A stirring appeal for goodwill towards men, U.F.O.s Over Bagdad is unfortunately lost as a bonus track. It then dissolves into sci-fi keyboards and a diabolic roar. The song also features ethereal harmonies about aliens landing in the Middle East in order to bring peace to the land. Aside from the space sounds, the song is a straightforward rock song, adorned with some piano so simple and superb, it might make you wish the Flaming Lips recorded more piano-heavy pieces. The song starts off with somber trumpet playing “TAPS” amid electric interference, a ringing phone, and robot noise. This bonus track on the deluxe version of Embryonic apparently was an outtake from 2006’s At War With the Mystics. “U.F.O.s Over Baghdad” (Embryonic, 2009) This idea isn’t so far-fetched the band did appear in Yo Gabba Gabba after all.
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The music that surrounds his speech is alive with trippy Flaming Lips magic that could be part of a kids’ TV show (like Blue’s Clues). The song features the altered voice of Burns, who sounds like an echoing, warped talking head from the ’60s, giving a commentary on space travel. Burns began to collaborate with the Lips when he recorded an album produced by drummer Steve Drozd and starred as an astronaut in the band’s Christmas on Mars film. This b-side of the “It Overtakes Me” single from At War With the Mystics features Steve Burns of Blue’s Clues fame (yes, the children’s TV show). “Time Travel… YES!” (“It Overtakes Me” single, 2006) Weird indeed - it’s what the Lips do best. Each part is close to two minutes long and sounds as if it should be a completely separate track instead of stitched together into one weird song. The song then erupts into chaotic guitar and noise before it dissolves into a pretty piano piece. He then goes on to say that years later, he and his brother saw the same six spacecraft hovering near their house in the same configuration. It begins with Wayne Coyne telling the other band members that he recently “freaked out” Michael Stipe with a story about the first time he and his brother saw a formation of six U.F.O.s in their backyard. This oddball song on 1989’s Telepathic Surgery might be a track for hardcore fans only, but it’s still worth a listen and definitely fitting for this list. If you listen to “Mushroom”, you can definitely hear the influence. Rumor has it that the band wanted to cover Can’s “Mushroom” off the album Mago Tago, but didn’t have a recording of it and instead made a song that merely sounds like it. Coyne’s plea to take “Me ta Mars” is repeated amid a grinding bassline, shrieking guitar, and steady drums, making it a good specimen of the old school Flaming Lips sound. “Take Meta Mars” (In a Priest-Driven Ambulance, 1990)įrom the band’s fourth studio album, In a Priest Driven Ambulance, “Take Meta Mars” is a lo-fi tune about driving a car while putting “heads in jars”. It’s no surprise it won a Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2002. Later, Coyne wrote in the liner notes of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots that the song should be “thought of as an ending of a fantastical adventure, an evening ride over the city – serene and exultant.” The song’s expansive yet mellow orchestration captures Coyne’s idea perfectly. We tried, but it seemed too upbeat and ‘pop’ for ‘Christmas on Mars’… but having it be part of the ‘Yoshimi’ song collection seemed perfect.” So it was aptly added to the Lips’ 2002 album. In the notes from Christmas on Mars Coyne reveals: “the flavor and dumb triumphantness of didn’t seem to fit. The band later decided it didn’t belong with the rest of the soundtrack and cut it. This final song on Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, written in reference to the volcano on Mars, was originally written for the Christmas on Mars film. “Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)” (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, 2002) The album, Clouds Taste Metallic, would be the release to see the band transform from a guitar-driven alternative outfit into an experimental, space pop extravaganza. The end of the song, which features a man’s voice that sounds as if it’s being broadcasted through a radio, points towards the direction the band was heading in: up into outer space. This includes digitally altered voices, spacy-sounding interference, and that xylophone-like keyboard that would be featured in many of their future songs. It’s an upbeat guitar-heavy song that reflects the band’s early work, but has a lot of the little touches that would inform their later music. This track off of the Flaming Lips’ seventh album is a song about, well, exactly what the title implies. “Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World” (Clouds Taste Metallic, 1995)
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