With A Little Help From My Fwends

 
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The Flaming Lips
With A Little Help From My Fwends

[ Warner Brothers / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 24 October 2014

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The Flaming Lips have covered The Beatles' 1967 classic in their own inimitable style, with help from special friends Miley Cyrus, Moby, Electric Würms (The Flaming Lips side project) and many others.

"Befitting its title, concept and intentions - all proceeds from the album go to an organization that helps provide veterinary care to needy pet owners - With A Little Help From My Fwends calls on a motley assortment of boundary-pushing guest players. These include obvious natural allies (My Morning Jacket, Foxygen, Dr. Dog) and the less obvious likes of Tegan And Sara and avowed Lips enthusiast Miley Cyrus, who turns up in both "A Day In The Life" and an appropriately sprawling "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." (In fact, "Lucy" reunites the team behind a bizarre video in which Cyrus and The Flaming Lips ham it up alongside Moby.)

Even The Flaming Lips can't cover such a canonical record without having to walk a series of fine lines - between reverence and irreverence, between adherence to the text and a career-spanning urge to fly off into outer space. There's obviously no sense in cobbling together a straight-ahead remake, but it's also difficult to imagine anyone seeking out a "tribute" album that cuts one of the most beloved classics in rock-music history down to size. But the band and its many collaborators ultimately walk all these fine lines by smearing, crossing, ignoring and obliterating them. The strange and sprawling result sounds both loving and deeply, deeply weird - which, for The Flaming Lips, mean just about the same thing." - NPR

Tracks:

1. Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Feat: My Morning Jacket, Fever The Ghost & J. Mascis
2. With A Little Help From My Friends Feat: Black Pus & Autumn Defense
3. Lucy In The Sky Feat: Miley Cyrus & Moby
4. Getting Better Feat: Dr. Dog, Chuck Inglish & Morgan Delt
5. Fixing A Hole - Electric Würms
6. She's Leaving Home Feat: Phantogram, Juilianna Barwick & Spacefare
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite Feat: MJ Keenan, Pusifier & Sunbears
8. Within You Without You Feat: Birdflower & Morgan Delt
9. When I'm Sixty-Four Feat: Def Rain & Pitchwafuzz
10. Lovely Rita Feat: Tegan & Sara, Stardeath & White Dwarfs
11. Good Morning Good Morning Feat: Zorch, Grace Potter & Treasure Mammal
12. Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) Feat: Foxygen & Ben Goldwaser
13. A Day In The Life Feat: Miley Cyrus & New Fumes

Listen to Electric Würms Fixing A Hole via Youtube