r/flaminglips

I've seen them a bunch of times over the years but never heard this one live. They've been playing it at most shows this year but have dropped it for the last few. I hope they bring it back!! It's my favourite pre-Soft Bulletin track and like a top 3 for for the band's whole career. I'll be seeing them in Galway soon and it'll definitely be a disappointment if they don't do it.

Turn it on and ALL THE WAY UP!!!

Aadam Jacobs (aka the Chicago Tape Guy) recorded more than 10,000 live shows, mostly in the Chicago area. His tape collection is being digitized and uploaded to the Internet Archive, and these two shows were added just today!

Hey friends! Any Zelda enjoyers in here? I started a project where I mod songs I like from random indie/alt artists into Ocarina of Time! I figured one or two of you here would appreciate it. Let me know what you think and what songs you'd like me to go for next.

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Did anybody else notice this? This must have only occurred within the last few weeks, since I watched one of their videos not too long ago.

"Terminated" implies that it was some sort of copyright or inappropriate content breach, it's quite concerning that a channel that's been inactive for the better part of a decade can be suddenly targeted like this. I'm very curious to know what caused this to occur.

Does anyone here know anything more about this? Selfishly, I can't help but worry that the same thing could happen to me, and I'd love to know how to avoid this.

the guy used to live right next to me lol

I’m yearning and it’s just so so so so beautiful

As most of y'all probably know Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles came out in 1995, and I became a Flaming Lips fan in 1999 or so, so I’ve been hearing it for over 25 years. It’s on one of my favorite albums, so I’ve heard it a thousand times.

But whenever I’d try to play it, or my old band would try to cover it, I could never figure out the timing of the intro. I thought it was just kind of like they were randomly floating around and knew to come in off of some cue or something. But then I was watching some old live version of it, and I immediately realized I had been hearing the intro “wrong” this whole time

What I thought was the 1 is not the 1 at all. It’s the “and” of 4. And two things happened: 1) the timing of the intro makes perfect sense now, and 2) no matter what I do, I cannot hear it the way I used to. Like, once I realized how it actually counted, I can’t go back. Even though it’s the exact same audio, obviously, it sounds completely different....

One of my favorite Yoshimi-era videos!

This is probably my favorite Lips video. Warning to anyone photosensitive, there are a lot of flashing colors and lights. It sure does work though, especially within the context of the Donahue’d out rocket of a song. They have a lot of dense videos, but this one takes the cake in my opinion. I also love how Ronald and Steven are in it, even though they didn’t play on that record. The video doesn’t have that many views on YouTube, so give it a watch!

What do you think of this video? What’s your favorite video from the Lips? Much love from Lawrence, KS!