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F Is For The Flaming Lips

5/22/2019

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*Originally released June 16th 2014*

This episode, Doug and Steve wax on about the prolific psychedelic rockers from Oklahoma City, The Flaming Lips! The guys also chat about dada-ist lyrical content, the role of a producer in the making of an album, and the Zaireeka listening experience.

Music featured this week:
The W.A.N.D. - At War With The Mystics
She Don't Use Jelly - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
Do You Realize?? - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
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13:33 - It was 2008. Flaming Lips played the main stage at Sasquatch Music Festival.

18:31 - Or at least, Dave Fridmann WAS Mercury Rev's guitarist at the time. He currently neither plays for or produces the band.

24:30 - Ooooooo Steve was close, but nope! In A Priest Driven Ambulance was released just prior to the Flaming Lips being signed to Warner Bros. And here's that insane music video he was talking about: "Shine On Sweet Jesus - Jesus Song #5" 

25:00 - All the way back to "Hear It Is." It's allegedly the eye of then-drummer Richard English.

35:20 - The science fiction themed video for "Riding To Work In 2025 (Your Invisible Now)" and the anime themed video for "March Of The Rotten Vegetables" 

39:29 - "The W.A.N.D." is number 32 on Doug's list of 100 Favourite Songs

56:43 - You can watch the trailer to "Christmas On Mars" here 

​Steve's Recommendations:
​Ego-Tripping At The Gates Of Hell - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - The Soft Bulletin
Pilot Can At The Queer Of God - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
​Silver Trembling Hands - Embryonic
The Strange Design Of Conscience - Fight Test [EP]
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

Doug's Recommendations:
Be My Head - Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
​Race For The Prize - The Soft Bulletin
One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-21 - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
The W.A.N.D. - At War With The Mystics
It Overtakes Me - At War With The Mystics
I Can Be A Frog - Embryonic
The Terror - The Terror
At War With The Mystics


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