The Flaming Lips - "Now I Understand" (2012)

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The Flaming Lips' "Now I Understand" is a "sound construction piece featuring Lips, Erykah Badu, Siri, and Biz Markie backwards" from the Heady Fwends sessions.

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"Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends" Double LP and related videos:
Side 1
1."2012 (You Must Be Upgraded)" (featuring Ke$ha and Biz Markie)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNLw2T...
Watch the evolution of Kesha's relationship with the Lips and them recording together, including sessions for "2012" and songs for Kesha's next album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ar4qp...
2."Ashes in the Air" (featuring Bon Iver)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jqabi...
3."Helping the Retarded to Find God" (featuring Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD0IBp...
Watch the two bands bond and record this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM2GXt...
Watch behind the scenes at Hollywood Forever last year, included Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' sunrise performance with the Lips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiHtS7...
Watch the Hollywood Forever bells from the sunrise performance and the official live video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnUzP0... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24QePZ...

Side 2
4."Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee" (featuring Prefuse 73)
Watch the official music video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJR3RB...
EP edit at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr6mnr...
"Super Moon" recording sessions and another Prefuse 73 collab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5EH-d...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAKnYA...
Watch behind the scenes as the Lips Prefuse 73 records are made
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8MXar...
Check out Prefuse 73's latest album, "The Only She Chapters" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhUfDV...
5."Children of the Moon" (featuring Tame Impala)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6rvKM...
The Flaming Lips' recording sessions with Tame Impala's Kevin Parker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfxFe_...
6."That Ain't My Trip" (featuring Jim James)
and 7."You, Man? Human???" (featuring Nick Cave)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?src_vid=...
Watch the recording sessions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIrWh3...
Wayne Coyne discusses Nick Cave and the two collaborate live in 1994 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTVEH0...

Side 3
8."I'm Working at NASA on Acid" (featuring Lightning Bolt)
Watch the official video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOFjDs...
Unedited EP version at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XK3K4...
9."Do It!" (featuring Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8VuCz...
Watch the POB recording sessions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMv0EP...
Watch the Lips prepare John Lennon beatle/ Plastic Ono covers for their Freak Out with Yoko Ono last NYE, the making of the "Brain of Heaven" video and the finished video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09_-V8... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKBaVv...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5w6Iz...
10."Is David Bowie Dying?" (featuring Neon Indian)
Studio version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2mhqo...
Wayne Coyne's acoustic demo and the recording sessions with Neon Indian http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37fp-C...
A version from the weekend of its live debut http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VopKRe...
New Year Freak Out official live video featuring Alan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdZSVk...

Side 4
11."The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" (featuring Erykah Badu)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=553eSn...
Related track "Now I Understand" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-2ZeT...
12."Girl, You're So Weird" (featuring New Fumes)
Official video http://vimeo.com/38193715
Get to know the work of New Fumes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAd8Ho...
13."I Don't Want You to Die" (featuring Chris Martin)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADu5te...
Watch the song being recorded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4saGw...

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[TendoGamer]

Sounds very reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange - Music For The Funeral of Queen Mary

[Future Heart]

Agreed!

One of my first thoughts when hearing this in January was it sounds the start of that chord progression (by Henry Purcell) sampled...

(..with The Jetsons' R.U.D.I.... ha!)

[viola10000]

... is there anyone else thinking of Hal while listening to this song?

[Future Heart]

Yes!

And a little bit of R.U.D.I. too...

[bobsnowboardsprod]

Anybody else think this is actually beautiful?

[Future Heart]

"It's funny..."

(I take it you don't understand)

[isis919191]

now....I understand...2.

[shawnkwill]

You must one of those ghetto gagger hoes, a white man's nigger woman. Dump woman!

[inphanta]

Oh please. I'm black, and I've been a Lips fan for many years and these kind of comments are stupid. Look, Nothing happened between Badu and the Lips that she didn't want to happen. She's a grown woman and a respected artist in her own right. The problem is when people like you got wind of her collaboration and didn't like the fact that she did what she did with a "white" band. In other words, people like you made it a race issue when it wasn't one at all. And if Wayne hit it, then fair play.

[Brice I.]

That's what I told me too. Clockwark Orange for the behind music, but 2001, A Space Odissey for the electronic voice, reminding me Al the computer.

[MrMoni314]

Crazy

[pinkhazetheweeknd]

loving any race ain't no shame she can love ,have children with shut one she wants .

[shawnkwill]

Erykah Badu, you are a Ghetto Gagger hoe and a shame to our ancestors and the black community. You love for white men is a sickness.

[Hardigrade]

I must be in the right mood to hear this because i think it's fucking perfect. You people sayin' it's not even a song are weirrrrrdddddd.

[RODANJAE]

GUESS YOU NEED TO HAVE SOME KIND OF FLAME TO YOUR LIPS TO UNDERSTAND !!!!!!!

LET ME GET SOME WEED SEE WHAT HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!