History Music / FlamingLips

* {{Crossover}}: They once did a crossover performance with Music/{{Beck}}.
** They also toured with Music/{{Beck}} on his ''Sea Change'' tour in 2002.

** Boredoms drummer and OOIOO founder Yoshimi P-We providing guest vocals (read: [[CarefulWithThatAxe screams]]) for "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots pt. 2" from the album of the same name.
** MGMT providing additional instrumentation on ''Embryonic's'' "Worm Mountain".
** Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs providing vocals for ''Embryonic'' tracks "I Can Be a Frog" and "Watching the Planets".

* LongTitle: Almost to the point of self-parody. Among the most infamous are "One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning" and "What Is the Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical [In Our Brains] by Which We Are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love Is the Same Chemical That Caused the "Big Bang" That Was the Birth of the Accelerating Universe)".
** Also leaks into the titles of the band's albums and [=EPs=] from time to time, including ''Due to High Expectations, The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles for Your Balloons'' and ''The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon''.

* ExcitedShowTitle: ''Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips''

The band personnel has [[RevolvingDoorBand changed several times over the years]], but since 1993 it's more or less been the line-up of singer/guitarist Wayne Coyne, bassist Michael Ivins - the two of whom founded the band - and long-time drummer/guitarist/keyboardist Steven Drozd.[[note]]They had an additional guitarist, Ronald Jones, between 1991-1996; Drozd became the lead guitarist after Jones's departure.[[/note]] Other members include guitarists/keyboardists Derek Brown and Jake Ingalls, who joined in 2009 and 2013 respectively (Ingalls is additionally the frontman for the band Spaceface), and drummers/percussionists/keyboardists Matt Kirksey and Nicholas Ley, who both joined in 2014 and also perform as the DJ duo the Brothers Griiin. [[note]]The previous drummer, Kliph Scurlock, performed and recorded with the band between 2002-2014.[[/note]] In 2021, Ivins retired after serving 38 years with the band.

* GreatestHitsAlbum: Oddly, given how long and varied the band's career has been up to this point, only one actual hits album has been released, ''A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for Recording...By Amateurs'', and even ''that'' only covers songs from the band's first four albums.
** Finally got an actual Greatest Hits featuring all of their actual hits they did with Warner Bros Records on June 1st, 2018.

** The follow-up ''The Terror'', takes the darkness of ''Embryonic'' way UpToEleven, with virtually [[DespairEventHorizon no uplifting moments]] and a consistently bleak, discordant atmosphere that borders on the absolutely nightmarish in parts.

* GratuitousPanning: taken UpToEleven with ''Zaireeka'' - the instruments are spread out across 4 separate discs, which are meant to be played simultaneously on 4 different stereos spread out around one room.

* VariantCover: The band's album covers under Creator/WarnerBrosRecords made prominent use of the label's shield logo as a design element. When Warner lost the rights to the logo in 2019 (thanks to the label no longer being affiliated with Creator/WarnerBros -- they were bought out in 2004, but had a 15 year grace period where they could still use the shield), the band started reissuing their albums with a new emblem on the covers, depicting a skull and spine inside a downwards-facing triangle.