Not that frontman Wayne Coyne remembers it all.
It had been a while since he had heard the Lips 1984 self-titled debut EP, he tells EW.
Someone was playing it and I was like Who is this?

Credit: George Salisbury
This is fing cool!
He said, Its you and I thought he was joking.
Cloudsis singular in the Flaming Lips discography because it chronicles a band in transition.
He was just shy, very introverted, introverted as you could be, probably introverted to a fault.
Steven and I both knew that we were starting to be done with that.
It doesnt feel like what were doing now destroys everything weve done in the past, he says.
Were not that concerned with, Did that come out in 1995 or 2005?
None of us are historians in that way.
Luckily theres Google and stuff.
I Google my own record to see when it came out!