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Track Listings
1 | Fight Test |
2 | One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-21 |
3 | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1 |
4 | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2 |
5 | In the Morning of the Magicians |
6 | Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell |
7 | Are You a Hypnotist?? |
8 | It's Summertime |
9 | Do You Realize?? |
10 | All We Have Is Now |
11 | Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia) |
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Do you realize it's summertime? So celebrate the sunshine with the optimisic and philosophical spirit of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips' long-awaited follow-up to 1999's The Soft Bulletin, which topped an avalanche of year-end "best of" lists and helped rank the psychedelic-noise-popsters among the most influential bands in the world (#15 according to NME). "It's storytelling acid rock," say The Flaming Lips, "and will render its listeners powerless to study or analyze it and enable them to sit back and--hopefully for a couple of minutes at a time--just simply be...entertained."
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 4.92 x 5.55 x 0.39 inches; 3.17 ounces
- Manufacturer : Warner Records
- Item model number : 093624814122
- Original Release Date : 2002
- SPARS Code : DDD
- Date First Available : January 21, 2007
- Label : Warner Records
- ASIN : B000068PQ0
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #20,845 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #233 in American Alternative Rock
- #469 in Indie Rock
- #8,999 in Pop (CDs & Vinyl)
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But enough about Pink Floyd: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is like DSotM in terms of studio wizardry, except that the songwriting is excellent on every single track. So if you DO love DSotM, you will love this maybe even more! The first four tracks don't really fit the description I just gave, however. Tracks 1 and 3 are pure pop excellence, upbeat jams with fun (but not stupid) lyrics and incredibly catchy hooks, plus some of that signature Flaming Lips quirkiness. Tracks 2 and 4 are similar in style, both focusing on purely-electronic sounds (as opposed to the mix of electronic sounds and filtered instruments from 1 and 3) and VERY skillful drumming. Track 2 is a groovy jam with a slick bassline and very in-the-pocket percussion, with loopy, falsetto-ey lyrics and smooth transitions from major to minor tonality. Track 4 is an instrumental (mostly), actually Part 2 of the title track (track 3 is Part 1). It focuses on the same pallete of sounds from track 2, but used to opposite effect: the synth is angry and glitchy, the drums are absolutely thunderous, cymbal-heavy, and have more elasticity, and the coldly-disconcerting falsetto has been replaced with ferocious female shrieks. It's a wonderful piece.
After track 4 is where the DSotM parallels apply heavily. The first four tunes are really, really great, and I do believe most critics say the album goes downhill afterward, but I would stalwartly disagree. The rest of the album does have less energy, to be sure, but what it loses in catchiness it gains in compositional complexity and (like Pink Floyd) soundscape. Everyone will surely have their own favorites, but I particularly like track 7, "Are You a Hypnotist?" and track 10, "All We Have is Now." The former is veeeeeerry DSotM-esque in terms of mood. It's dark, emotional, and very dense. A particularly good sonic effect is the speed oscillation of one of the backing tracks, creating a warbling sound similar to the music in old VHS tapes. The minor-major shift at the end of the chorus is also incredibly effective. Track 10 probably should have been the closer, and it is excellent. It has a simple ABAB format, with only slight lyrical differences between A parts (2 lines), but three things make this track really stand out. First, there is the melody itself, which is one of the best that the Lips have written, with a lilting rising-and-falling quality. The second is a combination of Coyne's singing (delicate, precise, no vibrato) and the electronic effects laid over it (it seems like the overtones have been diminished, and the overall sound has been compressed and slightly electronic-ized), creating a flat, dry tone that somehow carries a very specific emotion. It's both solemn and blissful, paralleling the dual nature of the song's lyrics (essentially: our time is short, which is sad, but we have Now and Now is beautiful and wonderful). The final thing about this song is the rhythm. Oh my goodness, the rhythm. It's very simple: sparse percussion in part A, a tiny accelerando, and sparse percussion in part B. But that accelerando is ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. The actual numerical amount of tempo increase, the speed at which it changes, the way the rest of the song follows it... everything about that little accelerando is marvelously executed and conveys as much emotion and meaning as the whole rest of the album, at least for me.
Okay, I'm done with this review. The tracks I didn't mention are also all great (though the final track REALLY should not be the final track), but I'm not going to discuss them. I talked about the first four because they are pop miracles that EVERYONE will probably love, and since the ones after that are more complex and ambiguous, everyone will probably have different opinions on them, so I just talked about MY favorites. But they're all great, this album is great, and you should buy it right now.
So I finally broke down because another recording came out on vinyl only... it was my only option - sneaky, right? What I have discovered since is that LPs are just a lot of fun. Music is integrated into my life now with the advent of phonep3 players and cloud streaming, and one thing I never realized I missed from my younger days was just the act of sitting down, pulling out a record/cassette/whatever, and having the listening be what was happening, not just the soundtrack to whatever else I was doing.
I think this release really speaks to the fun of listening to music; the red vinyl, the cover art.. everything about it just says "have a good time with this record." It doesn't hurt that the audio quality is really good, too. The only down side is that my cat is strangely attracted to the red vinyl and desperately wants to jump on the record player when its moving. If it gets scratched up from this I will buy another copy. Amazon's packaging is fantastic and new purchases always arrived well-protected and ready to play.
The real world optimism and thematic scope of late 60s concept albums, the far-thrown experimentalism of mid-career Pink Floyd, the delicacy and patience of the best Neil Young, the cosmic trippiness of Frank Zappa, the melodic traditionalism of the finest McCartney, and some of the coolest rhythm-based Bass guitar playing you'll ever hear, all on one record. It's way cool, intelligent and just great, great music.
The day YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS showed up in my mailbox I worked 15 straight hours putting my newspaper to bed. Going home that night I drove around for an extra 30 minutes, just so I could listen to this record all the way through. I didn't want it to end.
I never want it to end. It is, without any doubt, the best record of the last year; one of the three or four best--along with YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT and Aimee Mann's BACHELOR NO. 2--of the past decade, and an overlooked classic of the Rock era.
Five stars doesn't even begin to cover it.
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Solid remaster with worthwhile extra concert material that is really good to hear for the first time and warrants repeated plays.
Very good quality vinyl,flat and quiet backgrounds.
If you’re a fan then I would strongly recommend the set