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The Flaming Lips
Allmusic Biography : Even within the eclectic world of alternative rock, few bands were so brave, so frequently brilliant, and so deliciously weird as the Flaming Lips. From their beginnings as Oklahoma outsiders to their mid-90s pop-culture breakthrough to their status as one of the most respected groups of the 21st century, the Lips rode one of the more surreal and haphazard career trajectories in pop music. After years in the underground, a major-label deal scored during the early-90s alt-rock craze gave them a bigger platform for their mix of psych, noise-rock, and bubblegum melodies, and their 1993 album Transmissions from the Satellite Heart spawned the unlikely Top 40 hit "She Dont Use Jelly." At the turn of the century, they delivered a pair of lush and heartfelt masterpieces with 1999s Soft Bulletin and 2003s Grammy-winning Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Later, they took their experimental and pop impulses in wildly different directions as they collaborated with Miley Cyrus and Kesha and issued an expression of existential dread with 2013s The Terror. Throughout it all, their off-kilter sound, uncommon emotional depth, and bizarre history firmly established them as true originals. The Flaming Lips formed in Oklahoma City in 1983, when founder and guitarist Wayne Coyne enlisted his vocalist brother Mark and bassist Michael Ivins to start a band. Giving themselves the nonsensical name the Flaming Lips (its origin variously attributed to a porn film, an obscure drug reference, or a dream in which a fiery Virgin Mary plants a kiss on Wayne in the back seat of his car), the band made their live debut at a local transvestite club. After progressing through an endless string of drummers, they recruited percussionist Richard English and recorded their self-titled debut, issued on green vinyl on their own Lovely Sorts of Death label in 1985. When Mark Coyne departed to get married, Wayne assumed full control of the group, becoming the primary singer and songwriter as well as lead guitarist. Continuing as a trio, the Lips released 1986s Hear It Is, followed a year later by Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips. While touring in support of the Butthole Surfers, they played Buffalo, New York, where they were befriended by concert promoter Jonathan Donahue; after a jam session with Donahues nascent band Mercury Rev, he and Coyne became close friends, and Donahue eventually signed on as the groups sound technician. After recording 1988s difficult Telepathic Surgery, English exited, reducing the Lips to the core duo of Coyne and Ivins; after adding drummer Nathan Roberts, Donahue adopted the name Dingus and became a full-time member in time to cut 1990s stellar In a Priest Driven Ambulance while simultaneously recording the brilliant Mercury Rev debut Yerself Is Steam. In a Priest Driven Ambulance also marked the first time the band worked with longtime producer Dave Fridmann, and highlighted the more experimental, expansive side of the Lips music. Warner Bros. signed the Lips in 1991, and their major-label debut, Hit to Death in the Future Head, arrived in 1992 after clearing a sample from Michael Kamens score to Brazil for use in the song "You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devils Brain)" delayed its release. Donahue soon left to focus his full energies on Mercury Rev, followed by the departure of Roberts. With new guitarist Ronald Jones and drummer Steven Drozd, the Flaming Lips cut 1993s sublime Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, which they supported by playing the second stage at Lollapalooza and touring the nation in a Ryder truck. Initially, the album stiffed; however, nearly a year after its initial release, the single "She Dont Use Jelly" became a grassroots hit, and against all odds, the Flaming Lips found themselves on the Top 40 charts. They took full advantage of their 15 minutes of fame, appearing everywhere from MTVs annual Spring Break broadcast to an arena tour in support of Candlebox to a memorable, surreal, lip-synced performance on the teen soap opera Beverly Hills 90210, where supporting character Steve Sanders (portrayed by actor Ian Ziering) uttered the immortal words, "You know, Ive never been a big fan of alternative music, but these guys rocked the house!" After the 1994 release of a limited-edition sampler of odds and ends titled Providing Needles for Your Balloons, the Lips returned in 1995 with Clouds Taste Metallic, a diverse collection highlighted by the singles "Bad Days" (also heard in the film Batman Forever), "This Here Giraffe," and "Brainville." In 1996, the Lips world went haywire. Jones left the band; Ivins was the victim of a bizarre hit-and-run accident after a wheel came off of another vehicle and slammed into his car, trapping him inside; Coynes father died, and Drozds hand was almost needlessly amputated due to an abscess. But by the following year, the band was back in the studio as a trio, recording 1997s Zaireeka, a wildly experimental set of four discs designed to be played simultaneously. A previously unreleased track, "Hot Day," also appeared earlier that year on the soundtrack to Richard Linklaters film SubUrbia. A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for Recording...By Amateurs, a retrospective of their Restless label material, followed in 1998. In 1999, the Flaming Lips returned with The Soft Bulletin. Featuring co-production by Fridmann, its lush arrangements and heartfelt songs made it a breakthrough for the band. After a three-year absence from the shelves, 2002 brought several new releases, including a two-volume retrospective of the Restless years and the groups tenth album, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Named after and featuring Boredoms Yoshimi P-We, the album won the group even more popular and critical acclaim than The Soft Bulletin. The band won a 2003 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for the albums final track "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)." The release was certified gold in the U.S. in 2006, and later spawned a Broadway musical. The Lips kept busy over the next two years by touring and working on their movie Christmas on Mars. They returned to the studio in 2004 and spent much of 2005 recording; that year, the Flaming Lips documentary The Fearless Freaks and their VOID video collection arrived, whetting fans appetites for the bands 2006 album, At War with the Mystics, which boasted a more guitar-oriented sound and more political lyrics than the Lips previous albums. Once again, the band won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance as well as a Grammy for Best Engineered Album, and were nominated for a Grammy for Best Alternative Album. One year later, the bands seven-years-in-the-making film Christmas on Mars made its debut at the Sasquatch Festival in George, Washington; late that year, the movie and its soundtrack were released as a CD/DVD set. During 2007 and 2008, the Lips began working on the follow-up to At War with the Mystics, taking a looser, rawer approach than they had in years. The results were released as Embryonic in October 2009, which became the bands first album to debut in the Top 10 of the Billboard Albums chart. That December, the band released their remake of the Pink Floyd classic Dark Side of the Moon. The Flaming Lips worked with several different artists on the latter album, which was billed as The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing the Dark Side of the Moon. That year, Oklahoma made the bands hit "Do You Realize??" the states official rock song. The band continued to shy away from full-length releases for the next couple years, opting instead to work with a number of collaborators on various limited-edition EPs. Working with artists like Neon Indian, Prefuse 73, and Lightning Bolt, the Lips released tracks over the next couple of years in various nontraditional formats including USB keys embedded in gummy skulls, limited-edition vinyl, and candy fetuses. In 2012, the band collected songs from their previous collaborations as well as new material recorded with Kesha, Bon Iver, and Erykah Badu on The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. The Lips releases that year also included their version of King Crimsons In the Court of the Crimson King. For 2013s bleak The Terror, the Lips re-teamed with Fridmann, recording in a matter of days and using their collection of vintage synths as the albums musical focus. They worked with artists including Poliça, Foxygen, and Stardeath and White Dwarfs on their reworking of the Stone Roses debut album, which arrived that November. The following year, the band issued a 45-minute edit of their 24-hour song "7 Skies H3" as a Record Store Day release, as well as With a Little Help from My Fwends, an album that found the band teaming up with collaborators like Miley Cyrus and Maynard James Keenan to re-create the Beatles iconic eighth album, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. The Lips collaborated with Cyrus on a full-length album, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, which was released for free online in August 2015. Following the albums digital release, the artists toured together, and a limited vinyl pressing of the album was sold exclusively on the tour dates. In November of that year, the Lips released Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic: 1994-1997, a three-CD/five-LP compilation including the Clouds Taste Metallic album, the 1994 odds-and-ends EP Providing Needles for Your Balloons, a further rarities collection titled The King Bug Laughs, and a previously unreleased concert recorded in Seattle in 1996. For 2017s Oczy Mlody (which means "eyes of the young" in Polish), the Flaming Lips reunited with Fridmann on a more melodic set of songs that included a cameo from Cyrus. That year, they also issued Onboard the International Space Station Concert for Peace, an EP that reimagined several Oczy tracks as performed at an imaginary Flaming Lips show. In 2018, the band issued a pair of archival releases. Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of the Flaming Lips, a collection of their earliest material remastered by Fridmann, appeared that April. The six-disc box set Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of the Flaming Lips 1986-1990, which included demos and rarities along with the bands first four albums, followed that May. The band returned in 2019 with Kings Mouth, an album of songs featuring narration by the Clashs Mick Jones. The album was related to an art installation created by Coyne as well as a book, Kings Mouth: Immerse Heap Trip Fantasy Experience, that the bands frontman wrote and illustrated. Kings Mouth first appeared as a limited run of 4,000 albums pressed on gold vinyl for that Aprils Record Store Day, then received a wider release that July.
	Album: 1 of 37 Title: Clouds Taste Metallic / Hit to Death in the Future Head / The Soft Bulletin Released: Tracks: 38 Duration: 2:54:57 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover	1 The Abandoned Hospital Ship (03:38) 2 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles (03:27) 3 Placebo Headwound (03:40) 4 This Here Giraffe (03:46) 5 Brainville (03:13) 6 Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World (04:29) 7 When You Smile (03:13) 8 Kim’s Watermelon Gun (03:21) 9 They Punctured My Yolk (04:21) 10 Lightning Strikes the Postman (02:50) 11 Christmas at the Zoo (03:06) 12 Evil Will Prevail (03:45) 13 Bad Days (Aurally Excited version) (04:38) 1 Talkin Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever) (03:49) 2 Hit Me Like You Did the First Time (03:41) 3 The Sun (03:31) 4 Felt Good to Burn (03:21) 5 Gingerale Afternoon (The Astrology of a Saturday) (03:45) 6 Halloween on the Barbary Coast (05:42) 7 The Magician vs. the Headache (03:12) 8 You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devils Brain) (03:55) 9 Frogs (04:28) 10 Hold Your Head (04:24) 11 [untitled] (29:15) 1 Race for the Prize (04:18) 2 A Spoonful Weighs a Ton (03:32) 3 The Spark That Bled (05:54) 4 Slow Motion (03:48) 5 What Is the Light? (04:04) 6 The Observer (04:11) 7 Waitin’ for a Superman (04:17) 8 Suddenly Everything Has Changed (03:54) 9 The Gash (04:02) 10 Feeling Yourself Disintegrate (05:17) 11 Sleeping on the Roof (03:09) 12 Race for the Prize (Peter Mokran remix) (04:08) 13 Waitin’ for a Superman (remix) (04:19) 14 Buggin’ (remix) (03:15)
$Allmusic album Review : Hearing Hear It Is years later, after all the band had done up to the new century, makes for an almost surreal experience. No swirling orchestral parts, no Beach Boys-on-Mars homages, even Wayne Coynes immediately recognizable cracked fracture of a voice isnt present. Instead, its raunchy bar-band-gone-insane fun or calmer but not too wracked ruminations from Coyne, with music to match. It isnt as completely discontinuous as might be thought, though -- Coynes vision was already distinctly gone, in ways that most bands would kill for. The gentle acoustic strumming that starts the album on "With You" or the steady pace and mournful singing on "Godzilla Flick" shows that subtlety was as much a part of the game as stomping, fried electric guitar insanity. Throughout Hear It Is, theres a gleeful "try what works" approach that would only become stronger later -- the band may have been punk-inspired and birthed, but Coyne and company drew on everything from country & western to classic rock crunch and more; there are even some clear early goth rock touches. If anybody was kin at the time, it would be the Meat Puppets, with perhaps a little less interest in high lonesome sounds. Texas psych types like the 13th Floor Elevators and the Red Krayola were clear forebears -- one can easily imagine Roky Erickson coming up with shaggy dog stories and music for the likes of "Trains, Brains and Rain." The groups own uniqueness comes through, though. Consider the blunt imagery of "Jesus Shootin Heroin" or the clearly humorous yells and climax of "Charlie Manson Blues" as two examples of many. Initial CD versions of the album included the self-titled EP, while later pressings only added an enthusiastic fuzz-take of Eddie Cochran-via-Blue Cheers "Summertime Blues."$	Album: 2 of 37 Title: Hear It Is Released: 1986-11 Tracks: 16 Duration: 1:10:16 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover	1 With You (03:39) 2 Unplugged (02:14) 3 Trains, Brains & Rain (03:39) 4 Jesus Shootin Heroin (07:21) 5 Just Like Before (03:22) 6 She Is Death (04:04) 7 Charlie Manson Blues (04:22) 8 Man From Pakistan (03:59) 9 Godzilla Flick (04:05) 10 Staring at Sound / With You (reprise) (05:08) 11 Summertime Blues (02:29) 12 Bag Full of Thoughts (05:38) 13 Out for a Walk (03:18) 14 Garden of Eyes / Forever Is a Long Time (05:29) 15 Scratching the Door (07:11) 16 My Own Planet (04:11)
Hear It Is : Allmusic album Review : Hearing Hear It Is years later, after all the band had done up to the new century, makes for an almost surreal experience. No swirling orchestral parts, no Beach Boys-on-Mars homages, even Wayne Coynes immediately recognizable cracked fracture of a voice isnt present. Instead, its raunchy bar-band-gone-insane fun or calmer but not too wracked ruminations from Coyne, with music to match. It isnt as completely discontinuous as might be thought, though -- Coynes vision was already distinctly gone, in ways that most bands would kill for. The gentle acoustic strumming that starts the album on "With You" or the steady pace and mournful singing on "Godzilla Flick" shows that subtlety was as much a part of the game as stomping, fried electric guitar insanity. Throughout Hear It Is, theres a gleeful "try what works" approach that would only become stronger later -- the band may have been punk-inspired and birthed, but Coyne and company drew on everything from country & western to classic rock crunch and more; there are even some clear early goth rock touches. If anybody was kin at the time, it would be the Meat Puppets, with perhaps a little less interest in high lonesome sounds. Texas psych types like the 13th Floor Elevators and the Red Krayola were clear forebears -- one can easily imagine Roky Erickson coming up with shaggy dog stories and music for the likes of "Trains, Brains and Rain." The groups own uniqueness comes through, though. Consider the blunt imagery of "Jesus Shootin Heroin" or the clearly humorous yells and climax of "Charlie Manson Blues" as two examples of many. Initial CD versions of the album included the self-titled EP, while later pressings only added an enthusiastic fuzz-take of Eddie Cochran-via-Blue Cheers "Summertime Blues."
	Album: 3 of 37 Title: Oh My Gawd!!!… The Flaming Lips Released: 1987-01-07 Tracks: 11 Duration: 48:09 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover	1 Everythings Explodin (04:44) 2 One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning (09:21) 3 Maximum Dream for Evil Knievel (02:50) 4 Cant Exist (02:48) 5 Ode to C.C., Part I (00:45) 6 The Ceiling Is Bendin (03:45) 7 Prescription: Love (06:10) 8 Thanks to You (03:56) 9 Cant Stop the Spring (04:11) 10 Ode to C.C., Part II (01:50) 11 Love Yer Brain (07:44)
	Album: 4 of 37 Title: Telepathic Surgery Released: 1989-02-17 Tracks: 14 Duration: 1:04:26 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover	1 Drug Machine in Heaven (02:11) 2 Right Now (03:57) 3 Michael, Time to Wake Up (00:29) 4 Chrome Plated Suicide (05:43) 5 Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon (Fuck Led Zeppelin) (03:42) 6 Miracle on 42nd Street (02:48) 7 Fryin Up (02:44) 8 Hells Angels Cracker Factory (23:10) 9 U.F.O. Story (06:40) 10 Redneck School of Technology (02:56) 11 Shaved Gorilla (02:56) 12 The Spontaneous Combustion of John (00:53) 13 The Last Drop of Morning Dew (01:58) 14 Begs and Achin (04:15)
Telepathic Surgery : Allmusic album Review : With a few more studio tweaks and tricks at play, part of the bands continual efforts to find out just what could be done with a studio, Telepathic Surgery is pretty much the companion piece to Oh My Gawd!!!, blending the same great, crazy combination of influences into the mix. That the opening track has everything from a rushed Sonic Youth rhythm roil to heavily flanged guitar solos that are all treble and back again isnt surprising at all, really. Coyne later described the album as more open-ended experimentation with overdubs than a collection of songs per se -- some of the random orchestral samples and other drop-ins indicate as much -- but Telepathic Surgery has its joys, as much garage rock nuttiness as fried, off-kilter post-punk. Coyne himself is still in rough voice in plenty of places, but finding his own bit by bit; he still doesnt really sound like he would in the 90s, but the gentler side creeps in here and there. "Chrome Plated Suicide," another in the string of Lips songs with brilliant titles, has him sounding a lot more wistful than on numerous other full-on crunch monsters. Call it the bells on "Chrome Plated Suicide" that also help the slightly dreamier feeling, even as Coyne peels off a nicely zonked guitar solo halfway through. Other fun titles (and fine songs) include "Redneck School of Technology" and "The Spontaneous Combustion of John," the latter a short but fun little track. Then theres the cryptic subtitle of "Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon" -- "f*ck Led Zeppelin" -- which may yet forever remain a mystery given the Lips own clear influence by said group. The most notorious track actually only surfaced on the CD version -- "Hells Angels Cracker Factory," a nearly 25-minute-long zone through backwards-run vocals, endless solos, trance drums, and more.
	Album: 5 of 37 Title: In a Priest Driven Ambulance Released: 1990-09-01 Tracks: 10 Duration: 46:39 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover	1 Shine On Sweet Jesus - Jesus Song No. 5 (04:27) 2 Unconsciously Screamin (03:52) 3 Rainin Babies (04:28) 4 Take Meta Mars (03:13) 5 Five Stop Mother Superior Rain (06:19) 6 Stand in Line (04:42) 7 God Walks Among Us Now - Jesus Song No. 6 (04:46) 8 There You Are - Jesus Song No. 7 (04:32) 9 Mountain Side (06:36) 10 Wonderful World (03:41)
In a Priest Driven Ambulance : Allmusic album Review : In a Priest Driven Ambulance ranks as the first truly brilliant Flaming Lips album; the first effort to feature guitarist Jonathan "Dingus" Donahue, its a loose concept record that brings Wayne Coynes long-standing obsessions with religion bubbling to the surface. The thematic glue creates a structural framework unlike anything found on previous albums, resulting in a newfound sense of cohesion and depth: songs like "Rainin Babies" and "Five-Stop Mother Superior Rain" offer unforeseen levels of poignancy, while guitar freak-outs such as "Unconsciously Screamin" and "Mountain Side" slash and burn with remarkable potency. For the Lips, the future begins here.
	Album: 6 of 37 Title: Hit to Death in the Future Head Released: 1992-08-11 Tracks: 11 Duration: 1:09:08 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify TrackSamples Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover	1 Talkin Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever) (03:49) 2 Hit Me Like You Did the First Time (03:41) 3 The Sun (03:31) 4 Felt Good to Burn (03:21) 5 Gingerale Afternoon (The Astrology of a Saturday) (03:45) 6 Halloween on the Barbary Coast (05:42) 7 The Magician vs. the Headache (03:12) 8 You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devils Brain) (03:55) 9 Frogs (04:28) 10 Hold Your Head (04:24) 11 [untitled] (29:15)
Hit to Death in the Future Head : Allmusic album Review : With Hit to Death in the Future Head, the Flaming Lips make the leap to major-label status as though it were the moment theyve been waiting for all their lives. Though not as conceptually tight as In a Priest Driven Ambulance, the album is no less cohesive or imaginative, and in its way serves as the bridge between the bands noisier, more hallucinatory indie work and the acid-bubblegum aesthetic perfected on their later Warner Bros. albums. Nowhere are the bands pop smarts more evident than on "The Sun," which freely quotes Carole Kings "So Far Away," or on the undeniably catchy "Gingerale Afternoon (The Astrology of a Saturday)" and "Frogs"; tracks like "Felt Good to Burn" and "Halloween on the Barbary Coast," meanwhile, indulge fully in the trademark weirdness that got the group this far. (And speaking of indulgence, check out the unlisted bonus track, which offers some 29 minutes of speaker-hopping static assault.)
	Album: 7 of 37 Title: Transmissions From the Satellite Heart Released: 1993-06-22 Tracks: 11 Duration: 43:06 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify TrackSamples Allmusic AlbumCover	1 Turn It On (04:39) 2 Pilot Can at the Queer of God (04:16) 3 Oh, My Pregnant Head (Labia in the Sunlight.......) (04:06) 4 She Don’t Use Jelly (03:40) 5 Chewin the Apple of Your Eye (03:52) 6 Superhumans (03:13) 7 Be My Head (03:15) 8 Moth in the Incubator (04:12) 9 Plastic Jesus (02:18) 10 When Yer Twenty Two (03:34) 11 Slow Nerve Action (05:55)
Transmissions From the Satellite Heart : Allmusic album Review : The addition of guitarist Ronald Jones and drummer Steven Drozd recharges the Flaming Lips batteries for the superb Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, another prismatic delicacy that continues the groups drift toward pop nirvana. In typical fashion, the records left-field hit, the freak-show singalong "She Dont Use Jelly," bears little resemblance to the album as a whole; the remainder of Transmissions is much more sonically and structurally ambitious -- the towering "Moth in the Incubator" keeps generating new layers of noise before erupting into an amphetamine waltz, "Pilot Can at the Queer of God" dive-bombs with kamikaze recklessness, and the slow-burning "Oh My Pregnant Head" is as mind-expanding as its title.
	Album: 8 of 37 Title: Clouds Taste Metallic Released: 1995-09-19 Tracks: 13 Duration: 47:34 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify TrackSamples Allmusic AlbumCover	1 The Abandoned Hospital Ship (03:38) 2 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles (03:27) 3 Placebo Headwound (03:40) 4 This Here Giraffe (03:46) 5 Brainville (03:13) 6 Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World (04:29) 7 When You Smile (03:13) 8 Kim’s Watermelon Gun (03:21) 9 They Punctured My Yolk (04:21) 10 Lightning Strikes the Postman (02:50) 11 Christmas at the Zoo (03:06) 12 Evil Will Prevail (03:45) 13 Bad Days (Aurally Excited version) (04:38)
Clouds Taste Metallic : Allmusic album Review : The same extraordinary madness that infected the best work of Brian Wilson rears its head on the shimmering and melodic Clouds Taste Metallic, a masterful collection which completes the Flaming Lips odyssey into the pop stratosphere. The Pet Sounds comparisons are obvious -- two of the highlights are titled "This Here Giraffe" and "Christmas at the Zoo" -- yet not unfair; like Brian Wilson, Wayne Coyne has refined his unique vision into something both highly personal and powerfully universal. Similarly, while Coynes lyrics remain as acid-damaged and inscrutable as ever, his densely constructed songs convey emotional complexities far beyond the scope of their head-case titles ("Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles," "Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World"); galvanized by equal parts newfound maturity and childlike wonderment, Clouds Taste Metallic is both the Flaming Lips most intricate and most irresistible work.
	Album: 9 of 37 Title: Zaireeka Released: 1997-10-28 Tracks: 32 Duration: 3:02:03 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover	1 Okay Ill Admit That I Really Dont Understand (02:51) 2 Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) (07:02) 3 Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair (04:58) 4 A Machine in India (10:23) 5 The Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the Gnat (06:13) 6 How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) (02:23) 7 March of the Rotten Vegetables (06:27) 8 The Big Ol Bug Is the New Baby Now (05:05) 1 Okay Ill Admit That I Really Dont Understand (02:51) 2 Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) (07:02) 3 Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair (04:58) 4 A Machine in India (10:23) 5 The Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the Gnat (06:13) 6 How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) (02:23) 7 March of the Rotten Vegetables (06:27) 8 The Big Ol Bug Is the New Baby Now (05:10) 1 Okay Ill Admit That I Really Dont Understand (02:51) 2 Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) (07:02) 3 Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair (04:58) 4 A Machine in India (10:23) 5 The Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the Gnat (06:13) 6 How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) (02:23) 7 March of the Rotten Vegetables (06:27) 8 The Big Ol Bug Is the New Baby Now (05:11) 1 Okay Ill Admit That I Really Dont Understand (02:51) 2 Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now) (07:02) 3 Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair (04:58) 4 A Machine in India (10:23) 5 The Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the Gnat (06:13) 6 How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) (02:23) 7 March of the Rotten Vegetables (06:27) 8 The Big Ol Bug Is the New Baby Now (05:10)
Zaireeka : Allmusic album Review : A combination of the words "Zaire" and "Eureka," Zaireeka is a term coined by Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne symbolizing the fusion of anarchy and genius. Its a perfect title; Zaireeka is the culmination of the Lips helter-skelter brilliance. Pushing the concept of interactive listening into new realms of possibility, the work extends Coynes infamous "parking lot experiments" into not merely one album, but four separate discs that can be played separately or in groups of two, three, and four with multiple stereos. (Properly synchronized multi-disc playback requires more than one person -- its literally a party album.) Between combining the discs and toying with volume, balance, fidelity, etc., the options are truly limitless. No two multi-disc performances can be repeated, thanks to the space-time continuum and discrepancies from one CD player to another. Musically as well as conceptually, the Lips are defiantly experimental throughout Zaireeka; individually, each disc sounds more like free jazz than pop, although Coynes diamond-sharp melodic sensibilities prevail even during the most chaotic moments. With each additional disc, the musics force and ingenuity reveals itself: "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)" is an epic orchestral noise suite, "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair" is a multi-narrative plane-crash drama remarkably evocative in its depiction of fear and chaos, and "How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)" features such extreme high and low frequencies that it can lead to disorientation, confusion, or nausea (the track is not recommended to be played while operating a motor vehicle or in the presence of infants). Logistical nightmares aside, Zaireeka is a dense, difficult work, recommended only for the hardiest Flaming Lips fetishists; however, theyre in for the musical experience of a lifetime.
	Album: 10 of 37 Title: The Soft Bulletin Released: 1999-05-17 Tracks: 13 Duration: 53:50 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover	1 Race for the Prize (04:18) 2 A Spoonful Weighs a Ton (03:32) 3 The Spark That Bled (05:54) 4 Slow Motion (03:48) 5 What Is the Light? (04:04) 6 The Observer (04:11) 7 Waitin’ for a Superman (04:17) 8 Suddenly Everything Has Changed (03:54) 9 The Gash (04:02) 10 Feeling Yourself Disintegrate (05:23) 11 Sleeping on the Roof (03:04) 12 The Spiderbite Song (04:01) 13 Buggin’ (03:17)
The Soft Bulletin : Allmusic album Review : So where does a band go after releasing the most defiantly experimental record of its career? If youre the Flaming Lips, you keep rushing headlong into the unknown -- The Soft Bulletin, their follow-up to the four-disc gambit Zaireeka, is in many ways their most daring work yet, a plaintively emotional, lushly symphonic pop masterpiece eons removed from the mind-warping noise of their past efforts. Though more conventional in concept and scope than Zaireeka, The Soft Bulletin clearly reflects its predecessors expansive sonic palette. Its multidimensional sound is positively celestial, a shape-shifting pastiche of blissful melodies, heavenly harmonies, and orchestral flourishes; but for all its headphone-friendly innovations, the music is still amazingly accessible, never sacrificing popcraft in the name of radical experimentation. (Its aims are so perversely commercial, in fact, that hit R&B remixer Peter Mokran tinkered with the cuts "Race for the Prize" and "Waitin for a Superman" in the hopes of earning mainstream radio attention.) But whats most remarkable about The Soft Bulletin is its humanity -- these are Wayne Coynes most personal and deeply felt songs, as well as the warmest and most giving. No longer hiding behind surreal vignettes about Jesus, zoo animals, and outer space, Coyne pours his heart and soul into each one of these tracks, poignantly exploring love, loss, and the fate of all mankind; highlights like "The Spiderbite Song" and "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" are so nakedly emotional and transcendentally spiritual that its impossible not to be moved by their beauty. Theres no telling where the Lips will go from here, but its almost beside the point -- not just the best album of 1999, The Soft Bulletin might be the best record of the entire decade.
	Album: 11 of 37 Title: Yoshimi Wins: Live Radio Sessions Released: 2002 Tracks: 8 Duration: 30:33 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Wikipedia AlbumCover	1 Do You Realize?? (CD101 version) (03:37) 2 Can’t Get You Out of My Head (KEXP version) (04:07) 3 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (03:31) 4 The Golden Age (CD101 version) (03:12) 5 Waitin for a Superman (04:18) 6 Knives Out (KCRW version) (04:21) 7 In the Morning of the Magicians (03:56) 8 White Christmas (03:28)
	Album: 12 of 37 Title: Finally the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid: 1983-1988 Released: 2002 Tracks: 56 Duration: 3:54:37 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover	1 Bag Full of Thoughts (05:38) 2 Out for a Walk (03:14) 3 Garden of Eyes / Forever Is a Long Time (05:29) 4 Scratchin the Door (07:12) 5 My Own Planet (04:11) 6 With You (03:39) 7 Unplugged (02:14) 8 Trains, Brains & Rain (03:39) 9 Jesus Shootin Heroin (07:21) 10 Just Like Before (03:22) 11 She Is Death (04:04) 12 Charlie Manson Blues (04:22) 13 Man From Pakistan (03:59) 14 Godzilla Flick (04:05) 15 Staring at Sound / With You (04:58) 16 Killer on the Radio (02:58) 17 Batman Theme (01:47) 18 Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (02:31) 19 Handsome Johnny (02:56) 1 Everythings Explodin (04:44) 2 One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning (09:21) 3 Maximum Dream for Evil Knievel (02:50) 4 Cant Exist (02:48) 5 Ode to C.C., Part 1 (00:44) 6 The Ceiling Is Bendin (03:45) 7 Prescription: Love (06:10) 8 Thanks to You (03:56) 9 Cant Stop the Spring (04:11) 10 Ode to C.C., Part 2 (01:50) 11 Love Yer Brain (07:44) 12 Groove Room (06:07) 13 Jesus Shootin’ Heroin (07:05) 14 Trains, Brains & Rain (03:25) 15 Communication Breakdown (03:44) 16 One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning (live) (09:12) 1 Drug Machine in Heaven (02:11) 2 Right Now (03:57) 3 Michael, Time to Wake Up (00:29) 4 Chrome Plated Suicide (05:43) 5 Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon (03:47) 6 Miracle on 42nd St. (02:52) 7 Fryin Up (02:44) 8 Hells Angels Cracker Factory (edit) (03:02) 9 U.F.O. Story (06:40) 10 Redneck School of Technology (02:56) 11 Shaved Gorilla (02:56) 12 The Spontaneous Combustion of John (00:53) 13 Last Drop of Morning Dew (01:58) 14 Begs and Achin (04:15) 15 Death Valley 69 (03:04) 16 Thank You (02:27) 17 Cant Stop the Spring (remix) (04:27) 18 Jesus Shooting Heroin (live) (08:14) 19 My Own Planet (live) (07:37) 20 After the Goldrush (04:14) 21 Death Tripping at Sunrise (04:32)
	Album: 13 of 37 Title: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Released: 2002-07-15 Tracks: 11 Duration: 47:30 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify TrackSamples Allmusic AlbumCover	1 Fight Test (04:14) 2 One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-21 (04:59) 3 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1 (04:45) 4 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 2 (02:57) 5 In the Morning of the Magicians (06:18) 6 Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell (04:34) 7 Are You a Hypnotist?? (04:44) 8 It’s Summertime (04:20) 9 Do You Realize?? (03:32) 10 All We Have Is Now (03:53) 11 Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia) (03:09)
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots : Allmusic album Review : After the symphonic majesty of The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips return with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a sublime fusion of Bulletins newfound emotional directness, the old-school playfulness of Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, and, more importantly, exciting new expressions of the groups sentimental, experimental sound. While the album isnt as immediately impressive as the equally brilliant and unfocused Soft Bulletin, its more consistent, using a palette of rounded, surprisingly emotive basslines; squelchy analog synths; and manicured acoustic guitars to craft songs like "One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21," a sleekly melancholy tale of robots developing emotions, and "In the Morning of the Magicians," an aptly named electronic art rock epic that sounds like a collaboration between the Moody Blues and Wendy Carlos. Paradoxically, the Lips use simpler arrangements to create more diverse sounds on Yoshimi, spanning the lush, psychedelic reveries of "Its Summertime"; the instrumental "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon"; the dubby "Are You a Hypnotist?"; and the barely organized chaos of "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2," which defeats the evil metal ones with ferocious drums, buzzing synths, and the razor sharp howl of the Boredoms Yoshimi. Few bands can craft life-affirming songs about potentially depressing subjects (the passage of time, fighting for what you care about, good vs. evil) as the Flaming Lips, and on Yoshimi, theyre at the top of their game. "Do You Realize??" is the standout, so immediately gorgeous that its obvious that its the single. Its also the most obviously influenced by The Soft Bulletin, but its even catchier and sadder, sweetening such unavoidable truths like "Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?" with chimes, clouds of strings, and angelic backing vocals. Yoshimi features some of the sharpest emotional peaks and valleys of any Lips album -- the superficially playful "Fight Test" is surprisingly bittersweet, while sad songs like "All We Have Is Now" and "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" are leavened by witty lyrics and production tricks. Funny, beautiful, and moving, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots finds the Flaming Lips continuing to grow and challenge themselves in not-so-obvious ways after delivering their obvious masterpiece.
	Album: 14 of 37 Title: The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg Released: 2002-10-01 Tracks: 33 Duration: 2:20:00 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover	1 Shine On Sweet Jesus (04:27) 2 Unconsciously Screamin (03:52) 3 Rainin Babies (04:28) 4 Take Meta Mars (03:13) 5 Five Stop Mother Superior Rain (06:19) 6 Stand in Line (04:36) 7 God Walks Among Us Now (04:52) 8 There You Are (04:31) 9 Mountain Side (06:36) 10 (What a) Wonderful World (03:44) 11 Lucifer Rising (03:35) 12 Ma, I Didnt Notice (08:10) 13 Let Me Be It (05:34) 14 Drug Machine (02:52) 15 Strychnine / Peace, Love and Understanding (03:59) 1 Take Meta Mars (02:45) 2 Mountain Side (03:14) 3 There You Are (03:41) 4 Five Stop Mother Superior Rain (03:05) 5 Rainin Babies (02:30) 6 Unconsciously Screamin (03:18) 7 Stand in Line (04:12) 8 Gods a Wheeler Dealer (02:43) 9 Agonizing (03:26) 10 One Shot (02:52) 11 Cold Day (02:44) 12 Jam (01:06) 13 Shes Gone Mad (09:15) 14 Golden Hearse (03:55) 15 Unconsciously Screamin (03:53) 16 Stand in Line (06:34) 17 I Want to Kill My Brother; The Cymbal Head (03:37) 18 Five Stop Mother Superior Rain (06:05)
The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg : Allmusic album Review : Nothing proves a bands ambitions, or probes its emotions (or both) quite like a concept album. So, after adding guitarist Jonathan Donahue and enlisting producer Dave Fridmann, the Flaming Lips focused on Wayne Coynes ongoing quest for metaphysical enlightenment to record their first great album, In a Priest Driven Ambulance. The contributions of Donahue and Fridmann were immediately apparent, the duo appearing simultaneously as supremely fitting voices to frame Coynes brilliantly shambling lyrics and sun-scorched delivery. The songs improved as well, ranging from the freak-out epic "Unconsciously Screamin" to the pummeling "God Walks Among Us Now" to a late-night acoustic ballad like "There You Are," and, for the closer, an irony-free cover of the optimists anthem "(What A) Wonderful World." The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg, a two-disc set of Flaming Lips recordings from 1989 to 1991, reissues the complete In a Priest Driven Ambulance and adds (in effect) 23 bonus tracks -- comprising B-sides (from the singles "Drug Machine" and "Unconsciously Screamin") plus a collection of four-track demos often bootlegged as The Mushroom Tapes. Of the extra material, the B-sides are best, especially a pair of covers: one of the Sonics sullen garage nugget "Strychnine" and the other of Elvis Costellos "(Whats So Funny Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding." Most of the demos add little to the released versions, one exception being a nice new guitar line on a version of "Unconsciously Screamin." The demos of previously unreleased songs fare a little better, including the bizarre, stream-of-consciousness jams "Gods a Wheeler Dealer" and "Agonizing," with both Coyne (on vocals) and Donahue (on guitar) apparently improvising their lines to hilarious effect. Elsewhere, "I Want to Kill My Brother; The Cymbal Head" begins with some furious strumming (straight out of the Whos "Pinball Wizard"), but never really becomes a song. As long as listeners never succumb to exhaustion from working their way through extra material that more than triples the running time of the original LP, The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg ably demonstrates the genesis of the Flaming Lips as rock & roll saviors.
	Album: 15 of 37 Title: LateNightTales: The Flaming Lips Released: 2005-03-07 Tracks: 20 Duration: 1:16:03 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Wikipedia AlbumCover	1 Unravel (03:13) 2 My Ship (04:23) 3 Speed of Sound (05:11) 4 It’s a Bit of a Pain (03:08) 5 2 H.B. (04:10) 6 People (04:10) 7 Flim (02:53) 8 Galileo (edit) (01:56) 9 Up the Down Escalator (03:58) 10 Seven Nation Army (Harry Potter and George Bush’s Severed Head Army mix) (02:51) 11 Playground for a Wedgeless Firm (02:21) 12 Saudade (04:57) 13 Monochrome (05:06) 14 Sleep Comes Down (03:40) 15 River Man (04:17) 16 On Fire (03:36) 17 Pyramid Song (04:44) 18 I’m Not in Love (06:02) 19 Another Green World (02:17) 20 The Jist (03:03)
	Album: 16 of 37 Title: 20 Years of Weird: The Flaming Lips 1986-2006 Released: 2005-03-13 Tracks: 11 Duration: 1:07:21 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Wikipedia AlbumCover	1 Waynes Intro (02:13) 2 Free Radicals (03:39) 3 Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential Fear (05:04) 4 With You (03:29) 5 Whole Lotta Love / Cant Stop the Spring (05:50) 6 Shine On Sweet Jesus (05:36) 7 Space Age Love Song (03:59) 8 Moth in the Incubator (05:37) 9 When You Smile (12:02) 10 Sleeping on the Roof (14:31) 11 The Observer (05:15)
	Album: 17 of 37 Title: Void: Video Overview In Deceleration Released: 2005-08-23 Tracks: 18 Duration: 1:11:10 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Wikipedia AlbumCover	1 Mr. Ambulance Driver (04:59) 2 Fight Test (03:50) 3 Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt1 (03:39) 4 Do You Realize?? (UK Version) (03:31) 5 Race For The Prize (04:25) 6 Waitin For A Superman (04:35) 7 This Here Giraffe (03:40) 8 When You Smile (03:14) 9 Bad Days (03:48) 10 Christmas At The Zoo (03:08) 11 Be My Head (03:26) 12 She Dont Use Jelly (03:46) 13 Turn It On (04:04) 14 Frogs (04:34) 15 Everyone Wants To Live Forever (03:55) 16 Phoebe Battles The Pink Robots (03:24) 17 Are You A Hypnotist?? (04:44) 18 Do You Realize?? (Extended US Version) (04:25)
	Album: 18 of 37 Title: At War With the Mystics Released: 2006-04-03 Tracks: 12 Duration: 55:01 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify TrackSamples Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover	1 The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power) (04:51) 2 Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading With a Suicide Bomber) (03:41) 3 The Sound of Failure / It’s Dark… Is It Always This Dark?? (07:18) 4 My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action) (04:51) 5 Vein of Stars (04:15) 6 The Wizard Turns On… The Giant Silver Flashlight and Puts on His Werewolf Moccasins (03:41) 7 It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big… I Am So Small… Do I Stand a Chance? (06:50) 8 Mr. Ambulance Driver (04:21) 9 Haven’t Got a Clue (03:25) 10 The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat) (03:43) 11 Pompeii am Götterdämmerung (04:21) 12 Goin’ On (03:39)
At War With the Mystics : Allmusic album Review : Since 1999s The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips have issued an album once every three or four years -- roughly once per presidential term, making At War with the Mystics the second album theyve made during George W. Bushs presidency. While Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots themes of seizing the moment and accepting mortality could easily be read as a reaction to 9/11, At War with the Mystics is a more overtly timely album for the mid-to-late 2000s, dealing with the motivation behind the war in Iraq and Bushs presidency. By grappling with heavy subjects like these, it could seem like the Flaming Lips are taking their role as one of Americas most prominent and beloved alternative rock bands too seriously, but Mystics light touch shows that they can still be important without being self-important. In fact, the albums most pointed tracks are the most playful. As they did on Yoshimis "Fight Test," the Lips couch their aggression in bouncy melodies and playful production tricks. With its robotic doo wop vocals and strummy acoustic guitars, "Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" -- which asks its listeners if they could do any better if they were handed all the power in the world -- sounds oddly like a Paul Simon song updated for the 21st (or maybe even 22nd) century. "Free Radicals," which sounds like Prince via Beck with a dash of Daft Punk, and "Havent Got a Clue," which boasts the refrain "Every time you state your case, the more I want to punch your face," get their points across emphatically -- almost too emphatically, actually, for as catchy as these songs are, they dont really expand on their thoughts or sounds much. However, the middle section of At War with the Mystics is expansive and intimate at the same time, like many of the Flaming Lips best moments have been. "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion" and "Vein of Stars" play like updates of The Soft Bulletins effortless, weightless beauty, and "The Sound of Failure" is a reminder that its OK to be sad sometimes (while getting in digs at the teen pop platitudes of Britney Spears and Gwen Stefani) set to a gorgeous backdrop of soft rock flutes and guitars and twittering electronics. This stretch of songs plays almost like a suite, which ties right in with At War with the Mystics prog rock leanings. Pink Floyd is a major influence on the entire album: "The Wizard Turns On..." is a spacey, late-night instrumental that could easily be synched to The Wizard of Oz, while "Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung" also taps into Floyds elaborate, epic power. These trippy moments make At War with the Mystics the most psychedelic and least immediate album the Flaming Lips have done in a long, long time, and the way that Mystics bounces back and forth between its ethereal and zany moments gives it a disjointed, uneven feel that makes the album a shade less satisfying than either Yoshimi or Soft Bulletin. Still, as standout tracks like "Mr. Ambulance Driver" and "Goin On" show, the band is still fighting the good fight and confronting the bad things in life with hope, optimism, and just the right amount of (magical) realism.
	Album: 19 of 37 Title: iTunes Originals Released: 2007-07-03 Tracks: 28 Duration: 1:28:35 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Wikipedia AlbumCover	1 iTunes Originals (00:05) 2 Pompeii AM Gotterdammerung (iTunes Originals Version) (03:13) 3 Body Builder Porn (Interview) (01:42) 4 Talkin Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever) (03:49) 5 Dreaming of Bad Things to Feel Good (Interview) (02:15) 6 Bad Days (04:40) 7 The Strange Becomes Acceptable (Interview) (02:26) 8 She Don’t Use Jelly (03:40) 9 How Wayne Found the Space Bubble (Interview) (02:02) 10 Turn It On (04:41) 11 We Should All Try Harder (Interview) (02:47) 12 Race for the Prize (04:23) 13 A Hit for Weddings or Funerals (Interview) (02:04) 14 Do You Realize?? (iTunes Originals Version) (03:25) 15 Introducing the Animal Band (Interview) (02:24) 16 Cow Jam (iTunes Originals Version) (02:29) 17 The Cat Stevens Connection (Interview) (02:22) 18 Fight Test (04:14) 19 Body Parts On the Highway (Interview) (02:29) 20 Why Does It End? (iTunes Originals Version) (03:31) 21 A Childrens Fable for Grown-Ups (Interview) (02:42) 22 The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (04:55) 23 Dreaming of Devendra (Interview) (03:04) 24 Free Radicals (iTunes Originals Version) (03:40) 25 Black Sabbath, Naked Women and Voting (Interview) (03:09) 26 War Pigs (iTunes Originals Version) (04:00) 27 Traveling In Space While Listening to The Beatles (Interview) (01:33) 28 It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big… I Am So Small… Do I Stand a Chance? (06:50)
	Album: 20 of 37 Title: Embryonic Released: 2009-10-09 Tracks: 18 Duration: 1:10:28 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify TrackSamples Allmusic AlbumCover	1 Convinced of the Hex (03:56) 2 The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine (04:13) 3 Evil (05:38) 4 Aquarius Sabotage (02:10) 5 See the Leaves (04:24) 6 If (02:04) 7 Gemini Syringes (03:41) 8 Your Bats (02:34) 9 Powerless (06:57) 1 The Egos Last Stand (05:39) 2 I Can Be a Frog (02:14) 3 Sagittarius Silver Announcement (02:58) 4 Worm Mountain (05:21) 5 Scorpio Sword (02:01) 6 The Impulse (03:29) 7 Silver Trembling Hands (03:58) 8 Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast (03:44) 9 Watching the Planets (05:16)
Embryonic : Allmusic album Review : Christmas on Mars might be the Flaming Lips bona fide sci-fi epic, but Embryonic is the musical equivalent of the final scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey: transformative chaos that results in a new start. From The Soft Bulletin onward, the Lips seemed focused on tidying the loose ends of their earlier work, almost to the point of constraining themselves. Their wilder side is unleashed on Embryonics 18 tracks, and the band sounds more off-the-cuff than it has in years -- some tracks are barely longer than snippets, others are rangy epics, and it all holds together so organically that listeners might wonder just how much these songs were edited. Musically, Embryonic is the least polite the Flaming Lips have been in nearly two decades, mixing in-the-red drums, blobby, dubby bass, squelchy wah-wah guitars, and sparkling keyboards into a swirl of sounds that are strangely liquid and abrasive at the same time. Occasionally, the band uses noise in an almost ugly way, as on "Convinced of the Hex," which scrapes eardrums with static and distortion before falling into a loose but driving Krautrock groove that adds to the songs tribal pull (complete with growling and wailing in the background). The Miles Davis-inspired "Aquarius Sabotage" opens fuzz bass and keyboards so chaotic, it isnt just free jazz, its free-for-all jazz, while "Your Bats" is as soulful as it is noisy, piling roomy drums atop more delicate hand percussion, strings, and brass. The Lips balance these confrontational tracks with calmer moments like the vocodered loveliness of "The Impulse " and "Gemini Syringes," an expansive respite that features "additional spoken announcements" by mathematician Thorsten Wormann. Embryonic might not be a literal concept album, but it often plays like one. An astrology motif runs through the ultra-spacy "Virgo Self Esteem Broadcast" and the tumbling instrumental "Scorpio Sword," another track that suggests that the albums ultimate concept may be that chaos is a profound agent of change. Its also the Flaming Lips most emotionally raw album, despite -- or perhaps because of -- its free-flowing nature. Wayne Coyne often sounds like hes singing from another dimension, musing on humankinds frailty with the wonder of an alien or a newborn on "If" and "The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine." This is also some of the bands most bittersweet work; on the beautiful "Powerless," Coyne sings "no one is ever really powerless," but the music dwells on the weighty implications of that thought rather than its potential freedom. Even the playful "I Can Be a Frog," which features Karen O as a one-woman noisemaker, is minor-key. Then again, little about Embryonic is clear-cut or straightforward -- these noisy, pensive, sometimes meandering songs take awhile to decipher and often feel like theyre still in the process of becoming. These very qualities, however, make these songs some of the Flaming Lips most haunting and intriguing music in some time.
	Album: 21 of 37 Title: The Dark Side of the Moon Released: 2009-12-22 Tracks: 9 Duration: 41:04 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover	1 Speak to Me / Breathe (05:19) 2 On the Run (03:55) 3 Time / Breathe (reprise) (04:57) 4 The Great Gig in the Sky (03:58) 5 Money (05:32) 6 Us and Them (07:46) 7 Any Colour You Like (02:43) 8 Brain Damage (04:43) 9 Eclipse (02:11)
The Dark Side of the Moon : Allmusic album Review : The Flaming Lips have a flair for making other artists’ music their own. Their versions of T. Rex’s “Ballrooms of Mars,” Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure,” and Madonna’s “Borderline,” a song they recorded with Stardeath and White Dwarfs, who also appear on the literally titled The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon, all show what they took from those artists and what they gave back. Though the Lips always seemed more indebted to Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, they put their own stamp on Dark Side’s paranoia and moody atmospheres. They performed this version of Dark Side of the Moon at their 2010 New Year’s Eve celebration, capping a triumphant 2009 that included the release of their revitalized-sounding Embryonic. While the Lips recorded that album on their own, it’s still easy to hear how this album is symbiotic with Embryonic. The same wildness permeates these songs, giving them a feel that’s more primal than the original’s polished reflections. “Speak to Me/Breathe” opens the album with short-circuiting keyboards and raw, vaguely Latin-sounding percussion immediately tying it to the Lips’ last album, while “Time/Breathe (Reprise)” rides on the driving, fuzzed-out bass that was Embryonic’s spine. However, …Doing Dark Side of the Moon feels more focused than its predecessor -- of course, the familiarity these songs have helps -- with its rawness providing contrast instead of adding an intentionally primordial feel, as it did on Embryonic. Elsewhere, the Flaming Lips and guests are just as faithful to Dark Side of the Moon as they need to be, using Peaches as a stand-in for Clare Torry on “The Great Gig in the Sky” -- although Peaches’ super-saturated howls are far more odd and jubilant. As on the original, some of the best moments are the spookiest ones. “Us and Them” sounds like a conversation held across a kitchen table instead of in deepest space, regardless of the synths whooshing around Wayne Coyne’s vocals, and tender guitars underscore its unique intimacy. “Brain Damage” is even more stripped-down while remaining true to the original’s air of eerie knowingness, of being just sane enough to know you’re going crazy. As always, the Flaming Lips approach this tribute by exploring how they can serve the songs, without worrying about the legacy or image of the artist they’re covering. The only time this backfires (slightly) is on “Money,” which has a cleverly tinny drum machine that sounds like coins piling up, but its heavy vocoders and stiff beats lose too much of the original’s jaded swing. Despite the sheer number of musicians playing on it, The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon is a distinctly non-bloated treatment of one of rock’s most epic albums. While it might be more fun than impressive, fun has always been a vital part of the Flaming Lips’ best music.
	Album: 22 of 37 Title: Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros. Records 1992-2002 Released: 2011-04-15 Tracks: 58 Duration: 3:51:47 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover	1 Talkin Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever) (03:49) 2 Hit Me Like You Did the First Time (03:41) 3 The Sun (03:31) 4 Felt Good to Burn (03:21) 5 Gingerale Afternoon (The Astrology of a Saturday) (03:45) 6 Halloween on the Barbary Coast (05:42) 7 The Magician vs. the Headache (03:12) 8 You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devils Brain) (03:55) 9 Frogs (04:28) 10 Hold Your Head (04:24) 1 Turn It On (04:39) 2 Pilot Can at the Queer of God (04:16) 3 Oh, My Pregnant Head (Labia in the Sunlight.......) (04:06) 4 She Don’t Use Jelly (03:40) 5 Chewin the Apple of Your Eye (03:52) 6 Superhumans (03:13) 7 Be My Head (03:15) 8 Moth in the Incubator (04:12) 9 Plastic Jesus (02:18) 10 When Yer Twenty Two (03:34) 11 Slow Nerve Action (05:55) 1 The Abandoned Hospital Ship (03:38) 2 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles (03:27) 3 Placebo Headwound (03:40) 4 This Here Giraffe (03:46) 5 Brainville (03:13) 6 Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World (04:29) 7 When You Smile (03:13) 8 Kim’s Watermelon Gun (03:21) 9 They Punctured My Yolk (04:21) 10 Lightning Strikes the Postman (02:50) 11 Christmas at the Zoo (03:06) 12 Evil Will Prevail (03:45) 13 Bad Days (Aurally Excited version) (04:38) 1 Race for the Prize (04:09) 2 A Spoonful Weighs a Ton (03:32) 3 The Spark That Bled (The Softest Bullet Ever Shot) (05:55) 4 The Spiderbite Song (04:02) 5 Buggin’ (03:17) 6 What Is the Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical (In Our Brains) By Which We Are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love Is the Same Chemical That Caused the "Big Bang" That Was the Birth of the Accelerating Universe) (04:05) 7 The Observer (04:11) 1 Waitin for a Superman (Is It Getting Heavy?) (04:17) 2 Suddenly Everything Has Changed (Death Anxiety Caused by Moments of Boredom) (03:54) 3 The Gash (Battle Hymn for the Wounded Mathematician) (04:02) 4 Slow Motion (03:53) 5 Feeling Yourself Disintegrate (05:17) 6 Sleeping on the Roof (excerpt From "Should We Keep the Severed Head Awake??") (03:09) 1 Fight Test (04:14) 2 One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-21 (04:59) 3 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1 (04:45) 4 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 2 (02:57) 5 In the Morning of the Magicians (06:18) 6 Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell (04:34) 7 Are You a Hypnotist?? (04:44) 8 It’s Summertime (04:20) 9 Do You Realize?? (03:32) 10 All We Have Is Now (03:53) 11 Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia) (03:09)
	Album: 23 of 37 Title: 7 Skies H3 Released: 2011-10 Tracks: 10 Duration: 49:38 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover	1 7 Skies H3 (Cant Shut Off My Head) (08:25) 2 Celestial Trance (02:58) 3 Battling Voices From Beyond (03:09) 4 In a Dream (04:51) 5 Metamorphosis (05:17) 6 Requiem (03:33) 7 Meepy Morp (reprise) (02:01) 8 Riot in My Brain!! (04:32) 9 7 Skies H3 (Main Theme) (06:32) 10 Cant Let It Go (08:20)
	Album: 24 of 37 Title: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends Released: 2012-04-21 Tracks: 13 Duration: 1:07:56 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover	1 2012... You Must Be Upgraded (04:11) 2 Ashes in the Air (06:13) 3 Helping the Retarded to Know God (07:03) 4 Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee (03:17) 5 Children of the Moon (05:32) 6 That Aint My Trip (03:47) 7 You, Man? Human??? (Violent Vampire Goes Out With Under Age Lifeguard Gal) (03:34) 8 I’m Working at NASA on Acid (07:59) 9 Do It! (03:28) 10 Is David Bowie Dying? (06:38) 11 The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (10:05) 12 Girl, Youre So Weird (03:23) 13 Tasered and Maced (02:43)
The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends : Allmusic album Review : After the release of their freaked-out twelfth album, Embryonic, the Flaming Lips went on a predictably unpredictable musical bender. Rather than just getting back to it and putting out another full-length, the band seemed to be following whatever flights of fancy came their way, first covering Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety before embarking on a string of psychedelic collaborations released in giant gummy skulls, ultra-limited vinyl, candy fetuses, and even actual human skulls. While getting hold of a lot of these limited-edition EPs generally required some combination of dedication, luck, and money (with the human skulls containing the bands 24-hour long song costing $5,000 each), the Lips brought a lot of these hard to find team-ups, as well as a host of new collaborations, to the masses with the 2012 release of The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends. Originally released on limited, multi-colored vinyl for Record Store Day 2012, the spaced-out compilation has also seen a wider release on compact disc, allowing people the opportunity to experience previously hard-to-own tracks like "Is David Bowie Dying," "Supermoon Made Me Want to Pee," and "Im Working at NASA on Acid?," which feature Neon Indian, Prefuse 73, and Lightning Bolt, respectively. The compilation also finds the Lips working with a host of guests that runs from the expected (Tame Impala, Plastic Ono Band) to the downright strange (Biz Markie, Ke$ha). The high point of the album is the cover of the iconic "First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," which finds the band working with Erykah Badu to transform the song into a haunting and glacial, ten-minute shoegaze epic. The stunning cover is the most beautiful and cohesive on what is an otherwise (understandably) uneven collection which, while definitely appealing to hardcore fans, might be a bit too out there for casual listeners.
	Album: 25 of 37 Title: Playing Hide and Seek With the Ghosts of Dawn Released: 2012-09-26 Tracks: 5 Duration: 00:00 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover	1 21st Century Schizoid Man (?) 2 I Talk to the Wind (?) 3 Epitaph (?) 4 Moonchild (?) 5 The Court of the Crimson King (?)
	Album: 26 of 37 Title: The Terror Released: 2013-04-01 Tracks: 9 Duration: 54:59 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Wikipedia Allmusic AlbumCover	1 Look... The Sun Is Rising (05:12) 2 Be Free, a Way (05:13) 3 Try to Explain (05:00) 4 You Lust (13:03) 5 The Terror (06:22) 6 You Are Alone (03:47) 7 Butterfly, How Long It Takes to Die (07:31) 8 Turning Violent (04:16) 9 Always There, in Our Hearts (04:35)
The Terror : Allmusic album Review : One of the Flaming Lips greatest strengths is how vividly they express emotions. For most of their career, theyve focused on capturing wide-eyed wonder, unbridled glee, and the occasional poignant moment, but The Terror proves theyre just as good at channeling despair. Embryonic hinted at this darker shift, but here it comes to a head: sparked by Wayne Coynes separation from his longtime partner and Steven Drozds struggles with substance abuse, The Terror is more fragmented and anguished than its predecessor. Where Embryonics bold swaths of noise and pulsing synths broke free of expectations, on The Terror they represent being cut loose and drifting off into loneliness and doubt. The opening track, "Look... The Sun Rising" makes it clear that this is not the Flaming Lips fans have come to expect since the late 90s. As Coyne sings "Love is always something/Something you should fear" and invokes MK Ultra, harsh guitars and beats create a wall of sound thats both claustrophobic and isolating. As dark as the album is, its also some of the bands most fascinating music; vintage electronics buzz and whir around Coynes wounded vocals in a way that recalls Meddle-era Pink Floyd and the Silver Apples in its spacy bleakness. The Terror was recorded in a short time and it shows in the urgency within every track, even the 13-minute centerpiece "You Lust," which moves from some of the bands most shockingly angry moments ("Youve got a lot of nerve to fuck with me!," Coyne snarls at its beginning) to a delicate coda that evokes Raymond Scotts Soothing Sounds for Baby. While the album often feels like a black hole sucking up all the hope in the universe, to the bands credit, theyre never too obvious about it. Coynes largely philosophical lyrics are all the more striking in how they imply this feeling rather than just stating it, particularly on one of the loveliest and scariest tracks here, "Butterfly, How Long It Takes to Die." It contemplates life and death on a personal and universal scope, linking it to the suns rising and setting; throughout the album, the band uses the sun as a metaphorical reminder that life goes on even when you wish it wouldnt. Experimental even for a band that has made outlandish sounds and ideas its bread and butter for decades, The Terror finds the Flaming Lips at the peak of their powers as they embody what its like to be overwhelmed; they dont offer a shoulder to cry on as much as an acknowledgment of just how isolating pain can be. While its common to call artists brave for addressing lifes darker moments, theres some truth to it: its not easy to face up to and present the worst parts of being alive, much less in a way thats artistically pleasing or relevant. The Lips dont make it sound easy, which is why The Terror is so powerful.
	Album: 27 of 37 Title: The Time Has Come to Shoot You Down… What a Sound Released: 2013-11-29 Tracks: 12 Duration: 00:00 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover	1 I Wanna Be Adored (?) 2 She Bangs the Drums (?) 3 Waterfall (?) 4 Dont Stop (?) 5 Bye Bye Badman (?) 6 Elizabeth My Dear (?) 7 (Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister (?) 8 Made of Stone (?) 9 Shoot You Down (?) 10 This Is the One (?) 11 I Am the Resurrection (?) 12 Fools Gold (?)
$Allmusic album Review : Though it may seem like a quaint, family-friendly entry into their iconic discography, the Beatles made major waves with the release of their eighth album, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, in 1967. With wildly intricate and far-out production that wowed listeners, and possible references to drugs and counterculture to freak out the establishment, the proto-concept album would become a major influence on psychedelic music for decades to come. Looking to revisit this landmark album, Oklahomas fearless freaks the Flaming Lips reinvent the classic album with a slew of guests on With a Little Help from My Fwends. No strangers to the covers album, having previously reworked Pink Floyds The Dark Side of the Moon and King Crimsons In the Court of the Crimson King, the Lips, along with an army of guests, artfully transform the album from an intricate pop masterpiece to a fractured, acid-fried freakout. With its skittish and fuzzed-out production and tendency to shift direction on a whim, the album feels as though its trying to re-create the feeling of hearing an album like Sgt. Peppers for the first time in 1967, re-creating that feeling that absolutely anything could happen at any moment. Like some of their past collaborations, the album shows that not all fwends are created equal, so even though cuts like "Getting Better" can be pretty uneven, guests like Miley Cyrus and Tegan and Sara on "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Lovely Rita," respectively, provide the bands sound with a new dimension and attitude, providing With a Little Help from My Fwends with the kind of eclectic atmosphere that made the original so charming. Although die-hard Beatles fans might see the album as a bit blasphemous, the Flaming Lips treatment of the classic work makes it clear the band have a great respect for the Fab Fours legacy and influence, making the album a wonderful distraction that provides fans with a window into the influences of one of rocks most enduring and joyously weird bands.$	Album: 28 of 37 Title: With a Little Help From My Fwends Released: 2014-10-24 Tracks: 13 Duration: 51:47 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover	1 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (02:47) 2 With a Little Help From My Friends (03:35) 3 Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (05:43) 4 Getting Better (04:08) 5 Fixing a Hole (03:50) 6 She’s Leaving Home (03:13) 7 Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (02:35) 8 Within You Without You (04:41) 9 When I’m Sixty-Four (03:21) 10 Lovely Rita (04:20) 11 Good Morning Good Morning (03:16) 12 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise) (05:15) 13 A Day in the Life (04:56)
With a Little Help From My Fwends : Allmusic album Review : Though it may seem like a quaint, family-friendly entry into their iconic discography, the Beatles made major waves with the release of their eighth album, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, in 1967. With wildly intricate and far-out production that wowed listeners, and possible references to drugs and counterculture to freak out the establishment, the proto-concept album would become a major influence on psychedelic music for decades to come. Looking to revisit this landmark album, Oklahomas fearless freaks the Flaming Lips reinvent the classic album with a slew of guests on With a Little Help from My Fwends. No strangers to the covers album, having previously reworked Pink Floyds The Dark Side of the Moon and King Crimsons In the Court of the Crimson King, the Lips, along with an army of guests, artfully transform the album from an intricate pop masterpiece to a fractured, acid-fried freakout. With its skittish and fuzzed-out production and tendency to shift direction on a whim, the album feels as though its trying to re-create the feeling of hearing an album like Sgt. Peppers for the first time in 1967, re-creating that feeling that absolutely anything could happen at any moment. Like some of their past collaborations, the album shows that not all fwends are created equal, so even though cuts like "Getting Better" can be pretty uneven, guests like Miley Cyrus and Tegan and Sara on "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "Lovely Rita," respectively, provide the bands sound with a new dimension and attitude, providing With a Little Help from My Fwends with the kind of eclectic atmosphere that made the original so charming. Although die-hard Beatles fans might see the album as a bit blasphemous, the Flaming Lips treatment of the classic work makes it clear the band have a great respect for the Fab Fours legacy and influence, making the album a wonderful distraction that provides fans with a window into the influences of one of rocks most enduring and joyously weird bands.
	Album: 29 of 37 Title: Imagene Peise - Atlas Eets Christmas Released: 2014-12-02 Tracks: 11 Duration: 37:13 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify AlbumCover	1 Winter Wonderland (03:48) 2 Silver Bells (02:38) 3 Christmas Laughing Waltz (Including Jingle Bells) (04:29) 4 Silent Night (03:17) 5 Atlas Eets Christmas (03:11) 6 Do You Hear What I Hear? (04:01) 7 Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (03:01) 8 White Christmas (Binson Echorec Sleigh Ride) (03:21) 9 Frosty the Snowman (02:28) 10 Christmas Kindness Song (03:09) 11 The Christmas Song (03:46)
	Album: 30 of 37 Title: Heady Nuggs: 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997 Released: 2015-11-27 Tracks: 42 Duration: 3:16:10 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic Wikipedia AlbumCover	1 The Abandoned Hospital Ship (03:38) 2 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles (03:27) 3 Placebo Headwound (03:41) 4 This Here Giraffe (03:46) 5 Brainville (03:13) 6 Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World (04:29) 7 Whenyousmile (03:13) 8 Kim’s Watermelon Gun (03:21) 9 They Punctured My Yolk (04:21) 10 Lightning Strikes the Postman (02:50) 11 Christmas at the Zoo (03:06) 12 Evilwillprevail (03:45) 13 Bad Days (04:38) 1 Bad Days (04:36) 2 Jets Part 2 (My Two Days as an Ambulance Driver) (03:50) 3 Ice Drummer (04:25) 4 Put the Waterbug in the Policeman’s Ear (05:20) 5 Chewin’ the Apple of Yer Eye (05:26) 6 Chosen One (07:27) 7 Little Drummer Boy (05:28) 8 Slow Nerve Action (07:42) 9 It Was a Very Good Year (03:56) 10 Sun Arise (05:20) 11 Life on Mars (04:04) 12 Ballrooms of Mars (04:29) 13 Hot Day (01:40) 14 Nobody Told Me (03:48) 15 Magician Vs the Headache (03:39) 16 She Don’t Use Jelly (live at Kj103) (03:33) 1 The Abandoned Hospital Ship (07:25) 2 Unconsciously Screamin’ (04:21) 3 Take Meta Mars (04:26) 4 Moth in the Incubator (06:49) 5 Put the Waterbug in the Policeman’s Ear (06:04) 6 Lightning Strikes the Postman (03:28) 7 Bad Days (05:26) 8 She Don’t Use Jelly (03:48) 9 Chewin’ the Apple of Yer Eye (06:42) 10 When You Smile (05:37) 11 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles (09:34) 12 Love Yer Brain (05:11) 13 Placebo Headwound (04:44)
Heady Nuggs: 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997 : Allmusic album Review : Even though Clouds Taste Metallic is generally regarded as a great album, its always been somewhat dwarfed by the more aspiring outings in the Flaming Lips vast, confounding catalog. The album never had an iconic, instantly recognizable hit single on the level of "She Dont Use Jelly" or "Do You Realize??," nor was it as preposterously ambitious as Zaireeka (not to mention the groups later releases that experimented with the very idea of physical media formats), and it certainly didnt receive the overwhelming critical praise that the Lips 1999 masterpiece The Soft Bulletin did. Clouds was the final Lips album to feature guitarist Ronald Jones, who had joined the band prior to their excellent major-label debut Hit to Death in the Future Head (1992), and it was the final recording to present the Flaming Lips as a guitar-driven band, before they began exploring more orchestral and experimental arrangements and incorporating electronic instruments. Of course, by no means was Clouds a standard rock album; as with any of their albums, they played around with conventional song structure and form. All of the songs on Clouds were three or four minutes long, but they didnt always have obvious hooks. Despite a few catchy numbers such as "This Here Giraffe" and "Christmas at the Zoo," it was hard to imagine any of the albums songs becoming radio staples. Nevertheless, the album was significant for heading toward the Brian Wilson-inspired melodies and arrangements that would be fully explored with their later albums, as well as lyrical themes commonly found in the groups later songs such as prevailing through hopelessness and facing the pressure of having to save the world. Clouds still holds up as an incredible batch of songs, adding up to far more than just a mere transitional album. Two decades after the albums release, the Lips revisited it with a deluxe three-CD (or five-LP) edition titled Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic: 1994-1997 (not to be confused with a 2011 vinyl box set called Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros. Records 1992-2002). Much like the groups pair of 2002 releases on Restless Records that chronicled their early output, Heady Nuggs is loaded with material from other releases from the same time period, in addition to unreleased recordings. The most exciting inclusion is Providing Needles for Your Balloons, a fantastic 1994 EP intended as a stopgap release between Transmissions from the Satellite Heart and Clouds. The EP featured loose, casual recordings of Transmissions album cuts (including a gloriously blown-out version of "Slow Nerve Action," inexplicably recorded live on a Top 40 radio station), a nifty B-side called "Jets, Pt. 2 (My Two Days as an Ambulance Driver)," covers of Suicides Alan Vega and a then barely known Bill Callahan, as well as a boombox-recorded grandiose piano ballad called "Put the Waterbug in the Policemans Ear," which foreshadowed the groups later sound. Augmenting Providing Needles on this collection is The King Bug Laughs, a further collection of rarities focusing primarily on covers, which range in origin from Bowie, Bolan, and Lennon to less obvious influences such as Rolf Harris. Rounding out Heady Nuggs is Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles, a previously unreleased live album recorded in Seattle in 1996. Typical of a Lips concert of any era, its unhinged, messy, and noisy, with the groups mega-trippy songs drowning in explosive guitar effects. The sets title track (a cut from Clouds) is stretched out from its original three-minute length to seven, followed by a few minutes of fanatical applause while the audience anticipated an encore.
	Album: 31 of 37 Title: Oczy Mlody Released: 2017-01-12 Tracks: 11 Duration: 50:17 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover	1 Oczy Mlody (02:54) 2 How?? (04:25) 3 There Should Be Unicorns (05:50) 4 Sunrise (Eyes of the Young) (04:05) 5 Nigdy Nie (Never No) (04:10) 6 Galaxy I Sink (03:57) 7 One Night While Hunting for Faeries and Witches and Wizards to Kill (06:08) 8 Do Glowy (04:18) 9 The Castle (04:51) 10 Almost Home (Blisko Domu) (04:54) 11 We a Famly (04:45)
Oczy Mlody : Allmusic album Review : Though its title is Polish for "the eyes of the young," the Flaming Lips state of mind on their Oczy Mlody album isnt exactly naive. As they move on from the crises that inspired The Terror, they bridge the abrasive sound that started on 2009s Embryonic and the try-anything whimsy of their collaboration with Miley Cyrus in ways that are surprisingly complex. Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd and company soften some of The Terrors rough edges in favor of a more eclectic, melodic sound that spans hip-hop, prog, and orchestral elements, sometimes in the course of a single song: "Nigdy Nie (Never Know)"s wordless sighs and electro beats evoke the unlikely duo of Syd Barrett and A$AP Rocky that Coyne used to describe the album before its release. Meanwhile, the title track begins the album with a synth-driven sense of wonder that conveys seeing things from a new -- or renewed -- perspective. Many of these visions are nearly as bleak as The Terror. Each time Coyne sings the titular chorus on "How??," he sounds less convinced hell find an answer; hes overpowered by a crest of strings, harp, and woodwinds on "Galaxy I Sink"; and his contemplation of the circle of life becomes a vicious cycle that destroys his "fragile dream of how the world is full of love" on "Almost Home." None of these songs, however, are quite as unsettling as "There Should Be Unicorns," an apocalyptic love-in filled with imagery so outrageous that it could be parodic if the surrounding droning electronics werent so ominous. At times like these, Oczy Mlody feels like a collection of fairy tales for adults, full of psychedelically heightened emotions that the band deploys with shamanic skill. Towering drums and duelling synths add to the feeling that the band co-wrote "One Night While Hunting for Faeries and Witches and Wizards to Kill," a tale of destruction and redemption, with the Brothers Grimm. Similarly, harp and strings sprinkle some fairy dust on "Listening to the Frogs with Demon Eyes" meditations on mortality, while the beguiling melodies of "Sunrise" and "The Castle" sweeten their tales of loss. These songs recall the bands work with Cyrus, so its not entirely surprising when she shows up on "We a Family," where she might as well be the voice of the young. Though the songs happy ending feels a bit tacked-on compared to the of rest of Oczy Mlodys trippy melancholy, its meaning is clear: finding hope isnt easy, but seen the right way, it can be an adventure.
	Album: 32 of 37 Title: Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of the Flaming Lips Released: 2018-04-20 Tracks: 19 Duration: 1:13:57 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover	1 Bag Full of Thoughts (05:38) 2 Out for a Walk (03:14) 3 Garden of Eyes (01:56) 4 Forever Is a Long Time (03:19) 5 Scratching the Door (07:09) 6 My Own Planet (04:11) 7 Killer on the Radio (02:58) 8 Batman Theme (01:47) 9 Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere (02:31) 10 Handsome Johnny (02:56) 11 Flaming Lips Theme Song 1983 (03:53) 12 The Future Is Gone (03:22) 13 Underground Pharmacist (04:48) 14 Real Fast Words (03:15) 15 Groove Room (06:07) 16 Jesus Shootin’ Heroin (07:05) 17 Trains, Brains & Rain (03:25) 18 Communication Breakdown (03:44) 19 Summertime Blues (02:29)
Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of the Flaming Lips : Allmusic album Review : Part of a major archival reissue campaign that the Flaming Lips embarked on in 2018, Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of the Flaming Lips is an entertaining reminder of just how much the band changed over the years. On these early tracks, they sound more like a scrappy garage-psych outfit than the weirdos they became soon after, to say nothing of the majestic alt-pop band they evolved into during the 2000s. The collection begins with their self-titled 1984 EP, which has been reissued several times but received a new remaster for this release. That Wayne Coynes brother Mark sings lead vocals only adds to the feeling that this version of the band is a different beast; his nasal twang is similar, but not quite recognizable, to listeners of the Lips later incarnations. Still, there are more than a few hints of what the band would become, whether on the grinding psych-pop of "Forever Is a Long Time," the doomy "Scratchin the Door," or the spacious "Garden of Eyes." The collection also includes the bands first two cassette demos, which are even rawer than the EP and nearly as full of potential; "Jesus Shootin Heroin," "Trains, Brains & Rain," and "Underground Pharmacist" prove that the bands distinctive viewpoint was in place from the start, even if their sound wasnt. Some surprisingly traditional covers -- including an engaging version of the Whos "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" -- round out Scratchin the Door, a suitably gonzo document of the early days of one of indies most idiosyncratic yet definitive acts.
	Album: 33 of 37 Title: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (Deluxe Edition) Released: 2018-06-01 Tracks: 52 Duration: 3:43:54 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Allmusic AlbumCover	1 Talkin’ ’bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever) (03:50) 2 Hit Me Like You Did the First Time (03:30) 3 Frogs (04:26) 4 Felt Good to Burn (03:21) 5 Turn It On (04:40) 6 She Dont Use Jelly (03:19) 7 Chewin the Apple of Your Eye (03:48) 8 Slow Nerve Action (05:53) 9 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles (03:28) 10 Brainville (03:13) 11 Lightning Strikes the Postman (02:50) 12 When You Smile (03:03) 13 Bad Days (Aurally Excited version) (04:38) 14 Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (05:53) 15 Race for the Prize (04:18) 16 Waitin’ for a Superman (04:17) 17 The Spark That Bled (05:55) 18 What Is the Light? (04:05) 1 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Part 1 (04:42) 2 In the Morning of the Magicians (06:17) 3 All We Have Is Now (03:53) 4 Do You Realize?? (03:32) 5 The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat) (03:42) 6 Pompeii am Götterdämmerung (04:21) 7 Vein of Stars (04:15) 8 The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (04:54) 9 Convinced of the Hex (03:56) 10 See the Leaves (04:24) 11 Silver Trembling Hands (03:59) 12 Is David Bowie Dying? (06:39) 13 Try to Explain (04:43) 14 Always There, in Our Hearts (04:35) 15 How?? (04:25) 16 There Should Be Unicorns (05:50) 17 The Castle (04:51) 1 Zero to a Million (03:22) 2 Jets (Cupids Kiss vs. The Psyche of Death) (2-track demo) (04:21) 3 Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair (04:38) 4 The Captain (05:09) 5 1000 Ft. Hands (05:46) 6 Noodling Theme (Epic Sunset mix #5) (03:23) 7 Up Above the Daily Hum (03:49) 8 The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (In Anatropous Reflex) (04:17) 9 We Cant Predict the Future (John Peel sessions on 6/8/2000) (03:03) 10 Your Face Can Tell the Future (outtake) (05:09) 11 You Gotta Hold On (04:03) 12 What Does It Mean? (05:09) 13 Spider-man vs. Muhammad Ali (02:50) 14 I Was Zapped by the Lucky Super Rainbow (03:33) 15 Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential Fear, Part 2 (05:06) 16 If I Only Had a Brain (02:16) 17 Silent Night / Lord Can You Hear Me (04:33)
	Album: 34 of 37 Title: Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of the Flaming Lips 1986-1990 Released: 2018-06-29 Tracks: 72 Duration: 5:08:39 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% Spotify Allmusic AlbumCover	1 With You (03:38) 2 Unplugged (02:14) 3 Trains, Brains, & Rain (03:39) 4 Jesus Shootin Heroin (07:20) 5 Just Like Before (03:20) 6 She Is Death (04:07) 7 Charlie Manson Blues (04:22) 8 Man From Pakistan (03:56) 9 Godzilla Flick (04:05) 10 Starting at Sound / With You (05:08) 1 Everythings Explodin (04:44) 2 One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning (09:20) 3 Maximum Dream for Evil Knievel (02:51) 4 Cant Exist (02:48) 5 Ode to C.C. (00:46) 6 The Ceiling Is Bendin (03:43) 7 Prescription: Love (06:10) 8 Thanks to You (03:55) 9 Cant Stop the Spring (04:12) 10 Ode to C.C. (01:51) 11 Love Yer Brain (07:43) 1 Drug Machine in Heaven (02:11) 2 Right Now (03:56) 3 Michael, Time to Wake Up (00:30) 4 Chrome Plated Suicide (05:50) 5 Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon (Fuck Led Zepplin) (03:39) 6 Miracle on 42nd Street (02:54) 7 Fryin Up (02:44) 8 Hells Angels Cracker Factory (23:06) 9 U.F.O. Story (06:40) 10 Redneck School of Technology (02:57) 11 Shaved Gorilla (02:56) 12 The Spontaneous Combustion of John (00:53) 13 The Last Drop of Morning Dew (01:59) 14 Begs and Achin (04:18) 1 Shine on Sweet Jesus-Jesus Song No. 5 (04:27) 2 Unconsciously Screamin (03:52) 3 Rainin Babies (04:28) 4 Take Meta Mars (03:13) 5 Five Stop Mother Superior Rain (06:19) 6 Stand in Line (04:43) 7 God Walks Among Us Now-Jesus Song No. 6 (04:46) 8 There You Are-Jesus Song No. 7 (04:33) 9 Mountain Side (06:36) 10 What a Wonderful World (03:43) 1 Death Valley 69 (03:01) 2 Thank You (02:30) 3 Cant Stop the Spring (04:26) 4 After the Gold Rush (04:12) 5 Death Trippin At Sunrise (04:32) 6 Drug Machine in Heaven (02:59) 7 Strychnine / Peace, Love and Understanding (03:22) 8 Lucifer Rising (03:36) 9 Ma, I Didnt Notice (08:11) 10 Let Me Be It (05:34) 11 Shes Gone Mad Again (09:15) 12 Golden Hearse (03:58) 13 Stand in Line (06:32) 14 I Want to Kill My Brother; The Cymbal Head (03:39) 15 Five Stop Mother Superior Rain (06:09) 1 Take Meta Mars (02:46) 2 Mountain Side (03:14) 3 There You Are (03:41) 4 Five Stop Mother Superior Rain (03:05) 5 Rainin Babies (02:31) 6 Unconciously Screamin (03:19) 7 Stand in Line (04:07) 8 Gods a Wheeler Dealer (02:43) 9 Agonizing (03:28) 10 One Shot (02:52) 11 Cold Day (02:45) 12 Jam (01:07)
	Album: 35 of 37 Title: Death Trippin at Sunrise: Rarities, B-Sides & Flexi Discs: 1986-1990 Released: 2018-09-14 Tracks: 18 Duration: 1:18:19 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover	1 Death Valley 69 (03:04) 2 Thank You (02:29) 3 Cant Stop the Spring (remix) (04:27) 4 After the Gold Rush (04:12) 5 Death Trippin At Sunrise (04:32) 6 Summertime Blues (02:29) 7 Fryin Up (02:44) 8 Hells Angels Cracker Factory (03:02) 9 Drug Machine in Heaven (02:59) 10 Strychnine / Peace, Love and Understanding (03:21) 11 Lucifer Rising (03:35) 1 Ma, I Didnt Notice (08:10) 2 Let Me Be It (05:33) 3 Shes Gone Mad Again (09:15) 4 Golden Hearse (03:57) 5 Stand in Line (04:43) 6 I Want to Kill My Brother; The Cymbal Head (03:38) 7 Five Stop Mother Superior Rain (06:08)
	Album: 36 of 37 Title: The Mushroom Tapes Released: 2018-11-23 Tracks: 12 Duration: 35:35 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover	1 Take Meta Mars (02:45) 2 Mountain Side (03:14) 3 There You Are (03:41) 4 Five Stop Mother Superior Rain (03:05) 5 Rainin Babies (02:31) 6 Unconciously Screamin (03:19) 7 Stand in Line (04:06) 8 Gods a Wheeler Dealer (02:43) 9 Agonizing (03:28) 10 One Shot (02:52) 11 Cold Day (02:44) 12 Jam (01:07)
	Album: 37 of 37 Title: King’s Mouth: Music and Songs Released: 2019-04-13 Tracks: 12 Duration: 41:29 Scroll: Up Down Top Bottom 25% 50% 75% AlbumCover	1 We Don’t Know How and We Don’t Know Why (01:10) 2 The Sparrow (05:38) 3 Giant Baby (03:51) 4 Mother Universe (01:51) 5 How Many Times (03:22) 6 Electric Fire (04:45) 7 All for the Life of the City (04:39) 8 Feedaloodum Beedle Dot (02:50) 9 Funeral Parade (02:58) 10 Dipped in Steel (01:28) 11 Mouth of the King (04:48) 12 How Can a Head (04:09)