The Flaming Lips formed in Oklahoma City in 1983, recording a series of EPs and LPs for an independent record company. After a few lineup changes the band landed a contract with a major label, after the rep saw them perform at a show where they almost burned down the venue. Riding a wave of interest in alt rock in the early 90s, the band brought along an interesting mix of psych, noise-rock, and bubblegum melodies.
The band’s second major label release
Transmissions from the Satellite Heart delivered an unexpected top 40 hit with She Don’t Use Jelly. The Flaming Lips benefited from the songs’ use on the
The Tiny Desk team had huge plans for 2020 â including what should have been the taping of our 1000th Tiny Desk concert â only to pivot madly as COVID-19 forced the closure of NPR headquarters in mid-March. By the end of that month, we d launched a new companion series: Tiny Desk (home) concerts, which gathered intimate, Tiny Desk-style performances from all over the world. It s been a feat of forced innovation, made possible through inspired performances and our incomparable Tiny Desk team of producers, videographers and engineers. So we asked that team to pull off one more feat as 2020 draws to a close: narrowing nine months of great Tiny Desk (home) concerts down to a single playlist of highlights.
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The Tiny Desk team had huge plans for 2020 including what should have been the taping of our 1000th Tiny Desk concert only to pivot madly as COVID-19 forced the closure of NPR headquarters in mid-March. By the end of that month, we d launched a new companion series: Tiny Desk (home) concerts, which gathered intimate, Tiny Desk-style performances from all over the world. It s been a feat of forced innovation, made possible through inspired performances and our incomparable Tiny Desk team of producers, videographers and engineers. So we asked that team to pull off one more feat as 2020 draws to a close: narrowing nine months of great Tiny Desk (home) concerts down to a single playlist of highlights.