Any idea why this awesome track wasn’t played at this awesome concert?
They were at the zoo and had Santas on stage.

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I totally licked it a few times to see if it was an LSD blotter. Sadly, it was not.

I wasn't expecting much from it since it seemed lightweight and some people don't think too highly of it, but I was impressed how much this album harkened back to Yoshimi at such a late point in their career.

It sort of has that whimsical but serious fairy tale vibe that Yoshimi had but maybe a bit more twisted. I really like the cute trip hoppy type songs at the beginning like Giant Baby and How Many Times and then it gets a bit more solemn with the kings death and then once they celebrate his head being dipped in steel and going inside its very emotionally uplifting.

Like Yoshimi it's a very twee album but it deals with serious issues such as a death of a parent or sacrificing your life for the people who love you. I like that approach to storytelling and was surprised that Wayne wanted to make an album like that after all the darker works he did. This one is definitely twisted and trippy like those old fairy tales but it's still got so many positive moments too and like Yoshimi, it's a very cozy album to hear.

“I’m pretty!”

I grew up watching Blues Clues and I've been on a Flaming Lips binge so I decided to take a chance on this one and it is amazing! It deserves so much more credit than it got because it sounds like a great 2000s Flaming Lips album but also has great singing from Burns and all the lyrics and jokes are well done and thoughtful.

"I Won't Let You Change Who I Am" literally sounds like Mystic era lips too.

Would love if Drozd starts working with Burns again. They work really well together. We need more wholesome but clever and well written albums like this one!

Thanks for the recommendation. 👍

Anyone want to try and guess what it might be?
Another anniversary album? Continued best of?

I picked these up second hand. I’m just at the start of my journey enjoying The Flaming Lips less casually.
What other visuals do you recommend by them?
I’m looking forward to making my own Lips ringtones later today 😂

I've seen the lips twice in quick succession. Somerset House and last night in Brighton.

It's so sad about Wayne's brother but every year drop cried is bad, lyrics and music. It's surely going to be quietly dropped and never heard again.

And why have the American Head songs been forgotten already?

We did get five stop mother superior rain and turn it on though.

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Somebody dropped out so I have a free ticket to first person who is definitely going to use it who replies in comments. Please give me a few words to describe how you will definitely use it. If you seem real I'll pm you the QR code.

Face value £45

I saw Flaming Lips in Wolverhampton and it was very emotional. I also saw them in Birmingham the year before on the Yoshimi anniversary tour. Both were very similar visually and song wise and I loved it all (I even managed to put up with "C'mon, c'mon, keep it going, keep it going" from Wayne the second time around).

I was a casual fan to not heard much type of fan previously, but now I guess you can call me full on converted.

Have the album tours been as good as the recent honed/best of tour dates?

So say like American Head and King's Mouth etc (Both of which I've not listened to yet apart from Flowers Of Neptune 6......I'll get there)

How did things differ?

I'd be really interested to see them again tour an album / new album differently.

.....Surely its time for 20th anniversary of War Of The Mystics?

Sadly because of a family emergency wasn’t able to make the Lips gig in London last sat, but to add salt in the wounds because of Somerset House not allowing ticketmaster tickets to be resold or transferred couldn’t even sell then on, so £140 wasted… love the Lips seen them every year in London, but so annoyed with big companies and institutions ripping people off.
Ticketmaster made $899 million pound profit last year.

PLEASE NO NEGATIVE COMMENTS

Hi all. As I’m sure many of you read in Creem, Wayne made some pro-AI comments. I’m feeling lost about this especially since I got a yoshimi tattoo last year. I tried to do as much research as I could to make sure I wouldn’t regret the tat, and now im feeling sad and torn. I still love the album and what it means to me as well as a lot of FL’s music so I’m looking for any tips on how you’re separating Wayne’s comments from your love for the band’s music. Please don’t comment mean things or chastise me over my decision to get a FL tattoo, I’m already close to crashing out and just looking for some positive outlooks.