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I used to kind of think of the Flaming Lips as GBV from some kind of alternate universe where Pink Floyd and Butthole Surfers and Suicide were the band's to emulate instead of the Beatles, The Who and King Crimson. Dayton and OKC are comparable enough, yeah?
Then the Flaming Lips, like, grew up (ssssort of). And while there was a time in the early to mid-'90s when the two bands were going after pretty much the same sound (see 1994's Due to High Expectations... The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles for Your Balloons as a nice example), the Lips went on to say "fuck this" to what they were doing, and started to get adventurous and experimental, resulting in some of the best records of the '90s and even 2000s. GBV just kept doing their thing over and over and over and over and over.
Now the comparison seems mental, because the Lips sound absolutely nothing like GBV, while GBV still sounds exactly like GBV.
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