“I think that’s the greatest lesson from The Flaming Lips,” Coyne says. In their journey from art-punks with ambitions beyond their abilities, to becoming a group that, for all their space-age accoutrements, essentially just gets to the core of what it means to exist in this moment, The Flaming Lips have proven that, ultimately, vision and creativity can win out every time. And the world let me sing before it closed the door.”Īlthough, sonically, the Lips left punk behind long ago, they’ve retained its spirit across a mind-boggling array of albums that range from sonic assaults on the central nervous system, to the literally unplayable. “I came into singing at such a perfect time: American punk rock was just beginning and the fact that you couldn’t sing was a benefit. He’s parked outside his home in Oklahoma, FaceTiming RC from the driver’s seat – where, so far as The Flaming Lips are concerned, he’s been sitting since forming the group in 1983. I’m so lucky to be a singer,” Wayne Coyne says.
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