About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Hanson, The Flaming Lips, Pillar, Hinder, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, The Gap Band, Ricochet, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Color Me Badd, The Tractors, Caroline's Spine, Stars Go Dim, Capital Lights, Taddy Porter, Colourmusic, The Nixons, 20/20, Oklahoma City Blue Devils, Los Hijos del Diablo, Raze, Philmore, SafetySuit, Stephen Speaks, Music Central, Chainsaw Kittens, Starlight Mints, The Willis Brothers, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, The Delta Rhythm Boys, Andeline, Other Lives, Elephant Revival, Aranda, Aqueduct, Everyday Value, The Neighborhood, Umbrellas, Trader-Price, Radial Spangle, American Ruse, Puller, The Rounders, Evangelicals, Whisper Loud, PC Quest, Ester Drang, Thirteen Stars, Cozad Singers, For Love Not Lisa, The Arnolds. Excerpt: The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983. Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles-such as "Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles," "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)," "What Is the Light?" (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical by Which We Are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love Is the Same Chemical That Caused the "Big Bang" That Was the Birth of the Accelerating Universe)" and "Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical." They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 B...
