Nobody covers this song like the Lips do, not that you could really tell from the horrible quality of the video.

/totally gay for the Flaming Lips
//Stephen Drozd have my children!

Ugh. Why do people submit such crappy quality videos?

The Lips are a great band to see live, and they do great covers. This video does them a disservice. Bad subby.

Unright: Ugh. Why do people submit such crappy quality videos?

Because they suck at Google.

Here's a page with the studio version of the cover, which is taken from this Queen tribute album.

And Calamormine, you're right - this is a great cover, and quite possibly the best version of the song after the original.

IMDWalrus: ...and quite possibly the best version of the song after the original.

See, this is my problem with covering "BR": why bother?

saintwrathchild: IMDWalrus: ...and quite possibly the best version of the song after the original.

See, this is my problem with covering "BR": why bother?

Okay, there was an album that was released a couple of years ago called "Killer Queen". It was a Queen cover album, with all sorts of unlikely folks doing covers of all sorts of Queen songs. Among the various ill-advised covers there were a few gems, and the one that stood out amongst the rest was the Flaming Lips version of BR. It wasn't the only version on the album, and I shiat you not, the other one was done by American Idol dropout "Constantine". It was basically a karaoke bar cover, with all the music dropped behind his singing. Other than his crappy voice the song didn't vary from the original, making it a useless cover.

What the Flaming Lips did, was take a daunting cover, and make it their own. They remained truthful to the original song, while adding their own splash of operatic weirdness that just made it perfect.

In my mind, that was the quintessential cover.

meh.

might have been OK if the crowd had shut the fark up. Kind of hard to do your own rendition of the song when tons of idiots are singing the original version.

The lips love those balloons...

Dear the crowd,

Stop singing at concerts. I didn't pay to hear you. I paid to hear the performers on stage. And please don't try to tell me that it is part of the experience. If I want to experience that, I'll go to a karaoke bar.

Warmest regards,

SKFD, Esq.

Dear the crowd,

Stop singing at concerts. I didn't pay to hear you. I paid to hear the performers on stage. And please don't try to tell me that it is part of the experience. If I want to experience that, I'll go to a karaoke bar.

Warmest regards,

SKFD, Esq.


I'm not sure. But I think I just fell in love with you.

I like neither Queen nor Flaming Lips (I really tried), but that was kind of fun.

And in the crowd's defense, he was gesturing for them to sing along.

kth: I like neither Queen nor Flaming Lips (I really tried), but that was kind of fun.

And in the crowd's defense, he was gesturing for them to sing along.

Exactly. The point behind some of this greatness was that huge operatic ginormousness that the sing-along crowd provided, especially at the Beezlzebub has a devil put aside for me part. That was brilliant. I had a ton of fun watching that. Clunky, dropped beats, out of tune, and wonderful.

I'm getting a tattoo of the soft bulletin cover this week. The Flaming Lips are farkin awesome, but I'm not so much a fan of this cover of theirs, too weird for weirds sake. Now their cover of Little Hands, that's a good one.

/have confetti thrown at me by wayne coyne in a glass case
//takes it too the limit

Nothing beat FL's cover of Space Age Love Song back in the 90's, complete with many, MANY Christmas lights.


/Walked out before Tool came on
//You can't follow that
///Diehard FL fan since '88

I don't believe I like one song this band made but that was pretty groovy.