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June 30, 2006

Okies From Outer Space

In the warped world of the Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, nothing -- not God, not Dylan -- is sacred, underwear vibrates and there's never enough duct tape
April 28, 2006

The Flaming Lips Get Spectacular

Wayne Coyne's crew returns with Jesus, laser pens and a big pink spaceship

Recordings and Reviews

Embryonic

"I wish I could go back in time," Wayne Coyne yelps on the Flaming Lips' 12th record. In a sense, he has: These psych-rock mystics haven't sounded so off-the-wall since they were Oklahoma acidheads in the Eighties. Most of Embryonic sounds like laid-back echoes of Miles Davis' early-1970s...

2009 RS: 3of 5 Stars

At War With The Mystics

2006

Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell

2003

Finally The Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid 1983-88

2002

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots

2002

The Soft Bulletin

1999

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Wayne Coyne on his film "Christmas on Mars"

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Biography

Rock has produced few stranger or more daring bands in the last 20 years than Oklahoma City's Flaming Lips, who embrace everything from merry prankster psychedelia to orchestral pop. At the outset, the Lips tried to bridge the seemingly insurmountable gap between Butthole Surfers-style dementia and bubblegum pop, with mixed results. Their early albums are jumbles of ideas, the weirdness genuine, t...

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