Listen: Early, Early Flaming Lips Tracks Surface – ‘2nd Cassette Demo’

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Early Lips via Stereogum.

Now out is a four-song 1983 Flaming Lips recording called 2nd Cassette Demo. Available currently now on limited-edition 7″ blue vinyl, signed by Wayne Coyne.

Listen to all four 1983 tracks and hear the band out when it was a bit rawer.

These recordings are terrific.

A side, “The Flaming Lips Theme Song 1983” and “The Future Is Gone,” September 4, 1983:

B side, “Real Fast Words” and “Underground Pharmacist,” September 4, 1983:

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