The Flaming Lips - Bad Days

What this video is

Released in late 1995, 'Bad Days' sits at a remarkable cultural intersection: it is simultaneously a Warner Bros. major-label indie single, a track from the critically admired Clouds Taste Metallic (the last Flaming Lips album to feature guitarist Ronald Jones), and a song embedded in Hollywood blockbuster culture via the Batman Forever soundtrack. The Flaming Lips were riding the tailwind of 'She Don't Use…

Why it matters

A defining artifact of mid-90s neo-psychedelic pop, 'Bad Days' illustrates how The Flaming Lips occupied a unique lane between noise-pop experimentalism and melody-forward alt-rock accessibility. It prefigures the band's late-90s orchestral pivot toward The Soft Bulletin (1999) while retaining the…

The director

Wayne Coyne (born January 13, 1961, Norman, Oklahoma) founded The Flaming Lips in 1983 and serves as the band's lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter. As a director, he helmed numerous Flaming Lips music videos across the 1990s and 2000s —…