Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Can you believe it's been that long?

Right? It feels like just yesterday we were jamming to Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

What's included in this reissue?

They're releasing a six XLP or six XCD set with tons of archival material, like unreleased tracks and live albums.

the fruits of films cinema great art the fruits of life of true bold of all yep so gold and other metals so anyway before we go too off uh course why don't you josh tell us what four albums we're covering this week before we get to the singles

sure thing we're kicking things off with uh mccluskey with their album mccluskey do dallas followed by damien rice and his debut album oh and then queens of the stone age are back with songs for the deaf and then flaming lips are back with yoshimi battles the pink robots all from

Very nice.

And that takes us into the singles this week.

Maybe that's the take of our final album.

All right.

This is, speaking of John-coded albums, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips comes in at number 14 in the 2000s on Best Ever Albums, number four in 2002, number 116 of all time.

It is The Flaming Lips' highest-rated album on Best Ever Albums.

And, uh, the song is by a band called the, The Flaming Lips.

And it's on, of all things, an album titled Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

[laughs] Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

And the name of a song is a song called Do You Realize? Mm.

So I'm in my car and I hear this, and I, I go, uh...

Now, this was a book that I was familiar with due to two sources.

Firstly, the psychedelic rock band The Flaming Lips recorded a track called In the Morning of the Magicians as part of their iconic 2002 album, Yashimi Battles the Pink Robots, which is one of my favorite albums ever.

And that was hot on the heels of me learning about this book via Gary Valentine Lackman's Turn Off Your Mind.

Now, I spoke about Turn Off Your Mind briefly in the last episode and what a hugely influential book that is.

They

had some great studio albums like The Soft Bulletin in 99 and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in 2002.

And they set aside traditional guitar rock in favor of symphonic pop orchestration and, of course, philosophical lyricism, Wayne Coyne.

At the same time, their live performances evolved into interactive theatrical events featuring giant inflatable human Zorb balls, confetti cannons, laser gloves, and costumed mascot troops.

Right? God.

I've got to go listen to Pink Robots.

Y'all have a great weekend.

Until next time, from Jehu and Boo, take it easy.

So our albums.

Oh, speaking of the Flaming Ellipse, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

And then we're going to be covering McCluskey with McCluskey Do Dallas.

I think it's McCluskey Does Dallas.

Yeah.

I think Yoshimi is where their heads went fully up their ass.

Yeah.

I think

they were starting with Soft Bulletin going up their own ass.

But by Yoshimi, he was fully up his own ass.

Well, that's when they started

getting...

Actually, I think you'd enjoy that one.

And then the last one was The Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

Nice, what did you think of that one? I love it, man.

Real fun.

I'm usually looking for something a bit more interesting.

Flaming Lips, I thought.

So that song, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, was on... rock band two or rock band three or something or other and so as we used to play a lot of rock band i'd heard that song then i was like this is fucking this is super cool but for some reason just never never thought to go and look them up and i want to say about four five six months ago maybe i put that album on one of my walks i was like this is fucking great i'm gonna buy this for sure and i gotta dig into those guys too because i think they're probably probably quite interested in band

uh they played the jazz fest five-ish years ago uh I do believe they were one of the bigger