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Album review: The Flaming Lips - 'Embryonic'

Album review: The Flaming Lips - 'Embryonic'

Back in touch with their dark side for a brilliantly unhinged masterpiece

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Flaming Lips : Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

Flaming Lips : Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

...try to name another band who have lasted ten albums, each one more visionary than the last. Can't, can you?...

  • Jul 9, 2002

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The Flaming Lips/Gnarls Barkley: University Of Southern California, LA; Sunday, Dec 31, 2006

The Flaming Lips/Gnarls Barkley: University Of Southern California, LA; Sunday, Dec 31, 2006

Confetti, giant bananas and spacemen: it’s New Year’s Eve Wayne Coyne style

  • Jan 12, 2007

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Benicassim International Festival : Benicassim, Spain

Benicassim International Festival : Benicassim, Spain

The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Basement Jaxx, Orbital, Belle & Sebastian and more play Spain's biggest summer festival...

  • Aug 7, 2001

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The Flaming Lips, Royal Albert Hall, London: Saturday April 22

The Flaming Lips, Royal Albert Hall, London: Saturday April 22

The weirdest show on earth rolls into town. And this time it’s war!

  • May 5, 2006

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Boston Roxy

Boston Roxy

A "supersonic flux invented in the future, blowin' up so hard you can hear it before it happens"...

  • Oct 9, 2000

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The Flaming Lips: The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

The Flaming Lips: The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

The politics of the playpen

  • Mar 31, 2006

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London South Bank Royal Festival Hall

London South Bank Royal Festival Hall

...all bands should ride the tornado like this. Over the rainbow. Over the moon. ..

  • May 23, 2000

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The Flaming Lips: At War With The Mystics

The Flaming Lips: At War With The Mystics

Space is the place for Lips album Number 12

  • Mar 31, 2006

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London South Bank Royal Festival Hall

London South Bank Royal Festival Hall

It's a tribute to [b]City Slang[/b] that Ohio's lysergic sons should play a show in their honour..,a decade after leaving the label...

  • May 15, 2000

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Flaming Lips : Glasgow Barrowland

Flaming Lips : Glasgow Barrowland

...one of the most stupid and yet deeply pleasurable things NME's seen for ages...

  • Feb 4, 2003

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London Kentish Town Forum

London Kentish Town Forum

Most endearing of all, though, are [B]Wayne[/B]'s attempts at demystifying [B]The Flaming Lips[/B]' art: he actually apologises for the sad songs and thanks everyone repeatedly for liking his band

  • Nov 26, 1999

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Flaming Lips : Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt 1

Flaming Lips : Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt 1

A beauty

  • Jan 16, 2003

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Flaming Lips : Race for the prize

Flaming Lips : Race for the prize

[B]'Race For The Prize'[/B] feels like the work of people who've suddenly discovered a new way of breathing, and are decent enough to want to share their excitement with the rest of us.

  • Jun 12, 1999

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Flaming Lips : Do You Realize??

Flaming Lips : Do You Realize??

A million Christmas carols poured into a cosmic jelly mould

  • Jul 30, 2002

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The Soft Bulletin

The Soft Bulletin

In 15 years [B]The Flaming Lips[/B] have been broken apart and put back together again more times than a children's jigsaw.

  • Apr 6, 1999

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Flaming Lips : Edinburgh Queen's Hall

Flaming Lips : Edinburgh Queen's Hall

A band in love with the very sad-happy crux of existence

  • Jul 12, 2002

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Austin La Zona Rosa

Austin La Zona Rosa

[B]The Flaming Lips[/B] are making music that no-one else is anywhere near to touching  intricate, melodic and starkly beautiful...

  • Mar 9, 1999

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