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2 Flaming Lips quizzes and 20 Flaming Lips trivia questions.
1.
  The Flaming Lips in Another Dimension    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The Flaming Lips have a strange habit of giving their songs more than one title. The concept of the quiz is simple. I will give you the weird alternate title of a song and you pick the standard song title.
Tough, 10 Qns, orgo, Jun 11 07
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  The Flaming Lips Unzipped    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Here is a quiz about one of the most ingenious bands to emerege in the last 20 years. Enjoy, and most of all HAVE FUN!
Tough, 10 Qns, col.kurtz, Jun 14 12
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Flaming Lips Trivia Questions
1. What is the regular title for this ear crashing song: "Battle Hymn for the Wounded Mathematician"?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips in Another Dimension

Answer: The Gash

All of these were off of The Flaming Lips' ninth album "The Soft Bulletin." It was the last Flaming Lips album of the 20th Century.

2. The original members of the band all hailed from what U.S. city?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips Unzipped

Answer: Oklahoma City

Okay, so that was an easy one. This fact makes them easily some of the finest rockers OKC has ever produced.

3. "Throbbing Orange Pallbearers" is another title for what sad sounding song?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips in Another Dimension

Answer: It's Summertime

These are all tracks from The Lips tenth album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots." While on tour for this album The Lips played as the opening and the back up band for alternative legend Beck.

4. Who does not appear with Wayne Coyne in the HP commercial released in November 2002?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips Unzipped

Answer: William Shatner

The Lips appearently beat out several other B-list celebrites and oddballs to land the commercial of their dreams. Who says they don't sell out?

5. "A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading With a Suicide Bomber" is a really strange title. What title for the same song is a little less strange?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips in Another Dimension

Answer: Free Radicals

The Flaming Lips eleventh album, "At War With the Mystics" was released in April 2006. All of these tracks are from that album, but "Mr. Ambulance Driver" was originally released on "The Wedding Crashers" soundtrack.

6. What is the name of the Flaming Lips song that required a warning to be placed on the album it was released on?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips Unzipped

Answer: How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)

It had nothing to do with the lyrical content of the song- instead, it was the actual sound which necessitated the waring. This song uses high and low frequencies played at the same time which can cause a person to become dizzy, disoriented, and sometimes sick. The album has a warning on it describing what may happen when listening to this song.

7. The Lips actually sing a lot about Jesus. Which song is also known as "Jesus Song No. 7"?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips in Another Dimension

Answer: There You Are

All of these are off of The Lips fourth album, "In a Priest Driven Ambulance", except "Jesus Shooting Heroin" which was on their very first LP entitled "Hear it is!" Incidentally, "Shine on Sweet Jesus" and "God Walks Among Us Now" Are Jesus songs No. 5 and No. 6, respectively.

8. Which slow song can also be called "Autopsy of the Devil's Brain"?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips in Another Dimension

Answer: You Have to be Joking

All of these are off the fifth album: "Hit to Death in the Future Head." As well as a very strange untitled thirty minute bonus track.

9. What were the "Parking Lot Experiments"?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips Unzipped

Answer: Tape decks of 50 or so cars each playing different sounds at the same time

Wayne would synchronize the tape decks of 50 or so cars in underground parking garages so that they would all play different noises or sounds and create a symphony of sound. These experiments were held circa 1996-1997. This led Wayne to develop more experiments with multiple sources, and the eventual four discs at the same time as the album "Zaireeka".

10. Who is the Flaming Lips' long-time producer?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips Unzipped

Answer: Dave Fridmann

Dave is a producer of some regard in the avant-garde rock comunity. He has worked with such bands as the Lips and Mercury Rev.

11. "Following the Funeral Procession of a Stranger." This is an alternate title, but it can also be combined with the regular title to make one extra long title.

From Quiz The Flaming Lips in Another Dimension

Answer: I'm a Fly in a Sunbeam

These are all off the "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" EP that was released in-between "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" and "At War With the Mystics."

12. Where did the Flaming Lips record "Zaireka", "The Soft Bulletin", and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips Unzipped

Answer: Upstate New York

Dave Fridmann has a studio in upstate New York where they have recorded these three albums. Micheal Ivins even moved to Fredonia, NY, to become the regular engineer in the studio.

13. "The Astrology of a Saturday" is the alternate title for what fizzy song?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips in Another Dimension

Answer: Ginger ale Afternoon

These are more great tracks from "Hit to Death in the Future Head." That album marked The Lips major label debut on Warner Brothers.

14. Who had 'the spider bite'?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips Unzipped

Answer: Steven Drozd

He had a rare spider bite him and the infection became quite serious. This episode was the basis for a song on the "The Soft Bulletin".

15. "The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action." What is the regular title for this melodic masterpeiece?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips in Another Dimension

Answer: My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion

These songs are from "At War With the Mystics." This album was nominated for best Alternative Album at the 2006 Grammy Awards. The track "The Wizard Turns On..." won the Grammy that year for the Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

16. What TV show did the Flaming Lips do a guest appearence on in the early 1990's?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips Unzipped

Answer: Beverly Hills 90210

They performed their single "She don't use Jelly" in 1992.

17. "Utopia Planitia." This is the alternate title for the song, but the regular title might actually be weirder. What might that be?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips in Another Dimension

Answer: Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon

"Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" also scored at the Grammy Awards as "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon" won the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2002. Incidentally, Pavonis Mons is the middle of three volcanoes on the planet Mars collectively known as Tharsis Montes

18. What holiday song did the Flaming Lips release in 2002?

From Quiz The Flaming Lips Unzipped

Answer: "White Christmas"

Quite an usual recording for them. Their first feature-length movie, "Christmas on Mars", was released in time for the holidays, 2003.

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