“Do You Realize?” is well within in The Flaming Lips wheelhouse, which is to say a bit peculiar …but not too alienating. Perhaps the only thing more significant than love - death. But on a second or third listen you, ahem, “realize’ it’s about something a bit bigger. “Do You Realize” also helped The Flaming Lips reach a broader international audience, reaching #32 in the UK Singles chart & #27 in Scotland.Ī cursory listen, and you may think the song is a love song, by way of The Flaming Lips. This was the song that broke the band into the “mainstream.” It’s also a damn good song, and almost 20 years later, it remains one of their most popular songs. While I was never a big The Flaming Lips fan, I do find “Do You Realize” as one of the most accessible songs in their catalog. Not only would this album prove to be their breakthrough record, but it would also garner a 2003 Grammy Award nod for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for the final track on the album, “Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia).” Released in 2002, “Do You Realize?” was the first single from Oklahoma’s The Flaming Lips tenth album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. If only people could find a way to realize we all share one thing in common - and that is, we’re all going to die. The Flaming Lips - “Do You Realize?” (Warner Bros Records)ġ1.September.2020 “Do You Realize?” The Flaming Lips 2002
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