![]() ![]() “We really turned a corner when we did a cover of Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ a couple months ago,” he says. While he described earlier tracks as “progressive Dixieland,” mixing banjo with “futuristic jazz,” Coyne claims that the Lips recently made a revelatory change in direction. “That’s how the Hoover Dam got built!”) The band has recorded six songs for the CD, the follow-up to 2002’s Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. (“At some point, you need a deadline,” says Coyne. The tune will also grace the Lips’ long-awaited twelfth album, At War With the Mystics, now due in January or February. You know, there was a hit here in Oklahoma in the Seventies called ‘D.O.A.,’ this real heavy death-rock song about a guy in a crash - but I wanted to make something more emotional.” “And I had this folksy, storytelling song about the scene of an accident: The guy is pleading with the ambulance diver to hurry up, but he realizes that the girl he’s with is already dead. When people compare The Flaming Lips to “something unbelievable like the Beatles that we are occupying that space in their mind - it’s hard to believe,” Coyne said.“My mother died about a year ago, and there was a mood that came with her illness that felt so desperate - the shock of thinking about what the future might be,” he says. this elevates to make a more powerful, potent moment,” he said. ![]() We need them to sing along to make it a bigger experience. The group performs their music but also has large video screens, a truckload of confetti, 35 strobe lights and, of course, Coyne’s signature human-size plastic bubble in which he makes his way through the audience. The group “injected more rollicking and sinister” elements, Coyne said, and the online album has since been released as a CD. Coyne said he “whimsically” suggested the idea to redo the album online only. “‘Dark Side of the Moon’ is a great (expletive) record,” Coyne said. But the band’s longtime fans appreciate the challenge, Coyne said.Ī more readily accepted recording was the 2009 remake of Pink Floyd’s 1973 The band has continued to release songs that get interpreted in a variety of ways. Ambulance Driver,” was on the soundtrack of the 2005 film “Wedding Crashers.”ĭespite commercial success, many of The Flaming Lips’ songs feature unorthodox lyrics and interesting instrumental arrangements. Their song “SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy” was featured in the 2004 “The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie” and an edited version of “Mr. You’re not a contrived version of it, it’s just being you.” “Willie Nelson - this guy, he is living his life and this is his life,” Coyne said. “With 20 years, suddenly you’re part of why music is important, why rock and roll is important,” Coyne said.Ĭoyne used country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson, who recorded his first single in 1956 and continues to record today as an example of a musical act that does his own thing. After 10 years, a band proves its longevity and relevance, he said. Wayne Coyne said that after five years, bands can find themselves fighting for relevance. The band will take the stage at 7 o’clock tonight at CMAC, 3355 Marvin Sands Drive, Hopewell. Mark’s brother, Wayne, is now the frontman but he said the band isn’t necessarily the reason the group has been around for more than 25 years. (The Will Always Negates Defeats),” it might be hard to picture a band that had its songs featured on the “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Beavis and Butt-Head” or commercials for Dell computers or Kraft salad dressing.īut the group has remained relevant since its inception in 1983 in Norman, Okla., with Mark Coyne singing lead vocals. When you listen to The Flaming Lips’ songs like “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)” or “The W.A.N.D. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |