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The Flaming Lips have proven again that through their interesting and unique style they are able to create art that is listenable and fresh every new album. The energy picks up when Wayne’s vocals come belting in and the strings and horns and full band sound bring alive the full color of the tune. Track nine ‘Mother Please Don’t Be Sad’ is a standout with a with a mellow, gorgeous introductory piano riff. The literal phrase haunted Wayne’s nightmares and to this day inspired him to express these feelings in a song. Chorus Will you return Will you come down Will you return Will you come down Will you return Will you come down Verse 2 Shooting star (Shooting star) Crashing in your car (Crashing in. The track is inspired by a true childhood moment with his brother. ‘Mother I’ve Taken LSD’ definitely sounds like a typical trippy and eclectic Flaming Lips song from reading the title out loud, and when you actually listen as well. The trees on the highway make these interesting shapes that made his growing, maturing brain envision Dinosaurs and this is the memory Wayne was reflecting on while penning this song. Will you come down Will you return Will you come down Will you return Will you come down Will you return Will you come down. When he was about eight years old, he and his family would take trips to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. ‘Dinosaurs On The Mountain’, track four, was inspired by Wayne’s childhood memories. Tribute album to the Stone RosesTi:me - Song Title - (Featuring)00:00 - I Wanna Be Adored - (Stardeath and White Dwarfs, HOTT MT)05:11 - She Bangs the Drums. I think all of these songs are about this little switch.Grammy-winning Nashville alt-country songstress Kacey Musgraves makes a cameo on track three ‘Flowers of Neptune 6’ with brilliant guest vocal harmonies. Something switches and others (your brothers and sisters and mother and father…your pets) start to become more important to you…in the beginning there is only you… and your desires are all that you can care about…but… something switches. Mother’s sacrifice, Father’s intensity, Brother’s insanity, Sister’s rebellion…I can’t quite put it into words. We were, while creating it, trying to NOT hear it as sounds… but to feel it. A feeling that, I think, can only be expressed through music and songs. The music and songs that make up the AMERICAN HEAD album are based in a feeling. We started to think of classic American bands like The Grateful Dead and Parliament-Funkadelic and how maybe we could embrace this new vibe. We had become a 7-piece ensemble and were beginning to feel more and more of a kinship with groups that have a lot of members in them. So for the first time in our musical life we began to think of ourselves as ‘AN AMERICAN BAND’… telling ourselves that it would be our identity for our next creative adventure. So… for most of our musical life we’ve kind of thought of ourselves as coming from ‘Earth’… not really caring WHERE we were actually from. Many videos of The Flaming Lips Will You Return. We mostly listened to the Beatles and my mother loved Tom Jones (this is in the 60’s)… it wasn’t till I was about 10 or 11 that my older brothers would know a few of the local musician dudes. Download and Convert The Flaming Lips Will You Return / When You Come Down to MP3 and MP4 for free. I know growing up (when I was like 6 or 7 years old) in Oklahoma I was never influenced by, or was very aware of any musicians from Oklahoma. Micah Nelson, on Jimmy Kimmel Live Monday, April 26th. “Even though The Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma we never thought of ourselves as an AMERICAN band. By JON BLISTEIN The Flaming Lips performed Will You Return/When You Come Down, with an assist from artist/musician/Willie Nelson’s son, J. The band have earlier shared videos for the singles ‘Flowers Of Neptune 6’, ‘My Religion Is You’ and ‘Dinosaurs On The Mountain’.ĪMERICAN HEAD finds The Flaming Lips basking in more reflective lyrical places as Wayne Coyne explains in a long form story about the album. Click here to view The Flaming Lips explain “My Religion Is You,” here to view the band talking about “You n Me Sellin’ Weed, ” and here for “Dinosaurs On the Mountain.”ĪMERICAN HEAD is comprised of thirteen vivid tracks produced by Dave Fridmann and The Flaming Lips and is perhaps their most beautiful work to date. The Lips have also created a series of mini-documentaries highlighting songs from AMERICAN HEAD.
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