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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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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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Music Weekly: The Flaming Lips | News HUB
Hello listeners, and a happy Friday to you all. We kick off this edition of Music Weekly with Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne. The irrepressible singer w...
The Flaming Lips - Embryonic - Glorious Noise
Not because there's any question about its greatness; the album is a wonderful freak-out that places the Flaming Lips smack dab in lysergic territory. The reason it's hard to judge the album is because it comes at such a critical point ...
Michael Madison: The Flaming Lips on David Letterman.
The Flaming Lips on David Letterman. The Flaming Lips sing Do You Realize on David Letterman. This has to be the saddest song ever recorded. Ha ha. This is the studio version of the song. Posted by Michael Madison at 7:08 PM ...
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The Flaming Lips to cover Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon 16 Oct 18:35; Spotifriday #20 Side I: This Week on DiS as a playlist 16 Oct 12:01; Watch: Road Trippin' with the Ice Cream Man Part I, ft. No Age, TNV, Flaming Lips and more ...

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