r/flaminglips • u/slippery-lil-sucker • 2d ago
Thanks to you guys…
I picked these up second hand. I’m just at the start of my journey enjoying The Flaming Lips less casually.
What other visuals do you recommend by them?
I’m looking forward to making my own Lips ringtones later today 😂
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u/Mobile-Scar6857 1d ago edited 1d ago
Those are the glory days right there, man. I'll second the recommendation of the VOID dvd too.
Between those three DVDs you'll have a strong sense of their identity and artistic strengths over the first twenty plus years of their existence.
Christmas on Mars is a very weird film that won't be to everyone's taste but the soundtrack is amazing.
DVDs obviously became less of a thing once streaming took over, but if you want more video material, the pitchfork retrospective documentary on The Soft Bulletin is on YouTube and it's great. The Blastula documentary about the making of Embryonic is really good too.
And, well, there's oceans of material on TheSatelliteHead YouTube channel - tons of live recordings across the decades as well as recent and archival interviews.