Flaming Lips are gonna do a double album
 

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/flaming-lips-stretching-out-for-mystics-1003972098.story

Coyne discloses the new material's vibe is different from previous studio polished albums such as 2002's "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" and "At War with the Mystics."

Among the new songs currently in the mix are the Joy Division-meets-Miles Davis Group (John McLaughlin era)-sounding "Convinced of the Hex" and the John Lennon-inspired "I Don't Understand Karma," which Coyne describes as his response to "Instant Karma."

Whoopie doo.

I sincerely hope that this is the one that convinces them to never release another album ever again.

My copy of A Priest Driven Ambulance is a double LP. It's a reissue of course with extras and all that. But still, what's the big deal about a double LP?

I don't know what Joy Division meets Miles Davis Group sounds like, but I'm sure it isn't anything by the Flaming Lips, even though I somewhat like them.

Hmmm...I pretty much feel the same about the Lips as I do Spiritualized. I keep buying the new releases hoping for them to be good, but I'm always disappointed with the new material. The Soft Bulletin has some good tunes but it's downhill after that. Still, I have my fingers crossed, but I don't have much hope.

I don't dislike Miles Davis but tend to get nervous when a band cite him as being an influence on their new project.

yeah, they've already released a quadruple LP!!!!!111111

I don't get it.

fuck a bunch of you. I love the Lips. This is great news.

I don't get it.

I have no idea what yr talking about.

Just what we need! Over 2 hours of overproduced garbage! Can't wait!

I hope Fridmann isn't working with the Lips on this album.

same.

I loved the Lips. Their music hasn't excited me in years. They need to get back on drugs.

...Sorry, bad joke. 17,000 posts!

gratz!

Remember when the Lips were good? I don't, I was 4 at that time.

There are many bands, the Lips included, who fail to follow this logic after their first album. Luckily, there are a greater number of bands who fail to release a single thing, saving the public from the potential travesty of another band ever being as terrible as the Lips.

While there's obviously potential for this to be great, I'm honestly not going to get my hopes up. I fucking adore electric Miles, and the idea of that mixed with the Lips in, say, 1993 is glorious, but the idea of it with the Lips that we have now... well frankly it summons up mental images over-produced sub-Floydian floaty ass nu-prog hellishness.

I really hope I'm wrong, because those early Lips records are amazing, and I'm always kind of waiting in vain for a return. If they'd described it as Joy Division-meets-Miles Davis Group with stripped down raw production and messed-up loud guitars I'd be a lot more hopeful. We'll see...

I think the lips are great, and I hope that their cover of Borderline is on there.

Of course they used to be better; that's something that can be said for virtually every band out there. But look at their contemporaries from back in the day. Flaming Lips started almost as a wannabe Butthole Surfers knock off, and I feel that they eventually surpassed them. And while both bands have progressively gotten worse through the years, I feel that The Flaming Lips' downward spiral is going at a much slower pace.

if yr basing this on record sales and drooling fanbois, then yeah, maybe?

however, I saw the surfers less than two months ago, and they still fucking kick ass.

no gimmicky (and overused) stage presence needed to cover up the smell of the music and no inflated egos.

Paul Leary is yr GAWD. yr worship is mandatory. on yr knees, mortal.

i cant get excited about this..... its not gonna be a hit to death or anything..... the flaming lips were once a great band.

was going to post a floats will get his laserbeams out over that one, but didn't want to influence what might be said(what troll lvl), so remained silent.

god, I'm such a reader and not a talker in the music section. : /

^^^ yeah, I pretty much shit on every lips thread I can find.

it's a promise that I made to myself a few years ago.

who would have thought the day would come?

oh I just mean't that part of afterthefact's post, but yeh. It's a shame.

The flaming pussy lips.

I've never seen them live, so I can't speak for their live shows. I'm just going on how I feel about their music.

if yr searching for sunshiney-feel-good, the lips might be the way to go.

however, if yr interested in something more intense, the surfers are the clear choice.

and yes, the lips albums are more polished and far more critically acclaimed than anything the surfers have obtained; I use neither of these things to qualify what's good.

mostly, I just have a gorilla-sized grudge on my back that the lip's watered-down music can't shake. however, there was a time in recent memory, when they meant the world to me.

Flaming Lips' best music were when they were a Butthole Surfers rip-off act.

^^^ a true sage and scholar.

They sold out. They aren't who they used to be. They betrayed my love.

Agreed. Both bands used to be great. I just think Butthole Surfers fell from greatness a little faster.

Yeah, I agree. The Lips had Transmission and Clouds Taste Metallic in between their phenomenal and terrible periods, making both of those albums really solid. Butthole Surfers just completely lost it.

I've always considered the Flaming Lips to be a very impressionable band. Like they find something cool and then take it really too far. They learn production with Clouds Taste Metallic and then take it too far on their other albums, they introduce some cool stage shit during their Soft Bulletin tour and then take it too far with their other tours. You can even hear it in the lyrics.

Well, Yoshimi is my favorite lips album and I thought AWWTHM was alright, so I'm pretty pumped for the new one.

I didn't realize I was alone in that until this topic.

I really don't hear much of a Butthole Surfers influence on the Lips, aside from a few songs on Hear it Is. To call them a "Butthole Surfers rip-off" seems absurd.

if it wasn't for the butthole surfers taking them in under their filthy wings (along with Ed Hall), they would have remained a quaint local act.

you can thank beverly hills 90210 for delivering them to the masses, however.

inb4 who the hell is ed hall?

Absurd? They blatantely admit it. Of course they don't sound exactly like them, but they wanted to be them so badly, even down to copying their live antics.

I wasn't aware that they blatantly admitted it. Still, it sounds like they take a lot more from early Pink Floyd, 13th Floor Elevators, early Meat Puppets, and The Beach Boys than they do the Surfers.