Other People Name Dropped: Iggy Pop – “Chrome Plated Suicide” Hindu deity Krishna and hard rockers Led Zeppelin in the title to “Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon (Fuck Led Zeppelin)” Ronnie Van Zandt (his ghost) – “Redneck School of Technology” Captain Marvel – “The Spontaneous Combustion of John”ĭoes Godzilla Make An Appearance? Sadly, no. We were just figuring it out as we went along, and I think we were just very lucky.” And then before you know it, we are making strange, arty records, pushing through what should have been a really awkward situation because we didn’t really know how to play and record music. We were nothing without punk rock giving us the kind of freedom to do anything without being so embarrassed about it. Luckily, punk rock came along, and it was the loudest style out there and allowed us to be a group and make this record. I mean, I was born in 1961, so I was meant to be a weirdo in a ‘70s rock group. Wayne’s Words: “While the sound feels rooted in rock, you must remember I grew up in the late ‘70s for the most part. Oh My Gawd is the Lips showing off their skill at balancing punk with sweeter acoustic numbers. The ‘Mats vibe shows up again on the album opener “Everything’s Exploding” while “Can’t Stop the Spring” hints at later Lips’ album, Transmissions From the Satellite Heart. Verdict: Though this album might effectively mark the beginning of the band’s entry into playful experimentation, it’s an album also rooted in classic rock, with elements of Zeppelin, Mountain, and Deep Purple showing up in songs while “One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning” shows off the band’s penchant for Floyd. For the full Flaming Lips catalog breakdown with Coyne, click here. You can find his thoughts on each album included throughout this feature. No one will ever really know what makes Wayne Coyne and company tick, but by Plastic Jesus did we give it our best shot.Įditor’s Note: Associate Editor Lior Phillips recently spoke to Wayne Coyne about his band’s discography. Along with another pair of fearless freaks (Len Comaratta and Zach Schonfeld), the three of us discovered we still had over a dozen exhibits to slice apart and inspect. In order for us to dissect the true-blue band of fearless freaks, we needed to remove cover albums, collaborative albums, and soundtracks from the dissection tray (Ke$ha has been put back into the freezer for future study). What may get lost in these perceptions is how strange the actual music is, as well. Due to this and their over-the-top live performances, the band have long been labeled as strange, bizarre, odd, obtuse, and every other adjective synonymous with the word “weird.” They’ve earned it, and they wear it as a badge of honor. Oklahoma City’s own The Flaming Lips have hidden away EPs on USB drives in similar ways over the past few years, from gummy skulls to chocolate hearts. Taken outside of the classroom, though, it’s not as far-fetched as you’d think. The biology teacher would surely be fired for wasting school funds on gummy candy instead of the real deal. To make matters stranger, upon closer inspection you see it’s really just a gummy fetal pig, and once you finally begin your dissection, instead of removing organs you remove a USB drive. You reach down to pick it up, only to discover you can’t get a good grip as it keeps sliding out of your grasp, bouncing once more. But what if you make that first puncture and the fetal pig slips off the table, bouncing off the ground and ricocheting off the wall. The animal is long dead, and all you have to do is just slice, slide, open, and extract the organs and limbs you’ve been instructed to remove. This time, we sort through the best and worst of Wayne Coyne’s spongy, gooey mind.Ī biology class dissection is normally an easy, albeit squeamish, process to get through. It’s exact science by way of a few beers. Welcome to Dissected, where we disassemble a band’s catalog, a director’s filmography, or some other critical pop-culture collection in the abstract. We’re reposting today as the band’s latest album, Oczy Mlody, gets set to drop.
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