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The Flaming Lips Record a Christmas Song!

by Keith

I am one of the biggest Flaming Lips fans I know. I have seen their live act 4 times and was even picked from the crowd to dance on stage as they performed a couple of years ago (see the picture below). So the news I have posted from Entertainment Weekly.com below has me more excited than a 10 year old on Christmas morning!

Any news concerning these guys is exciting obviously, but the “Christmas on Mars” project has been many years in the making so to see it finally finished and ready for public consumption is a welcomed relief. I just hope with the news of this holiday project we will soon hear that the band will be releasing new material and tour dates, a super fan can only wish!

Me (dressed in an inflatable Santa suit) with The Flaming Lips & Gnarls Barkley on New Years Eve 2007 @ The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, S.F. CA

The Flaming Lips have just recorded a version of festive favorite “Silent Night.” The track is a musical extension of the band’s recently completed film, “Christmas On Mars”. Of course, traditionally, movie-related music is recorded in time to actually be included in the movie. Then again, the Lips have never been the most traditional of acts.

“Christmas On Mars has, in a sense, some Christmas music in it,” says frontman Wayne Coyne. “But it doesn’t really have a song that we sing per se. So we were doing a song that will be released on iTunes later in the year. I call it panic marketing: You finish and then you go, ‘Oh f—! Now I know what to do!’ ”

Spookily, Coyne reveals that their version of “Silent Night” was influenced in part by the work of Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright, who died on September 15, shortly after the band left the studio.

“It does have some Rick Wright-ish flourishes” says Coyne. “I think we were listening to ‘Great Gig In The Sky,’ which is one of his big moments. There are subtle, cool shadings going on in there. We talked quite a bit about Rick Wright just over the weekend. It was sort of uncanny.” Coyne also reveals that he hopes to have another Lips album out next June. “The things we’ve been working on are like John Lennon meets Miles Davis and they discover some supercomputer from the future,” he explains. “Those are the references we keep coming back to.”

Christmas On Mars will receive a limited theatrical release this fall and then be available on DVD from November 11.


Posted in Music News on September 29th, 2008

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