Active: 80's, 90's, 2000's Formed: 1983 in Oklahoma City, OK
Syd Barrett, The Soft Boys, The Velvet Underground, T. Rex, Chrome, The Who, Brian Eno, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü, Hawkwind, Butthole Surfers, David Bowie, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Stooges Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Butthole Surfers, Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, Beck, Radiohead, Ween, Violent Femmes, Robyn Hitchcock, Secret Machines, A Band of Bees, Son, Ambulance, Islands, Simian, The Bigger Lovers, Malajube, The Helio Sequence, Dark Side of the Cop, The Polyphonic Spree Aspera, The Softlightes, Secret Machines, The Westside Daredevils, Bon Iver, The Foundry Field Recordings, Like a Fox, Ooberman, Odawas, Minus Story, Band of Horses, The Quiet Ones, Head of Femur, Annuals, Illinois, The Earlies, The Kazoo Funk Orchestra, The Dirtmitts, Moros Eros |  |
Even within the eclectic world of alternative rock, few bands were so brave, so frequently brilliant, and so deliciously weird as the Flaming Lips. From their beginnings as Oklahoma weirdos to their pop culture breakthrough in the mid-'90s to their status as one of the most respected groups of the 2000s, the Lips have ridden one of the more surreal and haphazard career trajectories in pop music. An acid-bubblegum band with as much affinity for sweet melodies as blistering noise assaults, their off-kilter sound, uncommon emotional depth, and bizarre history (packed with tales of self-immolating fans and the like) firmly established them as true originals.
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