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The Flaming Lips鈥� Sofa Session and 大象传媒 Introducing

Jo chats to The Flaming Lips鈥� Wayne Coyne and the band play a Sofa Session, including music from their latest album, American Head. Plus a 大象传媒 Music Introducing recommendation.

Jo chats to The Flaming Lips鈥� Wayne Coyne and the band play a Sofa Session, including music from their latest album, American Head.

Wayne Coyne explains the new album: 鈥淓ven though The Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma we never thought of ourselves as an AMERICAN band. I know growing up (when I was like 6 or 7 years old) in Oklahoma I was never influenced by, or was very aware of any musicians from Oklahoma. We mostly listened to the Beatles and my mother loved Tom Jones (this is in the 60鈥檚)... it wasn鈥檛 till I was about 10 or 11 that my older brothers would know a few of the local musician dudes.

So... for most of our musical life we鈥檝e kind of thought of ourselves as coming from 鈥楨arth鈥�... not really caring WHERE we were actually from. So for the first time in our musical life we began to think of ourselves as 鈥楢N AMERICAN BAND鈥欌�� telling ourselves that it would be our identity for our next creative adventure. We had become a 7-piece ensemble and were beginning to feel more and more of a kinship with groups that have a lot of members in them. We started to think of classic American bands like The Grateful Dead and Parliament-Funkadelic and how maybe we could embrace this new vibe.

The music and songs that make up the AMERICAN HEAD album are based in a feeling. A feeling that, I think, can only be expressed through music and songs. We were, while creating it, trying to NOT hear it as sounds... but to feel it. Mother鈥檚 sacrifice, Father鈥檚 intensity, Brother鈥檚 insanity, Sister鈥檚 rebellion...I can鈥檛 quite put it into words.

Something switches and others (your brothers and sisters and mother and father...your pets) start to become more important to you鈥n the beginning there is only you... and your desires are all that you can care about...but... something switches.. I think all of these songs are about this little switch.鈥�

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Wed 30 Sep 2020 19:00
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Music Played

  • The Flaming Lips

    Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • Justin Bieber

    Holy

    • (CD Single).
    • Def Jam Recordings.

  • The Flaming Lips

    Do You Realize??

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Flaming Lips

    Race For The Prize

    • (CD Single).
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Flaming Lips

    The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)

    • Warner Bros.

  • The Flaming Lips

    Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1

  • Chase & Status

    End Credits (feat. Plan B)

  • Royal Blood

    Trouble's Coming

    • Trouble's Coming.
    • Imperial Galactic Limited/Black Mammoth/Warner.
    • 1.

  • Bastille

    Survivin'

  • Paul Simon

    Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

    • The Paul Simon Anthology (Disc 1).
    • Warner Bros.
    • 3.

  • Arlo Parks

    Hurt

    • Transgressive Records.

  • LCD Soundsystem

    All My Friends

    • CD SINGLE.
    • DFA.

  • The Flaming Lips

    God and the Policeman (Sofa Session, 30 Septeber 2020)

  • Peter, Paul and Mary

    Puff The Magic Dragon

    • Peter Paul & Mary - Moving.
    • Warner Bros.

  • The Flaming Lips

    Do You Realise (Sofa Session, 30 September 2020)

  • Harry Nilsson

    Without You

    • 70's Number Ones Vol 2.
    • Old Gold.

  • Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard

    Double Denim Hop

    • Double Denim Hop.
    • Caroline International (P&D).
    • 1.

  • Childish Gambino

    This Is America

    • RCA Records.

  • Boy Pablo

    leave me alone

    • leave me alone.
    • 777 Music.
    • 1.

  • Cruel Hearts Club

    Dirty Rotten Scum

    • Dirty Rotten Scum.
    • 1.

  • Michael Aldag

    Empathy

    • Empathy.
    • 2020 Michael Aldag.
    • 1.

  • Rahim Redcar

    Tilted

    • (CD Single).
    • Because Music.

  • Elbow

    One Day Like This

    • (CD Single).
    • Fiction.
    • 1.

  • Dorothy Moore

    Misty Blue

    • Heart Full Of Soul 2 (Various Artist.
    • Global Television.

  • Fleet Foxes

    Can I Believe You

    • Shore.
    • Fleet Foxes/Anti.
    • 3.

  • Solange

    Cranes In The Sky

    • HitDisc: HC201644.
    • Saint / Columbia.
    • 13.

  • Cole Porter

    I Love Paris

Broadcast

  • Wed 30 Sep 2020 19:00
    大象传媒 Radio 2