the flaming lips lightning strikes the postman

'We don’t really know that much about him or anybody that knows anything. The Internet was beginning and it wasn’t like it is now, when f-ing anyone can find something out there. “He recorded with Richard Davies… but he didn’t do very much… I think he made an effort not to be known by anyone that would know him from the Flaming Lips,” says Coyne. After that, I still think that we made rock music, but we didn’t overly embrace it so obviously anymore.”Įven Coyne isn’t all that sure about what happened to Jones, who left the Lips either due to his severe agoraphobia, fatigue after four years of almost nonstop touring, or band member Steven Drozd’s drug use at the time, depending on which account you believe. “I think that was probably the peak of that. “I think we’d all agree that Clouds Taste Metallic was whatever we would call our heyday of being in one way this very punk-rock, very loud rock group, and in another way being very freaky, prog-rock, experimental,” Coyne tells Yahoo Music. 18, but you can listen to the entire epic release – all 40 tracks, including rarities, B-sides, and various “ephemera”– exclusively on Yahoo Music now.

The collection comes out digitally and as a triple-CD set on Nov. Those diehard fans are in for a treat – and new fans are in for a serious ‘90s rock history lesson – because that landmark release is getting a deluxe reissue treatment this month, as Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997. However, many longtime Lips followers adamantly hail the more guitar-oriented 1995 album Clouds Taste Metallic as the band’s greatest work. Younger, more recent fans likely know them from their odd but awesome Dead Petz alliance with Miley Cyrus.

Some latecomers to the Flaming Lips probably primarily associate the Oklahoma eccentrics with the grand psychedelic orch-pop of The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, or with their crazy concert spectacles featuring dancing furries, puppets, fake blood, and frontman Wayne Coyne rolling around in a clear plastic Habitrail ball.

The flaming lips lightning strikes the postman