The 24-Hour Flaming Lips Halloween Song To Be Encased In Skulls (VIDEO)

That 6-hour Flaming Lips song is so done, you guys. Yesterday Wayne Coyne announced the band will release a 24-hour song this Halloween (why not 48?), five copies of which will be recorded on hard drives and inserted in human, not gummy, skulls . The skulls come from Oklahoma-based company Skulls Unlimited, which bills itself as "the world's leading supplier of osteological specimens." According to Coyne, the Oklahoma institution transforms regular old human heads into hard-drive-ready skulls with the help of flesh-eating beetles. He's already pre-sold all five skulls for $5,000 each, though the song isn't actually completed yet. We're all about the Flaming Lips, but music first, skull sales second, guys. Prioritize!

(OMusicAwards via Prefix)

LISTEN to part of the Flaming Lips' 6-hour song, "I Found A Star On The Ground," (also available in full here:

Comments

[markephraim]

10:43 PM on 10/31/2011

I threw a public party back in the day when Zaireeka came out.
So, yes i am a fan. Not sure how they can call this a 24 hour song..
Song=A short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing.
This is more of a 24 hour long expression in audio form.
I have been streaming for a few hours now.. I don't really want to turn it off.
I gotta hand it to Wayne, Steven and crew.. You are true artists and
this is crazy and messed up junk you call music is exactly why I love the
Flaming Lips!

[Max Shaw]

04:45 PM on 10/03/2011

Im sure all 24 hours wont be award winning. I am prepared to cut n' edit my own 8-13 hour mix lol.

[phantom power]

12:29 PM on 10/03/2011

there's a lot of haters on this thread! The Flaming Lips think so far out of the box they don't even see it anymore. understand that they are breaking boundaries no one in their right mind even knew existed!!

[bigshotprof]

03:55 AM on 10/02/2011

It's really just one of their usual 5-7 minute songs. It just seems like a whole day has gone by.

[tracey fletcher]

11:33 PM on 10/01/2011

I have given them plenty of chances and so far their music just gets on my nerves. Sorry Lip fans, but I don't get the unconditional love here.

[BryanJ]

11:45 PM on 10/01/2011

Then give up and move on. And there's nothing "unconditional" about my love for the Flaming Lips. They're just one incredibly awesome rock band.

[tracey fletcher]

12:17 AM on 10/02/2011

Yeah, cause listening to a "24hr."..."song" has nothing to do with unconditional loyalty? There is a screech owl and a gang of cats doing it outside my window -- want I should record it and send it to you?

[tracey fletcher]

01:17 AM on 10/02/2011

Oh, I am kidding...they do have some good songs..."Fight Test" and "Do you realize". Just wish there was more to them.

[alejandroish]

11:40 PM on 09/30/2011

Truly eccentric geniuses at work here. In the Morning of the Magicians is too beautiful for words.

[Gronkie]

11:30 PM on 09/30/2011

The six hour number had me wanting to jump off a building at 30 seconds. Why don't they go off and work on a year long song and leave us all alone?

[Matthew Atkinson]

10:43 PM on 09/30/2011

I'm an Okie, and the Lips are a local favorite...but this just isn't good. Sorry, Wayne. Farting around aimlessly on various instruments is NOT the same as composing a 6-hour (or 24-hour) song.

[tracey fletcher]

11:31 PM on 10/01/2011

well said.

[GaryNOVA]

09:26 PM on 09/30/2011

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the shark has been jumped

[czs5056]

08:04 PM on 09/30/2011

If a band does these silly things then they must not be very good. A good band will have great music in 3-4 minutes and not need a gimmick like a 24 hour long song.

[phantom power]

12:25 PM on 10/03/2011

that's crazy. "cow girl in the sand" is 10 minutes long and that song is amazing. there's no right or wrong in music, just different opinions. and anyone that says differently is obviously not a musician.

[Mike Dennison]

07:31 PM on 09/30/2011

30 seconds of that was 30 seconds I'll never get back.

[Rogie Nepomuceno]

04:12 PM on 09/30/2011

Hey, this will ahkchully be longeur, and therefore better, than Richard Wagner's own grody Ring cycle! And fer shur, they're up to the task of dumping on poor old Wagner baby. So just yawl stop hating now, barf me out, gag me with a spewn!

[gclafontaine]

03:45 PM on 09/30/2011

The last time this happened, I ended up pretending to starve too many fish.

[purplejesus]

03:38 PM on 09/30/2011

their 15 minutes are up

[mezzanoche]

04:35 PM on 09/30/2011

You beat me to it! Damn. I was just about to type that. F&F.

[BryanJ]

11:50 PM on 10/01/2011

Try 15 years. No wait, make that 20 - comprising at least 3 or 4 brilliant albums. If you think the Lips are some flash in the pan you are only displaying your ignorance.

[jokamachi]

03:33 PM on 09/30/2011

And here I thought Atom heart Mother was on the long side.

Actually, no, I love every minute of it.

[TheCycad]

03:36 PM on 09/30/2011

Atom Heart Mother is great. It is one of the first progressive rock songs I ever heard.

I think Echoes is probably their most epic track though. :-)

[jokamachi]

06:50 PM on 09/30/2011

Yeah, no matter that Floyd have bashed it from time to time, I still love it as well.

As far as their most epic... well, as much as I love the early stuff (circa More or Embryo), I'd have to go with Animals. It's hugely underrated and I hear the whole album as one long track, albeit broken up into specific "movements."