A Thing of Flippin’ Beauty
I love this song and video so much. The music is gorgeous, poignant, sad and peaceful at the same time. The visuals are intimate and soothing in their simplicity, just lovely close-ups of each of the band members, and the…
Flaming Lips Love
Digging the wonderful weirdness of the Lips!
Flaming Lips Love
Digging the wonderful weirdness of the Lips!
Mony Baloney
Wayne at Street Level
The Flaming Lips subreddit is full of fun little oddities I might otherwise miss. While taking a scroll there the other day I came across the post below. A fan had Googled Waynes’s home address and found that the street…
Zaireeka: “A Living, Breathing Sound Sculpture” that “You Must Hear”
Zaireeka was described thusly in a recent article published on Classical-Music.com named as one of 14 “gloriously strange” concept albums. That Zaireeka should be on the list is no news to Lips fans but it’s good that the wider world…
Another Flaming Summer!
Thank goodness the Lips are bringing their tour back to the U.S. this summer. I know we have to share them with the rest of the world, but…..time to come home guys! As a flyover fan I was so relieved…
“Every Single Molecule” of This Tune is Right
Start at the particle level. Bring in the Flaming Lips. Add some guitars and drums, Wayne’s warble, and musically noisy beauty, when “all of the subatomic pieces come together and unfold themselves in a second”. This is love. This is…
“The Music Loves You So Much”
I ran across an old interview with Wayne from 2019 and was struck by how Wayne was able to put into words what I find so ineffable — the joy and magic inherent in the Flaming Lips’ music. Some of…