The Flaming Lips
OUT TODAY! ‘King’s Mouth’ by THE FLAMING LIPS…
19 July 2019
Band: THE FLAMING LIPS
Album: KING’S MOUTH / the band’s 15th album
The LP was already available – only 4000 copies – on this year’s Record Store Day
Note: Rumoured to be frontman Wayne Coyne‘s solo album. It also features some
tracks with former The Clash guitarist Mick Jones as the story’s narrator
Sound: A 41-minute fairytale daydream. Atmospheric, utopian, melodious
and overall tranquilizing and romantic
Score: 8/10
Stream here…
THE FLAMING LIPS Released Their Magnum Fairy Tale Opus ‘THE SOFT BULLETIN’ 20 Years Ago Today…
17 May 2019
The eccentric Oklahoma rockers THE FLAMING LIPS released their magical and supreme longplayer THE SOFT BULLETIN today 20 years ago, on 17 May 1999. It was this unique, otherworldly, colorful, far-out, crazily inventive and kooky gang’s 9th LP.
ROLLING STONE wrote: “The eccentric Oklahoma outfit Flaming Lips serenely release another baffling, winning, neo-psychedelic recording. Densely textured, awkward but somehow melodic, The Soft Bulletin finds these pop oddballs with their poker-faced humor firmly intact… Their music isn’t, how you say, universally accessible, and the weirdness gets same-y, but no one
else has posited a parallel universe in which the Sixties and the Nineties exist simultaneously, allowing for a peculiarly convincing brand of monolithic robotic swirl.” – Full review here.
TURN UP THE VOLUME! says: The Flaming Lips are The Wacky Wizards Of Oz Rock creating
a fairy tale universe with both elves and demons, with good ones and bad ones and other-worldly symphonies that transfer you to a never-never land full of rainbows on record and on stage. The most spectacular live band I ever witnessed.
NME had an recent interview with Wayne Coyne
the maestro of the stellar orchestra. Read it here.
THREE OF THE TOP TRACKS: The Gash / Race For The Prize / Waitin’ For A Superman
– THE GASH –
– RACE FOR THE PRIZE –
– WAITIN’ FOR A SUPERMAN –
ALBUM in full…
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THE FLAMING LIPS: Website – Facebook – Discography
Illuminating Amsterdam – Nov 2018 (pic by TUTV!)…
Quote Of The Day – By FLAMING LIPS Chief… WANYE COYNE
The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne about the peculiar voice of former
The Clash icon Mick Jones who’s the narrator on their new album King’s Mouth…
Full Wayne Coyne feature here
THE FLAMING LIPS Released New Album ‘KING’S MOUTH’ On Record Store Day…
14 April 2019
Yesterday THE FLAMING LIPS, always in for something odd, released their new, 15th LP entitled KING’S MOUTH on Record Store Day for just 4.000 privileged fans with a world-wide issue to follow later in the year. In marketing terms this is called a ‘publicity stunt‘! To me it’s a pathetic way to draw lots of free attention while leaving thousands of faithful Lips fans behind with an empty feeling. To comfort them the band made one track available for streaming. You can hear the dreamy ‘ALL FOR THE LIFE OF THE CITY‘ via Consequence Of Sound right here…
A band for the privileged…
Quote Of The Day – By… THE FLAMING LIPS’ Frontman WAYNE COYNE
5 Splendid Albums Turning… 20 In 2019
Going back in sonic history looking for memorable albums…
Here come Five Splendid Albums, selected
by Turn Up The Volume turning 20 next year!
– 1. ‘The Soft Bulletin’ by THE FLAMING LIPS –
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– 2. ‘The Contino Sessions’ by DEATH IN VEGAS –
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– 3. ‘Surrender’ by THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS –
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– 4.’Beaucoup Fish’ by UNDERWORLD –
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– 5. ‘Midnight Vultures’ by BECK –
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TURN UP THE VOLUME’s 15 Knockout Live Performances Of 2018…
Turn Up The Volume saw about 150 acts playing live this past year. Here are the 15 Knockout Performances that made his body temperature going way up, made his adrenalin stream faster and had a lasting impact on his greedy ears & impressed eyes.
1. THE FLAMING LIPS – Melkweg, Amsterdam – 11 November – Review here
2. SLOWDIVE – Cactus Brugge Festival – 15 July – Review here
3. IDLES – De Zwerver, Leffinge, Belgium – 2 November – Review here
4. JOHNNY MARR – Trix Club, Antwerp – 7 December – Review here
5. FONTAINES D.C. – Botanique, Brussels – 4 May – Review here
6. NOEL GALLAGHER – Vorst National, Brussels – 6 April
7. THE GLÜCKS – Ghent Fest – 19 July – Review here
8. RUMOURS – Cosa Nostra, Aalst – 21 April – Review here
9. JUJU – Kinky Star, Ghent – 18 February – Review here
10. PEUK – De Kleine Kunst, Ghent – 8 September – Review here
11. AUTOBAHN – Kinky Star, Ghent – 11 February – Review here
12. FALLING MAN – Ghent Fest – 14 July – Interview here
13. PERE UBU – 4 AD, Diksmuide – 1 June – Review here
14. TUBELIGHT – Charlatan, Ghent – 23 March – Review here
15. PINK ROOM – Kinky Star, Ghent – 3 March – Review here
(all pictures by Turn Up The Volume!)
THE FLAMING LIPS Turn ‘PEACE ON EARTH/LITTLE DRUMMER BOY’ Into A Psychedelic Visual…
Daily fuel to load your sonic batteries…
Eccentric psych rockers THE FLAMING LIPS definitely win this year’s Xmas cover contest. Although their musical interpretation of David Bowie‘s and Bing Crosby‘s 1977 hit medley PEACE ON EARTH/LITTLE DRUMMER BOY is sweet and soft it’s the accompanying clip that takes the holy spirit to another level. The Lips look like psychedelic Santa‘s from outer space on a LSD trip. Join them here…
THE FLAMING LIPS: Website – Facebook
Would you spend Christmas with these nutcases?…
Picture This…
No, it’s not New Year’s Eve yet, just some pics from a Flaming Lips concert…
(pics by Turn Up The Volume! 11 nov 2018 – Amsterdam)
