The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize??

Song Exploder

Hrishikesh Hirway

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4.8 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

The Flaming Lips formed in Oklahoma City in 1983. Over the last four decades, they’ve put out 16 albums. In 1999, they put out their album The Soft Bulletin, and that brought them a new level of success. And then, in 2002, they followed it up with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, which was their biggest album to date. Pitchfork named it one of the top 5 albums of the year, Stereogum called it one of the best albums of the decade, and they won a Grammy. And the biggest song from the album was "Do You Realize??" So, for this episode, I talked to Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd about how that song was first imagined. You’ll hear the very first demo Wayne recorded for the song, and the demo he and Steven put together later, on their way to making the final version with producer Dave Fridmann.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
0:06.5	I'm Rishi Kesh Hirway.
0:10.5	Hey, this Monday, May 20th, I'm going to be taping a live song-explanter interview at W-B-R City Space in Boston, Massachusetts.
0:18.0	I'm going to be interviewing Fenn Lily, whose last album I really loved.
0:22.0	If you've ever been curious to hear a full, un- Lily, whose last album I really loved.
0:22.9	If you've ever been curious to hear a full unedited song-exploder interview, this is your
0:27.2	chance.
0:28.2	The folks in the audience will get to hear that and no one else.
0:30.6	And then after our conversation, Fen Lily is going to play a few songs.
0:34.0	Go to song-explaneter. net slash live to get tickets.
0:38.0	I'm also going to be playing a show of my own the day before in King New Hampshire at the Thing in the Spring Festival.
0:44.5	That's on Sunday, May 19th.
0:46.6	It's a really great lineup of singer-song writers that includes Buck Meek from Big Thief
0:50.9	and Nina Nastasia, whose album The Blackened Air is one of my all-time favorite
0:55.4	Steve Albini recordings.
0:57.4	You can find tickets for that at songexploder.net slash live also.
1:01.5	Okay, hope to see you at one or both of these events in New England.
1:05.0	Thanks.
1:07.0	The Flaming Lips formed in Oklahoma City in 1983.
1:11.0	Over the last four decades, they've put out 16 albums. In 1999 they put
1:16.1	out their album The Soft Bulletin and that brought them a new level of success.
1:19.7	And then in 2002 they followed it up with Yoshimi battles the Pink Robots.
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