan to any strangers who like music.
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# ? Jan 24, 2018 22:04 |
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At this Point I'm just waiting for Steven and Michael to bow out and it turning into the Wayne Coyne Experience. It kinda already is, but he's clearly going to be the last original member still going on with it.
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# ? Jan 26, 2018 05:44 |
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precision posted:Yeah the Rev are loving amazing, especially the perfect trio of Boces/Yerself is Steam/See You On the Other Side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6ZErVNm-qI They put out a fantastic album in 2015 too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvLwVlxnnls
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# ? Jan 27, 2018 03:20 |
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Real Name Grover posted:I should also have prefaced my post above by saying that the first two times I saw them, they opened with "Race For The Prize" and there was confetti flying and everyone was happy and it was the drat best God yes. The first time I saw them was after Yoshimi came out and they were dressing people up as animals and shooting confetti and yelling Seven Nation Army through a loudspeaker and it was the most amazing performance I’d ever seen. Saw them again in 2011 and it was a super massive letdown. Delayed by half an hour due to technical difficulties, and then a dull bunch of songs once they finally kicked off. I don’t think I’ve actually enjoyed a FL album since At War with the Mystics.
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 00:00 |
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What didn't you like about Embryonic? Literally every Lips fan I know who was turned off by their post-Clouds material loved Embryonic.
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 01:59 |
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Embryonic and Oczy Mlody are two of their best albums imo. Oczy is weird as hell but once you center on in on what the album's about it's an even more depressing record than The Terror, and I think there's a lot of fun stuff going on musically. I'm in a weird place with FLips where I couldn't really care less about what they're up to nowadays but I liked their last album a lot so I'll check out whatever it is they do next.
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 02:32 |
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precision posted:What didn't you like about Embryonic? Literally every Lips fan I know who was turned off by their post-Clouds material loved Embryonic. It’s mostly down to the fact that I cannot remember it. Aside from a few songs like Watching the Planets, Convinced of the Hex, or I Can Be A Frog, if I look at the song titles I cannot imagine what they sound like. Whereas Yoshimi, Mystics and Soft Bulletin made a definite impact in my brain. The most lasting memory I have of Embryonic is its terrible furry packaging.
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# ? Jan 29, 2018 03:41 |
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That's how I am with Mystics. Aside from a couple tracks, all I remember is that I kind of didn't like it.
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# ? Feb 10, 2018 03:51 |
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I’ve relistened to Oczy Mlody a few times in the past few months. Some days I get what they are going for, other times it rings flat. The instrumentals on the album are awesome, don’t get me wrong. But yikes the lyrics. It’s just hard for me to take this band seriously anymore. This and the two green haired drummers and all that noise
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# ? Feb 11, 2018 05:02 |
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precision posted:Spotify has some great live albums by them. Can you recommend some of them? I'm always hesitant to check out random live stuff on Spotify because I have an extreme allergic reaction to low quality live recordings that sound like they were pulled from a cassette hidden inside a jean jacket. I only got to see Mercury Rev once, opening for Jesus and Mary Chain back in the 90's. I knew nothing about them, walked into their set all and was immediately in love. hatelull fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Feb 15, 2018 |
# ? Feb 15, 2018 20:21 |
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hatelull posted:Can you recommend some of them? Off the top of my head, the SXSW one from, I think '98, is golden.
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# ? Feb 16, 2018 01:44 |
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Mercury Rev released an album of Peel Sessions and it's all awesome: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-mercury-rev-the-complete-peel-sessions-universal-1819444.html
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# ? Feb 16, 2018 12:17 |
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Peel Sessions unilaterally rule and RIP John Peel. If you do some digging and find his "Festive 50" shows, where he does the top 50 requested songs of the year, they are amazing especially with his between-song commentaries. The ones from the late 80s/early 90s are especially intriguing.
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# ? Feb 17, 2018 03:42 |
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The Flaming Lips 2018: Just listen to Mercury Rev, OK?
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# ? Feb 17, 2018 20:46 |
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I liked The Terror a lot and consider it one of their strongest albums. Other than that I've only liked 1-2 songs on everything else they've done after Yoshimi. Very uneven band for sure. Finally got around to making a surround mix of Zaireeka. "The Train Runs Over the Camel..." and "March of the Rotten Vegetables" are top shelf. Too bad I don't have an actual surround sound system to get the full effect. Bodyholes fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Feb 22, 2018 |
# ? Feb 22, 2018 21:23 |
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Bodyholes posted:I liked The Terror a lot and consider it one of their strongest albums. Other than that I've only liked 1-2 songs on everything else they've done after Yoshimi. Very uneven band for sure. Regarding Mercury Rev, I know people mostly champion Deserter's Songs, but is there a general awareness of how fantastic its follow-up was? All is Dream is one of the few albums I consider flawless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r8ZGTOEoL4
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# ? Feb 23, 2018 01:23 |
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Race for the Prize came on shuffle on Spotify for me tonight and it made me sad because I remembered how loving great this band used to be and how they're nowhere near that now
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# ? Feb 23, 2018 11:29 |
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lurker4334 posted:Zaireeka is a stellar album. I love the two you mentioned as well as "How Will We Know" and "Riding to Work in the Year 2025" I think the general opinion is that All is Dream was a bit of a letdown actually, but I prefer it to Deserter's Songs personally as well. Also hell yeah Zaireeka is great, that wobbly melody in "March of the Rotting Vegetables" is so fuckin' good
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# ? Mar 9, 2018 16:49 |
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precision posted:I think the general opinion is that All is Dream was a bit of a letdown actually, but I prefer it to Deserter's Songs personally as well. It's definitely not another Deserter's Songs, it goes into the kind of psychedelic fantasy that would influence their direly underrated next album, The Secret Migration. Which was not a very popular album it seems but has some great tracks like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02-r074kZXI And it seems no one talks about Snowflake Midnight, their artsy techno next record, which is great and makes me sad.
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# ? Mar 10, 2018 03:16 |
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For what it's worth I liked Snowflake Midnight for it's buzzy, laser-sharp, mantra-based songwriting and disliked The Light in You in spite of its fantastic production. Oczy Mlody wasn't very good but it's not terrible. The second half of it picks up dramatically and "One Night" is destined for a prime spot on an eventual best-of anthology. The feeling I got after it dropped was that the band pretty much has one more chance at righting the ship, and we haven't really seen any Wayne Antics since it flopped. The real piece of poo poo they released last year was the RSD cash-in psuedo-live album, a tedious waste of time that was shockingly dull If I were Wayne, I would seriously consider taking on a non-Lips project, specifically non-musical, to recharge the creative batteries before tackling another album. That King's Mouth art installation seemed pretty cool; maybe he should go all-in on an art exhibition. Heck, I wouldn't even mind if he directed some music videos for other bands or even tried his hand at an indie movie that wasn't a band project. And I would seriously consider retooling the live show by modeling it after Ween and other jam-type acts by being able to pull any song out at any time, throwing together unique setlists tailored to the location of each show. Clearly pandering to the festival crowd has reached the point of totally diminished returns. Anyway, Hear It Is, Oh My Gawd, Telepathic Surgery and In a Priest have been remastered and will be rereleased in June. MajorB fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Apr 2, 2018 |
# ? Apr 2, 2018 05:23 |
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Snowflake Midnight owns is the first record I heard from Mercury Rev and favor it the most probably because of that.
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# ? Apr 2, 2018 20:06 |
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Strange Attractor, the free companion album that was released alongside SM, also has some really pretty songs like "Nocturne for Norwood": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmKpwSa5WDQ
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# ? Apr 3, 2018 22:24 |
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Mercury Rev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCDrWOvW5M8 Deserter's Songs first half is great but I dislike the second half quite a bit. ----- Finally the punk rockers are taking showers. Fors Yard fucked around with this message at 07:07 on Apr 17, 2018 |
# ? Apr 16, 2018 22:46 |
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A Brazillian indie shoegaze label has released a FLips tribute album, so that's cool.
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# ? Apr 18, 2018 03:06 |
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MajorB posted:A Brazillian indie shoegaze label has released a FLips tribute album, so that's cool. yo this whole thing is good as gently caress like it's up there with the Tribute to Spacemen 3 and the Cleopatra Records "goth bands do Pink Floyd" as far as "actually good tribute albums" seriously it fuckin rips
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# ? Apr 22, 2018 02:46 |
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MajorB posted:A Brazillian indie shoegaze label has released a FLips tribute album, so that's cool.
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# ? Apr 25, 2018 06:50 |
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That version of "Hit Me Like You Did the First Time" has actually supplanted the original in my brain. e: if you didn't see it, also check out their tribute to Lush: https://theblogthatcelebratesitself.bandcamp.com/album/lovelife-a-homage-to-lush
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# ? Apr 25, 2018 23:32 |
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Well there's certainly more creativity and ambition in this thing than the last decade of the Lips' career peace sword is solid too
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# ? Apr 26, 2018 07:26 |
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# ? May 4, 2024 10:14 |
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Peace Sword did have some great songs on it, forever doomed to be remembered as "somehow related to that dumb Ender's Game movie"
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# ? Apr 27, 2018 02:04 |