Flaming Lips- Fearless Freaks EP (free download inside)

Ah, Thank you amazIng sir for letting this happen

Space Age Love Song? As in the flockies?

id rather listen to a fart than this gay shit

what about a gay fart?

Yep, it's Flock of Seagulls allright.

That "Shine On Sweet Jesus" is totally almost a Staples Singers song, isn't it? It's almost SOMEBODY's song.

This is hilarious and so friggin much fun. The drumming is glorious.

When I click on the songs it just opens quicktime and plays, it doesn't actually download it to my computer. Am I doing it wrong???

Right-click, "Save Target As"

I've got the DVD in my Netflix queue and plan to watch it this weekend. Anyone else seen it yet?

I've heard it's great, but parts are disturbing. Can I spoil part of it for you?

Sure. Go for it.

The "When You Smile --> Fetus" track really makes me miss Ronald. They were something very special at that point. The Lips owned the second half of the 90s completely.

I can't wait to see the DVD! These tracks make me feel like I've been huffing ether or something, when listened loudly enough.

As someone who's sensitive to gore... please tell me if they show the gory footage in the movie that they did for the Soft Bulletin tour, or any other tour. I don't mind the freaky comics. I heard about the Drozd scene where he "indulges"... is there anything worse?

the Drozd scene is the worst. it was so painful i had to hide my eyes behind my shirt, and even still, it was hard listening to him talk about shooting up and how it felt. but his explanation later of how wayne got him to kick almost makes up for the wooziness

I have the DVD.. which chapter is it in? (i'm with you on the hiding the eyes thing, HU.. trust me.)

Yeah, I was referring to the Drozd scene. Ugh.

Huh, I don't remember any gory footage from the Soft Bulletin tour- all I remember were Teletubbies...

haha I was just burning this and realized that, at SIXTY TWO FRIGGIN MINUTES, this is quite an "EP".

not sure, donut--it's toward the end, around the time they start getting serious about "christmas on mars"

Yeah, I saw them on that tour. I think it was the first time I saw them and I didn't really know what to expect. I was on acid and my gal and I sat through Sonic Boom and his trained farting speak n' spells, Robyn Hitchcock who was pretty good, and Sebadoh who started off pretty and got loud and ugly and horrible for our delicate mental states. We were worried that the whole show would be a bust but the Lips came on and made everything right. Moved us to tears it was so beautiful, and there were very gory aspects to the show. At one point the music was subdued and ambient, and the projections were very hazy and hard to make out. We were all struggling to focus, what was that? What's going on? And suddenly it comes into focus fast BAM it's EYE SURGERY, A CLOSE-UP OF AN EYE GOING UNDER THE KNIFE AAAAAAAAAH!!! And as donut mentions, later during the Gash they alternate between the 30 Minute workout girls doing jumping jacks in time with the music, and that famous video of the Vietnamese general shooting an opposing vietnamese soldier in the head with blood spurting out, over and over. These aspects of the show were brutal, but in context with everything else shown (happy sperms fertilizing eggs, stars being born) it just seemed like an honest piece of a larger whole. Not to say that they weren't deliberately fucking with the crowd. And this was when they were passing out the headphones so everyone could hear the show in stereo. OHOHOH and I remember another bit (sorry this is so long). At the end of "When You Smile," during the last, slow repetition of the chorus ("all of the subatomic pieces come together") a siren rang out loudly , from an ambulance driving by. Wayne stopped and looked around and said "Oh, I hope they're allright..." paused again... and finished the song. It was perfect. Except for whoever the ambulance was for.