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by April Fleming
November 18, 2009 at 10:11 a.m.
We might have seen this coming (NSFW, very)
A Flaming Lips show is truly something to behold, even while their bag of spectacle tricks remains somewhat repetitive over the years. There's Wayne's crowd surfing in a giant bubble — which is sometimes spawned from an enormous spaceship that drops down from the stage lights — there's the massive quantities of balls or balloons and confetti, there's the huge flashlights and the megaphones and the mic-camera, there's dancing teletubbies, and lighting to rival a Pink Floyd show.
Wakarusa 2008 evidently ushered in an entirely new trick in the Lips' on-stage playbook: nekked people. Then it seemed like it might have been completely spontaneous ... and maybe it was.
But with the release of this new video, nudity would seem to be part of the Lips schtick. The new album isn't exactly the Soft Bulletin's second coming, so you gotta wonder how much of this is compensating for music that's not nearly as good as it's been...
(Ahem, caution: contains some nudity.. A LOT of nudity)
If the embed is acting up, this one seems to work consistently.
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gavon (Gavon Laessig) says…
It's nice to see Wayne Coyne's salt and pepper drapes match his salt and pepper carpet. And, if I were the person who loaned out all of those bicycles, I would not want them back.
Along the same line of NSFW videos, here's the latest from Electric Six (who are playing in Kansas City at the Riot Room on Saturday, by the by):
http://hypebeast.com/2009/10/electric...
I love that band, I love that song, and I love that video. Go see Electric Six!
http://www.lawrence.com/events/2009/n...