Flaming Lips fans to hear their names on new six-hour song

[MightyJordan]

Flaming Lips fans to hear their names on new six-hour song

Have you ever wanted to have your name as a lyric in an hour-long Flaming Lips song? How about a two-hour Flaming Lips song? Three hours? Four? It gets better. The fearless freaks from Oklahoma are offering fans the chance to have their names included on a new track lasting six whole hours, all in the name of charity.

It costs just $100 (?61) to join the Lips on Found a Star on the Ground, a track they began recording about a week ago. "Takes a long time to make a six-hour song," frontman Wayne Coyne tweeted. At a website set up by the band, interested parties can donate to the Oklahoma Humane Society and the University of Central Oklahoma's Academy of Contemporary Music, guaranteeing themselves a tiny footnote in music history. There is no word on how many people have donated so far, but if Coyne can sing one name every two seconds, the song will only have room for, er, 10,800.

A six-hour song would be tricky for any band, but the Flaming Lips have never even released a proper double album. (2009's 70-minute Embryonic, while described as a double LP, was released as one CD.) After almost 30 years together, their entire prior discography adds up to about 11 hours. Then again, it's not difficult to imagine Coyne, Drozd and Ivins locked in a week-long jam, taking breaks just to make sure their amps don't overheat.

All this is part of the Flaming Lips' ongoing mission to "do [things] some other way", saying farewell to the "boring ... old way" of making albums. They have spent 2011 on a variety of one-off song projects, including team-ups with Prefuse 73, Neon Indian and Lightning Bolt.

The group's last LP was 2009's remake of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

So if you fancy having your name sung for $100, buy your spot here.