Video: Wayne Coyne Talks "Christmas on Mars"

The Flaming Lips have spent years landing spaceships at zoos and crafting epic psychedelic suites, but their most audacious project yet is Christmas on Mars, the Wayne Coyne-directed film that just hit DVD. Click above for Coyne's thoughts on the film, including how the music plays into the film and the difference between making movies and starting a band.

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Song Stories

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”

Nirvana | 1991

"Smells Like Teen Spirit," named after a brand of deodorant marketed to girls, was Kurt Cobain's attempt to "write the ultimate pop song," he said, using the soft-loud dynamic of his favorite band, the Pixies. Cobain "had that dichotomy of punk rage and alienation," the song’s producer, Butch Vig, told Rolling Stone, "but also this vulnerable pop sensibility. In 'Teen Spirit,' a lot of that vulnerability is in the tone of his voice." Sadly, by the time of Nirvana's last U.S. tour, in late '93, Cobain was tortured by the obligation to play "Teen Spirit" every night. "There are many other songs that I have written that are as good, if not better," he claimed.

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