ITunes Originals – The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips · 2007
88 min · 28 tracks · alternative rock · space rock
A kaleidoscopic blend of interviews and reimagined classics that captures the Flaming Lips' eccentric charm.
Why this album works
This album is significant for its innovative format, combining original tracks with candid interviews, providing insight into the band's creative process. It also highlights the band's commercial resurgence in the mid-2000s, building upon their Grammy Award-winning success and further cementing their influence in the alternative music scene.
- Best for
- dynamic journey with varied pacing kaleidoscopic blend of interviews reflective moments between tracks
- Context
- Released in 2007, this album came as The Flaming Lips were enjoying a resurgence following their acclaimed 2002 release, 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.' The band had solidified their position as pioneers in alternative rock, using this iTunes Originals collection to reflect on their unique journey and artistic philosophy.
- Stylistic neighbors
- Green Day· Neil Young· Moby· Beck· Tori Amos· Linkin Park· Sonic Youth· Nine Inch Nails
Tracklist
Best experienced from track one — press play and let it unfold.
- 1 iTunes Originals 0:05
- 2 Pompeii am Gotterdammerung (iTunes Originals version) 3:13
- 3 Body Builder Porn (interview) 1:42
- 4 Talkin’ ’bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to live Forever) 3:49
- 5 Dreaming of Bad Things to Feel Good (interview) 2:15
- 6 Bad Days 4:39
- 7 The Strange Becomes Acceptable (interview) 2:26
- 8 She Don’t Use Jelly 3:42
- 9 How Wayne Found the Space Bubble (interview) 2:02
- 10 Turn It On 4:41
- 11 We Should All Try Harder (interview) 2:47
- 12 Race for the Prize Standout 4:23
- 13 A Hit for Weddings or Funerals (interview) 2:04
- 14 Do You Realize?? (iTunes Originals version) Standout 3:25
- 15 Introducing the Animal Band (interview) 2:24
- 16 Cow Jam (iTunes Originals version) 2:29
- 17 The Cat Stevens Connection (interview) 2:22
- 18 Fight Test 4:16
- 19 Body Parts on the Highway (Interview) 2:29
- 20 Why Does It End? (iTunes Originals version) 3:31
- 21 A Children’s Fable for Grown‐Ups (interview) 2:42
- 22 The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song Standout 4:55
- 23 Dreaming of Devendra (interview) 3:04
- 24 Free Radicals (iTunes Originals version) 3:40
- 25 Black Sabbath, Naked Women and Voting (interview) 3:09
- 26 War Pigs (iTunes Originals version) 4:00
- 27 Traveling in Space While Listening to the Beatles (interview) 1:33
- 28 It Overtakes Me 6:51
Reference: Wikipedia · MusicBrainz · Wikidata
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