| Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 354 reviews)
Sales Rank: 2763
Category: Music
Artist: The Flaming Lips
Publisher: Warner Bros / Wea
Studio: Warner Bros / Wea
Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 48141
UPC: 093624814122
EAN: 0093624814122
ASIN: B000068PQ0
Release Date: July 16, 2002
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| Tracks:
| • | Fight Test | | • | One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 | | • | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt.1 | | • | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt.2 | | • | In The Morning of the Magicians=20 | | • | Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell | | • | Are You A Hypnotist?? | | • | It's Summertime | | • | Do You Realize?? | | • | All We Have Is Now | | • | Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia) |
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Album Description
Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips' long awaited follow-up to 1999's The Soft Bulletin. Guest artist Yoshimi P-we plays with psyche-noise-experimental group the Boredoms and leads her own band OOIOO. The Yoshimi in the songs, however, is a fictional character. 11 tracks. 2002.
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As these dimpled moptops from Oklahoma grow pepper-bearded and transform into wizened elder statesmen of sonic adventuring, the heartfelt candy of their loving bubblegum stretches ever longer into echoing soundscapes. If Radiohead are halfway to becoming U2, the Flaming Lips are nine-tenths of the way to pop nirvana. Hardly a song on Yoshimi isn't resonated, echoed, and reverberated--floating the listener higher until they have the ultimate bird's-eye view of what makes a great band tick. As with any album by the band, it's hard not to imagine parades and a sky filled with helium balloons while you listen to any of it--in this case, the party is enhanced brilliantly by digital filters and silver shimmering asides. The most immediate songs, like "One More Robot (3000-21)," are digital (almost trip-hop) dance numbers that lift the band out of the cornfields and into the loopy land of Bjoerk. Little surprise, then, that the band are already following up this majestic splash of gummy bear brilliance by recording a CD with kids' TV show host Steve from Blue's Clues. It's like Woodstock meets Snoopy! --Ian Christe
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 Unreal, no really... November 13, 2008
I just got into the flaming lips about a year ago and thank God I did. I was looking for some new music that wasn't the same old same old and found it coming out of Oklohoma. I bought the Soft bulletin first because thats where I was told to start. It was a great album (4.5 stars) but Yoshimi is by far my favourite of their albums. It is more addicting then anything I have ever listened to and that includes Dark Side of the Moon and Meddle which I love dearly. So I have kept purchasing Flaming lips albums(I believe I am up to 7) and although they are all either really good or mostly solid they do not stack up to this one. This is pure 5 stars and I don't know many albums that are a perfect 5. Anyways, get it and give it a few listens. It will grow on you each time until you can't go a day without playing it. Although every SINGLE SONG is fantastic, highlights for me include: Yoshimi battles the pink robots pt. 1 and 2, In the morning of the magicians and Ego tripping at the gates of hell.
Addictive as any drug.. October 23, 2008
Seriously, this album should come with an addiction warning. Upon my first few listens, like many albums, it seemed merely a good album. At first I did not like the electronic feel and overall production, which is a bit different from their earlier sound.
After a few listens, this feeling of musical addition was replaced with the understanding that this album is a true work of art: beautiful, symbolic, inspiring, chaotic, mesmerizing, thought provoking, and powerful. The lyrics are profound and moving. Obvious themes of life, death, regret and gratitude dominate what one could call a deeply philosophical yet simple "concept album".
At the surface it is a bit more electronic and way more produced than their earlier albums, but it truly is brilliant. The Lips again prove they are one of the greatest and most underrated bands of the last 20 years.
 Poetic pop, positively gorgeous at times.... September 25, 2008
This band confounds many people, but I really dig them. I have this album and The Soft Bulletin, and they are both pop masterpieces. This band gets compared to Pink Floyd quite a bit, but that's misleading. Lyrically, they can't touch Floyd, and musicially, they're not the same. However, The Flaming Lips are, I guess for lack of a better term, a space pop band, like ABBA with an almost Floydian vibe. Some of the melodies on this album are positively gorgeous, and the layered, thick production is a deep, poetic pop symphony. I especially love Fight Test, one of the Lips' best songs ever, the title track (both parts), and the really beautiful In the Morning of the Magicians (great title). Sometimes the lyrics are a bit obvious and kind of silly, but I believe these guys are sincere, and the melodies are so beautiful and beguiling you can drown out the sometimes subpar lyrics. This is a good album for those interested in getting into The Flaming Lips.
 Are you people on drugs? August 30, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
Because that's the only way I can see anybody can possibly like this boring rubbish. It has no taste whatsoever. If you really like it so much, you might as well get some of Phil Collins's solo work as well. If not, then do yourself a favor and get In A Priest Driven Ambulance. That is all.
Yeah....I like this space rock August 28, 2008
This recording is a winner from start to finish.
They pulled up a feeling from the past and put a
21st century punch to it. By the end of this recording
you are floating. Really a nice feel to Yoshimi.
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