THE FLAMING LIPS – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots 20th Anniversay Deluxe edition (5LP)
THE FLAMING LIPS – Yosimi Battles The Pink Robots 20th Anniversary Deluxe edition (5LP)
Release date: April 14th 2023 Record Company: Warner
A 5 LP package (featuring 56 tracks) will land on April 14, 2023 – released later than the CD box set due to the long vinyl production timeline. Additionally, there will be a limited edition D2C exclusive edition of the 20th Anniversary Deluxe 5 LP Vinyl box set pressed on Baby Pink vinyl – also released on April 14. Over the course of 2023, all the material released in the 6 CD box set will also make their way to vinyl. The two live albums included in the set, and the 25-minute demo “Psychedelic Hypnotist Daydream” will be available as separate vinyl releases. Additionally, the Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell and Fight Test EPs will be released on vinyl for the first time in Spring 2023.
Released in July 2002, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots remains the commercial high-water mark in The Flaming Lips’ wild four-decade journey, giving the GRAMMY® award-winners their first RIAA certified Gold Record. As the eagerly awaited follow-up to 1999’s masterwork, The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi proved that singer/guitarist Wayne Coyne, and multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd had yet another masterpiece in them.
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is a sci-fi-themed quasi-concept album that cast The Flaming Lips’ most playful and profound songs to date in a wondrous swirl of ambient electronics, digital beats, and psychedelic splendor. The record yielded the band’s top-streamed track, “Do You Realize??” (a timeless stargazing anthem that, in 2009, was named the Official Rock Song of the band’s native Oklahoma) and also landed the Lips their first-ever Grammy Award® win for the cosmic album-closing instrumental “Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia).”
The 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition provides a complete 360-degree view of the band’s creativity during this period. Several unheard demos show a rare peak at the band’s creative process. The box set also collects B-sides and outtakes, from epic fan favorites like “Assassination of the Sun” to fun, folky serenades like “Thank You Jack White (For the Fiber-Optic Jesus You Gave Me).” There is also a treasure trove of radio sessions including idiosyncratic overhauls of Pink Floyd’s “Lucifer Sam” and “Breathe,” Radiohead’s “Knives Out,” and Kylie Minogue’s “Can’t Get You Out of My Head.” In addition, the set includes a lush instrumental version of “Do You Realize??,” that has been requested by fans to play at both weddings and funerals.
Of special note are the two concert discs, which showcase the two sides of The Flaming Lips’ ever-enlarging brain: the endearing, intimate storytellers (captured in a banter-heavy 2002 private show for a small crowd of radio-contest winners in Boston) and the masters of thundering, confetti-strewn stage spectacle (as heard in an electrifying 2003 performance at The Forum in London). As a whole Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition is an essential portrait of rock’s most restlessly creative band at the peak of their powers.
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Product Description
THE FLAMING LIPS – Yosimi Battles The Pink Robots 20th Anniversary Deluxe edition (5LP)
Release date: April 14th 2023 Record Company: Warner
5 LP Vinyl Box Set
LP 1 – Original Album
Side 1
- Fight Test
- One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 1
- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Part 2
- In The Morning Of The Magicians
Side 2
- Ego Tripping At The Gates of Hell
- Are You A Hypnotist
- It’s Summertime
- Do You Realize??
- All We Have Is Now
- Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon
LP 2 – Demos+
Side 3
- All My Life – Morning Of The Magicians (Demo)
- Ego Tripping Part 2 or 3 (Demo)
- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Demo)
- Hypnotist: Early Version (Demo)
- Epic Systems Delirium (Demo)
- In The Morning Of The Magicians (Demo)
Side 4
- Do You Realize?? 1st Chords Wayne (Demo)
- Do You Realize?? Steven New Part (Demo)
- Fight Test: Primitive Demo With Helium Voice
- If I Go Mad/Funeral In My Head (B-Side of Do You Realize?? UK CD 1)
- Syrtis Major (B-Side of Do You Realize??UK CD 1)
LP 3 – Non-LP+
Side 5
- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Japanese Version)
- SpongeBob & Patrick Confront The Psychic Wall Of Energy (From The Spongebob SquarePants Movie)
- Seven Nation Army (From LateNightTales: The Flaming Lips)
- Go (Sparklehorse with The Flaming Lips) (Alternate Version From the Flaming Lips Archives)
- The Deterioration Of The Fight Or Flight Response (B-Side of Fight Test UK CD 1)
- Fight Test (Live on WXRT)
Side 6
- Do You Realize?? (Live on CD 101)
- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (AOL Session)
- Waitin’ For A Superman (Live on WXPN)
- In The Morning Of The Magicians (Live on KCRW)
- White Christmas (Live on WXPN)
- The Golden Path (The Chemical Brothers, feat. The Flaming Lips)
LP 4 – Radio Sessions
Side 7
- Suspicious Minds (Live on Cover-ed)
- Assassination Of The Sun (Live on BBC Radio 1) Maida Vale Session July 2002
- Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (Live on BBC Radio 1) Maida Vale Session July 2002
- Do You Realize?? (Live on BBC Radio 1) Maida Vale Session July 2002
- One More Robot (Live on BBC Radio 1) Maida Vale Session July 2002
Side 8
- Do You Realize?? (Live on KEXP) Aug 5, 2002
- One More Robot (Live on KEXP) Aug 5, 2002
- Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (Live on KEXP) Aug 5, 2002
- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Live on KEXP) Aug 5, 2002
- Breathe (Live on XFM) June 26 2003
- Ego Tripping At The Gates of Hell (Live on XFM) Nov 11, 2003
- Sunship Balloons (Live on XFM) Nov 11, 2003
LP 5 – Radio Sessions+
Side 9
- Fight Test (Live on XFM) June 26 2003
- Thank You Jack White (Live on XFM) June 26 2003
- Do You Realize?? (Live on XFM) July 11, 2002
- One More Robot (Live on XFM) July 11, 2002
- Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (Live on XFM) July 11, 2002
Side 10
- Ego Tripping At The Gates of Hell (Live on BBC Radio 1) Oct 31, 2003 BBC Janice Long Show
- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Live on BBC Radio 1) Oct 31, 2003 BBC Janice Long Show
- Sunship Balloons (Live on BBC Radio 1) Oct 31, 2003 BBC Janice Long Show
- Up Above The Daily Hum (B-Side of Do You Realize?? UK CD 2)
- Xanthe Terra (B-Side of Do You Realize?? UK CD 2)