![]() Coyne kept in touch with Nell and her dad, and as Nell learned to play guitar and write her own songs, the idea of a collaboration came about. The unlikely collaboration came about after Wayne Coyne kept noticing a 12-year-old Nell, dressed in a parrot costume, in the front row of Flaming Lips shows, singing every song with her parents. ![]() Nell and the Flaming Lips’ cover of “The Weeping Son” appears on the collaborative Cave tribute album they released last fall, Where the Viaduct Looms. Trump Rages at 'Thugs' Who 'INDICATED' Him We had to get kitted out with safety gear. The mountain top scenes were accessed via snowmobile, deep into avalanche territory. “It’s maybe a broken family with the dad and son struggling. ![]() “The video for this song needed to show some people going through some stuff, and my part is a girl on a journey kind of observing,” Nell said in a statement. ![]() The video for the cover was shot in Nell’s hometown of Fernie, British Columbia, and it follows her as she treks through the snowy landscape and observes a troubled father-son relationship. The tempo is slowed and Nell’s plaintive lead vocals drift in echoey layers over a steady acoustic guitar provided by Nev Cottee. Nell and the Lips’ rendition of “The Weeping Song” keeps the original’s ominous and moody vibe, but arguably leans into it even more. Check out their song “Henry Krinkle’s Lament,” which truly sounds like a great lost Flaming Lips song.The Flaming Lips and 14-year-old singer-songwriter Nell soundtrack an expedition across a frozen tundra in the new video for their cover of Nick Cave and the Bad Seed’s “The Weeping Song.” Flaming Lips guitarist Steven Drozd is one of the main musicians on the album, playing keyboards, drums, guitars, bass, piano, and Hammond organ. One of the first projects he took on after leaving the show was the indie rock album Songs for Dustmites, which was produced by frequent Flaming Lips collaborator Dave Fridmann along with Ed Buller. It just really felt like a good, comfortable time to go.” Like I was sort of an adult, but not really. “‘I was just getting older and I kind of occupied this weird older brother space on that show. “Everyone wants there to be a dramatic answer and there’s not,” he said in 2017. “I realize that was kind of abrupt.”Īll sorts of urban legends spread about his departure, including ones stating that he died in a car accident or from a heroin overdose. “We didn’t see each other for like, a really long time,” Burns says in the video. Little explanation was given at the time. So about that time Steve went off to college… #BluesClues25 /O8NOM2eRjyīurns left Blue’s Clues in 2002 after six years and 100 episodes. Whatever it is you’re doing, it’s working.” And some of it has been kind of hard, you know? I guess I just wanted to say, that after all these years, I never forgot you, ever. “And now it’s what? Student loans, and jobs, and families. “I mean, we started out with clues,” Burns said in the new video. Millennial hearts all over America melted this week when original Blue’s Clues host Steve Burns popped up on Twitter with a message to fans of the show in honor of its 25th anniversary - but did you also know Burns is a musician who has collaborated with the likes of Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips?
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