Happiness makes you cry

[Part of the Concerts of the Year recap on RooYCD]

The Flaming Lips
Pitchfork Music Festival, July 19
Allstate Arena, December 11

Ok, this is pretty much every Flaming Lips concert I've ever seen, including the ones this year:

- Race for the Prize intro, featuring confetti, balloons, Wayne's space bubble, and the members of the Flaming Lips coming out of a woman's vagina (formerly "and the members of the Flaming Lips coming out of a spaceship)

- Alternating set-list between slower numbers and sing-along songs. Always featuring the Yeah Yeah Yeah song, She Don't Use Jelly, and a group singalong to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. (sometimes includes Fight Test) The Yeah Yeah Yeah song features large, confetti filled balloons. The Yoshimi singalong is slower than the record, and at the ends of "Yoshimi," and "Jelly," Wayne has everyone sing along to the last verse and chorus a second time, just because.

- Some new songs worked in.

- Wayne can't really sing anymore.

- Wayne talks a lot between songs, and you realize that they probably could have played at least one more song if Wayne would say, like, half of the words that he normally says.

- Also, wait, hold on, Wayne still plays guitar?

- Big finish with Do You Realize??, everyone loses their shit, starts crying, and realizes that they just had the most amazing hour and a half.

- 48-72 hours of "oh my god, that was amazing," and other general happiness.

- Wait 6-12 months, repeat.


Race for the Prize at Pitchfork [Original Flaming Lips p4k recap from July]




She Don't Use Jelly at Allstate