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Flaming Lips Releasing 24-Hour-Long Song Inside Real Human Skulls
- Posted on Sep 30th 2011 12:00PM by Theo Spielberg
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Yes, that's right -- real human skulls. According to the MTV's O Music Awards Blog, the band plans to record a 24-hour track and put five of the recordings on hard drives inside human skulls. It seems unlikely that somebody listened to their last six-hour behemoth and wished that it lasted for a full day.
"I would say nothing that we're doing is bizarre or illegal," frontman Wayne Coyne said. "There's a place in town that's called Skulls Unlimited that's been here for almost as long as the Flaming Lips have been here, and it sells human skulls."
As far as the track goes, "It's a song about death and it's a song about f---ing and it's a song about life," Coyne elaborated. Well, we're glad that's all clear.
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Can't believe Pete Townshend shills for these hacks.
October 01 2011 at 1:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply....i guess 'they're' entertaining...my bad.don;t want the grammar nazis to descend
October 01 2011 at 12:05 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Replythey basicaly blow as a band so their thing has always been gimmicks to get people to their shows and to buy their music.i guess their entertaining to those who are on the same vibe they are but i could never get into them.whatever butters yer muffin i guess
October 01 2011 at 12:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThey always came across to me as trying too hard. Mweee...
September 30 2011 at 8:20 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyIt's not about music. Music isn't even about music. It's just a feeling of your own free will, while if it just happens to be playing and not forced. Everybody knows that the people who are music fanatics are just plain tards with no souls. You can always go into your attic later in life and listen to a still recording but you son't be where you used to. Anybody can releaase whatever they want and that's fine but it is bad to go out and buy a bunch of wolrthless recordings. Truth: I don't think I've ever even heard 'The Flaming Lips' but I know they exist and that's good enough for me.
September 30 2011 at 7:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe neighbor's dog has more talent baying at the moon than this group. I won't be purchasing their music any time soon------------and probably never.
September 30 2011 at 6:58 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyIs this a real band? No way..13 seconds had to turn that video off...yeah weirdos looking for some attention I guess
September 30 2011 at 6:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyOne of the greatest bands of the last 25 years...
September 30 2011 at 4:04 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThat's because there hasn't been any great bands in the last 25 years.
October 01 2011 at 6:22 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI know where this song should have been released and it's another part of the anatomy.
September 30 2011 at 3:56 PM Report abuse Permalink -1 rate up rate down ReplyMaybe thats where these skulls are; in that other part of the anatomy... Whatever happened to good music just being about the good music and not the strange way it's released?? Just saying...
September 30 2011 at 6:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThese guys can NEVER be boring. : - D
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