The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize [Official Music Video]
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- The Official Video for Race for The Prize from on The Flaming Lips album "The Soft Bulletin".
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This is one of the greatest songs ever recorded
Totally, if this was written by the beatles the media would call it the best song ever
We know it's true.
Not really. It just drops when it matters on a finely constructed album. As all tracks should do.
Peter Bright it’s the first track of the album
And the best opening song to a concert ever
Drums are just incredible
Snare is so dope isn't it?!
you can always pick a Flaming Lips song for it's drums
Yeah, damn this snare sounds great. Like really sloppy/lo-fi but in the best way possible, so much raw power
thats Steven
Bathtubgeorge! They're huge!
The drums full of life and dance, the strings yearn for younger days and release emotions you didn’t know needed therapy. The simple lyrics are stretched as well as embellished by Wayne’s own painful and longing expression of voice. I love their melancholy tracks they do it so well.
Youre beautiful
Yeah it's a beautiful tune, makes me cry tears of joy and sadness
Are the "strings" real strings? I always thought that they were a keyboard effect
@@shruggzdastr8-facedclown Wayne screwed around with the internals of a keyboard to effectively detune it, which is what creates the distinct sound for the strings on the record. Most piano parts however were recorded on the piano of the drummer steven drozd
Damn dude, that was poetic, much respect man.
its the instrumental parts that hold all the power
Yes. The emotional one as i read above
yes!!!
And the drums hold all the emotion. It's a very unorthodox drum sound to just splatter paint all over the rest of the song but it's the freedom they cry that is simply breathtaking.
Dang you figured out what music is, good job!
Kicked a 15 year heroin addiction to this song. Now I have severe Crohn's & it gives me hope to smile.
Hey bro just had to say congratulations! I just kicked an 8 year heroin habit. 8 months clean now myself. Waking up is hard and opening your eyes again is even harder. But hang in there bro and you got love. There is something special about this song that I can't really explain.
Ha! So did Drozd! (Hey, he set me on fire once so I can talk shit about him!)
fyi GAPS diet
How you doing now?
Ken Lieck .......he set you on fire? Do tell.
Best thing in the world when you discover new music. I'm 66 and heard The Cure at Glasto a couple of years ago and saw The Lips last week in London. Amazing
Greetings from Annapolis Maryland! I'm 65 and I just discovered the song. Kind of reminds me of all the hard work that went into creating the vaccines to protect us from covid-19. Sincerely John Stallings ❄️🌎❄️
66 and just discovering the Cure ? How is that possible ? under what rock did you hide between 25-35 ?
@@lws7394 Married at 20, 3 kids.
@@lws7394 And is that really the age range that you discover new music? Back then, at 25, you were already worrying about paying the bills. Now my kids have grown they've introduced me to new music and vice versa
@@lws7394 Obviously I knew The Cure but sadly only their singles, which, now I see, don't compare to everything else.
Every time I hear this song, I look up hoping to find balloons and confetti ❤️
Just need to see them live then haha
Pyramid Stage Glasto i believe 2004
Fuck yes!
I remember some of their old concerts and they were weird-awesome-bliss personified!
Trillions of bubbles, balloons big and small, Xmas lights, and so much LOVE!
That got me a little choked up. Saw them live at Bellwether in 2018 when I was fighting a bout of depression and this song and that experience helped me through it
@@ashlimidey4035 A Lips show gig is a truly unique - almost indescribable experience... feels like an ecstatic religious gathering combined with a performance art happening and a five year old's birthday party - in the best way possible.
It only took 23 years but I finally found this fricking song. I heard it once but never wrote it down or anything. This is before youtube and such
I’m glad you found it bro💯
This song truly resonates with me because since childhood, I've held the aspiration to become a scientist and find a cure for my mother's rare disease, Pulmonary Fibrosis
Can’t help but to feel absolutely devastated while listening to this
this entire album is both a masterpiece and a tear jerker IMO ✌️
I'm sorry for your pain. I will keep you in my prayers which may be just as important than the scientific route.
普段はコメントせんけど相変わらず好きすぎる
この曲を聞いてる時だけは感情が宙に漂う、この感覚はいつまで経っても失いたくない
Never forget the first time I heard this. Curious after reading the review in a Dutch pop magazine I went to the record store to listen the album. This song nailed me to the floor. Still one of the best songs ever made..
I agree.
Plus 80 hipster points
@@CleanFamilyVideos it is a great fricking song
No words can describe how wonderful this song feels/sounds
This song is relevant now more than ever
Oh man is it ever. Its a song that was waiting for its time, and that time is now.
@@shayneoneill1506 yes man yes
Wayne's trumpeting is top notch! I love the brass in this song, glad its featured in the video. 8)
this is just like something i've heard in a dream
Panda Bear - Bros
This song deserves a billion of views!
You're damn right it does!
used to skate to this back in the day on repeat and it'd put me in the zone. heard it on the radio yesterday... nestalgia
Dude! Same! This and jigsaw falling into place
its from foundation thats life skate vid :)
Its from foundation that's life video
This night they played this song as the encore and the crowd didn't even ask for it, I'm so happy they chose one of my favorite song for it :)
Shout out my boy Kevin Parker for showing me this gem
The drumming does sound like tame, so goooood!
so glad he showed me this relic
lol same
@@thugtrippin Nice profile picture
@@MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy6 one of my favourite artists and one of my favourite musicians
Thinking of this song a lot lately in the beginning of the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Thank you for this anthem to the heroism of doctors and scientists.
Beautifully put
Same here been in my head for a long while and a positive spin on things
Same here
COVID-19 has me listening to ‘do you realise’ a lot 😂😂
I think this song, and “waiting for superman” are the soundtracks for 2020.
How can you not cry at the beauty, the splendor and the hope of it all. If there were ever "a song for our times" this is it.
IT'S NOT OVER FOR HUMANITY
WE'LL MAKE THROUGH IT TOGETHER
ALL WE NEED İS COPERATİON
AND TRUST
I’ve never heard this song in my life, but it’s gives me so much nostalgia
It speaks to that happy place inside of us all, friend. ❤
I didn't feel that way when the song was new in 1999. I heard it but it didn't hit my nostalgia bone. But I feel that way TO THE MAX today.
There’s just something about pre 2010s flaming lips that feels so nostalgic even if you never heard their music before.
Same here
Thank you for inspiring to stay on this planet Wayne, I hope you realize the lives you save bro!
This is one of the best songs of all time.
this masterpiece makes you emotional and you dont know why, it's a tune that hooks you.
Incredible! It makes me feel melancolic and good at the same time. I love this song!
Have had a decades long love LOVE love LOVE love just fucking love this album... with this album......just / this album is so important to my life.
What would we do without music?Imagine being deaf & blind!
Adam Bisset Lol.That made me chuckle.They did do that thing where they put out the gummy skull with a USB stick inside so yeah.Good one Adam lad.Cheers.
I cry every time I listen to this. My parents were scientists and my mother worked extremely hard but got Frontal temporal dementia around age 65 and passed away a couple years ago. This song is about the people who work too hard for science, and it is by far the most overwhelming song for me to listen to. The sound and atmosphere feel forward thinking mixed with a somber sunset
Heard this amazing song in the Flaming Lips Concert in Catrina Festival in Puebla. I wasn’t a fan of the band and only knew the yeah yeah song, but the show was really good, balloons, lights and magic. Now I am a fan of the band and this is one of my favourite songs. When this song dropped I knew I was listening to something special, that synth progression is magic. :)
This is a song I imagine being born to and also dying to.
just those first few seconds kick me in the feelings like nothing else. an iconic opening to a genuine masterpiece of a record.
Man I love this song!! The drummers are jamming!! I loved their performance on the Colbert Show!
I'm sitting here reminiscing about seeing this live and started to choke up. Then I read all the same comments. Humans don't deserve the Flaming Lips. So much love, wonder and confetti.
The emotion in this song and instrumental is immaculate
This song was magical live. I had stumbled upon them going to a concert for a certain artist, but they played last and it was so magical!! This song gives me such happiness and melancholy, everytime i hear it i wanna cry
I turned 20 and feel so old. I felt for a while like I’ll never feel young like I did when I was 15. I felt so hopeful and optimistic about life, so free and happy to discover all sorts of music. I haven’t felt the feeling of loving music the same way since, I felt like I discovered everything worth listening to. And now I’m here. This makes me feel like when I first discovered Sonic Youth in my bedroom under all my old blankets. It makes my heart happy. Maybe I’ll be happy in my 20’s. Maybe I’ll be okay.
I feel ya bro.. enjoy lifes moments as they come
how is it going bro? i discovered this song at 15 too and turned 19 two weeks ago i'm really frightened by the idea of 20s, just rediscovered this and i felt also a little optimistic like I thought about of everything i've lived yet with all the limitations you have as a teen so in a way you can only go further from here
Hope you’re doing good in your twenties ✌️
Tried and true Okie who has been watching the Lips since the late 80s…cut to 1999 and this album comes out. My god, it hit my future head with melodic bombast and joy. Wayne, Steve and company created what’s gone down as their seminal album. Kevin Parker didn’t bring me here, but he did prove he has exceptional taste. Keep on keepin’ on guys.
This synth line is legendary. Hooked me instantly. Was working in a greenhouse and heard that synth screaming from radio tuned to 90.3 kexp in the next greenhouse. got my ass over there quick to check it out better
That intro just made me feel something
I don't know what that feeling is though
But I love it
This deserves way more views than what it has.
Amazing song!
I've not heard this in many years. Brings a tear to my eye. Good memories
Just something about the combination of this song and the video. So awesome.
Flaming Lips somehow got on the short list of bands/musicians that can make me cry. Perhaps 5 other artists or groups. Gd Flaming Lips.
This song makes me feel so relaxed and at peace
Corona virus brought me here tonight May 2020. One of the greatest songs ever recorded... to the heroism of doctors and scientists.
I loved this song for years, but in the actual pandemic this song gives me an indescriptible feeling of contemplation. One of the best song of the band.
When I first heard the song come out of no where after listening to blur .. I fell in love with this song...
Those damned drums
Perfect.. so Perfect x
Another epic masterpiece by The Flaming Lips!
WCW and WWE think alike! maybe not in MacMahon´s mind.
Live life like this song. Seize your life. Life is short.
celestial pop at its most heavenly.
Such an uplifting song.
There’s something about this song that makes me wanna cry. It’s like the ending of a lifetime movie
This song came out when my kids were 3 and 6 years old. I always told my kids stories to go with every song I played. I told my kids this was a true story. The sun was too close to the earth back in 1978. Everyone was scared and sad. But two great scientists didn’t give up. They tried and tried. They knew it was an impossible goal. They wanted to hold their children and wives, but they sacrificed all their own joys for the sake of humanity and eventually they saved us all. They pushed back the sun. My kids thought this really happened until my daughter was in fourth grade. She told her entire class the story. She thought it was true and was shocked the teacher had never heard the story. She even played the song for the teacher. When she came home from school she asked me why I lied to her. I told her that it was a story. She said she wished it was true.
imagine in one of these thousands alter realities that are spinning out there...it could be true..now those two scientists have their face carved out in moon rock.
Beautiful. That’s how to describe this masterpiece of a song
The drums seriously shred in this song!
Seriously incredible
I still can’t believe how underrated this is.
So nostalgic. My dad used to play this on Saturdays while i was in the bath.
This song has something nostalgic. I can't explain. Beautiful!
The saddest thing ever is knowing you’ll never hear this song for the first time ever again.
色褪せない！いいなぁ😁
this is a masterpiece, incredible the intensity of this song, wonderfoul
criminally under viewed
Still criminally under viewed 2 years later.
"crimininally underviewed" is the understatement of the century lol
So much incredible amazingly beautiful noise with The Flaming Lips!
Especially their older albums..
I'm not music critic nor i got any musical taste... but dedication to doctors.. Love It!!!🤩🤩🤩
Flaming lips always know how to make drums sound badass
Saw them live, new favs!
aside from the song being phenomenal, this is one of my favorite music videos of all time aswell.
the most beautiful song of them all
the intro melody (and bridge) reminds me of MBV
when you sleep, if we are exactly speaking
Why does this song make me cry everytime?
Because they're just humans, with wives and children
@@JonathanGymAddict lol
If you ever need a song to run to this is it the energy and motivation I feel are truly unmatched
My left ear is really enjoying this percussion. And my right ear really enjoys the mid-range stuff. (Later the left ear as well)
He was cute when young, but now that's he's grown he's beyond dashing!
Zeitlos.... Ein Song für die Ewigkeit
This song gets me every time. RACE FOR THE PRIZE
One of the best bands from America
This and Superman are constantly in my head now. Hope is hope.
Im sure i heard this song in a movie or a dream
Me too
You did. And you did.
Same the beat is way to familiar
i've already heard this instrumental, it is way too familiar, just i don't know where
I first heard this fascinating song on a skate video ! Loved it ever since !
Seen these at Glastonbury they blew me away what a band what a show love them X
This song is simply astonishing. Wow.
I 've loved this song for years, but during the height of the COVID pandemic, it took on much more for me. Thanks to my sisters and brothers in the medical field for racing.
Used to listen to this song every sunday a while ago
They play it regularly on Michigan State Campus Radio! Love it!
Corona virus brought me here tonight March 2020. One of the best songs ever made.
This Song is just so underrated
一撃必殺のキラーチューン…🎈✨
無条件に スキ 〜浮遊感〜
i used to listen to this song on my moms ipod nano when i was little 🥺
That makes me so old. The nano was a great bit of kit.
I'm a metal head, and my music taste is eclectic as fuck, this is dope as hell 90s were killer.
What metal? For all i know you could be bumpin' limp f**cking bizkit.
I wish i was alive when this came out. So unprecedented
Once again, I've found another child of the boognish.
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I'm a fairly new fan of The Flaming Lips. I don't have all their albums yet, but from the ones I have, this is my favourite song.
These drums slap so hard
I dont even know what the song is about but it still makes me emotional
+TheECAproductions Exactly, me too. Try Animal Collective's "Fireworks", I dont get wtf they are talking but it almost makes me cry
+marhadiasak Fireworks is about depression
Eli Tarache There is no reason to think that is what they had in mind, and it would diminish the song if it were.
I don't think it is about any specific thing, but more along the lines of the space race or seeking a cure for cancer.
+TheDowner Brian Eno likes your comment
TheECAproductions I feel this
I wanna cry. This is beatifull.
My heart goes out to all the teachers , scientists, inventors, motivational speakers ; everyone that feels that internal obligation to teach
los amo Flaming lips, recuerdo cuando vinieron a México en el 2008
Just got into the Flaming Lips recently. I'm used to the young face that you see in "This Here Giraffe" and their other earlier ones. I was super surprised to see him in this haha. This song is crazy good 👌
Shout out to my film teacher in high school for showing me this