Strychnine/Peace, Love & Understanding:The Flaming Lips

Artist: The Flaming Lips

Album: The Day They Shot A Hole In The Jesus Egg

Appears On (Mixes): Revme.Vox.Com

Song Notes: This was originally put out on the Sub Pop singles club, but it's available on  The Day They Shot A Hole In The Jesus Egg, half of the odds-and-sods sets they put out with their early albums and whatnot (along with "Finally The Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid"). It's a cover of one of the greatest rock 'n' roll songs of all time, The Sonics' "Strychnine", which unbelieveably segues really, really well into Elvis Costello's (or, I suppose actually, Nick Lowe's) "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding". If you're expecting the later-era sounds of the Flaming Lips... well, I wouldn't say you'll be disappointed, because this is really awesome, but you'll be a bit confused. When I first heard this I was just completely blown away -- at first that they were covering "Strychnine", but then by the fact that they not only did it so well, but so seamlessly went into "Peace, Love & Understanding". The Flaming Lips are indeed pretty grand.

Also -- one of the things I'm thinking of doing is throwing up links to cool music videos as well -- don't worry, they'll be a supplemental thing to the daily mp3s, not something to replace it, though I probably WILL still post the notes for them at the wiki, like I have been doing for all of these. So, you might check that out later. - Rev. Syung Myung Me