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But I have been tricked again into forgiving you
What is this? Are you some kind of hypnotist?
Waving your powers around, the sun eclipse behind the cloud
I thought I recognized your face amongst all of those strangers
But I am the stranger now amongst all of the recognized
What is this? Are you some kind of hypnotist?
Waving your powers around, the sun eclipse behind the cloud
The sun eclipse behind the cloud
It's like watching a very complex movie, where the more you watch it, the more you catch about it. Except generally 100x better in most cases.
I've always felt that music has two extremes... On one end, you have the sugar coated poppy stuff that takes no brain power to understand and enjoy (if you like that kind of thing). On the other end you have music that takes a long time to understand and many years to truly appreciate. The Flaming Lips are a very good example of the best of the latter. It takes time to really soak in and once it does, it's like a throwing a light switch. You just get it.
Of course, evolving tastes are always going to play a role as well. Same with moods. There have been bands that I heard in high school and hated that now I truly love. There are also many bands that I loved in high school that now I can't stand.
Music does not exist in a vacuum. Everything about our lives at the moment of hearing flavor a song, making it slightly different for each person. I love that about music, and it is also one of it's greatest shortcomings.
i'm down with this entire comment. thank you.
There used to be an RP member, rdo, whose very head would explode from reading your post. Don't miss him.
Maybe he exploded once too often
It's like watching a very complex movie, where the more you watch it, the more you catch about it. Except generally 100x better in most cases.
I've always felt that music has two extremes... On one end, you have the sugar coated poppy stuff that takes no brain power to understand and enjoy (if you like that kind of thing). On the other end you have music that takes a long time to understand and many years to truly appreciate. The Flaming Lips are a very good example of the best of the latter. It takes time to really soak in and once it does, it's like a throwing a light switch. You just get it.
Of course, evolving tastes are always going to play a role as well. Same with moods. There have been bands that I heard in high school and hated that now I truly love. There are also many bands that I loved in high school that now I can't stand.
Music does not exist in a vacuum. Everything about our lives at the moment of hearing flavor a song, making it slightly different for each person. I love that about music, and it is also one of it's greatest shortcomings.
There used to be an RP member, rdo, whose very head would explode from reading your post. Don't miss him.
Origin Oklahoma, really? I now have a more positive opinion of Oklahoma.
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Truly inspired drumming! Matt and/or Nicholas just nail it.
MD: How do you determine what to do with the drums for each song?
Steven: One of the great things about being in the Flaming Lips is that everyone cares about the drums just as much as I do. The drums are just as important as the lead vocal,
so we spend a lot of time figuring out what we’re going to do. We always have a drumkit setup, but I also like to program drums using Reason [computer software].
On “Are You A Hypnotist” [from Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots], there are six different drum things going on. There are three drumkits, a programmed drum machine, and two electronic drum parts that I played on a keyboard. There was no rhyme or reason for that. We just kept piling stuff on until we thought it sounded awesome. Thankfully, we’re not one of those bands that go in to the studio and knock out all the drum parts and move on. Sometimes we’ll do all the tracking for the other instruments first and then do the drums.
Some painters paint to sell their pictures, others just cover the canvas with the emotion that comes out of their brush...
Nice.
Don't redeem Oklahoma yet. True, lots of talented musicians but these guys had trouble finding gigs in Oklahoma. They weren't appreciated in their own home. Plus, as an initially a punk band they were especially despised by the natives, Oklahoma being so conservative.
I will however point out Oklahoma did make "Do You Realize" the state rock song.
Origin Oklahoma, really? I now have a more positive opinion of Oklahoma.
Don't redeem Oklahoma yet. True, lots of talented musicians but these guys had trouble finding gigs in Oklahoma. They weren't appreciated in their own home. Plus, as an initially a punk band they were especially despised by the natives, Oklahoma being so conservative.
Wikipedia: “Associated acts… Miley Cyrus”
… what …?
Found this reference on the internet - don't know if it's true or not, as I'm not that motivated to check it out, but here it is nonetheless:
Two years after The Terror, The Flaming Lips would provide the backing band for Miley Cyrus on her Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz album.*******
(Shigesato Itoi)
… what …?
Since this CD these guys took a nose dive into self indulgent noodling..they wrote themselves right out of the music scene. Not one good song since this CD. They were poised to be the next Radiohead.
While I certainly don't know these guys personally, I'm fairly certain that they are into creating music as art and could give two rips if they are commercially recognized. I think this album just happened to make a splash into the popular culture pool, but I doubt that it was their intent...
Some painters paint to sell their pictures, others just cover the canvas with the emotion that comes out of their brush...
Come on guys!!!
Pompeii AM Gotterdammerung (among so many others) called and wants your hot take back.
Lips existed and experimented 2 years before Radiohead started doing music.
Pompeii AM Gotterdammerung (among so many others) called and wants your hot take back.
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I always wondered if the song title was inspired by that line...
WOW! My RP screen opens with four panels displayed. From left to right: player controls and track history in the left panel, album info and lyrics next, comments in the third panel, and the Wikipedia page in the far right.
It's MUCH easier to see details and comment simultaneously. [Although, BillG, my comment window can't be dragged around if it's obscuring something important. I know, seriously first-world issue here.]
Wonder why yours is different, Laptopdog?
It's better now. I'm usually on my Android phone when I listen to RP. They've fixed a lot of glitches since this latest update. I still prefer the old app, but it's long gone, I suppose. Life goes on.
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But, now?! When I click on the globe icon, it just takes me to the old site's homepage, and since I guess we can no longer leave comments on the old site, I click on the link that opens the new site, then I have to figure out which button to click on for which page I want, which I usually choose Track Listings, and then another 4-part multiple question about whether to sync to this or that...then by that time, the song is over, and I have to scroll down the track listing to find that particular song, select it, scroll down, and FINALLY leave a comment.
Which I did because I love this song that much!
WOW! My RP screen opens with four panels displayed. From left to right: player controls and track history in the left panel, album info and lyrics next, comments in the third panel, and the Wikipedia page in the far right.
It's MUCH easier to see details and comment simultaneously. [Although, BillG, my comment window can't be dragged around if it's obscuring something important. I know, seriously first-world issue here.]
Wonder why yours is different, Laptopdog?
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... And if we can use Grammy awards as a metric of critical success then Radiohead still has it while TFL hasn't gotten their attention since the 00s. For whatever that's worth.
Perhaps, but you know better than to consider the Grammy Awards a metric of critical success. Remember Debby Boone, Starland Vocal Band, or Christopher Cross?
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Think you'll find that these guys were formed before the genius of Radiohead appeared a few years after ... and certainly released their debut album quite a few years before. Just saying!
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I think RDO makes a good point. Like Radiohead they had a huge MTV/radio hit in the early 90s (She Don't Use Jelly & Creep respectively) and then established cult followings only to really blow up at the end of the 90s. And if we can use Grammy awards as a metric of critical success then Radiohead still has it while TFL hasn't gotten their attention since the 00s. For whatever that's worth.
I agree that their newer stuff is "noodling"... but the older songs are just so damn good! I'll love them forever...
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Not even close on any level.
Think you'll find that these guys were formed before the genius of Radiohead appeared a few years after ... and certainly released their debut album quite a few years before. Just saying!
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I really love At War With The Mystics, but everything after that is pretty much a dumpster fire, and the way they treated Klyph was shameful.
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Sun, beer and the Lips -woohoo.
A LOT of their stuff is fantastic.
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And you're back in the room...
Yeah but no but yeah but no:
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8 for the song, 10 for the album.
UhlainOKC wrote:
Definitely a fan of this song...and of the band. FSM bless the Flaming Lips :)
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And you're back in the room...
Definitely a fan of this song...and of the band. FSM bless the Flaming Lips :)
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It's like watching a very complex movie, where the more you watch it, the more you catch about it. Except generally 100x better in most cases.
I've always felt that music has two extremes... On one end, you have the sugar coated poppy stuff that takes no brain power to understand and enjoy (if you like that kind of thing). On the other end you have music that takes a long time to understand and many years to truly appreciate. The Flaming Lips are a very good example of the best of the latter. It takes time to really soak in and once it does, it's like a throwing a light switch. You just get it.
Of course, evolving tastes are always going to play a role as well. Same with moods. There have been bands that I heard in high school and hated that now I truly love. There are also many bands that I loved in high school that now I can't stand.
Music does not exist in a vacuum. Everything about our lives at the moment of hearing flavor a song, making it slightly different for each person. I love that about music, and it is also one of it's greatest shortcomings.
Well said!
Now, what other bands fall into the "latter" catagory?
It's like watching a very complex movie, where the more you watch it, the more you catch about it. Except generally 100x better in most cases.
I've always felt that music has two extremes... On one end, you have the sugar coated poppy stuff that takes no brain power to understand and enjoy (if you like that kind of thing). On the other end you have music that takes a long time to understand and many years to truly appreciate. The Flaming Lips are a very good example of the best of the latter. It takes time to really soak in and once it does, it's like a throwing a light switch. You just get it.
Of course, evolving tastes are always going to play a role as well. Same with moods. There have been bands that I heard in high school and hated that now I truly love. There are also many bands that I loved in high school that now I can't stand.
Music does not exist in a vacuum. Everything about our lives at the moment of hearing flavor a song, making it slightly different for each person. I love that about music, and it is also one of it's greatest shortcomings.
Is this bad!
Unbelievable!!!
Poacher wrote:
Humans?
Cicadas?
Great song.
Humans?
Sadly.
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Do it. The Lips are still occasionally king.
Are you some kind of hypnotist?
Yes, that was a nice set of 3 songs today too:
Paul Simon - Another Galaxy
Eels - Fresh Feeling
Flaming Lips - Are You A Hypnotist?
Is this bad!
Unbelievable!!!
Even Charlie could do that!
Even me - if I tried!
Well, if the rest of the album is like this number, the main challenge will be fighting off narcolepsy
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Haaaaa...!
Agree!!
8 -> 9
Well, if the rest of the album is like this number, the main challenge will be fighting off narcolepsy
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8 -> 9
I just made the bump as well.
He must be a Hypnotist 'cause I am truly hypnotized.
Just discovered the Flaming Lips and in particular this album, what a great listen!!!!
It was the cover art that caught my attention at first by the way...
8 -> 9
This song is good for the ears...
Once again, romeotuma, you've said volumes in a few well-chosen words. This is a really good song...
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very talented musicians
Absolutely! Saw The Lips in 2007 at a free open air show at the University of Florida. OUTSTANDING SHOW!
I love this CD...buy it!
isn't it fab?
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Didja ever see them in concert? Their tour drummer really does look like animal—right down to his furry rabbit suit. And he flails away like a madman ona comically small drum kit.
Their drummer Stephen Drozd is also the keyboard player, lead guitarist, musical arranger... etc. He is an absolute madman when it comes to musical energy and creativity
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Plus Klyph is a friend of my brothers girlfriend heheheeh
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