Coverville 1565: The Flaming Lips Cover Story

Coverville: The Cover Music Show (AAC Edition)

Brian Ibbott

Music, Coverville, Cover

4.8 • 797 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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For Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, who just turned 65 and has those cool Dr. Strange gray spots on his temples! (50 minutes)

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0:00.0	Coming up on episode where 1,565, well, 65 is the number, isn't it?
0:07.0	Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips turns 65 this week, and I look back in the 65-year history of Coverville that really is only 21 years and realized I've never done a Flaming Lips cover story.
0:18.6	Can't believe it either.
0:19.8	Let's get to it.
0:20.7	All this and more. Coming up right now on Coverville.
0:36.4	The time's tough now. Just getting rough. It's just getting rough to cover me. Thanks getting tougher Whole world is rough
0:37.8	It's just getting rougher
0:39.6	Cover me
0:40.7	Come on baby cover me
0:44.8	Well I'm looking for a loo
0:50.1	Come on in and cover me
0:52.7	Greetings from Coverville Come on in and cover me.
1:00.0	Greetings from Coverville for a Thursday morning.
1:02.9	It is Thursday, January 15th, 2026.
1:03.7	My name is Brandon.
1:06.5	Welcome to another cover story edition of the show.
1:14.3	Today featuring the music of Wayne Coyne and the Flaming Lips, a band that is just as amazing visually as they are musically. And it kind of surprises me that I haven't done a Flaming Lips
1:20.0	cover story. I played Flaming Lips on the show before, doing covers of other people, but never
1:25.0	an actual Flaming Lips cover story.
1:27.9	I'm kind of surprised because they are influential.
1:32.2	They are a band that other bands do like to cover.
1:35.2	So let's get to it.
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