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Three months after the release of their classic album Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, the Flaming Lips played a small show at The Paradise Lounge in Boston for the local alternative radio station WBOS. The small crowd of competition winners and invited fans were treated to a 40 minute set that included “Do You Realize??” and “Fight Test”, plus covers of Pink Floyd’s “Lucifer Sam” and Beck’s “The Golden Age”. One feature of this show were the song intros by Wayne Coyne.This is the first release on vinyl and it’s on limited edition pink!

The Flaming Lips 2002 album “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” was a huge album in the UK, selling over 300,000 units on its way to Platinum certification. The success was driven by 4 hit singles, including the title track and the Lip’s most popular song “Do You Realize”. The band frequently toured the UK during the album cycle, playing larger venues than previous tours, and were frequent guests on several radio shows.

This release is a recording of the last show of the UK dates in January 2003 at London’s Forum Theatre. The 15-song show was broadcast nationally by the BBC. In addition to playing key songs from “Yoshimi” album, the set list includes fan-favourites such as “She Don’t Use Jelly”, “Waitin’ For A Superman” and “Race For The Prize”.

TRACK LISTING

1. Introduction
2. Race For The Prize
3. Fight Test
4. Lucifer Sam
5. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
6. Lightning Strikes The Postman
7. In The Morning Of The Magicians
8. Happy Birthdays
9. She Don't Use Jelly
10. All We Have Is Now
11. Do You Realize??
12. Waitin' For A Superman
13. A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
14. What Is The Light?
15. The Observer

The Flaming Lips will announce the gold vinyl edition of their first official “hits” collection, to be released on 8 September via Warner Records. Greatest Hits Vol. 1 compiles eleven Warner-era singles and album tracks on a single gold LP. This release includes singles from Transmissions From The Satellite Heart (1993), Clouds Taste Metallic (1995), The Soft Bulletin (1999), Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002), At War With The Mystics (2006), Embryonic (2009) and Oczy Mlody (2017). The Flaming Lips’ “Do You Realize??” is also featured on the Marvel Studios’ Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3: Awesome Mix Vol. 3 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), available now on Hollywood Records.

TRACK LISTING

Side One:
1. Do You Realize??
2. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1
3. Race For The Prize
4. Waitin' For A Superman
5. When You Smile
6. She Don't Use Jelly
Side Two:
1. Bad Days (Aurally Excited Version)
2. The W.A.N.D.
3. Silver Trembling Hands
4. The Castle
5. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

The Flaming Lips will unveil a new limited-edition vinyl EP entitled Psychedelic Hypnotist Daydream on June 16, 2023. It notably collects four fan favorite tracks previously only available on the 6-CD Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 20th Anniversary Box Set. Now, they grace the 32-minute Psychedelic Hypnotist Daydream, giving the songs a vinyl release for the very first time. The track listing notably boasts the immersive 24-minute sonic head-trip “Psychedelic Hypnotist Day Dream (demo),” which unfurls as one of the group’s most epic gems to date. Additionally, it includes the “Duck Dodgers Theme (Duck Dodgers Demo: With Wayne Scratch Vocal),” “I Know I’ve Got To Make That Dream The Real Thing (Demo),” and, finally, “Do You Realize?? (Instrumental).”

The 4 tracks on this LP are on the 6 CD Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 20th Anniversary Box Set but are not included on the 5 LP version of the box set.
The centrepiece of the LP is the 24-minute epic “Psychedelic Hypnotist Daydream (demo)”. Three other tracks from the CD box set are included, also receiving their first release on LP – notably the instrumental version of “Do You Realize??”. Over 32 minutes of music, pressed on Limited Edition Pink Vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Side A

1. Psychedelic Hypnotist Daydream (Demo)

Side B

1. Duck Dodgers Theme (Duck Dodgers Demo: With Wayne Scratch Vocal.
2. I Know I’ve Got To Make That Dream The Real Thing (Demo)
3. Do You Realise?? (Instrumental)

This expansive 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition features 100 tracks on the 6 CD Box Set of which over 50 are previously unreleased.

The 5 LP, 56 track Vinyl box features 30 previously unreleased tracks and over 40 tracks being released on vinyl for the first time. Both formats include the original album, demos, b-sides, and highlights of the many radio sessions the band performed.

The 6 CD box also includes the two EPs released during the original album cycle and two live concerts from Boston in 2002 and London in 2003. The EPs and live concerts will be released on vinyl in 2023. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition is an essential portrait of rock’s most restlessly creative band at the peak of their powers. 

TRACK LISTING

LP 1 -Original Album
Side A
1.Fight Test
2.One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
3.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 1
4.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 2
5.In The Morning Of The Magicians
Side B
1.Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
2.Are You A Hypnotist
3.It's Summertime
4.Do You Realize??
5.All We Have Is Now
6.Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon

LP 2 -Demos+
Side C
1.All My Life -Morning Of The Magicians
2.Ego Tripping Part 2 Or 3
3.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
4.Hypnotist: Early Version
5.Epic Systems Delirium
6.In The Morning Of The Magicians
Side D
1.Do You Realize?? 1st Chords Wayne
2.Do You Realize?? Steven New Part
3.Fight Test: Primitive Demo With Helium Voice
4.If I Go Mad/Funeral In My Head
5.Syrtis Major

LP 3 -Non-LP+
Side E
1.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Japanese Version)
2.SpongeBob & Patrick Confront The Psychic Wall Of Energy
3.Seven Nation Army
4.Go (Feat Sparklehorse)
5.The Deterioration Of The Fight Or Flight Response
6.Fight Test
Side F
1.Do You Realize??
2.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
3.Waitin' For A Superman
4.In The Morning Of The Magicians
5.White Christmas
6.The Golden Path (The Chemical Brothers, Feat The Flaming Lips)

LP 4 -Radio Sessions
Side G
1.Suspicious Minds
2.Assassination Of The Sun
3.Can't Get You Out Of My Head
4.Do You Realize??
5.One More Robot
Side H
1.Do You Realize??
2.One More Robot
3.Can't Get You Out Of My Head
4. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
5.Breathe
6.Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
7.Sunship Balloons

LP 5 -Radio Sessions+
Side I
1.Fight Test
2.Thank You Jack White
3.Do You Realize??
4.One More Robot
5.Can't Get You Out Of My Head
Side J
1.Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
2.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
3.SunshipBalloons
4.Up Above The Daily Hum
5.Xanthe Terra

CD Box Set Edition:
CD 1: Original Album, Plus Demos
1.Fight Test
2.One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
3.Yoshimi Battles ThePink Robots Part 1
4.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 2
5.In The Morning Of The Magicians
6.Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
7.Are You A Hypnotist
8.It's Summertime
9.Do You Realize??
10.All We Have Is Now
11.Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon
12.All My Life -Morning Of The Magicians
13.Ego Tripping Part 2 Or 3
14.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
15.Hypnotist: Early Version
16.Epic Systems Delirium
17.In The Morning Of The Magicians
18.Do You Realize?? (1st Chords Wayne)
19.Do You Realize?? (Steven New Part)

CD 2 -Fight Test And Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell Eps
1.Fight Test
2.Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Live)
3.The Golden Age (Live)
4.Knives Out (Live)
5.Do You Realize?? (Scott Hardkiss Remix)
6.The Strange Design Of Conscience
7.Thank You Jack White
8.Assassination Of The Sun
9.I'm A Fly In A Sunbeam (Following The Funeral Procession Of A Stranger)
10.Sunship Balloons
11.Do You Realize??
12.Ego Tripping (Ego In Acceleration)
13.Ego Tripping (Self Admiration With Blow-up Mix
14.A Change At Christmas
15.Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell (Utah Saints Remix)

CD 3 -Non-LP+
1.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Japanese Version)
2.SpongeBob & Patrick Confront The Psychic Wall Of Energy
3.Seven Nation Army
4.Go (Feat Sparklehorse)
5.Do You Realize??
6.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
7.Waitin' For A Superman
8.In TheMorning Of The Magicians
9.White Christmas
10.The Golden Path (The Chemical Brothers, Feat. The Flaming Lips)
11.If I Go Mad/Funeral In My Head
12.Syrtis Major
13.Up Above The Daily Hum
14.Xanthe Terra
15.The Deterioration Of The Fight Or Flight Response
16.Fight Test
17.Duck Dodgers Theme (Wayne Scratch Vocal)
18.I Know I’ve Got To Make That Dream The Real Thing (demo)
19.Do You Realize?? (Instrumental)
20.Fight Test: Primitive Demo With Helium Voice

CD 4 -Radio Sessions
1.Suspicious Minds
2.Assassination Of The Sun
3.Can't Get You Out Of My Head
4.Do You Realize??
5.One More Robot
6.Do You Realize??
7.One More Robot
8.Can't Get You Out Of My Head
9.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
10.Do You Realize??
11.One More Robot
12.Can't Get You Out Of My Head
13.Fight Test
14.Thank You Jack White
15.Breathe
16.Ego Tripping AtThe Gates Of Hell
17.Sunship Balloons
18.Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
19.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots20.Sunship Balloons

CD 5 -Live 2002+: Radio Broadcast WBOS (Live At The Paradise Lounge, Boston), Plus Yoshimi Demo
1.Introduction (David O'Leary)
2.The Golden Age
3.Wayne Rap 1
4.Lucifer Sam
5.Wayne Rap 2
6.Do You Realize??
7.Wayne Rap 3
8.Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
9.Wayne Rap 4
10.Wayner Talking Over Beginnng Of Fight Test
11.Fight Test
12.Psychedelic Hypnotist Daydream"

CD 6 -Live 2003: Radio Broadcast BBC (Live At The Forum, London, UK)
1. Introduction
2. Race For The Prize
3. Fight Test
4. Lucifer Sam
5. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
6. Lightning Strikes The Postman
7. In The Morning Of The Magicians
8. Happy Birthdays
9. She Don't Use Jelly
10. All We Have Is Now
11. Do You Realize??
12. Waitin' For A Superman
13. A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
14. What Is The Light?
15. The Observer

“Fight Test” was the third single released from The Flaming Lips hugely popular and successful album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Released in June 2003, the single entered the US Billboard Top 100 and peaked at #28 in the UK singles chart. The 7-track EP was included in the 6 CD Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 20th Anniversary box set released in November 2022, and it is now being released on vinyl for the first time. In addition to the title track, it features a remix of “Do You Realize??”, “Thank You Jack White”, and 3 covers including a live version of the Kyle Minogue hit “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”, and Radiohead’s “Knives Out”. This limited-edition version is pressed on Ruby Red Vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Fight Test
2. Can't Get You Out Of My Head (Live)
3. The Golden Age (Live)
4. Knives Out (Live)
Side B
1. Do You Realize??
2. The Strange Design Of Conscience
3. Thank You Jack White

Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell includes 7 “Yoshimi”-era tracks that were included in the 6 CD Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 20th Anniversary Box Set released in November 2022. Originally released as CD EP in 2003, it is now being released on vinyl for the first time on vinyl. It features two versions of the title track (one remixed by Jason Bentley), a remix by The Postal Service of “Do You Realize??”, and 4 non-album tracks. This limited-edition version is pressed on “Glow In The Dark” green vinyl.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Assassination Of The Sun
2. I'm A Fly In A Sunbeam (Following The Funeral Procession Of A Stranger)
3. Sunship Balloons
4. Do You Realize
Side B
1. Ego Tripping (Ego In Acceleration)
2. Ego Tripping (Self Admiration With Blow-up Mix)
3. A Change At Christmas

Where the Viaduct Looms comprises nine Nick Cave cover versions with vocals and instrumentation by 14-year-old Nell Smith and instrumentation and production by The Flaming Lips. The album was mastered by Dave Fridmann at Tarbox Road Studios.

This inspiring and heartwarming story begin when Smith, originally from Leeds (UK), moved to Canada and first met Wayne Coyne at the age of 12 at The Flaming Lips’ headline show at the Sled Island Festival, Calgary, in 2018 with her family. Nell had already attended several Lips shows and was a regular at the front of the stage, dressed in a parrot costume and screaming out the band’s songs. Coyne soon began to notice the kid in the parrot suit and sang a David Bowie cover directly to her at the show in Calgary, with Nell singing every word back.

A musical bond formed with Coyne staying in contact with Nell and her father Jude as she learned to play guitar, while their creative relationship began to flourish when she started to write her own songs.

When a planned trip to record with the band in Oklahoma had to be cancelled due to covid Coyne suggested Nell record some Nick Cave songs and email them to Oklahoma to be backed by the band. Coyne chose Nick Cave because Nell didn't know him and wouldn’t have preconceived notions as to how to sing the songs.

TRACK LISTING

1 Girl In Amber
2 Weeping Song
3 Into My Arms
4 O Chrildren
5 The Kindness Of Strangers
6 No More Shall We Part
7 Red Right Hand
8 The Ship Song
9 We Know Who You Are

American Legends The Flaming Lips announce the release of their 21st studio album, American Head via Bella Union. The album is comprised of thirteen new cinematic tracks, produced by longtime collaborator Dave Fridmann and The Lips. Among them, “God and the Policeman” featuring backing vocals from country superstar Kasey Musgraves. American Head takes on a welcome temporal shift that occupies a similar space to that of The Soft Bulletin or Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and just may be their most beautiful and consistent work to date

American Head finds The Flaming Lips basking in more reflective lyrical places as Wayne Coyne explains in a longer form story titled “We’re An American Band.”

Excerpt below:
“The Flaming Lips are from Oklahoma. We never thought of ourselves as an AMERICAN band. I know growing up (when I was like 6 or 7 years old) in Oklahoma I was never influenced by, or was very aware of any musicians from Oklahoma. We mostly listened to the Beatles and my mother loved Tom Jones (this is in the 60’s)... it wasn’t till I was about 10 or 11 that my older brothers would know a few of the local musician dudes.

So... for most of our musical life (as The Flaming Lips starting in 1983) we’ve kind of thought of ourselves as coming from ‘Earth’... not really caring WHERE we were actually from. So for the first time in our musical life we began to think of ourselves as ‘AN AMERICAN BAND’… telling ourselves that it would be our identity for our next creative adventure. We had become a 7-piece ensemble and were beginning to feel more and more of a kinship with groups that have a lot of members in them. We started to think of classic American bands like The Grateful Dead and Parliament-Funkadelic and how maybe we could embrace this new vibe.

The music and songs that make up the AMERICAN HEAD album are based in a feeling. A feeling that, I think, can only be expressed through music and songs. We were, while creating it, trying to NOT hear it as sounds... but to feel it. Mother’s sacrifice, Father’s intensity, Brother’s insanity, Sister’s rebellion...I can’t quite put it into words.

Something switches and others (your brothers and sisters and mother and father...your pets) start to become more important to you…in the beginning there is only you... and your desires are all that you can care about...but... something switches.. I think all of these songs are about this little switch.”

TRACK LISTING

1 Will You Return/When You Come Down
2 Watching The Lightbugs Glow
3 Flowers Of Neptune 6
4 Dinosaurs On The Mountain
5 At The Movies On Quaaludes
6 Mother I've Taken LSD
7 Brother Eye
8 You N Me Sellin' Weed
9 Mother Please Don't Be Sad
10 When We Die When We're High
11 Assassins Of Youth
12 God And The Policeman
13 My Religion Is You

On 26th May 2016, The Flaming Lips performed their universally acclaimed 1999 album The Soft Bulletin in its entirety with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado. This particular event has been regarded by those in attendance as one of the most awe-inspiring, moving and magical moments of a lifetime. For the Lips and their fans, perhaps the apex of a magnificent interpretation that will remain as rewarding and emotionally-charged as it was that night in 2016. The Flaming Lips performed the 12-track album in its original sequence with new arrangements accompanied by a 69-piece orchestra and 56-strong chorus. The performance was conducted by the internationally celebrated conductor Andre De Ridder.

Now, the resulting live recording is being released to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Soft Bulletin. The album was the band’s breakthrough moment and featured the hit singles “Race for the Prize” and “Waitin’ for a Superman.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Race For The Prize
2. A Spoonful Weighs A Ton
3. The Spark That Bled
4. The Spiderbite Song
5. Buggin’
6. What Is The Light?
7. The Observer
8. Waitin’ For A Superman
9. Suddenly Everything Has Changed
10. The Gash
11. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
12. Sleeping On The Roof

‘King’s Mouth’ sees the iconoclastic outfit once again tread uncharted territory. These 12 new originals are threaded together by cinematic narration courtesy of The Clash’s Mick Jones. Additionally, the music parallels front man Wayne Coyne’s immersive art installation of the same name. Introduced in 2015, the installation has showcased its psychedelic visuals and soundscapes through North America in museums such as Meow Wolf in Santa Fe, NM, the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, MD, the Pacific Northwest College of Art Portland, OR and Wayne’s own creative space, The Womb, in Oklahoma City, OK. A true handcrafted marvel, it consists of a giant metallic head that welcomes spectators inside. Once inside of the foam mouth, an LED lightshow begins in tandem with music from the album. Now, the record doubles as the sonic companion to the exhibit and allows fans to experience the aural side at any time.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: The Flaming Lips are always riding the peripheries of the psychedelic indie wave, and here is no different. Beautifully psychedelic moments mix with weirdo off-piste melodies and woozy saturated pads, before culminating into huge, stadium choruses. It's a heady mixture, and one that continues to make The Flaming Lips one of the most thrilling bands around. Another classic Lips outing.

TRACK LISTING

We Don’t Know How And We Don’t Know Why
The Sparrow
Giant Baby
Mother Universe
How Many Times
Electric Fire
All For The Life Of The
City
Feedaloodum Beetle Dot
Funeral Parade
Dipped In Steel
Mouth Of The King
How Can A Head

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2015 EXCLUSIVE, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the critically worshiped Clouds Taste Metallic, The Flaming Lips 7th studio album originally released in 1995. THE LIPS love RSD and to celebrate, they offer a series three Limited Edition 10” EPs on different colored vinyl that contain tracks previously released on only CD overseas…until now. These rarities will now become available for the first time EVER in any format in the US. Later in the year the band will be releasing expanded anniversary editions of Clouds Taste Metallic with previously unreleased recordings from the sessions including demos, outtakes, radio sessions, live performances and more. Further details to be announced soon.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A:
Bad Days (Edit) & She Don't Use Jelly (Primitive Demos)

SIDE B:
Girl With Hair Like An Explosion (Non LP Track), Giraffe (Demo) 

The Flaming Lips followed-up their interactive 1997 extravaganza 'Zaireeka' in typical unforeseen fashion by releasing their 1999 magnum opus 'The Soft Bulletin', the most emotionally accessible and musically grandiose statement of the band's career. Wayne Coyne's plaintive and spiritual explorations on the human experience are brought to life as never before here by a symphonic multidimensional sound that is as beautiful as it is transcendent.

Featuring ethereal and poignant classics like "Race For The Prize," "Waitin' For A Superman," "Suddenly Everything Has Changed" and "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" among others, 'The Soft Bulletin' proved to be that elusive artistic breakthrough from a band that looked destined to be eternally restless. Not only is 'The Soft Bulletin' a high water mark for The Flaming Lips on multiple levels, it's arguably one of the best recordings of the decade plus.

Oh joy. It's just as inventive, creative, unpredictable, refreshing and downright beautiful as "The Soft Bulletin". But! Hooray, it's poppier. It loses nothing but gains everything! (Also including a chunkier, tastier bottom end). It's so hard to review - it's just absolutely BRILLIANT. To put on your headphones and play and play and play again. All summer! Forever!!