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The Captain Is A Cold Hearted And Egotistical Fool by The Flaming Lips
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The Flaming Lips Is An American Neo-Psychedelic Band Formed In Oklahoma City Oklahoma United States In 1983. Throughout Their Career Band Members Have Come And Gone But Currently The Flaming Lips Consist Of Original Members Wayne Coyne Lead Vocals Guitar Keyboards And Michael Ivins Bass Keyboards Backing Vocals Along With Members Steven Drozd Drums Guitar Keyboards Backing Vocals And Derek Brown Guitar Keyboards Backing Vocals . Former Members Include Mark Coyne Lead Vocals Richard English Drums Keyboards Backing Vocals Nathan Roberts Drums Jonathan Donahue Guitar Backing Vocals Who Went On To Form Mercury Rev Ronald Jones Guitar Backing Vocals And Kliph Scurlock Drums . The Flaming Lips Are Known For Their Lush Multi-Layered Arrangements Spacey Lyrics And Bizarre Song Titles. They Are Also Acclaimed For Their Elaborate Live Shows Which Typically Feature Animal Suits Puppets Streamers Video Projections And Complex Stage Light Configurations. In 2002 Q Magazine Named The Flaming Lips One Of The "50 Bands To See Before You Die". In 2006 Oklahoma City Named A Street Flaming Lips Alley In Their Honor. The Group Recorded Several Albums And EPs For Restless Records In The 1980s And Early 1990s. After Signing To Warner Brothers They Scored A #9 Hit On The Billboard Alternative Charts And #55 On Billboard's Hot 100 Chart In 1994 With "She Don't Use Jelly". Although It Would Be Their Only Hit Single The Band Has Maintained Critical Respect And To A Lesser Extent Commercial Viability With Sonically Majestic Albums Such As 1995's Clouds Taste Metallic 1999's The Soft Bulletin 2002's Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots And 2006's At War With The Mystics. The Flaming Lips' 12th Studio Album Embryonic Was Released In October Of 2009. A Complete Cover Of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon Was Released In May 2010. The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends Their Collaborative Album Which Features Artists Like Ke$ha Bon Iver Nick Cave And Erykah Badu Was Released On Record Store Day April 2012. Their Next Studio Album Tentatively Titled The Terror Will Be Released In January 2013. Their Song "Do You Realize?" Is The Official State Rock Song Of Oklahoma. Www.Flaminglips.Com
Frogtoon Music - Song Info: The Captain is a Cold Hearted and Egotistical Fool
Wayne's Notes From The Album "'The Captain' Is The Song And Recording That Crystallized The Vision Of What The Soft Bulletin Would Become. If There Was One Song That Signaled A Radical Change In Our Conciousness This To Us Anyway Would Be It . . . We Had Been Challenged And Perhaps Even Defeated At Times During The Process Of Making Zaireeka. But We Had Also Expanded Our Skills Our Patience And Our Perspective Of What Now Could Be Possible. So We Sat Down With Some Enthusiasm To Do This Dramatic Song 'The Captain ' In Which Within The Framework Of The Song The Singer The Narrator Of The Story Arrives At A New Consciousness... And In Essence It Is Possibly Our NEW Self Killing Off Our OLD Self... In The Song The Ship's Doctor Realizes The Captain Is A Cold Hearted And Egotistical Fool... And Instead Of Letting The Crew Die Or Be Killed Because Of His The Captain's Small-Mindedness And Self-Importance... He The Ship's Doctor Decides To Kill Him . The Majestic Layers Of Distorted Brass And Timpani At The End Of The Song Perfectly Fitted And Expressed This Internal Jouney... A Man Goes Inside Himself Ready To Destroy And Change Whatever Does Not Accommodate His New Consciousness... A Man Reinventing Himself From The Outside-In... As I Think We Were Struggling To Do. We Did Not Know What We Would Find When We Set Off Into The Unknown. But Perhaps Like This Song We Journeyed Inside Ourselves..."
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The Flaming Lips Is An American Neo-Psychedelic Band Formed In Oklahoma City Oklahoma United States In 1983. Throughout Their Career Band Members Have Come And Gone But Currently The Flaming Lips Consist Of Original Members Wayne Coyne Lead Vocals Guitar Keyboards And Michael Ivins Bass Keyboards Backing Vocals Along With Members Steven Drozd Drums Guitar Keyboards Backing Vocals And Derek Brown Guitar Keyboards Backing Vocals . Former Members Include Mark Coyne Lead Vocals Richard English Drums Keyboards Backing Vocals Nathan Roberts Drums Jonathan Donahue Guitar Backing Vocals Who Went On To Form Mercury Rev Ronald Jones Guitar Backing Vocals And Kliph Scurlock Drums . The Flaming Lips Are Known For Their Lush Multi-Layered Arrangements Spacey Lyrics And Bizarre Song Titles. They Are Also Acclaimed For Their Elaborate Live Shows Which Typically Feature Animal Suits Puppets Streamers Video Projections And Complex Stage Light Configurations. In 2002 Q Magazine Named The Flaming Lips One Of The "50 Bands To See Before You Die". In 2006 Oklahoma City Named A Street Flaming Lips Alley In Their Honor. The Group Recorded Several Albums And EPs For Restless Records In The 1980s And Early 1990s. After Signing To Warner Brothers They Scored A #9 Hit On The Billboard Alternative Charts And #55 On Billboard's Hot 100 Chart In 1994 With "She Don't Use Jelly". Although It Would Be Their Only Hit Single The Band Has Maintained Critical Respect And To A Lesser Extent Commercial Viability With Sonically Majestic Albums Such As 1995's Clouds Taste Metallic 1999's The Soft Bulletin 2002's Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots And 2006's At War With The Mystics. The Flaming Lips' 12th Studio Album Embryonic Was Released In October Of 2009. A Complete Cover Of Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon Was Released In May 2010. The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends Their Collaborative Album Which Features Artists Like Ke$ha Bon Iver Nick Cave And Erykah Badu Was Released On Record Store Day April 2012. Their Next Studio Album Tentatively Titled The Terror Will Be Released In January 2013. Their Song "Do You Realize?" Is The Official State Rock Song Of Oklahoma. Www.Flaminglips.Com
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Wayne's Notes from the Album:
"'The Captain' is the song and recording that crystallized the vision of what The Soft Bulletin would become. If there was one song that signaled a radical change in our conciousness this (to us anyway) would be it . . . We had been challenged, and perhaps even defeated, at times during the process of making Zaireeka. But we had also expanded our skills, our patience and our perspective of what now could be possible. So we sat down, with some enthusiasm, to do this dramatic song, 'The Captain,' in which, within the framework of the song, the singer (the narrator of the story) arrives at a new consciousness... and, in essence, it is possibly our NEW self killing off our OLD self... (in the song the ship's doctor realizes the captain is a cold hearted and egotistical fool... and instead of letting the crew die or be killed because of his, the captain's, small-mindedness and self-importance... he, the ship's doctor, decides to kill him). The majestic layers of distorted brass and timpani, at the end of the song, perfectly fitted and expressed this internal jouney... A man goes inside himself ready to destroy and change whatever does not accommodate his new consciousness... A man reinventing himself from the outside-in... as, I think, we were struggling to do. We did not know what we would find when we set off into the unknown. But perhaps, like this song, we journeyed inside ourselves..." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.