Flaming Lips OK With Angry Pink Floyd Fans

Okay so not everyone is totally jazzed about The Flaming Lips reworking Pink Floyds’s legendary Dark Side Of The Moon. The band, who first performed the album back in 2003 at the Bonnaroo festival and have plans to revive their Floyd homage at this year’s Bonnaroo in June, have actually encountered some backlash regarding the tribute.

A report by wenn.com says that after performing Dark Side Of The Moon in its entirety during a hometown show in Oklahoma on New Year’s Eve, the band was hit by a ton of angry comments from annoyed Pink Floyd purists.

Apparently Wayne Coyne doesn’t mind the criticism.

“The only people who seem to come at you with ‘how dare you touch this music?’ sort of attitude are the old school Pink Floyd fans. There are these mean-spirited ‘how dare you touch Pink Floyd, you guys suck’ sort of blogs.”

Coyne says he doesn’t read the blogs, but other guys in the band do.

But it looks like the slings and arrows tossed at the Lips by die-hard Pink Floyd fans who cannot live in a world where someone other than the almighty Pink Floyd play the ‘played-so-much-I-wanna-be-sick Dark Side of the Moon have only emboldened fans of the Flaming Lips who support the band’s desire to cover such a legendary album.

Said Coyne:

“I love that controversy and welcome any enemies who want to try and stop us, because, any time people attack you, people want to come to your rescue. If you’ve never been attacked, you never know what affection and what love and what loyalty you have in your fans.”

And really, should Coyne even care? I mean, I’m sure he wants Pink Floyd fans to dig the new version, but he and the band had already known not everyone would like it, but that’s with everything.

Now why Floyd fans are getting so worked up is kind of funny. Sure, perhaps engage fellow fans how much you despise the Lips’ blasphemous re-do of the 1973 holy grail of music perfection, but beyond that… it’s really no big deal. Miley Cyrus cut a version of Poison’s “Every Rose Has It’s Thorn’s,” and I don’t think mega fans of the glam band went into hysterics. And believe me, that right there deserves angry blogging!!

The Dark Side of the Moon project follows the band’s earlier 2009 release, Embryonic.

For the remake of Dark Side of the Moon, the Lips collaborated with Stardeath and White Dwarfs, with guest vocals by Henry Rollins and Peaches.

The album will be available on vinyl Saturday to commemorate Record Store Day.

The Flaming Lips / Dark Side Of The Moon

• 01 “Speak To Me / Breathe” (featuring Henry Rollins and Peaches)
• 02 On The Run” (featuring Henry Rollins)
• 03 Time / Breathe Reprise
• 04 The Great Gig In The Sky (featuring Peaches and Henry Rollins)
• 05 Money (featuring Henry Rollins)
• 06 Us And Them (featuring Henry Rollins)
• 07 Any Colour You Like
• 08 Brain Damage (featuring Henry Rollins)
• 09 Eclipse (featuring Henry Rollins)