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Artist:	The Flaming Lips	Record Label:	Warner Bros.
Release Year:	2002	EAN:	0093624814122
Genre:	Rock/Pop	Format:	Album
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Condition:	Used

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Track listing
1. Fight Test 2. One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 3. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (part 1) 4. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (part 2) 5. In The Morning Of The Magicians 6. Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell 7. Are You A Hypnotist 8. It's Summertime (Throbbing Orange Pallbearers) 9. Do You Realize 10. All We Have Is Now 11. Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)
Details
Number of CDs:	1
Recording type:	Studio
Distributor:	Cinram Logistics
Recording mode:	Stereo

Album notes
The Flaming Lips: Wayne Coyne (vocals, guitar); Michael Ivins (guitar, bass, background vocals); Steve Drozd (guitar, drums, background vocals).Producers: The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker.Recorded at Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, New York between June 2000 & April 2001."Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" won the 2003 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.Emerging sometime in the '80s, Oklahoma boys The Flaming Lips have held steady to a peripheral, but significant location in the indie-rock world, visionaries blessed with a hyper-keen pop sensibility. In 1999, four years removed from the surprise alterna-pop hit "She Don't Use Jelly," the trio fronted by the fetching, impelling whisper of Wayne Coyne hit a remarkably high note, making scores of year-end 'best of' lists with THE SOFT BULLETIN, a mellifluous, masterful slice of Brian Wilson-level pop distorted through a few looking glasses. Following an acclaimed album is always a craggy cliff of anticipation, but if BULLETIN was the Flaming Lips' PET SOUNDS, then the ethereal YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS may be their SMILEY SMILE, a record which skillfully straddles the line between pop and experimentation.YOSHIMI offers lush, enveloping arrangements, forging a soundscape both comfortably predictable and satisfyingly, even dizzyingly, diverse, awash in Todd Rundgren-like grandiosity, yet startlingly simple in structure like the better work of Paul McCartney. Despite having the air of a quasi-concept album, YOSHIMI betrays little pretension, even in the face of the Lips' trademark deceptively complex lyrics. The exceptional YOSHIMI easily cements the Flaming Lips' place in the vanguard of the rock world.
Editorial reviews
Included in Q Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 2002 Q (12/01/2002) ...Impressionistic sonic wonder... CMJ (07/22/2002) 8 out of 10 - ...Confident and imaginative....it sets yet another benchmark. NME (07/13/2002) ...Spectacularly trippy... - Rating: B+ Entertainment Weekly (07/19/2002) 5 out of 5 - ...Astonishing... Uncut (08/01/2002) ...A brilliant development of BULLETIN's tough'n'mellow blend... Mojo (07/01/2002) 4 stars out of 5 - ...Their second masterpiece....It's hard to remember a record so concerned with mortality and yet so heart-burstingly hopeful. It quivers with life... Q (08/01/2002) Ranked #4 on Spin's list of 2002's Albums of the Year - ...A concept album about heartsick rock-'em-sock-'em robots that's also a sermon about finding the courage to love in the face of death. Spin (01/01/2003) 4 stars out of 5 - ...Ambitious with burbling electrobeats underpinning sci-fi orchestrations....the trio's love of sound sorcery is gently folded into gorgeous melodies... Rolling Stone (07/25/2002) Ranked #2 on CMJ's Top 10 of 2002 CMJ (12/30/2002) Ranked #1 in Uncut's 100 Best Albums of the Year Uncut (01/01/2003) Ranked #2 in Mojo's Best Albums of 2002 Mojo (01/01/2003) Included in Q Magazine's 50 Best Albums of 2002Mojo (1/03, p.72) - Ranked #2 in Mojo's Best Albums of 2002Uncut (1/03, p.94) - Ranked #1 in Uncut's 100 Best Albums of the YearCMJ (12/30/02, p.8) - Ranked #2 on CMJ's Top 10 of 2002Rolling Stone (7/25/02, p.72) - 4 stars out of 5 - ...Ambitious with burbling electrobeats underpinning sci-fi orchestrations....the trio's love of sound sorcery is gently folded into gorgeous melodies...Spin (1/03, p.70) - Ranked #4 on Spin's list of 2002's Albums of the Year -...A concept album about heartsick rock-'em-sock-'em robots that's also a sermon about finding the courage to love in the face of death.Q (8/02, p.127) - 4 stars out of 5 - ...Their second masterpiece....It's hard to remember a record so concerned with mortality and yet so heart-burstingly hopeful. It quivers with life...Mojo (7/02, p.60) - ...A brilliant development of BULLETIN's tough'n'mellow blend...Uncut (8/02, p.96) - 5 out of 5 - ...Astonishing...Entertainment Weekly (7/19/02, p.74) - ...Spectacularly trippy... - Rating: B+NME (7/13/02, p.36) - 8 out of 10 - ...Confident and imaginative....it sets yet another benchmark.CMJ (7/22/02, p.4) - ...Impressionistic sonic wonder... Q (12/01/2002)

CD condition: 6/10 - lots of surface marks but still plays perfectly.
Case condition: 9/10

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