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Ambulance Driver |
If you have one foot in the future & one foot in the past then you end up pissing on the present
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Ambulance Driver |
That shit is profound!
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Okie Noodler |
I think Wayne could kick Tim's ass also.
Tim seems like a wuss. Just sayin'. Either way I'm game, give us the new album!!  |
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Okie Noodler |
No...  I just got excited. |
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It's cool...it's easy to get excited about the Lips making new stuff. We have a long time to get excited, though.
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Telepathic Surgeon |
I fully agree with all of this, except for one thing. Personally I feel it's been the same stage show since 1998, minus Kliph. I stayed away from seeing them this year for this exact reason. Same setlist, same stage show, who cares anymore. ...and after seeing the WHO tribute and noticed the lack of taped backing tracks, my first thought was why the fuck do they still use them, they sound great without them. |
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Postman |
The only thing that bugs me is the setlist is still so similar to the first time I saw them (2006). I guess it's 'cause they've been working on Christmas on Mars. Maybe the next tour will see a better show. I like the confetti/space bubble/dancers stuff, I just think it needs some overhauling.
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Okie Noodler |
I think their logic for keeping the same setlist has been that their commercial success is still growing...obviously not within the ranks of people like ourselves, but their songs are just recently making commercials and are being played on the radio, sometimes on VH1 or MTV (I saw the Yeah Yeah Yeah video flipping through once, it was crazy...then it went to Beyonce).
Despite having twenty years of material to draw upon, The Flaming Lips have a handful of maybe five or six songs that will catch new fans and make them want to come see them. So of course they'll plop them into their setlist. Fortunately, these songs include "Race for the Prize," "Do You Realize," and "She Don't use Jelly," which never get old. |
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Telepathic Surgeon |
Yeah, they're old....won't care if I never hear these songs again. no big loss, and as you've said they've got 20+ years of material to pick from. Ya, know, being the obvious Pink Floyd fans they are, maybe they should rip a page out of Syd Barrett's book and only play these "commerical hits" in less densely populated places where they may not be as popular and the folks don't really know much else and go nuts in cities and festivals. |
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Satellite Heart |
I wouldn't mind if I never heard "She Don't Use Jelly" live again. I played it to death a year before it broke, then I've had to deal with it ever since then. Knowing full-well that it's impossible to understand the thought process that goes into choosing songs for live performances, it is this thought process that's constantly annoying. Why out of every single brilliant song they have in their back catalog they constantly go back to this one, the one that was virtually ignored by radio and MTV for 365 days do they always go back to it. Always. Boggles the mind. "Race For The Prize," though, yeah, I can deal with that for an eternity. |
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Five Stop Mother Superior |
i don't think that's entirely fair, as jelly is still pretty much their only major hit. i think they keep it in mainly for nostalgia, but also because there may be people in the crowd (especially at festivals and such) that wouldn't know the brilliance of their back catalog, but might remember that one song from the summer of 1994... |
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Satellite Heart |
Fuck 'em! How much money have they put in the Lips' collective wallet? My guess is pretty small. Yes, festivals are expensive, but the Lips have to split their share with a bunch of shitty-ass jam bands that need daily antibiotic injections and sweet nugs, man. People who download and steal directly from their pockets don't deserve such accommodations. This message has been edited. Last edited by: Emperor Clobbersaurus, |
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Okie Noodler |
They also know that old fans would pee themselves if they did album shows...it's not like they're deliberately trying to bore the old fanbase and bring in Nickelback fans.
Can you imagine a Clouds Taste Metallic show? Or Priest Driven Ambulance? |
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Ambulance Driver |
I say we RIOT \N/ the fucking streetz & boycott their shows
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Five Stop Mother Superior |
i think that'll happen someday. it seems to be something that bands do when they've run out of good, new ideas. Liz Phair just had a show like that in Chicago recently. Exile in Guyville performed live in its entirety. i can't think of very many bands or albums I'd pay money to see do that, but the lips would be one of them, for sure. |
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Okie Noodler |
The lips will eventually run out of ideas, but I think they would probably break up if such a thing were to happen. It will take a while too. |
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Telepathic Surgeon |
I remember the Clouds Taste Metallic tour. That's all I need. |
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Ambulance Driver |
I am the only hope for a FAminG lipS future.
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Postman |
whatever... sounds good to me and I've half-way been following them since jesus was shootin' heroin... |
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Telepathic Surgeon |
well, all I can say is...unless there's a significant change to the setlist or a change in their stage presentation (IE: losing the backing tracks) I've pretty much have had my fill of "LIVE" Lips.
Sure, great times were had, but after 10 years of basically the same thing, it loses it's luster. |
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