So while many of the songs are enjoyable (“What I Do on Saturday”, “Maintain”), it is uncertain if these songs are enjoyable simply because the record sounds like a Lip’s album, and it is hard to tell what, if anything, Burns is bringing to the table. The fury of noise available on “Mighty Little Man” is incredible, but the inability of Burns’s voice to keep up with everything the Lips team is throwing at the young man reminds the listener that this is not a Flaming Lips album it is a Steve Burns album. “Mighty Little Man” starts off the record with boisterous bass and drums that sound as if they were lifted straight off of the Flaming Lip’s last album.
“Troposphere” is easily the album’s best song, a sweet song of catchy indie-pop that is bolstered by unmistakably Lips-ish effects. There are songs on Songs for Dustmites that really shine. The truth is probably somewhere in between these two explanations. The second possibility is that the Lip’s franchise - who have always had a tendency to be indiscriminate in the projects, tours, and partnerships they take on - decided that playing on a record with the Blue’s Clues guy would be awesome, so they showed up and put their otherworldly spin on what would have undoubtedly been an otherwise uneventful album. One possibility is that Burns is some sort of musical genius who, up until now, has never been given the opportunity to share his musical gift with the public because he has been too busy tracking down lost dogs. Thinking about this project before hearing a single note of the record leads one to come up with two explanations for how and why this record came about. If you are wondering what the hell is going on here, you are not alone. The search for the cartoon dog involved the discovery and analysis of many clues with Burns serving as the brains of the dog search and rescue operation.Ģ003 finds Burns and the rest of the Blue’s Clues franchise in retirement, so Burns has done what so many other children television hosts have done in the past - recruited Steve Drozd of the Flaming Lips to back him on an indie-rock album that is primarily produced by another Lips mainstay, Dave Fridmann. Blues Clue’s, for the uninitiated, was an incredibly popular children’s show in which Burns donned a green rugby shirt (every episode) and led children in a search of a hiding (or missing, it was never clear) cartoon dog named Blue. To sum it up, here's how Steve Burns' life changed since departing Blue's Clues.Steve Burns was the host of Nickelodeon’s Blue’s Clues for six years. Since then, the 47-year-old Pennsylvania actor has ventured into a plethora of things from forming a musical band to acting on a thriller film. That said, it's been decades since the last time we saw Burns in his iconic green-striped shirt. "For me, it's a very different experience than it is for everyone else, but to know that people who watched Blue's Clues now have children that watch Blue’s Clues is a real brain-burner, that’s for sure." "It felt like a dream to wake up and be like, 'Wait, people watched that all over the world?,'" he recalled. In fact, his final episode of the show attracted over 1.9 million viewers!
After debuting in 1996, the actor spent years on Blue's Clues before departing the show in 2001.
#THE FLAMING LIPS STEVE BURNS SERIES#
Aired on Nickelodeon, the series wouldn't be where it's at now without Steve Burns' memorable as the show's first host. Once upon a time, Blue's Clues was every kid's favorite pre-school program.
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