Okla. governor intervenes in Flaming Lips flap

[Starbucks Anarchist]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090425/ap_on_en_mu/odd_okla_rock_song

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma lawmakers who voted against making a Flaming Lips tune the official state rock song represent a minority of "small-minded religious wackos," the band's lead singer says.

Most state House members voted for a resolution recognizing 2002's "Do You Realize??," but conservatives who said they were offended by the band's clothing and language mustered enough votes to keep it from being adopted.

"Me, I just say look, it's a little minority of some small-minded religious wackos who think they can tell people what kind of T-shirts and what kind of music they can listen to, and the smart, rational, reasonable people of Oklahoma are never going to buy into that," frontman Wayne Coyne told Tulsa World in an interview Friday.

Gov. Brad Henry resolved the issue by announcing he would sign an executive order proclaiming "Do You Realize??" the official rock song of Oklahoma. The song earned more than half of the 21,000 votes cast in an online contest.

Here's the song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk76rsV71S0

[snooper2]

1. Well, listened to it...and it's a fitting song for the state...

It's just OK :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Gee, I would have thought Oklahoma had banned all rock music years ago.

[Occam Bandage]

3. He thought he was smart, he thought he was right.

He thought it better not to fight. He thought it was a virtue in always being cool. So when it came time to fight he thought he'd just step aside and that the time would prove them wrong and that they would be the fools.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5t172BMxo0&feature=related

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. I thought that state emblems were supposed to reflect enduring qualities

of the state - state motto, state bird, state flower - things that remain valid representations over generations.

How can be be such a thing as a state pop song? It's a contradiction in terms.

[Kalyke]

9. The Flaming Lips are hardly "pop."

Pop wishes it were The Flaming Lips.

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. It's all pop.

It could be the Man in Black Meets the Dead Kennedys - it's all pop, and has no appreciable shelf life. Afficianados may be interested in 50 years, but to everyone else they will be forgotten.

"Pop" - popular music. Expiration date: one generation.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. Like that obscure British band, The Beatles.

[jkirch]

15. Yes, The Beatles and...

...Stephen Collins Foster, who invented "pop-music". One of his hit tunes is the anthem of Kentucky.

[RaleighNCDUer]

21. Do you seriously think one person in a thousand could tell who wrote

that song? Do you really think one in 10,000 under the age of 21 have ever heard of Stephen Foster?

But hey, Sippie Wallace and Cow Cow Davenport will live forever, right?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

22. But Foster pre-dated recorded music.

Not quite the same thing.

[jkirch]

24. Americans are born knowing Foster's music.

[jkirch]

26. There are those who don't know who Chopin is.

Ain't my fault they're ignorant.

[RaleighNCDUer]

17. Do you have any idea how many people don't know who the Beatles were?

And that was only 35 years ago.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

19. Do they live in a cave?

Even the people I know who have no musical knowledge know who the Beatles are.

[enigmatic]

5. Wayne Coyne is a National Treasure

[Political Heretic]

6. Flaming Lips? I think they make a cream for that...

[Hugabear]

12. Is it the same cream used for "Burning Ring of Fire"?

:rofl:

[Political Heretic]

14. LOL. Don't fall in.

[Gabi Hayes]

27. I have to do this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqA6cAviOyE&feature=related

[Kalyke]

7. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Flaming Lips.

Oklahoma... eh... not so much.

And I would have Wayne Coyne's baby if we both weren't already betrothed.

[SidDithers]

8. Not Footloose?...nt

Sid

[taterguy]

11. Better than that fucking James Taylor "Going to Carolina" that's my state's song

[derby378]

16. When the Evil Pink Robots start marching on Tulsa...

...I'll betcha that Yoshimi won't help out the fundies.

[MrCoffee]

18. The should have made Jesus Shootin' Heroin the state song

Really, anything off Hear It Is is better than Do You Realize

[NightWatcher]

20. too bad they didnt go with "She dont use jelly"

[blogslut]

23. All my bad days WILL end.

I love the FLips.

[walldude]

25. Just an Observation...

Most bands are trying to keep the government and politicians from using their music. I don't get why the Lips would even care about this.