Why aren't The Flaming Lips on prog archives?

Flaming Lips are amazing but they def not prog. Maybe prog pop in some cases.

zeb1981 wrote: They are psych,prog,pop,rock,avant-garde.....just listen, listen, listen to their music, specially the stuff done 2007-2020, prog asf to me, more prog than any american "prog" band except Kansas and Happy The Man...... I find it amusing, people in here call them POP, well, dont lie, you have only heard "Do you Realize" or another song by them over-played. Thats like saying ELP isnt PROG at all based on ANY Greg Lake ballad..... DO yer research before posting comments !

Logan wrote: ^ I voted yes for The Flaming Lips in Prog Related last November, and am glad to see Electric Würms in, which bolsters the case. I hope it goes well, and I can probably help (was thinking I might end up adding it before).

I'm pleasantly surprised to hear, and I'd love to collaborate with you and your enthusiastic expertise.

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Embryonic and The Terror are pure prog to me. The rest is power pop.

Saperlipopette! wrote: ^ It's not one EP, but 30 hours of music! I've listened to the Strobo Trip EP's 6 Hour Song / I Found a Star on the Ground in full (but not the full 24 hour long). Have you? That's about eight-nine albums (in length) material in one (out of the two) release, and my favorite six hours of music I've heard by the band. 360 minutes of fully fledged, brainmelting Psych/Spacerock (which we label Krautrock if it's from Germany) which alone more than qualifies. Your personal take on a lot of Krautrock (and other genres) as not prog or whatever - is too subjective or just non-representative and shouldn't be taken into consideration imo.

siLLy puPPy wrote: Saperlipopette! wrote: ^ It's not one EP, but 30 hours of music! I've listened to the Strobo Trip EP's 6 Hour Song / I Found a Star on the Ground in full (but not the full 24 hour long). Have you? That's about eight-nine albums (in length) material in one (out of the two) release, and my favorite six hours of music I've heard by the band. 360 minutes of fully fledged, brainmelting Psych/Spacerock (which we label Krautrock if it's from Germany) which alone more than qualifies. Your personal take on a lot of Krautrock (and other genres) as not prog or whatever - is too subjective or just non-representative and shouldn't be taken into consideration imo. Since i vote on the PSIKE team my opinion matters here. Sorry i'm not listening to a 24 hour long EP.

I know. And sometimes I think it's unfortunate. 

I may be missing context, but the quoting plus code appears a little muddled, but just a point, while what is deemed Krautrock from Germany may not be considered Prog, when its listed as an element in terms of style/genre and/or influence for (thinking particularly about ones not in Germany), I don't know of cases where that does not refer to the kinds of music we consider Krautrock at PA. Bands like Can, Neu!, Harmonia, Cluster, Kraftwerk, Faust....

As for an album with the primary tags of neo-psychedelia, experimental rock, experimental, post-rock and secondary tags being krautrock, ambient, noise rock, jam band, spoken word, noise, drone, post-rock, electronic, space rock revival, psychedelic rock, not only does that scream that I should listen to the album based on my interests, but that it might well be considerable for Prog Archives addition.

We have two yes votes for the Flaming Lips in Prog Related now, by the way.

Reactions to The Flaming Lips have been kind of weird and I think quite ignorant since I have seen at the time of Embryonic being released that The Flaming Lips has "nothing" to do with Prog. Nothing? Really? No relations whatsoever?

PS Mercury Rev is cool.