Can't wait for April 4th. Finally a new Flaming Lips album will be in my stereo.
Check out Mr. Coyne's track by track insight via Glide Magazine.
IT OVERTAKES ME
I sometimes will do a silly songwriter's trick - I'll act like I'm writing a song for someone else and on this track I was imagining Gwen Stefani... I pictured her singing it and imagined what kind of production would happen. Initially I called the song, when it was intended for Ms. Stefani, "I Like To Masturbate and Think Of Outer Space"...and I still think that if she was doing the song it's a great title....But to think of me, a 45 year old man with a graying beard, umm, masturbating....is... well...(I'm uncomfortable even typing this)...unpleasant...so anyway...The song ends up being more about my occasional bouts of panic when accidentally contemplating the "Cosmic Reality", that is....that we (the Earth) are floating perilously adrift in a vast and endless sea of black infinity (outer space) and it is, when analyzed, a mindfuck...and yes I feel horribly insignificant....So anyway, what we ended up with, I believe, still sounds like a mashing of "Hollaback Girl" and "1969" by The Stooges...take some drugs and turn it up real loud...Posted by Tom at February 8, 2006 10:00 AM
"THE W.A.N.D. (THE WILL ALWAYS NEGATES DEFEAT)" opens the new paste magazine cd that just came in the mail. very sweet -- though it kind of scares the wife...
Posted by: diatriber at February 8, 2006 10:41 AMTHE W.A.N.D. crunches! It is teh fucking rock!
Posted by: Tony at March 15, 2006 12:41 PM