Biography

The Flaming Lips started out in the 1980s creating an anarchic, punky din, but eventually the psychedelic influences that had always been a major element of the band's sound became more prevalent. In 1994, after significant lineup changes, the Oklahoma group scored a hit album with TRANSMISSIONS FROM THE SATELLITE HEART. By the turn of the decade, the Lips had mutated into a quirky but accessible outfit skillfully blending alt-rock with '60s psych-pop influences, and in 1999 reached a peak with the towering sonic statement THE SOFT BULLETIN. Their following album, YOSHIMI BATTLES PINK ROBOTS, furthered its predecessor's aesthetic and vaulted the Lips to even more recognition, giving them a rare artistic-freedom-equals-success story rivaled only by Radiohead.

Top Tracks

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• 2hb

• Agonizing

• All That Jazz/happy Death Men

• Another Green World

• Bad Days

• Be My Head

• Brain Damage

• Can't Get You Out Of My Head

• Charlie Manson Blues

• Christmas At The Zoo

• Chrome Plated Suicide

• Convinced Of The Hex

• Death Tripping At Sunrise

• Death Valley '69

• Do You Realize??

• Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell

• Everything's Explodin'

• Felt Good To Burn

• Fight Test

• Five Stop Mother Superior Rain

• Gingerale Afternoon (the Astrology Of A Saturday)

• God Walks Among Us Now

• God's A Wheeler Dealer

• Goin' On

• Hell's Angels Cracker Factory

• Ice Drummer

• In Excelsior Vaginalistic

• It's A Bit Of A Pain

• Jesus Shootin' Heroin

• Maximum Dream For Evil Knievel

• Mr. Ambulance Driver

• My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion

• My Ship

• Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand

• Once Beyond Hopelessness

• One Million Billionth Of A Millisecond On A Sunday Morning

• Pilot Can At The Queer Of God

• Placebo Headwound

• Powerless

• Prescription: Love

• Race For The Prize

• Rainin' Babies

• Right Now

• She Don't Use Jelly

• Silver Trembling Hands

• Slow Nerve Action

• Space Bible With Volume Lumps

• Speak To Me/breathe

• Strychnine/peace, Love, And Understanding

• Take Meta Mars

• Talkin' 'bout The Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (everyone ...)

• Thank You Jack White (for The Fiber-optic Jesus That You Gave Me)

• The Abandoned Hospital Ship

• The Big Ol' Bug Is The New Baby Now

• The Gash

• The Secret Of Immortality: This Strange Feeling/this Impossible World

• The Sound Of Failure

• The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine

• The Spiderbite Song

• The Spontaneous Combustion Of John

• The Strange Design Of Conscience

• This Here Giraffe

• Time/breathe (reprise)

• Trains, Brains & Rain

• Turn It On

• Unconsciously Screamin'

• Up The Down Escalator

• Us And Them

• Waitin' For A Superman

• Watching The Planets

• With You

Discography

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• Embryonic

  Warner Bros.

  2009

• At War with the Mystics

  Warner Bros.

  2006

• Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

  Warner Bros.

  2002

• The Soft Bulletin

  Warner Bros.

  1999

• Zaireeka

  Warner Bros.

  1997

• Clouds Taste Metallic

  Warner Bros.

  1995

• Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

  Warner Bros.

  1993

• Hit to Death in the Future Head

  Warner Bros.

  1992

• In a Priest Driven Ambulance

  Restless Records

  1990

• Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips

  Restless Records

  1987

• Hear It Is

  Restless Records

  1986