By Flaming Lips, 2007

You might not realize that the Flaming Lips are the direct descendants of both KISS and the Parliament/Funkadelics, but after watching this almost two-hour hometown performance at the Oklahoma City Zoo, there will be no doubt in your mind. And that's not just because the band members are wearing comic book outfits and make a showy decent to the stage from a homemade space ship--although they do that, as well as cavorting with zoo animals, shelling the audience with blasts of hot air, pastel confetti, and yellow exercise balls, all while performing songs from their extensive and inventive psychedelic pop canon. The Lips' own space odyssey began long before U.F.O's at the Zoo, the first time they strung Christmas lights along their amps to get themselves noticed.

During this 2006 concert, their stagecraft is much more sophisticated, but the band still remains inventive, whimsical, and engaged as they forge their strange yet intimate relationship with their audience. Frontman Wayne Coyne keeps the whole thing going, more ringmaster than lead singer, dispensing advice, demanding group participation and offering himself up as an art sacrifice, whether it's crowd surfing in an airless plastic bubble, or pouring blood on his graying curls. It's that shocking collision of whimsy and intelligence, and the desire to entertain at all costs that makes these Midwestern provocateurs one of the most important bands working today, and this one of the best concert films around.

--Jaan UhelszkiALBUM OVERVIEW: The Flaming Lips' U.F.O.s At The Zoo: The Legendary Concert In Oklahoma City captures the over-the-top spectacle of the band's 2006 homecoming performance. Filmed at the Zoo Amphitheatre in front of a capacity crowd of manic fans, U.F.O.s At The Zoo delivers the sonic and visual sensory overload that is The Flaming Lips live experience. MVI CONTENT: •The complete live video of the U.F.O.s At The Zoo concert plus lots of backstage and fan footage •5.1 Surround Sound mix of the concert •High-quality MP3 audio files of every song (256 Kbps) •Ur-Tone® computer application - create custom ringtones of 12 Flaming Lips favorites: oRace For The Prize oFree Radicals oYoshimi Battles The Pink Robots oYoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 2 oVein Of Stars oThe Yeah Yeah Yeah Song oThe Spark That Bled oThe Wand oMy Cosmic Autumn Rebellion oShe Don't Use Jelly oDo You Realize??oA Spoonful Weighs A Ton •Nu-Myx® computer application - create your own remix of "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" •Buddy Icons •Computer Wallpaper •Digital Album Booklet (PDF) with complete liner notes •Album Updates - register to gain access to bonus content SELECTIONS: 1.The Freaks Get Restless and Wake the Animals (interstitial) 2.The Mothership Descends (interstitial) 3.Race For The Prize 4.Free Radicals 5.Expecting Everyone's Head To Explode (interstitial) 6.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 7.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Part 2 8.Should We Free The Animals (interstitial) 9.Vein Of Stars 10.Hot Dog Eating Contest (interstitial) 11.The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song 12.The Spark That Bled 13.Preparing The U.F.O. Mothership (interstitial) 14.The W.A.N.D. 15.My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion 16.Santas And Aliens (interstitial) 17.She Don't Use Jelly 18.Do You Realize??19.How Much Red Duct Tape?(interstitial) 20.A Spoonful Weighs A Ton 21.Captain America Splits The Audience (interstitial) 22.Love Yer Brain 23.The Mothership Departs (interstitial) 24.The Greatest Audience In The Galaxy (interstitial) The Flaming Lips Photos

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