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Album review: The Flaming Lips - 'Embryonic'
Back in touch with their dark side for a brilliantly unhinged masterpiece
- Oct 12, 2009
- 6 comments
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
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
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
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
Boston Roxy
A "supersonic flux invented in the future, blowin' up so hard you can hear it before it happens"...
- Oct 9, 2000
London South Bank Royal Festival Hall
...all bands should ride the tornado like this. Over the rainbow. Over the moon. ..
- May 23, 2000
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
Flaming Lips : Glasgow Barrowland
...one of the most stupid and yet deeply pleasurable things NME's seen for ages...
- Feb 4, 2003
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
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
Flaming Lips : Do You Realize??
A million Christmas carols poured into a cosmic jelly mould
- Jul 30, 2002
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
Flaming Lips : Edinburgh Queen's Hall
A band in love with the very sad-happy crux of existence
- Jul 12, 2002
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
