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The Flaming Lips (formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983) is an American alternative rock band.

The band is known for their lush, multi-layered, psychedelic arrangements, spacey lyrics and bizarre song and album titles (for example, "Pilot Can at the Queer of God", "Free Radicals Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with A Suicide Bomber" and "Yeah, I Know It's A Drag... But Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical"). They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows featuring costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble with which he traverses across the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die".

The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers, they scored a hit in 1993 with "She Don't Use Jelly". Although it has been their only hit single in the U.S., the band has maintained critical respect and, to a lesser extent, commercial viability through albums such as 1999's The Soft Bulletin (which was NME Magazine's Album of the Year) and 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. They have also had more hit singles in the UK and Europe than in the U.S. (read more)

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Do You Realize - that you have the most beautiful face
Do You Realize - we're floating in space -
Do You Realize - that happiness makes you cry
Do You Realize - that everyone you know someday will die

And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last
You realize the sun doesn't go down
It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round

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Named one of the "50 bands to see before you die" by Q, The Flaming Lips are one of the most acclaimed bands going.
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Top Albums 

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

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The Soft Bulletin

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Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

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At War with the Mystics

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Clouds Taste Metallic

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Here are a few of the best places where The Flaming Lips fans can find more information about their favorite band.
The Official Flaming Lips Website
Homepage of the Oklahoma psychedelic alternative rock band the Flaming Lips. Includes information on the band's feature film "Christmas on Mars" as well as ...
The Flaming Lips at Wikipedia
Article includes band history, trivia and discography.
The Flaming Lips at MySpace
MySpace music profile for The Flaming Lips with tour dates, songs, videos, pictures, blogs, band information, downloads and more.

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The Flaming Lips
Flaming Lips, MGMT, Yo La Tengo head Treasure Island '09
... Brazilian Girls, LTJ Bukeum, DJ Krush, Murs, Frederico Aubele, The Streets, The Limousines and Crown City Rockers for Saturday and The Flaming Lips, The Decemberists, Beirut, Yo La Tengo, Bob Mould, Grizzly Bear, Sprial Stairs, ...
BEEHIVE CANDY: The Flaming Lips - Circus, Stockholm, 2006
The Flaming Lips formed back in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA in 1983, and have enjoyed varying degrees of critical, and popular success down the years, perhaps this past decade has been the best one for them. ...
Rock For Masses: The Flaming Lips - Embryonic EP (2009)
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic EP (2009). A banda que a vinte anos é sinônimo de arte e experimentalismo e ousadia, apresenta seu novo trabalho: Embryonic, que serve como base para o lançamento de seu novo álbum e tambpem de plataforma ...
ATP NY Lineup : Big Apple Music Scene - Writings on the Music ...
The shtick is that they have a band curate the festival, meaning the band gets to choose the performers. The curator for ATP NY 2009 is The Flaming Lips. It's all going down September 11-13 at Kutsher's Country Club in Monticello, NY. ...

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