The Flaming Lips on NPR's World Cafe

Local heroes and international cult phenomenon, The Flaming Lips, made an appearance on NPR’s eclectic music show World Cafe in April. The segment is 40 minutes long and is largely comprised of an interview with Lip’s founder, Wayne Coyne. The four pieces played on the show are exclusive live in-studio performances including a cover version of Sonic Youth’s “Unmade Bed” which morphs into Led Zep’s “No Quarter” and a very different version (slow acoustic piano) of “The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song.”

About this version, Wayne tells interviewer David Dye:

The “Yeah Yeah Yeah Song” on the record is this kind of T. Rex meets like sorta Gwen Stefani rave-up that really I think is kind of, if nothing, absurd and happy. And this version... is actually very sobering and somber and some of the lyrical content really trades it’s place from being something where we’re kinda making fun of power to really almost being in awe of it, and kinda sad about it, in the same way...

You can listen to this show with either/both RealPlayer and Windows Media Player. Other NPR stories related to the release of the latest album, At War With the Mystics, can be found here and here.

P.S. If anyone knows how to download these into a burnable format... please write me.