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THE FLAMING LIPS - U.F.O.'S AT THE ZOO: THE LEGENDARY CONCERT IN OKLAHOMA CITY (DVD)

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.

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"