By JENNIFER CHANCELLOR Scene Writer on Jan 13, 2010, at 10:02 AM Updated on 1/13 at 10:04 AM
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In a recent interview with
Paste music magazine,
Flaming Lips frontman
Wayne Coyne recently discussed, well, Paste, his work ethic, the band's current tour and new album and the "reimagining" of the
Pink Floyd classic "
Dark Side of the Moon."
The
Oklahoma City band's latest studio work, the two-disc "
Embryonic," was also named Paste’s
No. 18 album of 2009.
PLUS! Read the full interview at
Paste.com.
Here's one question from the Q&A on the new studio album, "Embryonic":
Paste:
I read that you wrote a bunch of traditional songs and then got rid of them in favor of the more experimental jams that ended up on the album. Did you scrap them all, or did some make the album?Coyne:
A couple of Steven’s did. I don’t think that any of mine, in the form that I had first done them, made it. But for me, my creations don’t have to be one way. I can see all this stuff, all this songwriting and all these things that you feel are little shapes of your life, they can easily go into anything. I mean, I can say for certain there was one song that ended up being a pretty good B-side—a song called “Just Above Love”—that we tried to make five different times. And every time we failed, it turned into yet another song. And those songs on the record are “I Can Be a Frog” and “Watching the Planets.” To say that that song failed and these other ones succeeded, you know, it’s all the same to me. I think I learned a long time ago that sometimes the best songs that you write, they happen in two minutes, and this one that you’ve been dreaming about for five years is just a pretentious bunch of nothing.See Paste's top albums of 2009 list at
Paste.com.
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