5/17/2023 0 Comments The flaming lips songs![]() We talk about our fondness for the warmth of lo-fi and the memories associated with it. The psychology of listening to a song and the meanings and people you assign to it are all topics that Coyne touches on during our conversation. “Back in the ‘80s, I would've stuck them together, where now I don't do that at all.” “You can easily separate music from rednecks now,” Coyne explains. ![]() “We wanted to be around punks and freaks.” In 2020, Coyne and the band have broadened their minds quite a bit since then. “I didn't want to be around a bunch of cowboys that wanted to beat us up,” he remembers. ![]() Once you get Wayne Coyne talking about music, he starts connecting the personal and historical dots of being an experimental rock band that grew up in the early '80’s in Oklahoma City. The next file is the new album’s penultimate song “God and the Policeman.” The accompanying text simply reads, “This one's with Kacey Musgraves.” Kacey Musgraves (a longtime Flaming Lips fan who covers "Do You Realize?" in her live set) is a guest on two other songs, “Watching the Lightbugs Glow” and "Flowers Of Neptune 6.” The spectre of death makes itself present on the record, a consistent theme for The Flaming Lips after Wayne Coyne’s formative brush with death during an armed robbery at a Long John Silver’s. The Flaming Lips frontman uploads the first song from his group’s upcoming 16th album American Head, "Will You Return / When You Come Down.” It’s a sad-yet-triumphant psychedelic rocker that touches on the death of friends and family and the battle through it. From this song, and then examining Louis Armstrong’s music and his life, it helped us to embrace the idea that a part of music is that it’s just entertainment done by entertainers.A quick flurry of texts are sent after an afternoon FaceTime chat with Wayne Coyne speaking from his Oklahoma City backyard. However, the final song he mentions is Louis Armstrong’s classic ‘What a Wonderful World.’ Discussing the iconic track, Coyne said: “I think there’s something in Louis Armstrong he’s so optimistic, and he’s got such a weird voice. He describes the band as having “fucking cool lyrics and a cool mood” as well as being “so weird, but so simple.”Īmongst other favourites of Coyne’s include ‘Without You’ by Harry Nilsson, ‘Catch the Wind’ by Donovan, ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’ by Roberta Flack and ‘The Pusher’ by Steppenwolf. It’s so crushing when the little boy leaves the dragon behind, the dragon is left in the cave, and the dragon misses his friend.” Speaking on the song’s composition, Coyne said that the “harmonies and the way that they build it is a simple arrangement, but the way they build that emotion is uncanny.”Ĭoyne also includes The Psychedelic Furs track ‘Love My Way,’ which he recalls as greatly inspiring to listen to in the early 1980s. Coyne says, “it’s hard for me to listen to because it’s so sad. Next is a slightly unusual pick, Tom Jones’ ‘I Know.’ However, Coyne states that his choice is because “I sometimes do try to wonder ‘How did we get the way we got?’ My mother absolutely loved Tom Jones.” The Perry Como cover was a favourite of Coyne’s as a kid, stating, “on those early records it was the only emotional music that I’ve ever really heard like that.”Īnother childhood favourite is ‘Puff the Magic Dragon’ by Peter, Paul and Mary.
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