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Flaming Lips vs. Arcade Fire

Wayne Coyne, the eccentric front man of the most eclectic band to ever come out of Oklahoma City, doesn't seem to be a guy ideally suited to rock feuds. His music doesn't exhibit much anger or venom, there's not a lot of implicit violence in songs ... morelike "Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles", and Flaming Lips' concerts are more likely to feature balloons than gunshots. So the Arcade Fire crew must have really gotten under his skin. In March of 2009, Coyne complained to Rolling Stone that the Canadian indie rockers "not only treated their crew like s***, they treated the audience like s***. They treated everybody in their vicinity like s***." Arcade Fire front man Win Butler soon responded that his band had only played with the Lips one time and that Coyne had no basis to make such charges. While the feud has died down, we can fondly hope for some dreamy, multi-dimensional, highly orchestrated tracks from both groups dissing each other.

ANIMOSITY LEVEL: 3.

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