Aside from the losses within the band and in their personal lives, their relationship with their record label was on the rocks and The Soft Bulletin was potentially going to be their last.īut they surprised everyone, not least themselves by delivering an emotionally satisfying, sonically uplifting, creatively validating record that would set the course for their career into the new decade and beyond. The Flaming Lips had no clue what would come out of the making The Soft Bulletin. What would normally strike fear into the hearts of many, to Coyne, was an opportunity to tread a new horizon with new possibilities, with more magic to discover. "To me, the photo represents a person going into the unknown – the unknown within themselves," he told The Guardian. When Coyne, saw the photo in a thrift shop copy of Life magazine, he knew instantly what it meant to him. It’s also reflected in the art chosen for The Soft Bulletin’s cover, an image captured by Lawrence Schiller, a member of Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters cohort in the early 60s who saw the young boy dancing with his shadow. The complex of emotions is even more directly embraced in ‘Feeling Yourself Disintegrate’ with its sincere lyrics ' But life without death, is just impossible, oh to realise, something is ending, within us' gently consoling but insistent of the need in life to accept change. But it wasn't all bad, it opened up the door to another dimension of joy and pain and suffering and wondering."
"There was all this stuff that I was not really trying to sing about, but it gets to this horrible centre of your subconscious mind and it seems that the only thing you can do is talk about it, think about it and look at it. And I think that once it happened it was devastating, but it wasn't devastating in the way that I thought it was gonna be when I was 10. "I'd worried about that since I was probably 10-years-old. And I don't just mean to me, but to my whole family," he told The Quietus in 2011. "It isn't solely about the idea that my father had died, but I had worried about what a death in the family would do to us. Īnd that newfound creative fervour is evidenced in the stellar opener 'Race for the Prize', as it bursts joyfully out of the gates with its booming drums and sweeping strings. It resulted in drummer Steven Drozd stepping up his role to become the group’s multi-instrument playing, songwriting and arranging ace, expanding the band’s sound from their noisier psych rock to a more melodic, symphonic sound, the framework for their critical breakthrough The Soft Bulletin. Zaireeka was the first album The Flaming Lips made in the wake of guitarist Ronald Jones’ departure. Its ambition and artistic scope made it a challenging album in more ways than one to take in, but it was an important step in the progression of the band’s sound toward the next record they would make. A project birthed by parking lot, and subsequent boombox, experiments, where fans gathered in parking lots or at concerts and played cassettes of the band’s music simultaneously. It goes some way to explaining the childlike enthusiasm into which his band The Flaming Lips has conceived and fulfilled projects like the Zaireeka four CD release.
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"A lot of people look at life as a series of miserable tasks, but after that, I didn’t." He says the event was a huge turning point for him. In the essay he relates the experience of being held up at gunpoint in his late teens at American chain restaurant Long John Silvers, where he worked as a fry cook. Wayne Coyne’s essay for NPR, entitled Creating Our Own Happiness, gives insight into the thinking of the man who at various times has been called eccentric, oddball or just downright mad. "I believe the real magic in the world is done by humans.
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