the flaming lips my cosmic autumn rebellion

Seduced by success, The Flaming Lips would, it seemed, spend their dotage pandering to young crowds as rock’s token mad uncles. There was talk from frontman Wayne Coyne of a return to raw power and doing-it-live, of a retreat from studio artifice towards a more organic and conventional rock attack that could be recreated on the world’s stages. Besides, when you’ve created two records so monumental in terms of production and lyrical content, what do you do for an encore?Īdvance word on At War With The Mystics sent alarm bells ringing. It was their second consecutive brilliant state of the universe address on mortality and dread, transience and transcendence, but surely now, with a million sales and celebrity fans from Jack White to Juliette Lewis, overexposure and their new media friendliness would rob them of their edge. After this, one suspected, being embraced by a large audience following 15 years on the margins as a cult horrorshow with just the Butthole Surfers for company would cause a loss of nerve.Īnd yet, miraculously, they did it again in 2002 with Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, another record magnificently poised between gorgeous melody and garish electro-noise, between their old life on the fringes and their new status as the mainstream’s weirdo cause celebre. The acclaim it won in the critics’ polls and for their live forays in 2000 gave further credence to the idea that this was as far as the Lips, if not rock per se, could go. Nicenice / High Pulp / DGS Samurai Champs / MKB Ultra / star meets sea / Allison Preisinger / Sealth / Dig-dug / Christa Says Yay / Sue Quigley / Noel Brass Jr.There was something so ultimate about The Flaming Lips’ The Soft Bulletin, emphasised by its release in the last year of the 20th Century, you expected it to close with this paraphrase of Jean-Luc Godard: “End – End of Music.” Although its predecessor, 1997’s quadrophrenic experiment Zaireeka, proposed new directions, TSB was the culmination a compression of pop’s best ideas into 12 mini-epics of nuance and bombast. Shay / Nazizi / Caela Bailey / Ralphy Davis / T.S The Solution / pat mchenry / Billy Brandt / Daniel Pak / Heather Thomas / Amen Viana / Wesley Holmes / Kristen Marlo / Momo Pixel / Misundvrstood / Khu.éex' / Champagne Honeybee / Mr. Tiffany / Selector Dub Narcotic / Cool Water / Kyo-Ken / Mehdi Nassouli / Cynthia Alexander / Snotty Nose Rez Kids / Brackets / Dirty Revival / Little Star / Spesh / Aramis / Moorea Masa / Grace Love / Slow Corpse / Whitney Ballen / High Step Society / Aaron J / Strawberry Mountain / Chanti Darling / SuperDuperKyle / Kung Foo Grip / Tobias the Owl / Cold Comfort / DJ Firmeza / Debit / Drexler / Ron Artis II / Ramonda Hammer / Sun Blood Stories / Daysormay / Little Destroyer / Gold Casio / Lori Goldston / dj100proof / Mother Of Pearl / FKL / Lushloss / Tres Leches / Lavoy / Blakk Soul / All Star Opera / Aramide / The cell phones / Whitney Lyman / dreamcatchr / Champagne Sunday / New Track City / RILLA / Debbie Miller / Thione Diop / Maiah Wynne / Ftb / Alec Shaw / Bakelite 78 / Mirrorgloss / Blood Drugs / Royce the Choice / Dryland / Gypsy Temple / Tekla Waterfield / Perry Porter / True Lovers / Blueyedsoul / Global Heat / Nsb / wristboi / Bujemane / Klein Zage / Khris P / Terror/Cactus / MADlines / American Nudism / Ben Townsend / Aaron J.

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The flaming lips my cosmic autumn rebellion