Flaming Lips Further Test Listeners' Patience, Announce Plans of 24-Hour Song

If you thought The Flaming Lips’ recently released six-hour song was a marathon, the group is now determined to make that seem like an interlude.

That’s right, an interlude: The ever-eccentric Wayne Coyne and his merry band have resolved to release a song that lasts literally all day this Halloween at the stroke of midnight. Described by Coyne as a song about “death, fucking and life,” the song will introduce all the themes in its first few minutes and spend the remaining 23-and-change hours exploring them in (I would imagine) painstaking detail. As of right now, the song is still untitled and is a “work in progress,” and even Coyne has expressed that he’s not entirely sure whether or not the project will come to fruition.

What’s more, The Flaming Lips have upped the ante on their already outlandish packaging, which has included encasing rare songs on hard drives within skulls made out of gummy candy. For this marathon 24-hour song, though, they’re ditching the candy and going straight biological, choosing to encase this tune’s hard drives in five real, human skulls. Can’t get much more Halloween-themed than that. Fortunately, the Lips haven’t had to resort to vandalizing graves to obtain the needed human skulls: An actual shop in their Oklahoma City hometown, Skulls Unlimited, sells them.

Unfortunately for those interested in obtaining one of these five skulls, they’ve apparently all been sold already for the not-so-affordable price of $5,000.

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