yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Quirky and laid back, indie's darling band The Flaming Lips are probably one of the weirdiest around for some time, having allegedly started in 1983 when Wayne Coyne stole a collection of musical instruments from a local church hall and enlisted his vocalist brother Mark and bassist Michael Ivins to start a band. Hah I know where to go if I want to do the same.
Although The Flaming Lips are known for continually being written off as *multiple* 'one-hit wonders', they simply refused to give in to the odds, instead rearing up with a new hit single time and time again. Taking their first big single as an example, " She Don't Use Jelly" took a year after release to suddenly break into top charts everywhere. It started off an undergroud hit, led to a brief exposure of 15 minutes of fame on mtv, and to a "memorably surreal lip-synched performance on the teen soap opera Beverly Hills 90210, where a character uttered the immortal words, 'You know, I've never been a big fan of alternative music, but these guys rocked the house! ' " ( as quoted from allmusic.com) . The song bore no resemblance to the rest of the same album.
I guess it is the same kind of spirit pervasive in their songs that I sort of identify with, and this is best evident with the " Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Song". A demented pop song with an insane yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah hook, pretty good lyrics that I actually believe in, and just wait for the bit somewhere two thirds through where there's a fool singing against the yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah that just refuses to go away. Wow.
The Flaming Lips - Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
and their official site:
Oh yeah if I ever have a funeral this tune will figure into it somehow. I would like to think I have a bit of this song. Bouncing along taking a swing at everything and simply.. there.
Although The Flaming Lips are known for continually being written off as *multiple* 'one-hit wonders', they simply refused to give in to the odds, instead rearing up with a new hit single time and time again. Taking their first big single as an example, " She Don't Use Jelly" took a year after release to suddenly break into top charts everywhere. It started off an undergroud hit, led to a brief exposure of 15 minutes of fame on mtv, and to a "memorably surreal lip-synched performance on the teen soap opera Beverly Hills 90210, where a character uttered the immortal words, 'You know, I've never been a big fan of alternative music, but these guys rocked the house! ' " ( as quoted from allmusic.com) . The song bore no resemblance to the rest of the same album.
I guess it is the same kind of spirit pervasive in their songs that I sort of identify with, and this is best evident with the " Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Song". A demented pop song with an insane yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah hook, pretty good lyrics that I actually believe in, and just wait for the bit somewhere two thirds through where there's a fool singing against the yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah that just refuses to go away. Wow.
The Flaming Lips - Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
and their official site:
Oh yeah if I ever have a funeral this tune will figure into it somehow. I would like to think I have a bit of this song. Bouncing along taking a swing at everything and simply.. there.
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