But with The Soft Bulletin (1999) and the million-selling Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002), earlier erratic ways were abandoned for more focused experiments. The Flaming Lips began as similarly underground figures, schooled in counter-culture tradition Coyne, at 45, is just old enough to remember the Sixties. 1 - The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power) 2 - Free Radicals (A Hallucination Of The Christmas Skeleton Pleading With A Suicide Bomber) 3 - The Sound Of Failure / Its Dark. It is a benign version of the freaky spectacle they absorbed before they formed the band in Oklahoma in 1983, from violent Texan provocateurs the Butthole Surfers. The Flaming Lips have been playing this sort of show for a year now, but its spirit has stayed fresh. There are fixed grins all around me, the crowd under wizard Wayne's spell right from the start. Date First Available : February 16, 2015. The stage groans from the weight of Flaming Lips family and friends, costumed as Father Christmases, green aliens and superheroes. Cannons fire confetti and Coyne, released, shoots streamers from a wand. Entering to a Hollywood fanfare, the singer Wayne Coyne rolls over the audience's heads in a giant plastic bubble, turning the tired ritual of stage-diving into a giddy space-walk. 'He was, I believe, Vietnamese, and had a cool looking wizardly beard and mustache and he carried a long stick, which he used as a kind of cane-weapon. 'The idea of a magic wand and magic powers occurred to me while watching a homeless guy in Oklahoma City,' Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne explained in a press release. We're the enforcers, the sorcerer's orphans. I got a plan and it's here in my hand, a baton made of light. Why can't they see that's not power, that's greed. The Flaming Lips is known for The Fearless Freaks (2005), Enders Game (2013) and Good Luck Chuck (2007). The first single from The Flaming Lips' 11th studio album finds the experimental psychedelic rockers battling evil with a magical wand. They got their weapons to solve all their questions. July 9th - 11th at Waterfront Park in Louisville, KY.more Dislike. The Flaming Lips, Soundtrack: The Fearless Freaks. The Flaming Lips start where other bands end, with an audacious, mind-blowing spectacle. 12,995 views The Flaming Lips perform The W.A.N.D at The Forecastle Festival 2010.
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