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Article: Flaming Lips
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Flaming Lips
Rock group
The odd band known as the Flaming Lips languished on the edges of alternative rock obscurity for more than a decade, known only to fellow fringe-music aficionados who appreciated the band's unique, distorted sound. Music writer Jim DeRogatis has called them "one of the most ambitious, imaginative, twisted bands in rock and roll today."
The Flaming Lips have been fixtures around the Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, music scene since the mid-1980s. Their music, and the panache with which they deliver it, springs from frontman Wayne Coyne. "If I was to talk about my own life, it would probably seem like a stupid Bob Seger song about some dumb guy being in a rock band," ...
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Transcript: Flaming Lips Stay True and Reach Out with ...
NPR Morning Edition;
April 13, 2006 ;
700+ words
... ... Lips): Im Steven from the Flaming Lips and I play assorted instruments ... are two-thirds of the Flaming Lips, a music group from Oklahoma City that also includes bassist ... whos probably our biggest Flaming Lips fan Ive ever met probably ...
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