This summer, The Takeaway has been hitting the road, and hearing the hits, on our virtual music road trip. Today our stop is the great music town of Oklahoma City. And our tour guide is none other than Wayne Coyne, the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter for the band The Flaming Lips. In Coyne's experience, music is inseparable from Oklahoma City.
Heard on this stop of the road trip: Tom Jones, the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack, Defenestration, Depth and Current, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Deer People, and, of course, The Flaming Lips.
Let us know: Do you love Oklahoma music? And where do you want the next stop to be on our musical road trip?
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The DSM and Mental Health in America
Lessons From a Female Union Electrician
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I co-produced a 38-song compilation of Oklahoma music for the OKC ADDY Awards this past February, including a theme song (and video) by up and coming local rapper Jabee.
The video and (FREE) album downloads are here. It's good stuff: http://www.okcadclub.com/addy-awards/about
I loved this segment this morning. It might be my favorite musical road trip yet. I, of course knew about Brooklyn and I have so many friends from Detroit, but Oklahoma City as a musical city was new to me...
I've been pushing for The Takeaway to go to New Orleans but I almost want you guys to put the blindfold on and pin the tail on any major City in any State...
Oklahoma City reminded me of coming of age in New York in the late seventies, when people went out every night to feel the energy of new sounds.
"Heard on this stop of the road trip: Tom Jones, the Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack, Defenestration, Depth and Current, Stardeath and White Dwarfs, Deer People, and, of course, The Flaming Lips."
Did Wayne pick the tunes?
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