The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:30 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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The Flaming Lips 2002 “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” is inarguably one of their best works. It is characterized by electronic-influenced, psychedelic-tinged indie rock compositions. The album has now been made into a play allowing the main character to add one more thing to her resume along with working for the city, being a black belt in karate, and defeating evil machines. Yoshimi was well-received critically and commercially, helping the band break into the mainstream. It has been certified Gold by the RIAA. The album was adapted into a musical in 2012.
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The Flaming Lips – Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (1993/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:06 minutes | 500 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Psychedelic Rock
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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 group’s drift toward pop nirvana. In typical fashion, the record’s left-field hit, the freak-show singalong “She Don’t 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. ~ Jason Ankeny
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The Flaming Lips – The Terror (Deluxe) (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:41:38 minutes | 2,17 GB | Genre: Indie Rock
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The Terror is the long-awaited release by The Flaming Lips. Produced by Dave Fridmann, it features nine original compositions that reflect a darker-hued spectrum than previous works, along with a more inward-looking lyrical perspective than one might expect. The Terror is a bold and expressive journey that has evolved over the band’s nearly 30-year career of sonic delights that ebbs and flows with breathtaking splashes of darkness and light, pleasure and pain, chaos and order. Absolutely essential.
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The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin Companion (1999/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:29 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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The Soft Bulletin is one of the Flaming Lips most popular and best-selling albums. The Soft Bulletin Companion was originally only available as a promo only CD, hand-made by the Lip’s management, and given to media and radio as the original album grew in popularity around its original release. The compilation includes unreleased songs from the era, plus outtakes and early mixes, B-sides, international bonus tracks and stereo versions of Zaireeka tracks
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The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:06:16 minutes | 801 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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On May 26, 2016 The Flaming Lips performed their classic album The Soft Bulletin in its entirety with the Colorado Symphony at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado.
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The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (1999/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 58:28 minutes | 659 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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With their multi-disc opus „Zaireeka“ (four CDs meant to be played simultaneously on four different players), the Flaming Lips radically expanded the scope of their melancholy psychedelia, as pop tunes became modernist soundscapes, part-Pink Floyd, part-John Cage. Obviously, the experience greatly influenced the band’s direction, because on „The Soft Bulletin“ the Lips again scrap the guitar-bass-drum rock standard, sculpting instead a huge hi-fi record akin to a post-modern pet sounds with the vision of a humanist OK computer.
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The Flaming Lips – Scratching The Door: The First Recordings Of The Flaming (Remastered) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:56 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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The loony Flaming Lips are diving back into their old material and, with it, releasing a remastered collage titled Scratching The Door, a sort of family album from their early days. It features recordings from 1985 to 1989, as they were still in their original formation: Wayne Coyne on the guitar, his brother on vocals, Michael Ivins on the bass and Dave Kotska on drums. The opus focuses on their debut and features their first self-produced EP, demos and a completely destroy version of the Who’s Anyway, Anywho, Anywhere. Now fifty something, they were just 20 years old back then and their already battered sound − a sort of raw post-punk carried by gritty and scruffy guitars, thunderous bass (Flaming Lips Theme Song), heightened by harmonica digressions (Handsome Johnny) − more so than their psychedelic convulsions was already spreading through Oklahoma City. In June 2018, they will follow up this album with Seeing The Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings Of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990: a compilation of their first albums, of their Restless Records period, before their move to Warner. Fantastic news for their early fans. – Charlotte Saintoin
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The Flaming Lips – The Dark Side of the Moon (2009/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:06 minutes | 467 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Experimental, Indie Rock
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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.
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The Flaming Lips – King’s Mouth (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:16 minutes | 431 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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‘King’s Mouth’ sees the iconoclastic outfit once again tread uncharted territory. These 12 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.
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The Flaming Lips – Hit to Death in the Future Head (1992/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:09 minutes | 777 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Experimental, Indie Rock
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With Hit to Death in the Future Head, the Flaming Lips make the leap to major-label status as though it were the moment they’ve 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 band’s noisier, more hallucinatory indie work and the acid-bubblegum aesthetic perfected on their later Warner Bros. albums. Nowhere are the band’s pop smarts more evident than on “The Sun,” which freely quotes Carole King’s “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.)
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The Flaming Lips – Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (Deluxe Edition) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 03:44:12 minutes | 3,68 GB | Genre: Alternative, Indie Rock
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Warner Bros. Music will issue a Flaming Lips greatest hits in June, which will be available both on vinyl and as a set. Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 will include singles, B-sides, outtakes and previously unreleased tracks, with audio remastered from the original tape source by Dave Fridmann. While the triple-CD deluxe boasts a massive 52 tracks, the single vinyl LP edition is a extremely condensed 11-track affair.
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