9 Weirdest Marketing Gimmicks Ever Used To Sell Music Albums

5. The Flaming Lips Put A Day-Long Song Inside A Human Skull

The Flaming Lips have done a lot of crazy promotional stunts in their careers, but none ever came so close to being this excessively creepy. Because none of those involved real human skulls. Because none of those ideas were conceived while snorting coke and watching The Evil Dead. Which had to be the circumstances for this conception. The band decided to release a song that was a full 24 hours long, which is a quirky enough idea in and of itself. Great job, Lips. You're kooky. Can we all just move onto the next full-length album now? No. You really want to incorporate a human skull, huh? Welp...all right then. The song, "7 Skies H3," was then stored on memory sticks and then placed inside real human skulls. For distribution. To people. Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne was delighted that he found "a guy" who was allowed to sell the skulls, making the whole thing totally legit. Sure.