They did a video for the song that became an MTV favorite and were then invited to play dates on the second stage of summerfest Lollapalooza in 1994. The song began receiving airplay on modern-rock stations and was a slow but sure hit -not to mention a huge surprise for the band. Released in 1993, it contained a peculiar track called “She Don ’t Use Jelly, ” with lyrics recounting one tale, among others, of a girl who dyes her hair with tangerines. Transmissions from the Satellite Heart would prove to be the breakthrough album for the Flaming Lips. Coyne ’s band, wrote DeRogatis in New Times, “had forged a thoroughly distinctive sound that merged the psychedelic shenanigans of bands like My Bloody Valentine and the Butthole Surfers with the twisted-pop sensibilities of Syd Barrett and Brian Eno. More line-up changes followed -they lost another drummer and a second guitarist as well -but by this point had thoroughly perfected the Flaming Lips ’ vinyl personality.
#THE FLAMING LIPS DISCOGRAPHY MOVIE#
The Flaming Lips ’ major-label debut was Hit to Death in the Future Head, but its 1992 release was delayed by legal problems resulting from their use of a sample from the movie Brazil. Thought it was a joke when she called up, ” Coyne explained to Addicted to Noise. 1989 –93), drums.īand formed, 1983, in Norman, OK signed to Restless Records and released four albums with Restless including Hear It Is, 1986 signed to Warner Brothers, 1991 and released four albums with them including Hit to Death in the Future Head, 1992.Īddresses: Record company -Warner Brothers, 3300 Warner Blvd., Burbank, CA 91505-4694. 1989) Michael Ivins, bass, guitar, vocals Ronald Jones, guitar (joined band, 1993 –96) and Nathan Roberts (c. 1989 –93), guitar Stephen Drozd, drums, guitar, vocals (joined band, 1993) Richard English, drums (left band, c. 1961), guitar, vocals Jonathan Donahue (c. Members include Mark Coyne, vocals (left band, c. A short time later, an A&R person who had not heard of their stunts around the office called them out of the blue, then came to Oklahoma City to see a live show. Bored and nearly broke, Coyne and Ivins began making almost crank phone calls to A&R people at Warner Brothers, looking for a record deal. English quit, and their Restless label went under shortly after the release of 1990 ’s In a Priest-Driven Ambulance. Yet internal and external problems also plagued the band during this era. This was showcased with their 1989 release Telepathic Surgery, with its tracks about odd pop-culture waste backed by psychedelic guitar. ” Prank Phone CallsĬoyne ’s voice has been described as “weepy Neil Young-ish, ” but it is the eccentric nature of his lyrics that have won the band a cult following. Journalist Michael Small noted the band ’s similarities with early Pink Floyd, and found that “though nearly every song on the album includes some degree of chaos …. In 1987 they released Oh My Gawd!!! The Flaming Lips, which was reviewed, rather improbably, in People magazine.
By this point, however, Mark Coyne had left the band and Wayne now sang and wrote the odd lyrics that would become part of the band ’s appeal. Their first full-length release came on Restless Records in 1986, Hear It Is. The two became friends and teamed up with Mark Coyne to start their own band around 1983.Īdding drummer Richard English, the Flaming Lips began playing live shows and built up a virtual cult following in the area. Coyne learned to play guitar from his older brother Mark ’s friends, and as a young adult living in the college town of Norman, Oklahoma, during the early 1980s, he kept running into Michael Ivins at punk-rock concerts. “If I was to talk about my own life, it would probably seem like a stupid Bob Seger song about some dumb guy being in a rock band, ” Coyne told Addicted to Noise contributor Jaan Uhelzski. Their music, and the panache with which they deliver it, springs from frontman Wayne Coyne. The Flaming Lips have been fixtures around the Oklahoma City, Oklahomamusic scene since the mid-1980s. Music writer Jim DeRogatis has called them “one of the most ambitious, imaginative, twisted, and for the most part sadly unheralded bands in rock and roll today. The odd band known as the Flaming Lips languished on the edges of alternative rock obscurity for more than a decade, known only to fellow fringe-music aficionados who appreciated the band ’s unique, distorted sound.
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