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The [[Flaming Lips]] are an alternative rock band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. They formed in 1983 and have become one of the most well known cult bands of the past 25 years. They began as a punk band but became more and more eclectic and psychedelic with the passing years. They also moved from indie labels to Warner Bros Records early in [[The Nineties]], where they've remained since.
The band had a [[Revolving Door Band]] for years, but since 1993 it's more or less been the lineup of singer/guitarist/keyboardist Wayne Coyne, bassist/keyboardist Michael Ivins - the two of whom founded the band - and longtime drummer/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd.<ref>They had an additional guitarist, Ronald Jones, between 1991-1996.</ref> Recently, Drozd moved mainly to guitar duties, with Kliph Scurlock joining as a drummer starting with ''Embryonic'', and live guitarist/keyboardist Derek Brown was also promoted to full band member.
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The band's song "Do You Realize??" is officially the State Rock Song of their home state of Oklahoma.
* ''Hear It Is'' (1986)
* ''Oh My Gawd!!!'' (1987)
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* ''Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'' (2002)
* ''At War with the Mystics'' (2006)
* ''Christmas on Mars'' OST (2008)
* ''Embryonic'' (2009)
* ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon]]'' <ref>With Stardeath and White Dwarfs, plus [[
* ''The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends'' <ref>A collaborative album featuring [[
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* [[Action Girl]]: Yoshimi in "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots".
* [[And Starring]]: Their full length cover of ''Dark Side of the Moon'', which is jointly credited to The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs (a band founded by one of Wayne Coyne's nephews), along with [[
* [[Ascended Extra]]: Kliph Scurlock was originally hired as a touring drummer for the ''Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'' tour, due to Steve Drozd branching out to keyboards and other assorted instruments, but was eventually brought in as the band's full-time drummer.
** Similarly, touring backing vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Derek Brown also recently became a full-time member.
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** ''Yoshimi'' isn't really the best example of a concept album, because only the first four tracks have anything to do with one another. Their most recent album, ''Embryonic'', fits the description much more accurately, what with the recurring unnamed female protagonist, the subplot about the earth-visiting alien, the preoccupation with astrology and the cosmos (including several zodiac-named tracks), the perpetual themes of existentialism, the insignificance of humanity, and the search for meaning and morality, etc.
* [[Cover Album]]: The band decided to do a whole-album cover of Pink Floyd's ''Dark Side of the Moon'', which turned out exactly as bizarre as you'd expect
* [[Cover Version]]: Apart from the ''Dark Side of the Moon'' album, these are quite rare on their albums. The reissue of ''Hear It Is'' has a cover of "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran, ''In a Priest Driven Ambulance'' has a cover of [[Louis Armstrong
* [[Crossover]]: They once did a crossover performance with [[Beck]].
** They also toured with [[Beck]] on his ''Sea Change'' tour in 2002.
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* [[Drugs Are Bad]]: According to the ''Fearless Freaks'' documentary, former guitarist Ronald Jones left the band due to paranoia about Steven Drozd's drug addiction.
* [[Epic Rocking]]: "7 Skies H3", which is 24 hours long. This following on from "Found a Star on the Ground", at six hours. There's also a noise loop on ''Hit To Death In The Future Head'' that's almost half an hour long.
* [[Excited Show Title!]]: ''Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips''
* [[Fan Disservice]]: The music video for "Watching the Planets". Wayne Coyne, you're almost 50 years old. Enough said.
* [[From a Certain Point of View]]: "...the sun doesn't go down, it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round"
* [[Gratuitous Panning]]: taken [[Up to Eleven]] with ''Zaireeka'' - the instruments are spread out across 4 separate discs, which are meant to be played simultaneously on 4 different stereos spread out around one room.
* [[Greatest Hits Album]]: Oddly, given how long and varied the band's career has been up to this point, only one actual hits album has been released, ''A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for Recording...By Amateurs'', and even ''that'' only covers songs from the band's first four albums.
* [[Guest Star Party Member]]: Their recent albums have included a few, including:
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** And in a rather bizarre note, German mathematician Dr. Thorsten Wörmann provides spoken word bits to "Gemini Syringes".
* [[Hidden Track]]: Only one has appeared on the band's albums so far, but given that it's an untitled track consisting solely of the outro to one of their other songs looped for nearly a half-hour, it's hard to say whether it actually counts or not.
* [[Limited Special Collectors' Ultimate Edition]]: Many of the band's recent releases have had this. Of note are the limited edition of their ''Christmas on Mars'' film that included a box of Flaming Lips popcorn and the limited edition version of ''Embryonic'' that came packaged in a small, furry box.
** Taken to extremes with new songs the band has been releasing as of 2011. So far, all of them have been released in small-run, extremely limited quantities batches, including a split 10" with Neon Indian pressed to hand-colored vinyl, and four songs released on a USB stick stuck inside a life-size replica of a human skull made out of gummi candy.
* [[Long Title]]: Almost to the point of self-parody. Among the most infamous are "One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning" and "What Is the Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical [In Our Brains] by Which We Are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love Is the Same Chemical That Caused the "Big Bang" That Was the Birth of the Accelerating Universe)".
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* [[Morality Ballad]]: "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)".
* [[New Sound Album]]: Has happened a few times in the band's catalogue, largely spurred on by personnel changes.
* [[Non
* [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly]]: Right now they're on Neo-Romantic Psychedelic Punk Soundscapes. Check back tomorrow.
* [[The Invisible Band]]: In the video for "Do You Realize??"
* [[One
* [[One Word Title]]: ''Embryonic''
* [[The Pete Best]]: There have been a few that would fit this bill, such as original vocalist Mark Coyne (who only appears on the band's debut EP), and the drummers the band went through prior to their first permanent drummer Richard English.
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** Possibly, although it could also be referring to "you" in the possessive sense, in that you are "possessing the invisible now." Knowing how bizarre Wayne is, it wouldn't be surprising.
* [[Sampling]]: Some of the band's early songs had this, such as "Can't Stop the Spring" and "Love Yer Brain" from ''Oh My Gawd!!'', and "Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory" from ''Telepathic Surgery''
* [[Self
* [[Serial Escalation]]: If you thought ''Zaireeka'' was crazy for being an album that requires four CDs to all be played simultaneously, the band recently released a free song via their [[YouTube]] channel called "Two Blobs Fucking." This one's split into ''twelve'' separate videos intended to be played simultaneously. Hope you have 11 friends with smart phones handy!
** Another of the band's releases for this year was the song "I Found a Star on the Ground," which is 6 hours long. If that isn't enough, the band is currently working on another song that's slated to be ''24 hours long''.
* [[Sesame Street Cred]]: They've appeared on [[Yo Gabba Gabba!]], doing a version of the ''Embryonic'' song "I Can Be a Frog"
* [[Something Blues]]: "Charlie Manson Blues" from ''Hear It Is'', "Talkin' 'bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever)" from ''Hit to Death in the Future Head''
* [[Textless Album Cover]]: ''Embryonic''
* [[This Trope Is Bleep]]: Likely as a joke, the ''Satellite Heart'' packaging replaces the title of "Plastic Jesus" with "★★★★★★★".
* [[Truck
* [[What Could Have Been]]: It's been noted by the band and other sources that ''Zaireeka'' was originally intended to be a ''10 CD box set'' as opposed to the four that they eventually ended up releasing.
** Some of the mystery of how the 10 CD version would have sounded has been answered, however, due to the band passing out special CDs containing a mixdown of what discs 5-10 would have included during special listening parties to commemorate ''Zaireeka's'' 10th anniversary.
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