Nice :D
Listening to Coyne over the last few months it’s easy to see why the band titled its new album At War with the Mystics. But it’s much more difficult to save rock ’n’ roll from all the blue-jeaned, stoic-faced upstarts who claim they’re saving it; more difficult to swallow the gobbledy-gook spewing of artists who act as if they’ve transcended ordinary human knowledge. To this end, the demystification of shamans, seers and freakish rock stars is a noble pursuit.
“If we use that title, [At War with the Mystics, to refer to] someone who believes they’ve gained insight, or who is seeing something the ‘normal’ person doesn’t see, or somehow has glimpsed the supernatural, or comes along and tries to debunk what’s normal or what we see as our normal life, and [they] say, ‘This is nothing—you should see what I see,’ I say, ‘F— you.’ Life is beautiful for everybody; you don’t have to have gone up to the mountain and come back down and say, ‘Look, I know things you don’t know.’ Normal life for normal people is already a f—in’ great acid trip of unknown adventures, and anytime anybody tries to make it seem like it’s not, ‘f— ’em.’
“The thing I hate most is when I read interviews by rock stars or anybody who says, ‘I could never work a nine-to-five job—to me that’s just torture,’ because I wonder who’s reading that? Imagine you’re a guy working in a nine-to-five job, and all they’re telling you is that you’re just a chump for accepting this as a life. Come on, if you’re not a rock star or some f—ing movie star, then you’re not even worth paying attention to? I don’t believe that at all. I mean, I believe that everyone’s life is kinda normal, including mine.”
From a kind of wordy and understandably starstruck feeling article here: http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=2825
It’s hard not to be impressed by the Flaming Lips, though. I love uplifting, joyous, optimistic music! After I dropped Allison off at school this morning, the ‘Yeah Yeah’ song was playing on the car cd player. I sang along, kind of quietly, to the part where he says “It’s a very dangerous thing to do exactly what you want”. Then, I heard Shelby singing from the back seat, “Because you cannot know yourself or what you’ll really do with all your power”.
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Now, that’s the kind of song I want the kids to be singing along to!
