The Flaming Lips ‘Yoshimi…’ Deluxe Vinyl Box Set Out Now
The Flaming Lips celebrate the 20th anniversary of their classic 2002 album, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, with an expansive box set – out now on vinyl.
Order the 5LP box set of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: 20th Anniversary Edition HERE
The LP box set has 40 tracks never released on vinyl and over 30 previously unreleased tracks, see the full tracklisting below.
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.
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition tracklisting:
5LP Box Set
Side 1
1. “Fight Test” (LP1)
2. “One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21”
3. “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” (part 1)
4. “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” (part 2)
5. “In The Morning Of The Magicians”
Side 2
1. “Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell”
2. “Are You A Hypnotist??”
3. “It’s Summertime”
4. “Do You Realize??”
5. “All We Have Is Now”
6. “Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)”
Side 3
1. “All My Life – Morning Of The Magicians” (LP2: demos+)
2. “Ego Tripping” (part 2 Or 3)
3. “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots”
4. “Hypnotist” (Early version)
5. “Epic Systems Delirium”
6. “In The Morning Of The Magicians”
Side 4
1. “Do You Realize??” (1st Chords Wayne)
2. “Do You Realize??” (Steven New part)
3. “Fight Test” (Primitive demo with Helium Voice)
4. “If I Go Mad/Funeral In My Head”
5. “Syrtis Major”
Side 5
1. “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” (Japanese version – LP3: Non-LP+)
2. “SpongeBob & Patrick Confront The Psychic Wall Of Energy”
3. “Seven Nation Army”
4. Sparklehorse – “Go” (with The Flaming Lips)
5. “The Deterioration Of The Fight Or Flight Response”
6. “Fight Test” (live On WXRT)
Side 6
1. “Do You Realize??” (live On CD101)
2. “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” (AOL Session)
3. “Waitin’ For A Superman” (live On WXPN)
4. “In The Morning Of The Magicians” (live On KCRW)
5. “White Christmas” (live On WXPN)
6. The Chemical Brothers – “The Golden Path” (feat The Flaming Lips)
Side 7
1. “Suspicious Minds” (live On Cover-ed – LP4: radio Sessions)
2. “Assassination Of The Sun” (live On BBC radio 1)
3. “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” (live On BBC radio 1)
4. “Do You Realize??” (live On BBC radio 1)
5. “One More Robot” (live On BBC radio 1)
Side 8
1. “Do You Realize??” (live On KEXP)
2. “One More Robot” (live On KEXP)
3. “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” (live On KEXP)
4. “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” (live On KEXP)
5. “Breathe” (live On XFM)
6. “Ego Tripping AtThe Gates Of Hell” (live On XFM)
7. “Sunship Balloons” (live On XFM)
Side 9
1. “Fight Test” (live On XFM – LP5: radio Sessions+)
2. “Thank You Jack White” (live On XFM)
3. “Do You Realize??” (live On XFM)
4. “One More Robot” (live On XFM)
5. “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head” (live On XFM)
Side 10
1. “Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell” (live On BBC radio 1)
2. “Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots” (live On BBC radio 1)
3. “Sunship Balloons” (live On BBC radio 1)
4. “Up Above The Daily Hum”
5. “Xanthe Terra”