Chewin' the Apple in Your Eye; The Flaming Lips

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Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles — such as "Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles", "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)" and "Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical". They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die".

That's a description of FL from themselves. It continues with "after signing to Warner Brothers, they scored a hit in 1993 with 'She Don't Use Jelly'. Although it has been their only hit single in the U.S., the band has maintained critical respect and (etc.)"

The album Transmissions from the Satellite Heart is known for having a more pop sound, instead of the lo-fi style we hear from the earlier albums. This is so true that LP's first hit is the above mentioned She Don't Use Jelly. Because of this, they started to become notorious, to make tours and open for great bands, like Red Hot Chili Peppers. This "pop era" (with quotation mark because the evolution of Flaming Lips' sound cannot be marked in periods of styles) lasted until 1995, when all the members of the band had health, drugs or familiar issues.

In this album we also find our second whistling song: Chewin' the Apple in Your Eye. It's a ballad with much of Flaming Lips lo-fi style, despite its little change. As we can see in the video below, whistlings are made by Wayne.

Hey what were ya thinkin
When they were startin the show
Yeah, i was there
But i didn't care at all
I was tryin to find you
When you got lost in the crowd
Cus i'm drunk all the time
I like your helium voice

There was a guy in the seat next to mine
Watchin the girls when the cops made us stand in line

Yea, so if its sad
Well you still gotta live till ya die
Man, everyone's chewin the apple you got in your eye

It like at the circus
When you get lost in the crowd
Your happy but nervous
Definite sign that you lost it

There was a guy in the seat next to mine
Watchin the girls when the cops made us stand in line

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