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precision posted:edit: About Wayne taking drugs, the weird thing is that (as far as I know) he's said that he took acid when he was young but that for the 80s-90s era of "weird" Lips albums, all he did was drink. I think that's even something he said in Fearless Freaks? Something about drinking Jack Daniels and smoking and not eating. Yeah it's weird to think that he's been generally sober for most of their career and it's only now that he's older he's experimenting. I remember him saying on twitter that his wife got him ecstasy for his 50th birthday and Steven was like "Oh, you're finally trying it?" You'd think a guy as weird and love obsessed as him would have tried it before then.
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Fame Throwa posted:I can confirm this, as I was there. It was my first Lips show and god it was an incredible experience. The best part was at the beginning when Wayne yelled "gently caress the rain!" and then on cue it started pouring down. He must be a wizard or something. I saw them do one of their shows with Weezer during what was nearly a monsoon and it would have been a loving amazing experience if only Weezer hadn't been there. The rain and lightning just got heavier and heavier as one of their songs just got more and more intense, it was like they were wizards calling the storm! And then Weezer came back on and my buzz was killed. Though Weezer fans were the true worst part of the show. Bunch of Long Island bros who just wanted to hear Hash Pipe and The Sweater song a million times and then go home, they had no respect for the Lips.
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One of those songs is the collaboration with the chick from Phantogram right? I'm looking forward to hearing that track.
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leica posted:Does anyone know why Kliph hates Dave Grohl so much? I keep seeing it brought up (Twitter, etc.) but have no idea why. Did Dave gently caress his girlfriend or something? Because Dave Grohl is terrible. That's about all there is to it.
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Happy Hippo posted:Want to elaborate on that? He makes music that I, and apparently Kliph, can't stand. There's no larger story, Kliph's just got opinions on music.
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leica posted:That's the dumbest poo poo I've ever heard, thanks for your lovely opinion on what you think Kliph feels on the matter. Pretty sure Kliph is capable of respecting an artist (and fellow drummer) even though he doesn't prefer the music, so there must be something more to it than that. I have no idea why on earth you thing there must be something more. You could always just ask him. That's kind of how twitter works. It's really just him making GBS threads on Foo Fighters though cause they're not good. Ask him about Pink Floyd's The Wall if you wanna hear some of his other vitriolic opinions on music. Been following Steven and Kliph on twitter for a couple years now, and it's pretty fun watching them just bitch out Grohl every once in a while.
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Slackerish posted:I do too and I've never seen this. Examples? I've seen them have sarcastic back and forths about one lovely Foo Fighters song or another but I have no idea how to actually search twitter for that kind of thing.
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leica posted:I know because it's been implied, specifically by Steven on twitter but he didn't elaborate. I'm not going to ask him because why waste his loving time really, I've personally corresponded with Kliph before and he was cool so why bother him? I figured maybe surfingelectrode may know, but you can stop chiming in since it's obvious you don't. It's cool bro I asked him for you since you're afraid to bother the big rock star on Twitter. I just don't know why you see him tweet things like "Last time I bagged on talentless idiot Dave Grohl, I lost around 20 followers. Let's see how many I lose this time....."(https://twitter.com/KliphScurlock/status/137692844654723072) and think that there's something more to it than him thinking Grohl's a lovely musician.
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leica posted:Are you president of the Grohl Haters Club or something? Not yet, but with a strong voter turnout I have hopes of achieving the presidency. 
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leica posted:Not really, over it already. If he ever responds to me I'll PM you.
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The rear end Stooge posted:This sounds like it's going to be awesome. I hope it's available to stream. Looks like it: That Site posted:Q: Why can’t I hear it, right at this moment, by clicking on a link? “Wayne Coyne’s Human Head-Shaped Tumor” is a great title, just so perfectly Wayne.
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Here's a sick video of Steven demoing a sweet fuzz/tremolo guitar pedal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HgxLXqpR_U
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Slackerish posted:Also wait, did Wayne and Michelle really seperate? I just saw that one (very biased) article, can't find anything else on it. I hope they didn't What? I haven't heard anything about this. Can you post a link? I wonder if that has anything to do with Wayne's recent antics over the past year or vice versa. Happy Hippo posted:WTFing at that grenade nonsense. Wayne's shtick is getting really old. He spoke to Pitchfork(?) about the whole thing and he was partying super hard the night before, someone gave him a gold painted deactivated grenade and he was too hosed up to remember he packed it into his carry-on. So it wasn't a deliberate stunt, but still a boneheaded thing to do. Surfingelectrode posted:Here's a new interview with Steven about the album and the live show: Cool article, I like hearing about how they have a hard time deciding what songs to include in the live show. It's cool to see how an artist approaches that kind of thing.
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weirdojace posted:I saw that when he did it. I didn't think it was really cocaine, I figured he crushed up some mints or something and tweeted that as a joke. Cause that seems like a Wayne thing to do. Ke$ha later tweeted something like "those are crushed up tums that Wayne is snorting for his diarrhea." And obviously Wayne and Ke$ha aren't on bad terms or anything, as they performed together as guests at a Ben Folds show a few months ago. It's pretty obvious that dude has a huge axe to grind when it comes to Wayne and I'm having a hard time believing most of what he's written.
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precision posted:All the "bad Wayne" articles on that site have been written with different language on other sites. What specifically don't you believe? The naked pictures of his wife, the separation, Wayne cruising for groupies, the specific groupie he mentions, all of that is more or less provably factual. I only googled for a second but I haven't seen any other articles mention their separation or the groupies at all and his article was written way back in August. Someone else would have done a piece about it by now if it was real.
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WASDF posted:What's with Wayne's leg? He stabbed it somehow and it got super infected and he spent like a week in the hospital with a giant hole in his leg because of it. I have no idea how he injured it in such a way as to leave a big rear end cavity in his leg that he loves showing everybody.
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precision posted:Empty quotin' this. You're a bad person. You're a BAD person.
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Personally I don't care for any of their albums before Transmissions which probably makes me the odd man out in this thread. I didn't start listening to them until At War with the Mystics came out though. Mr. Ambulance Driver made me start to fall in love with the band and when I got Yoshimi Fight Test cemented that love.
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Allen Wren posted:I'd say get Clouds and Transmissions anyway, but also get Embryonic. This is the correct advice.
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Nov 27, 2012 06:35
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precision posted:How does one like Clouds but not Transmissions or Hit To Death? I personally can't stand the production on Hit to Death nor do I think any of the tracks are that special. I like them but I don't love them. Transmissions doesn't improve on my issues with the production that much but the addition of Ronald and Steven makes for much better songs. Slow Nerve Action and Turn it On are the only songs that I like as much as the songs on Clouds though.
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precision posted:If not for the Flaming Lips, he'd be a math teacher. I think that should answer your question. I though Gibby Haynes was an accountant at a good sized firm in Texas for a few years before doing music full time?
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gently caress, I love the Christmas stream, I wish it had been playing all week when I was at work.
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precision posted:I'm not telling the band what to play or what not to play, I'm just saying I don't like their recent setlists. Personally I'm pretty glad the Lips play as far back into their catalog as they do. Soft Bulletin to now is 13 years worth of music. It'd be cool if they dug deeper but it's better than if they only played the last album or two. Surfingelectrode, does any sort of physical release or download exist for the Atlas Eets Christmas stuff? I've had it on literally all day except for when I had to run errands and I want to put it on my Ipod. Also, it's great that they added Christmas at the Zoo into the rotation, I don't remember hearing that last year.
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HorseRenoir posted:I recall hearing Drozd say in a recent interview that they were aware of the setlist gripes, and that they were planning to do smaller shows focused on older/rare material. I hope they follow up on that idea. I don't know if it's a recent trend but a lot of the bands I really like who've been around a while have been doing album anniversary tours and shows lately and it'd be so sick if the Lips did something like that for Clouds or Transmissions. I saw part of the Reflections tour the Cure did where they played the first 3 albums in their entirety last year and that was an amazing experience. I also went to the Dinosaur Jr You're Living All Over Me 25th Anniversary show at the beginning of the month, they played through the whole album and then played a bunch of their concert staples and had tons of guest performers from Sonic Youth and the Pixies and a bunch of other bands. As someone who was born in '89 and only started really going to shows 4 years ago these type of shows end up being the best way for me to see these older songs getting performed. precision posted:"Convinced of the Hex" isn't old or rare, but they never seem to play it, which I don't understand at all. I love that song. That song is mad good, they did play it a couple times. I think they played it both times I saw them in 2010 along with Worm Mountain and Silver Trembling Hands, which are probably my two favorite tracks off Embryonic.
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crankdatbatman posted:Wikipedia says this month, but I'm not finding much besides that outside of articles written in like August. It's so nice to hear someone enthuse over recent Lips stuff in this thread. Too many older dudes in this thread who can't get over the 90s.
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precision posted:Hey now, hold on, I've said multiple times that Embryonic is the best thing the Lips have done maybe ever, and certainly in a long time. Soft Bulletin and Mystics are really the only albums I could do with never listening to again. Can't argue with Mystics, all the tracks besides Pompeii and Mr Ambulence Driver are pretty played out for me.
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I love the album art and I'm super looking forward to this. Reading the press release though, I'm way too sober to understand anything Wayne wrote beyond the "What is the Terror?" section. Also makes me think Wayne isn't the happiest guy right now, maybe there is truth to those stories about his marriage falling apart.
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Surfingelectrode posted:By the way, don't forget that one of these songs came out back in 2011. I know it was remixed for the album and will probably sound way different, but I guess it's still a taste of what the album will be like? There's video of them playing You Lust live too right? Isn't that the track they did with Phantogram?
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First impression of the new song is it's pretty cool, but I won't be able to truly judge it till I can load it on my iPod and blast it in my car. And I do think it'll be a good car-blasting song. That freakout at the end makes me happy, though it does sound a little.. chiptune-ish?Surfingelectrode posted:Yeah, but I have a feeling that the album version of that will be much better. I'm definitely looking forward to the studio version of this song.
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precision posted:Video is private. I think they released it too early or something because it's private for me too now and I was able to watch it an hour ago.
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WASDF posted:I like the idea of bands covering entire albums. It's interesting. It's definitely an interesting concept but I'm not crazy about the DSOTM album and I don't care much for the original King Crimson or Stone Roses albums. I'm trying to think if I've listened to any other bands covering other peoples albums situations and I'm blanking, so I don't know if I've ever actually enjoyed one of these projects.
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I really liked Breathe, but I could take or leave the rest of the album. Songs like Us and Them were too close to the original to be that interesting and other songs just didn't work for me. It doesn't help that I've been over DSOTM for years, the only Pink Floyd album I can really listen to anymore without getting bored is Animals.
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Talking Heads and Blondie came out at the same time as the Ramones and played at CBGB all the time but I wouldn't call them punk rock. Do you have a different word for like White Snake and Ratt and Poison or something? Cause those are what I think of when I think Hair Metal and I wouldn't say they sound like GNR. I was born in 89 though so I don't have first hand experience with that scene.
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leica posted:The Talking Heads and Blondie aren't anywhere near the same zipcode as the Ramones come on dude. If anything I would put them in the New Wave genre not punk. That's exactly what my point was. So good job reading I guess.
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rear end Catchcum posted:It's two minutes of Karen O yipping like different animals. If a kid sitting behind me on a plane did that I would punch him in the face.  I don't know, I like that song because it sounds like everyone involved is having fun. But you're right, I should take music by a band obsessed with animals, holidays and vaginas way more seriously and get mad at fun songs.
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Surfingelectrode posted:I'm pretty sure that Steven is responsible for like 95% of the album, not Wayne. Everything about this post excites me! I won't be bothering with the leak but I'm sure the temptation will grow between now and when the album comes out for real. New Flaming Lips album will be just what I need to get me through the other side of tax season!
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CPL593H posted:I always find it odd when people find this odd. I rarely listen to a few tracks off of something. When I want to listen to music I pick an album I want to hear and play the whole thing. Until recently I didn't even think people did it another way. I alternate between 2 super large playlists on my iPod, one that's full albums and get's played on album shuffle and one that has all my favorite tracks from those albums plus other tracks I like but can't sit through the full album that they come from which is just on regular shuffle. Which one I listen to depends on how surprised I want to be as I listen. Sometimes I just get bored when I know what the next song is going to be. I don't get people who just buy single songs, but then I don't buy digital downloads at all, I'm one of those people who still buys CDs. It hurts my OCD when a song like Sun Blows Up comes out that's only available as a single song download.
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crankdatbatman posted:Is "Drugs" a legitimate nick name for Drozd? If not then that's kind of mean. What?
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Allen Wren posted:I think it's in the sidebar, the article refers to him as "Steven "Drugs" Drozd" at one point. Ah, okay, WASDF's post made me think that Wayne just straight up called him Drugs and I couldn't remember seeing that in the article.
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Surfingelectrode posted:The CD version, too. Fuuuuuck, really wishing I was at SXSW right now.
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