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Setlist

The Flaming Lips
1. Intro
2. Race For The Prize
3. Fight Test
4. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Pt. 1
5. Lightning Strikes The Postman
6. She Don't Use Jelly
7. Thirty-five Thousand Feet Of Despair
8. Do You Realize
9. Superman
10. A Spoonful Weighs A Ton

Beck
1. Cold Brains
2. Lonesome Whistle
3. Guess I'm Doing Fine

Beck with The Flaming Lips
1. The Golden Age
2. Lord Only Knows
3. Paper Tiger
4. Lonesome Tears
5. Lost Cause
6. Tropicalla
7. Get Real Paid
8. Jack-Ass
9. Already Dead
10. Nobody's Fault But My Own
11. Pay No Mind
12. The New Polution
13. It's All In Your Mind
14. We Live Again
15. Sissyneck
16. Little One
17. End Of The Day
18. Where It's At
19. Round The Bend

When Beck announced he had hired the Flaming Lips to be the backup band/opening act for his latest tour, it seemed like the coolest marketing ploy of all time. The buzz was that Beck's latest record, the brilliantly somber Sea Change, was something of a snoozer -- hiring a psychotic carnival like the Flaming Lips to back him up would not only liven up the gigs, but open up ticket sales to an entirely different audience. Gradually, though, a new perspective began to emerge. Maybe this was a chance for Beck's longtime fans to hear his songs reinterpreted through the hands and feet of an incredibly gifted and strange group of musicians. And maybe this was also a chance for these freaks from Oklahoma City to prove they could crossover if they wanted to, that they were as eclectic and flexible as any band working in popular music. The performances by Beck and the Flaming Lips on this night proved this second set of hunches right.