the Flaming Lips six-hour song "I Found A Star On The Ground"

http://www.spin.com/articles/hear-flaming-lips-new-six-hour-song

tl;dl

markers is the conscience of ilx

Perhaps the Lips spent a lot of time at the Ocropolis?

best thing they've done in 20 years!

Perhaps the Lips spent a lot of time at the Ocropolis?

― grandavis, Friday, September 23, 2011 4:31 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it fuckin sounds like it

nice!

Without doing any googling, reading, or any nonsense other than listening, it sounds literally like Bobby is sitting in with the Lips, or some shit like that. But yeah, it's good so far.

Didn't this happen already?

No wait, that was Cornershop.

dang, scott otm -- this is really pretty great, 10 minutes in! gonna stop now and save the whole thing for the next time I have to work a boring Sunday shift.

i had enough after about three minutes. it sounds like music by a robot who has been drinking too much coffee. i am not sure if i should pity or if i should admire people who can listen to this for six hours.

"best thing they've done in 20 years"

did you listen to it all?

Pink Floyd's Piper meets Krautrock?
sounds good.
waiting for the who will cut the 6 hours into proper "songs"

i made it 23 minutes. the irritating background effect got to me

"we will always love you"

I keep forgetting that I'm listening to this

I am apparently 47 minutes in

This is the one where people could pay to have their name in the lyrics, right? At some point Wayne presumably starts singing people's names. It cost a $100 donation to the Oklahoma Humane Society.

I really liked the Neon Indian & Lightning Bolt & Flying Lotus collaborations - I think they have a lot of good music left in them, for sure.

I think I made the last one up.

Been playing this non stop since Wednesday night and it just gets worse. Stopping now as just been sectioned. Bye

Nick Cave should counter with a six-hour "Babe, I'm On Fire."

i actually like this a lot but who knows if i'll get to the end

Anybody heard Dangermouses's 52 hour 14 minute ' grey' mix?

I haven't yet either but can't wait

46 minutes in... def think this is some of the best stuff they've done in a while

To heck with that six hour song.

I have loved, loved, loved everything the Lips have done Embryonic and onwards, and this year's constant stream of stuff has been a huge treat. I don't know if I'll ever buy another CD but I definitely would buy some weird gummy skull or flashing light toy or whatever. Christmas is gonna be rad.

Also, this is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMRk4HDgg8M

i actually made it through the whole thing and it's pretty consistently awesome. sort of transitions from funky to more traditionally kraut-rocky to vangelis-esque variations on the same groove. and the final 30 minutes are an entirely different riff which is pretty sabbath-y

I'm going to probably try to listen to this 6-hour song at some point, but, tbh, all this gimmicky shit is making me fast lose interest in these guys. I absolutely loved Embryonic and am thrilled about their recent direction, but how about releasing some music we don't have to jump through ridiculous hoops and/or pay ridiculous sums of money to hear? (NB - I realize there are other ways of hearing many of these) Just give me some old-fashioned plastic or vinyl, thank you very much.

I'm sure that's coming too! Maybe next year or something. Certainly a compilation of the best of these collabs would be nice. Also, I'd rather get to read and see and hear all this cool stuff than just wait for a year or two before a new album gets released.

Oh yeah, its definitely exciting, but yeah.. I'd love some sort of compilation of this stuff!

Ha, did you guys actually click that link I made in my post yet? The 6 hour song is nothing.

I heard about that yesterday, yeah. I'll wait to see if the thing even materializes since Coyne himself even seems to kinda doubt if it will happen.

I have made it to 2 hours in.

The first half of what I heard so far is very Silver Apples.

I recently bought a gummy fetus. I'm not going to open or eat it, but it's pretty damn weird. It really has weight to it and sort of feels like a weird creature. The day I bought it, it felt super fragile and I was very protective of it. Mainly because it was $40. But also, it's a pretty interesting tactile experience I've never had with a musical artifact before. As for the music, it's available on youtube and different websites, and Wayne has said he doesn't mind if people just spread it around for free. Mostly trippy, shapeless, synth-driven psych.

Someone asked me why I bought it. I think it's really cool all the stuff the Lips have been doing this year. The record store I bought it from is going through hard times and I haven't bought anything there since 'Embryonic', which was years ago.

I want a skull now! Ah but they're going for $150 on ebay...

Their website still has some

http://flaminglips.com/shop/item/160/the-flaming-lips-2011-gummy-song-skull/

Although, the price is the same.

http://flaminglips.com/shop/item/589/the-hollywood-cemetery-skull/

Pot-flavored gummy brain inside a skull. Is there anything cooler than that?

This is the one where people could pay to have their name in the lyrics, right? At some point Wayne presumably starts singing people's names.

more like reading out in a monotone. and that is pretty much where I stopped listening to I Found A Star ...

i don't think it's wayne.. its sean lennon if i remember correctly...

i'm listening now and it sounds like sean lennon singing the, uh, chorus.

It's the girl from Deerhoof singing "I....found a star on the ground"

Sean Lennon eventually starts reading off the list, basically at that point it sounds like ground control talking to a space mission or something.

Has there been any more word on them officially releasing a compilation of all those collabs they've been working on lately with like Lightning Bolt and Neon Indian? I know they mentioned working on another collaborative album, but that sounded like new stuff.

Done three hours now.

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/club937.com/files/2011/05/FireShot-Pro-capture-024-Chiddy-Bang-Breaks-Guinness-World-Freestyle-Record-I-Music-News-Reviews-and-Gossip-on-Idolator_com-idolator_com_5841422_chiddy-bang-breaks-gui.jpg

who wants to go to clarksdale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ckZmcy1yScg

I listened to this once.

Every so often, I get flashbacks..

I hate this fucking band and this rules

the best thing they did.

how is the 24 hour song?

For real. I voted for it in P&J last year; I was the only one.

is "i found a star on the ground" a song about how they met ke$ha?