U.F.O's At The Zoo - The Legendary Concert In Oklahoma City

U.F.O's At The Zoo - The Legendary Concert In Oklahoma City

U.F.O's At The Zoo - The Legendary Concert In Oklahoma City
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Performer: Flaming Lips
Edition: DVD Audio
Music CD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2007-08-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Music Label: WEA/Reprise
Soundtracks:
  1. "The Freaks Get Restless and Wake the Animals"
  2. "The Mothership Descends"
  3. "Race For the Prize"
  4. "Free Radicals"
  5. "Expecting Everyone's Head to Explode"
  6. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots"
  7. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 2"
  8. "Should We Free the Animals?"
  9. "Vein of Stars"
  10. "Hot Dog Eating Contest"
  11. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"
  12. "The Spark That Bled"
  13. "Preparing the U.F.O. Mothership"
  14. "The W.A.N.D."
  15. "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion"
  16. "Santas and Aliens"
  17. "She Don't Use Jelly"
  18. "Do You Realize??"
  19. "How Much Red Duct Tape?"
  20. "A Spoonful Weighs A Ton"
  21. "Captain America Splits the Audience"
  22. "Love Yer Brain"
  23. "The Mothership Departs"
  24. "The Greatest Audience in the Galaxy"

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Free Music Review: Leaves you wondering how you could have possibly missed that concert
Hit: 5 Stars

From the opening sequence of the concert - an enormous spaceship descending in a cloud of smoke and lights to release the band on stage, with singer Wayne Coyne revealed atop the silver craft in a giant plastic bubble preparing to roll down a ramp and into the audience - it's clear that this is not your typical rock concert. No, my friends. This is epic. This is the kind of concert they'll be watching in 2025 and saying "Man, why don't we have concerts like that anymore?"

But The Flaming Lips have always been known for their larger-than-life, whimsical, colorful, unbeatable live performances; only now they're finally releasing footage onto DVD for the millions of rabid Lips fans that have been demanding it for years. And it was well worth the wait.

Filmed on location at the Oklahoma City Zoo in Coyne's home town of Oklahoma City, this is a concert for the record books. Performing before a veritable ocean of fans' upturned faces, or in this case they might be called worshippers, The Flaming Lips, fronted by Coyne's adventurous antics and childlike enthusiasm for all things exciting, deliver 13 poppy tunes from their unending arsenal of goodness. But music isn't all they deliver; streams of confetti, yellow exercise balls, streamers, and incredible beams of light are constantly shooting out over the audience. The digital cameras and camera operators are strategically placed throughout the stage (and even on Coyne's microphone) to give viewers the best possible "you are there" feeling. It's a total sensory overload, and the best possible kind.

The concert footage is interspersed throughout with behind-the-scenes footage of the band and crew preparing the stage, Coyne touring the zoo and interacting with the animals, various audience members professing their love and devotion to the band, and even an examination and breakdown of the careful science behind choosing the proper representatives to appear as Santas and Aliens lining either side of the stage during concerts. It's all on display here and all ready for fan consumption.

The difference between U.F.O's at the Zoo and most live concert DVDs, is that The Flaming Lips really care about putting on the most spectacular, "wig-lifting", explosive show that audiences have ever seen. And the transfer to DVD is done with just as much attention to detail. The footage will have viewers cheering from their couches and checking their calendars for the next live performance. This DVD not only presents a concert from September 2006 in all its glory, it leaves you wondering how you could have possibly missed it.
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This DVD captures a September 15, 2006 show at the Zoo Amphitheater in the band's hometown. And yes, there is a homemade U.F.O. on stage. There is also probably fake blood, Santa and/or animal costumes, and Wayne Coyne in a giant bubble. Live tracks are interspersed with backstage sneak peeks and various absurd events of the day preparing for the big homecoming spectacle. And not only do you get the whole movie, but you get MP3s of the audio, digital artwork, and a ringtone application, which will allow fans to make and buy their own Lips ringtones. The set also includes a PDF of the art booklet, Buddy icons, photos, and various digital extras.
You might not realize that the Flaming Lips are the direct descendants of both KISS and the Parliament/Funkadelics, but after watching this almost two-hour hometown performance at the Oklahoma City Zoo, there will be no doubt in your mind. And that's not just because the band members are wearing comic book outfits and make a showy decent to the stage from a homemade space ship--although they do that, as well as cavorting with zoo animals, shelling the audience with blasts of hot air, pastel confetti, and yellow exercise balls, all while performing songs from their extensive and inventive psychedelic pop canon. The Lips' own space odyssey began long before U.F.O's at the Zoo, the first time they strung Christmas lights along their amps to get themselves noticed. During this 2006 concert, their stagecraft is much more sophisticated, but the band still remains inventive, whimsical, and engaged as they forge their strange yet intimate relationship with their audience. Frontman Wayne Coyne keeps the whole thing going, more ringmaster than lead singer, dispensing advice, demanding group participation and offering himself up as an art sacrifice, whether it's crowd surfing in an airless plastic bubble, or pouring blood on his graying curls. It's that shocking collision of whimsy and intelligence, and the desire to entertain at all costs that makes these Midwestern provocateurs one of the most important bands working today, and this one of the best concert films around. --Jaan Uhelszki

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