TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Flaming Lips
Flaming Lips
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
3.1895
Flaming Lips Album Rankings
1
The clearest illustration of the qualities of the new Flaming Lips LP, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots , can be found on the album’s cover.
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2
Tak[es] on the state of global affairs in a way that is both surprisingly direct yet somehow reassuringly weird.
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3
The addition of guitaristRonald Jonesand drummerSteven Drozdrecharges the Flaming Lips' batteries for the superbTransmissions From the Satellite Heart, another prismatic delicacy that continues the gr
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4
The Soft Bulletin is absolutely stunning. Zaireeka was a massive breakthrough for them, but Soft Bulletin is the true gem in their catalog.
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5
The Flaming Lips move across to a major label, Warners in their case. Their first release for said major label is an EP retail pleasingly titled 'Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical'.
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6
The same extraordinary madness that infected the best work ofBrian Wilsonrears its head on the shimmering and melodicClouds Taste Metallic, a masterful collection which completes the Flaming Lips' ody
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7
With the exception of the superbIn a Priest Driven Ambulance, the Flaming Lips' early albums for the Restless label are at best hit-or-miss affairs;A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for
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8
Imagine you're Wayne Coyne and you've got some 'wild' ideas! But you know, your guitar player has just left and maybe your band won't even exist anymore.
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9
Zaireeka is the first multiple sound source record and the first that "can cause a person to become disoriented, confused or nauseated.
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10
Track listing: 1) Drug Machine In Heaven; 2) Right Now; 3) Michael, Time To Wake Up; 4) Chrome Plated Suicide ; 5) Hari-Krishna Stomp Wagon; 6) Miracle On 42nd Street; 7) Fryin' Up; 8) Hell's Angels'
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11
Track listing: 1) With You ; 2) Unplugged; 3) Trains, Brains And Rain; 4) Jesus Shootin' Heroin; 5) Just Like Before; 6) She Is Death; 7) Charlie Manson Blues; 8) Man From Pakistan ; 9) Godzilla Flick
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12
Sometime between The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots , as the Flaming Lips earned a rep as the best live band on the rock circuit, they trained their fans to associate them not just
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13
The quality of the Lips' extras is often as good as the official stuff (don't get us started on the remnants from the Soft Bulletin sessions). This EP is no exception.
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15
Starting with either a sample or a cool replication of a legendary one-off line in the Beatles' "Revolution No.
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17
Besides the title track, this includes "Translucent Egg" and "Turn It On (Bluegrass Version)" from the American version of the single.
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18
Beyond the three versions of "Waitin' for a Superman" available on this enhanced CD single, this disc is noteworthy because it contains the only two single-disc mixes of tracks from the Lips' experim
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20
The Flaming Lips usually tend to use their B-sides and between-album releases to stretch musically, and the Fight Test EP -- which gathers the B-sides from the two-part U.K.
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