She wants to know, since it has arrived, what is despair, what is hope, what is failure… And what is in the darkness? …she just doesn’t want to pretend that she understands what she doesn’t really understand - what death is… what despair is… what existential fear is… She doesn’t know, but she’s starting to find out…Ĭonsider me intrigued.
Or his comments about “The Sound of Failure”: And so this song… is about a young girl whose best friend has died, and everywhere she goes… she must endure the empty optimism of the inexperienced. For example, look at what Coyne has to say about a track titled “Vein of Stars” (for some reason, I just love the song title alone): My intention was to sing something cosmic about how humans have (as science reveals more and more about the nature of time and space) been abandoned by the stars… But I believe, once we finished it (the song and its production), it seemed to convey just the opposite… That almost despite science we are connected to the stars… Because we love to look at them, we hope maybe they love to look at us… I think I might be the only one who was left feeling very underwhelmed by Yoshimi…, but in my mind, it’s a far, far inferior record to the emotional and musical juggernaut that was The Soft Bulletin.Ī lot of stuff appears to be happening in At War With the Mystics’ songs: wrestling with death and society’s attempts to numb and ignore suffering, existential longing and despair, trying to find a place in the grand cosmic scope, terrorism, and of course, a few digs at the current administration. Second, based on Coyne’s track descriptions, this album is going to be a lot heavier, musically and conceptually, than the Lips’ last album, 2002’s Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, and that’s just fine with me. Right now, my fave would have to be “My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life As Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism As Celestial Spear of Action).” Eat your heart out, Sufjan… Wayne Coyne himself, I think it’s safe to assume at least two things.įirst, the Flaming Lips are just as fond of long, obtuse, song titles that seem whimsical and precocious at first glance but upon a deeper look might actually be quite meaningful and sincere (as well as whimsical and precocious).
2”ġ7.Based on this extensive breakdown of the upcoming Flaming Lips record, At War With the Mystics, courtesy of Mr. “Enthusiasm For Life Defeats Existential Fear Pt. “I Was Zapped By the Lucky Super Rainbow”ġ5. “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (In Anatropous Reflex)”ġ4. “Jets (Cupid’s Kiss Vs the Psyche of Death) (2-Track Demo)”ģ. “Waitin’ For a Superman (Is It Getting Heavy?)”ġ. “Race For the Prize (Sacrifice of the New Scientists)”ġ6. “Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles”ġ5. “Talkin’ ‘Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever)”ĩ. 1 Deluxe Edition (3CD & digital) track listġ.
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The Flaming Lips’ most recent studio album, Oczy Mlody, was released early last year. Check out the official top 11 and top 52 favorite Flaming Lips songs in the full track listings for the standard and deluxe editions of their newly announced Greatest Hits collections below.
It’s likewise been remastered by the band and Fridmann. Scratching the Door and Seeing the Unseeablewill be collected as six-disc set and released June 29 by Rhino Records and Warner Bros.
In addition, the band is forging ahead with plans to reissue some of their earliest material, originally recorded for Restless Records prior to their 1991 signing to Warner. Everything comes remastered by the band and longtime producer Dave Fridmann and is set for release on June 1 pre-orders for the deluxe edition are available beginning today. Records between 19. A deluxe edition will draw from album tracks, B-sides, outtakes, and some of the band’s more out-there material for a total of three CDs’ worth of music. What are your top 11 favorite Flaming Lips songs? Your top 52? Rejoice, completists: The long-running Oklahoma psych rockers have announced their first proper Greatest Hits album, which collects 11 songs released by Warner Bros.
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