The Flaming Lips - "With A Litlte Help From My Fwends"

Beatles covers with other artist. Quite amusing. Not something you'd listen often to, though.

Flaming Lips - "The Terror"

The beginning is very Flaming Lips, and nice, but it becomes a bit unhinged towards the end. "You Are Alone," for example, keeps on droning.

Flaming Lips - "I can be a frog" (Embryonic)

Funny and melancholy, Karen O's giggling animal imitation is a nice offset against the sad melody.

(Karen O., stage name of Karen Lee Orzolek, singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs)

Flaming Lips - "The Great Gig in the Sky" (The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon)

(I actually never posted something concerning Pink Floyd?!)

The whole album sounds pretty true to the original. This song in particular has a bit of a modern bite to it.

Flaming Lips - "Funeral In My Head" (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots)

But if I go mad
No one will know it.

[...]

But if I go mad
No one will know it.

[...]

But if I go mad
No one will know it.
Because I don't want you to be sad for me



Listening to the album in preparation of the musical at La Jolla Playhouse. It's gripping.

the Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"

I am sure I have blogged this album before (it seems I haven't, or I forgot to tag it properly) but it's one of those albums I never "got" when it came out. No, that's wrong. Not-getting implies listening to it, getting it on your radar, or whatever.

I was simply most oblivious to it.

Of course, I've heard of the Flaming Lips, and the title sticks, but did I ever consciently listen to it? No.

Wonderful to discover it now. Time is relative.