Alternative & Punk, Rock, Alternative Rock, Indie Rock
The Flaming Lips (formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983) is an American rock band. The band is known for their lush, multi-layered, psychedelic arrangements, spacey lyrics and bizarre song and album titles (e.g "Pilot Can at the Queer of God", "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)" and Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical). They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named
The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die".
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See them live, it's incredible.
The Flamin Lips, to me, were increadible until somewhere around '99 when they're guitarist, Ronald, left. Which still doesnt account for Wayne's change in songwriting. He's still great, but it seems like he's lost some of the strangeness and soul that used to be evident in his songs. Flaming lips has made my favorite music (hands down (ever)) before, but now they're music is less than awe inspiring.