I was at work today. The shift was supposed to be easy. I was going to have some time to sit on my computer and do some “nonsense” stuff. Play games, listen to music, write blog articles. No heavy lifting today. While deciding what the next topic for my article was going to be, I decided to listen to the new Flaming Lips creation, titled “The Flaming Lips, Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Poaches doing the Dark Side of the Moon.”
According to the title of the article, I think my head did explode about halfway through the cover of Time/Breathe. It exploded in such as way as for me to run back, pack all the pieces back on my shoulder and then turn the speakers up louder so that it would explode again.
Like every kid in the suburbs of America, I went through the “Pink Floyd” phase of adolescence. I found that their psychedelic workings helped expand my mind across the musical universe. The first CD that was ever mine was “A Momentary Lapse of Reason.” Once I got a taste of that great big gig in the sky, I wanted more. I listened to all the Pink Floyd I could.
As I entered my thirties, I moved away from being able to enjoy the PF. It was getting harder and harder for me to dedicate serious time towards expanding my mind’s eye. I was getting older, and the free time from work I did have I would dedicate towards sleeping. I mostly listened to music in my car while commuting here and there. Car listening makes it difficult to put on The Final Cut, or Live at Pompei. Between cell phone interruptions, and fifteen minute car rides, you really can’t listen to a 17 minute rendition of “Shine on you crazy diamond.”
Honestly, I thought for a while that I was out of that psychedelic phase. I found other bands that could be put on long play. I found bands like Sigur Ros, and My Morning Jacket, the seeming adult alternatives to the trippiness of the past. I thought PF was in my past. But I was wrong. They will always be here in the present, bands like The Flaming Lips have seen to that. I will not leave Pink Floyd in the past. I think my head exploded back there, and I am picking it up and taking it with me, into the future.
Flaming Lips – Time Breathe (Reprise) by user6399081
