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A Favorite
The Flaming Lips have recently become one of my favorite bands. I don’t usually have absolute favorites when it comes to anything artistic/ cultural, but for some reason, they’ve really grown on me. Even though their lyrics are often incredibly simple, even näive, they build epic narratives, creating monumentality out of the mundane.
I saw the Flaming Lips once, playing, I think, between the Laughing Hyenas and the Butthole Surfers at the Phoenix Amphitheater with Brian Cliff (for free of course, thanks to the Cliff connections). I hated them.
Back in those days, it had to be PR or nothing—the MacKay way or the highway. I remember telling one of the geeky engineers on my dorm hall that the only distortion-sounding band that I liked was Dinosaur Jr. and that all those other grungy bands, implicitly (in my mind) the Flaming Lips, sucked.
It’s funny how my sensibilities have changed. I have a much greater appreciation for nuance and subtlety, and for well-crafted lyrics and rhythms. I still have a soft spot for most of the music I listened to in those days, but realize that a lot of it really isn’t very good. I hear a lot of it a little too often, because I dumped some of it into iTunes and the songs, of which there are a lot, are played randomly. My “Recently Played” list is often as it might have appeared 10 years ago. I think it’s time to edit what tracks are activated all the time…
Anyway, I just got Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, which the Flaming Lips put out in 1993. It’s probably the album that they were touring for when I saw them. I love it.
11/22/02 09:31AM Movies, Music, Media
Recently Played on iTunes
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“Heroin”
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
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“All Tomorrow's Parties”
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
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“Run Run Run”
The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground
11/17/08 16:16
