The Big Ol' Bug Is The New Baby Now

Warner Bros. Records US, 1998
PRO-CD-9295

promo sleeve
1. The Big Ol' Bug Is The New Baby Now -Stereo remix; original version from Zaireeka
plus Quicktime video of Parking Lot Experiments

 


Put out as a radio promo for Zaireeka, this is one of the more accessible songs from the 4CD set, mixed down to a user-friendly stereo mix. The loss of the other three stereo fields deprives the listener of a few thrilling moments from the song, but it doesn't lose too much. Wayne's spoken word story about his dogs and their adoption of toys as children is no less engaging, and the Bonham-meets-Disney breakout into the song proper is no less heartwarming. Mind you, it still doesn't come close to 30 stereos shaking dust from the ceiling in the end-of-the-universe chorus of the Boombox Experiment version....

From the sleeve:
"On November 6th 1997 a DJ in Stillwater, Oklahoma was doing his usual morning radio show. But on this particular morning, in between the "modern-rock-soft-adult-alternative" songs that were on ther play-list, he was playing some tracks off an album that didn't fit into the "usual" format. It wasn't that his station wasn't flexible enough to accomodatean occasional, more challenging song or that the audience wasn'y open-minded enough. They prided themselves on being "cutting edge". It was just that the tracks that he was playing would seem "unusual" even to the most avant garde or experimental radio shows. What he did was this: he brought two extra CD players into the station, making a total of four CD players counting the two that were already there, and played the same track by the same artist on all four CD players at the same time, then broadcast the results out into the morning air which found its way to the ears and into the minds of an unsuspecting listening audience who unknowingly heard a "new event" in radio history... what they heard was Zaireeka, a bizarre new recording by the Flaming Lips."

The CD also has a Quicktime file of a promotional short (about 5 mins) on the Parking Lot Experiments, which were the performances from which Zaireeka developed.


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