“It would be a great relief to think, ‘God'll take care of it. “I wish I did believe in God,” he told The Telegraph in 2006. Sounding somewhere between Spacemen 3 and the Jesus and Mary Chain, The Flaming Lips’ first very good album is an inquiry into Coyne’s fascination with religious faith. If you’d rather take a detour through their discography, here are eight other essential Lips albums. Most fans will point you directly to The Soft Bulletin as their masterpiece - and it’s Vinyl Me, Please’s Essentials Record of the Month this month - but their story doesn’t begin or end there. The gimmicks, costumes, and pranks wouldn’t mean much without a counterweight of harsh reality: 1999’s The Soft Bulletin was inspired by the death of Coyne’s father and guitarist Steven Drozd’s heroin addiction, and 2013’s The Terror was an unflinching exploration of depression and fear.īut spin nearly any record or catch their surreal, communal live show, and it’s clear: The Flaming Lips acknowledge darkness and opt to throw a lovefest in spite of it. We were celebrating, like we had just won a million dollars.”Ĭelebration in the face of death seems to sum up The Flaming Lips, from their rascally, noisy 1986 debut Hear It Is to this year’s tranquil King’s Mouth. We couldn’t stop crying and laughing and jumping up and down.
“Obviously, they robbed us and left and didn’t kill me,” Coyne told Blank on Blank in 2002. One day behind the deep frier, two “pissed off” guys stormed into the restaurant and pointed “the biggest gun I’ve ever seen in my life” at a 17-year-old Coyne. It’s hard to imagine today, but before the confetti cannons and bunny suits, Coyne worked menial jobs in Oklahoma City - unloading trucks, installing office equipment, and frying fish and chips at a Long John Silver’s. The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne is known as psychedelic rock’s mad scientist and merry prankster, releasing 24-hour songs encased in a human skull and traversing adoring crowds in a plastic bubble.
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