The Flaming Lips are all about Record Store Day this year. The Black Friday event takes place on November 29, and along with the release of their Tame Impala collaboration EP and the vinyl edition of their recent Peace Sword EP, they have announced the premiere of their long-in-the-works Stone Roses covers album.
The band first announced the project back in February, and according to Rolling Stone, they will release a cover version of Stone Roses first LP, which will feature smaller acts that the band has gotten behind including Peaking Lights, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, New Fumes and Def Rain. Also on the album are bigger names such as Poliça singing "She Bangs the Drums," Foxygen's Jonathan Rado singing "This Is The One" and Spaceface taking on "Fools Gold."
The band also has plans for a non-musical component for the day. An edible human skull, which Wayne Coyne says is made completely of chocolate. "...it's a life-size human skull, a life-sized human brain, and the brain is actually sliding out of the skull made with this brain fluid flavored hard-candy," Coyne tells Rolling Stone. "And there's a little magic coin inside that brain that you're supposed to dig out. I think it's supposed to get you into any Flaming Lips show in the world. I think that's our intention."
But that's not all. If everything goes as planned, they will be unveiling a toy frog that contains an audio recording of the band's first-ever demo, which they are calling the "F**k You Frog."
Coyne says that it "got finished just literally yesterday and it's got a little seven-inch that goes with it. That is our very first demo that we ever recorded that's never been released before. So you get that in this packet. This little frog that's kind of a recorder that you can manipulate the sound on."
So if you weren't sure who won Record Store Day, I think we've found our winner. Sorry, Jack White.
