The Flaming Lips are known as The Fearless Freaks for a reason: They’ve been responsible for some of the strangest, most hallucinatory rock music of the past 30 years. But the past few months have been especially chaotic (and productive) for the Oklahoma psych-wizards: They released the moody The Terror back in April, and they’ve followed with the excellent Peace Sword EP (written for the upcoming Ender’s Game film — and which I reviewed here) and plenty of their typical stage shenanigans. For this year’s Black Friday extravaganza, the band is putting the crazy factor by 1,000 percent: Just as an audio appetizer, they’ll release a vinyl copy of Peace Sword, along with a covers album of The Stone Roses’ first LP and a collaborative song-swap EP with Tame Impala.
And it wouldn’t be a Flaming Lips holiday without unnecessary edible stuff. According to Rolling Stone, Wayne Conye and company are also planning a chocolate surprise for the Black Friday event.
“It’s all made out of chocolate, it’s a life-size human skull, a life-sized human brain, and the brain is actually sliding out of the skull made with this brain fluid flavored hard-candy,” Coyne says. “And there’s a little magic coin inside that brain that you’re supposed to dig out. I think it’s supposed to get you into any Flaming Lips show in the world. I think that’s our intention. So, a lot of stuff and always moving towards the deadline, but I think those first three for sure will happen and we’ll see if the chocolate skull will happen. If not, it’ll be around for Christmas.”
Meanwhile, Coyne also reveals another exclusive for the Record Store Day holiday: a toy frog (dubbed, naturally, “Fuck You Frog”) that includes a recording of the band’s first demo.
“(It) got finished just literally yesterday and it’s got a little seven-inch that goes with it,” he says. “That is our very first demo that we ever recorded that’s never been released before. So you get that in this packet. This little frog that’s kind of a recorder that you can manipulate the sound on.”
So…just to recap: After stuffing your piehole this Thanksgiving, head over to your local record store and buy The Flaming Lips’ toy frog, chocolate brain, and 800 albums worth of music.
Happy holidays, Wayne Coyne — you brilliant bastard.
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The Stone Roses tribute is officially titled “The Time Has Come To Shoot You Down…What A Sound” and credited to “The Flaming Lips and Friends.” 500 vinyl with psych designs will be available for Record Store Day Black Friday.
For a stream of “I Am The Resurrection” along with the tracklist, pictures of the multi-color vinyl (each copy is a special, one of kind design), a video of the studio sessions, photos and the full story of the making of the LP visit http://thefutureheart.com/2013/11/15/stone-roses-remake/
The Stone Roses tribute is officially titled “The Time Has Come To Shoot You Down…What A Sound” and credited to “The Flaming Lips and Friends.” 500 vinyl with psych designs will be available for Record Store Day Black Friday.For a stream of “I Am The Resurrection” along with the tracklist, pictures of the multi-color vinyl (each copy is a special, one of kind design), a video of the studio sessions, photos and the full story of the making of the LP visit http://thefutureheart.com/2013/11/15/stone-roses-remake/