The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are an American rock band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Formed in 1983 as a small-town noise rock foursome, The Flaming Lips have gone through numerous lineup changes and style reinventions, ultimately settling on a consistent core in the late 1990s with frontman Wayne Coyne, chief composer Steven Drozd, and bassist Michael Ivins putting out sublime pop-rock with grandiose synth-orchestral backing arrangements.
Notable former band members include Wayne’s brother Mark Coyne, who was the band’s first vocalist, Jonathan Donahue, who went on to become the frontman of Mercury Rev, guitarist Ronald Jones, and roadie turned tour drummer Kliph Scurlock.
Once Wayne took over as frontman in the late 1980s, the Lips were known for their loud, psychedelic guitar rock (an aesthetic best summed up in the name of an early works compilation “Finally, the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid”) and wild stage antics.
- Nobody Told Me
- (Just Like) Starting Over
- The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
- We a Famly
- Space Oddity
- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
- 2012 (You Must Be Upgraded)
- With a Little Help from My Friends
- Getting Better
- Fixing a Hole
- She’s Leaving Home
- Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
- Within You Without You
- When I’m Sixty-Four
- Lovely Rita
- Good Morning Good Morning
- Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
- A Day in the Life
- Children of the Moon
- Elizabeth My Dear