Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips brings you ten songs to brighten your meteor shower viewing parties.
1. Starbuck - “Moonlight Feels Right” “When you look back at groups like this, you have to wonder, What possibly could they have been thinking? Even in the early ’70s, they looked like old guys.”
2. Frank Zappa - “Cosmik Debris” “I think he’s talking about gurus here.”
3. Deerhoof - “Whither the
Invisible Birds?” “Utterly cosmic in the most epic, beautiful way.”
4. Pink Floyd - “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” “Me and my younger brother saw Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii at a midnight movie in 1976. It made me want to be in a band.”
5. Sonic Youth - “Star Power” “This song’s about saying cool words instead of
having meaning.”
6. Stardeath and White Dwarfs - “Those Who Are
From the Sun Return to the Sun” “It’s trippy enough to
enhance any experience.”
7. Gustav Holst - “The Planets” “It’s an overwhelming
classical piece.”
8. Radiohead - "Pyramid Song” “It’d be great to sit at the pyramids with Thom Yorke. We’d find some secret door to the other dimension.”
9. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - “Skeletons” “I have nothing to
connect this to the
cosmos. But I really
like singer Karen O.”
10. Sun Ra - “Space Is the Place” “It’s 21 minutes that
feels like the inside of a
black hole."
