This is the best posted version of this wonderful song by this magical band...yes, the Letterman performance is great, but you really need the beautiful madness of the concert performance to fully capture their spirit, and you'd be hard-pressed to find more smiling faces at a show by anyone else...
I saw them live in August 09... and it was the greatest concert I've ever been too. Hands down. My friends and I got selected to go backstage and dress up in Yeti costumes and dance onstage with the band. I danced with Wayne. Then we hung out with him for an hour backstage afterwards. The greatest thing ever.
This song is about being thankful for every moment you get to share with the ones that you love. It is a song to remind us to cherish the ones that we love, both the ones that have gone, and also those that remain with a positive, peaceful, beautiful love. The song was written after loosing a loved one. A way to reconnect with and honor a love that is sacred to them.
at one point in this video you see a couple hugging. it is so simple and beautiful to see them rejoycing to the music. i played this song to a close friend and they started crying. it's a powerful song
Two best live bands in the world today-The Flaming Lips & Pearl Jam. One spits out as much bad assery as the other. If you ain't seen 'em both yet... DO THAT SHIT.
I would like to thank Wayne Coyne for making music this beautiful. Without this, the world would be a different place spiritually and artistically. Flaming Lips For Ever
I've never realized how much this and "mind games" sound alike, I'm not trying to detract Lennon, but this flaming lips song is one of the most beautiful "hymns for the girl you like" out there :D and live is still better! with all those colors out there! I totally love the FL!!!
I had a dream the other night that Wayne died, and when I woke up, I cried harder than I ever have. I've lost friends, and family members, but nobody could change lives the way he does. I hope he never dies. He'll probably just go missing some day.
Just saw them last night! Such an amazing show. Even if you're down in the dumps, you can't help but leaving their show feeling better about everything your life.
My girlfriend and I saw them at the Ryman this past May, she isn't much of a Lips fan but she freakin loves this song and she loved the show, i consider myself a lucky guy to share a song and experience like this with the one i love
Took my 12-year-old son to his first concert ever a few years back - Weezer and the Flaming Lips. The whole show was a blast, but for me, it peaked with both bands performing this song together.
I also have to say, it is very good to see that there are all positive comments on this video. Though i cant see how someone could see this and feel like being negative. Life is fleeting....
I agree with Petertheimpaler (love the name). Seeing this song in a live setting with a crowd of people joyously dancing and singing along while confetti flies is the only way to truly understand it. In a way, those beautiful moments are what this song is all about. I feel so lucky to have been able to get the full flaming lips experience a good number of times. Seeing them live is nothing short of a celebration of life
this is the best video on yotube i have ever seen!! this is so amazing! i am making this my homepage! shows how amazing of a performance they do. i saw them in boston last august and it was such a grand performance! i cant wait to see them again
The part about the sun going down being an illusion from the world spinning round brings tears to my eyes, it's really bizarre. This song represents the true power of music and art.
Goddamn if I don't well up everytime I watch this. I don't know what about it. Maybe it brings you back to a childlike place of awe and innocence, but I just want to weep uncontrablly while watching this. Tears of joy that is.
But other than that The Flaming Lips play all their music on the Studio Albums, bringing it live has allways been a different story, but with the addition of Kliph Scurlock as part of the Band as allowed Stephen to play guitar and synth live, and have live drums. they are allways creating the music with various technology, i think its great noone else does that, acoustic and electric, digital and analog equipment. and they never sample other peoples work.
@deadk133 I'm with you there. I saw them a few years ago. Best show ever and not just for the music. They begin the show talking about how they want to celebrate life and then they spend two hours doing only that. It's so. much. fun. I would see them again in a second.
"this is awesome!" typed my seven year old daughter who still has a giant green balloon in her bedroom that she took home with her after seeing the Flaming Lips at the Puyallup Fair in September.
Find me a single musician kinder, more intelligent, more creative, more charming, more funny, more real, and overall, more magical than Wayne Coyne, and you've found me a clone of Wayne Coyne.
its not like he's incapable of playing guitar. he plays it on some of the newer tracks on embryonic. The lips used to use VCR tapes as a click track along to their images on the screen, they used sequencers in the Soft Bulletin era. I think they have recently gone more digital recently though. Embryonic was recorded with one mic jams, stetched out and the eq fiddled on pro tools, and the Fridmann gave it a bit more boost in the studio. thats why its sounds like it does
@captdrastic Yep. I was there. That was my first time seeing them live. I'll do my best to make sure i see them whenever they come back. At times I felt incredible, and other times I was on the verge of tears. Only had that happen at one other concert, and that was The Swell Season at The Paramount in November of 09.
@ThePoorhillbilly Chord variations are EVERYTHING. That's how you write songs. I imagine he wrote this song on guitar originally, and what he's triggering are the strings or the orchestration involved in the original recording. Personally, to me, that's all foo-foo. I think perhaps I am a bit of a purist, and that's all fine and dandy. I'd rather not hear the foo foo at the expense him playing the guitar live. examples are Hendrix Sonic Youth for live sound w/out foo foo. Still Love FLPS
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This is the best posted version of this wonderful song by this magical band...yes, the Letterman performance is great, but you really need the beautiful madness of the concert performance to fully capture their spirit, and you'd be hard-pressed to find more smiling faces at a show by anyone else...
I saw them live in August 09... and it was the greatest concert I've ever been too. Hands down. My friends and I got selected to go backstage and dress up in Yeti costumes and dance onstage with the band. I danced with Wayne. Then we hung out with him for an hour backstage afterwards. The greatest thing ever.
This song is about being thankful for every moment you get to share with the ones that you love. It is a song to remind us to cherish the ones that we love, both the ones that have gone, and also those that remain with a positive, peaceful, beautiful love. The song was written after loosing a loved one. A way to reconnect with and honor a love that is sacred to them.
These guys and Modest Mouse restored MY faith in modern music too. . . .
this song makes me want to cry and jump for joy. I love this band!
I STILL get chills.
at one point in this video you see a couple hugging. it is so simple and beautiful to see them rejoycing to the music. i played this song to a close friend and they started crying. it's a powerful song
Watching them perform this song live is like being at they best party you can imagine, where you feel like everyone there is your friend.
their drummer really gets into it... i LOVE this song
Two best live bands in the world today-The Flaming Lips & Pearl Jam. One spits out as much bad assery as the other. If you ain't seen 'em both yet... DO THAT SHIT.
I would like to thank Wayne Coyne for making music this beautiful. Without this, the world would be a different place spiritually and artistically. Flaming Lips For Ever
I heard this track for the first time watching Glastonbury 2010 on TV, what a great song love it
I love this song...I'm gonna call home tonight.
This is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
The most beautiful song with the most beautiful concert.
Also one of the best gigs I've ever seen. Blue dot festival. Just extraordinary
I've never realized how much this and "mind games" sound alike, I'm not trying to detract Lennon, but this flaming lips song is one of the most beautiful "hymns for the girl you like" out there :D and live is still better! with all those colors out there! I totally love the FL!!!
I had a dream the other night that Wayne died, and when I woke up, I cried harder than I ever have. I've lost friends, and family members, but nobody could change lives the way he does. I hope he never dies. He'll probably just go missing some day.
Just saw them last night! Such an amazing show. Even if you're down in the dumps, you can't help but leaving their show feeling better about everything your life.
What a proud week for Oklahoma! Tuesday this becomes the state song here:-D
i think this is the most joyful thing I've ever seen
This is a wonderful majestic way to start my journey of appreciating their music. I saw them by live back in '07.
The best live act band I've ever seen. It's that simple. :)
Beautiful song. Prophetic words.
My girlfriend and I saw them at the Ryman this past May, she isn't much of a Lips fan but she freakin loves this song and she loved the show, i consider myself a lucky guy to share a song and experience like this with the one i love
i neeeeeed to see them play live that is on my bucket list what an amazin song if it dosent affect you then go to the doctors
just... a beautyful song
I love how you see a couple hugging :)
They really are full of love. The audience is always so happy. That interaction creates a beautiful show
Took my 12-year-old son to his first concert ever a few years back - Weezer and the Flaming Lips. The whole show was a blast, but for me, it peaked with both bands performing this song together.
Just saw this live in Boston. Will probably go down as one of the defining moments in my life.
I also have to say, it is very good to see that there are all positive comments on this video. Though i cant see how someone could see this and feel like being negative. Life is fleeting....
I agree with Petertheimpaler (love the name). Seeing this song in a live setting with a crowd of people joyously dancing and singing along while confetti flies is the only way to truly understand it. In a way, those beautiful moments are what this song is all about. I feel so lucky to have been able to get the full flaming lips experience a good number of times. Seeing them live is nothing short of a celebration of life
this show was so incredible! long (has always) live the LIPS!
405 love
This would've been a SICK and I mean SICK concert to go to...damn...
Simply epic in every sense.
that was the best show ive ever been to
Looks a great night
Great gig
Terry
man these song rocks
this is the best video on yotube i have ever seen!! this is so amazing! i am making this my homepage!
shows how amazing of a performance they do. i saw them in boston last august and it was such a grand performance! i cant wait to see them again
The part about the sun going down being an illusion from the world spinning round brings tears to my eyes, it's really bizarre. This song represents the true power of music and art.
This is what people should smile for.
saw this Tuesday night in Sydney....just out of this world..........
The best band i have ever seen live. There concerts are fucking mindblowing, take the next chance you can to see them. you will not regret it.
Man that would be so cool to be at the front row for that concert
this song makes me love everyone and everything
we're floating in space!
this song =
The Flaming Lips are probably the best thing to have ever come out of Oklahoma.
possibly the happiest live performance ever
When 'The Other Woman' starts with this song, I knew I would love the movie.
Im going to that party in two days!
My hair stands on end when I hear this song
It's absolutley amazing, a celebration of life.
Pink floyd wish they could have wrote this.
Best band in the world.
Thinking of driving from Tampa, Florida to Oklahoma City December 16th to see these guys!
Esse vivo é maravilhoso!
This is a godlike performance.
THIS IS LIFE.
PERIOD.
The live drums are sweet!
7 people have never felt the euphoria of a flaming lips concert
Goddamn if I don't well up everytime I watch this. I don't know what about it. Maybe it brings you back to a childlike place of awe and innocence, but I just want to weep uncontrablly while watching this. Tears of joy that is.
But other than that The Flaming Lips play all their music on the Studio Albums, bringing it live has allways been a different story, but with the addition of Kliph Scurlock as part of the Band as allowed Stephen to play guitar and synth live, and have live drums. they are allways creating the music with various technology, i think its great noone else does that, acoustic and electric, digital and analog equipment. and they never sample other peoples work.
very emotional song ...
@deadk133 I'm with you there. I saw them a few years ago. Best show ever and not just for the music. They begin the show talking about how they want to celebrate life and then they spend two hours doing only that. It's so. much. fun. I would see them again in a second.
The lyrics , beautifully scary and so true , this is just AMAZING !
I saw them at the beale street music festival in tennessee. Amazing! I Have to see them again :)
No doubt Mekakakaka, I'm with you 100%
Do you realise that someone is going to have to clear up all that mess after you've gone!
Brilliant. Works as a lyric in the song too. :p
Yeah. I was there, man.
How how how did I tear up watching this AGAIN??? Goddamn Wayne
NotMe54323 same
@davekm43 thanks dave for sharing !
have heard the band but not this track, its brilliant :-)
The meaning of the words are more important than the way they sound coming out
"this is awesome!" typed my seven year old daughter who still has a giant green balloon in her bedroom that she took home with her after seeing the Flaming Lips at the Puyallup Fair in September.
great strength, great concert!!
i love it!!!!!
totally eargasmic and intense.
Find me a single musician kinder, more intelligent, more creative, more charming, more funny, more real, and overall, more magical than Wayne Coyne, and you've found me a clone of Wayne Coyne.
@SplinterInYourEye At the Puyallup Fair? I was at that show. It was wonderful!
I want to go to a flaming lips show!!
awsome!
its not like he's incapable of playing guitar. he plays it on some of the newer tracks on embryonic. The lips used to use VCR tapes as a click track along to their images on the screen, they used sequencers in the Soft Bulletin era. I think they have recently gone more digital recently though. Embryonic was recorded with one mic jams, stetched out and the eq fiddled on pro tools, and the Fridmann gave it a bit more boost in the studio. thats why its sounds like it does
Do you realize that if Wayne could actually SING, this song would have been a massive hit?
One of the most beautifully brutal recordings Ive ever heard just a full wall of sound.
They are Gods, child. They are Gods that walk the Earth.
I don't give a damn if Wayne is not a good singer! Neither is Bob Dylan and certainly both are geniuses.
Just beatin' the shit out of that drum kit.
@captdrastic Yep. I was there. That was my first time seeing them live. I'll do my best to make sure i see them whenever they come back. At times I felt incredible, and other times I was on the verge of tears. Only had that happen at one other concert, and that was The Swell Season at The Paramount in November of 09.
The smile tells it all. Oh and I meant !
@davekm43 Full of energy. The drummer plays like a madman.
thanks,what a song
YES!!!!!!!!
Now that's massive
Awesome! I can't wait to see them at Voodoofest!
SO excited to see them :D
MIND GAMES!
crap, now I want a confetticannon...
...and I thought the album version was good. this is amazing! so powerful
wow..i was there...i'm so jealous of my past self.
@ThePoorhillbilly Chord variations are EVERYTHING. That's how you write songs. I imagine he wrote this song on guitar originally, and what he's triggering are the strings or the orchestration involved in the original recording. Personally, to me, that's all foo-foo. I think perhaps I am a bit of a purist, and that's all fine and dandy. I'd rather not hear the foo foo at the expense him playing the guitar live. examples are Hendrix Sonic Youth for live sound w/out foo foo. Still Love FLPS
i do realize it , let's try love 4 once !!!!!
Need. Tickets.
Is that animal from the muppets on drums. So good.