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The Flaming Lips are an American rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983. Instrumentally, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "What Is the Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical by Which We Are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love Is the Same Chemical That Caused the "Big Bang" That Was the Birth of the Accelerating Universe)". They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die. " The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers, they scored a hit in 1993 with "She Don't Use Jelly". Although it has been their only hit single in the U.S. , the band has maintained critical respect and, to a lesser extent, commercial viability through albums such as 1999's The Soft Bulletin and 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. They have had more hit singles in the UK and Europe than in the U.S. In February 2007, they were nominated for a 2007 BRIT Award in the "Best International Act" category. By 2007, the group garnered three Grammy Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

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Discography

  • 2006-05-02: Circus, Stockholm, Sweden, 2006
  • Yoshimi Wins: Live Radio Sessions, 2002
  • The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, 2012
  • Live Coachella 2004
  • Clouds Taste Metallic, 1995
  • At War With the Mystics, 2006
  • Christmas on Mars, 2008
  • U.F.O.s at the Zoo, 2007
  • The Soft Bulletin 5.1, 2006
  • 20 Years of Weird: The Flaming Lips 1986-2006, 2006
  • At War With the Mystics Instrumentals, 2006
  • Oh My Gawd!!!… The Flaming Lips, 1990
  • Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, 2002
  • Embryonic, 2009
  • The Terror, 2013
  • Hit to Death in the Future Head, 1992
  • Hear It Is, 1986
  • Says "Sweet Jesus... It's the Lords of Love Noise", 1995
  • The Soft Bulletin - The Companion CD, 1999
  • The Dark Side of the Moon, 2010
  • The Soft Bulletin, 2009
  • 2002-11-11: Austin City Limits, Austin, TX, USA
  • Chocolate Human Heart (Filled with Songs of Love), 2013
  • 2000-10-21: Iceland Airwave, Reykjavík, Iceland
  • Finally the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid: 1983-1988, 2002
  • Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, 1993
  • A Beautiful Accident: Live in Calgary 1987
  • 2002-10-17: Live at Orpheum Theater
  • The Fearless Freaks Film Premiere Bonus Bootleg Giveaway, 2005
  • One More Robot, 2012
  • Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Instrumentals, 2002
  • Telepathic Surgery, 1989
  • The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg, 2002
  • 2007-07-27: Tulsa, OK, USA
  • In a Priest Driven Ambulance, 1990
  • LateNightTales: The Flaming Lips, 2005
  • At War With the Mystics 5.1, 2006
  • Zaireeka, 1997
  • The Day Andy Gibb Died, 1996
  • 1985-12-23: I-Beam, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • 1984-1990: A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for Recording... by Amateurs, 1998
  • The Soft Bulletin Companion 2, 2000
  • The Shambolic Birth and Early Life Of, 2002
  • The Flaming Lips 2011: Gummy Song Skull (The Soft Bulletin live La Fantastique de Institution 2011), 2011
  • Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 5.1, 2003
  • Deep Ellum Live, Dallas TX
  • U.F.O.s at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City, 2007
  • 2002-10-14: Claremont, CA, USA
  • 2006-03-11: Langerado Festival, Markham Park, Sunrise, FL, USA, 2006
  • 2002-10-27: Boston, MA, USA, 2002
  • 2006-09-03: Osheaga Festival, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2006

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