The Flaming Lips - I Found a Star On the Ground

The Flaming Lips unleash their previously announced six-hour song. The marathon tune, titled “I Found a Star On the Ground,” comes along with an accompanying toy called Strobo Trip and is available at Jackpot Records, where the song is exclusively available for purchase. In an interview with Rolling Stone, the band’s frontman Wayne Coyne explained.

“The best way that we can describe the sound of it is, it’s like the Velvet Underground meets Super Mario Brothers. And if you’ve ever played the Mario Brothers game or it you’ve had it on in he background, you could listen to a Mario Brothers type video game forever because its kind of just ‘do do do do do la ta da ta da.’ It’s not real intense, and it’s not going anywhere. Steven [Drozd] was already composing it to be kind of like a long John Coltrane thing.

“I think a lot of people would probably do what I would do: They might go through it and listen to it a couple of minutes at a time and think, ‘Okay, that sounds cool.’ You could take a certain section of it every night if you wanted to, and you know, just listen to it. I don’t think you would find it easy to just have six hours where you’re completely listening to music, unless you were kind of doing it the way that it’s intended. It’s not intended for intense listening. It’s intended to be, while you’re f–king your girlfriend, this on in the background. I mean, you’re supposed to be doing something cool while this plays.”

The proceeds will benefit the Central Oklahoma Humane Society and the Academy of Contemporary Music at the University of Central Oklahoma. So take your time and listen to the audio stream below!

Part 1

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Part 3