Album
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
2002 · Electronic, Rock
115 collectors on Gatefold own this
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is an Alt/Indie album by The Flaming Lips, originally released in 2002. On Gatefold: 42 pressings tracked, owned by 115 collectors.
About
There aren’t a lot of distractions in Oklahoma City—which helps explain how the area’s most prominent weirdo, The Flaming Lip, managed to release ten album between 1986’s <i>Hear It Is</i> and 2002’s <i>Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots</i>. But that statistic fails to fully measure the band’s proficiency. According to lead singer Wayne Coyne, the group was working on no fewer than three distinct projects while creating <i>Yoshimi</i>, including the country-leaning soundtrack to <i>Okie Noodling</i>—a documentary about men who catch giant catfish with their bare hands—and the synthesizer score to Coyne’s own self-directed full-length homage to 1950s sci-fi B movie, <i>Christmas on Mars</i>. Those disparate efforts all played a role in the creation of <i>Yoshimi</i>, which Coyne once described as a “candy-coated potato chip” of an album. On <i>Yoshimi</i>, the western twang and martian bleeps meld with the maximalist space-rock the band had perfected on its previous album, <i>The Soft Bulletin</i>. That record secured the group’s place in the pantheon of consequential album artist, freeing the Lips from the one-hit-wonder tag that had clung to the group since 1993’s “She Don’t Use Jelly.” .
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Tracklist
- 1Fight Test4:14
- 2One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-214:59
- 3Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 14:45
- 4Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 22:57
- 5In The Morning Of The Magicians6:18
- 6Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell4:34
- 7Are You A Hypnotist??4:44
- 8It's Summertime4:20
- 9Do You Realize??3:32
- 10All We Have Is Now3:53
- 11Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)3:09
Sound DNA
- Alt/Indie
- Dream Pop
- synthetic
- melancholic
- psychedelic
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Michael IvinsMUSIC BY, PERFORMER, SONGWRITER PERFORMER , WRITTEN-BY PERFORMER , MUSIC BY, SONGWRITER
- Steven DrozdMUSIC BY, PERFORMER, SONGWRITER PERFORMER , WRITTEN-BY PERFORMER , MUSIC BY, SONGWRITER
- Wayne CoyneMUSIC BY, PERFORMER, SONGWRITER PERFORMER , WRITTEN-BY PERFORMER , MUSIC BY, SONGWRITER
- YoshimiFEATURING
- Dave Fridmann
- Mark Linkous
- Scott Minor
- SparklehorseFEATURING
- The Chemical BrothersFEATURING
115 collectors on Gatefold own this · 42 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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