The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)

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"The W.A.N.D."
Single by The Flaming Lips
from the album At War With the Mystics
Released	10 January 2006 (US) 17 July 2006 (UK)
Format	7", CD, Maxi-CD
Recorded	2004-2006
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	3:42
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer(s)	The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker
Chart positions
#43 (UK Singles Chart)
The Flaming Lips singles chronology
"The Golden Path" (2003)	"The W.A.N.D." (2006)	"It Overtakes Me" (2006)
Flaming Lips UK Release chronology
"The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (2006)	"The W.A.N.D." (2006)	It Overtakes Me EP (2006)

"The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" (usually shortened to "The W.A.N.D.") is a song by The Flaming Lips, featured on their 2006 album At War with the Mystics.

Like "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song", another track on the same album, its' lyrics takes on a political subject. The song's riff bears a slight reasemblance to the U2 song "Dirty Day" from Zooropa.

[edit] Release information

"The W.A.N.D." was initially released on online stores such as iTunes Music Store on January 10, 2006.

On March 7 that year a CD single for the track was released in the United States, featuring two unreleased b-sides: a new studio version of "You Got to Hold On" (which would later appear in an online advertisement for Coca-Cola) and "Time Travel... Yes!!" featuring a digitally-altered Steve Burns delivering a spoken monologue about time travel.

Again in 2006, it was released as a commercial single in the United Kingdom on July 17, but failed to enter the top 40.

[edit] US Track Listing

CD

1. "The W.A.N.D."
2. "You Got to Hold On"
3. "Time Travel... Yes!!"

[edit] UK Track Listing

Seven Inch Picture Disc

1. "The W.A.N.D. (Album Version)"
2. "You Got To Hold On"

CD One

1. "The W.A.N.D. (Album Version)"
2. "The W.A.N.D. (Supernaturalistic - Goldfrapp Remix)"

CD Two

1. "The W.A.N.D."
2. "You Got To Hold On"
3. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (In Anatropous Reflex)"
4. "The W.A.N.D." [Video]

The Flaming Lips
Wayne Coyne | Michael Ivins | Steven Drozd | Kliph Scurlock
Mark Coyne | Dave Kostka | Richard English | Jonathan Donahue | Nathan Roberts | Ronald Jones
Discography
Studio albums: Hear It Is | Oh My Gawd!!! | Telepathic Surgery | In a Priest Driven Ambulance | Hit to Death in the Future Head | Transmissions from the Satellite Heart | Clouds Taste Metallic | Zaireeka | The Soft Bulletin | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | At War with the Mystics
Extended plays: The Flaming Lips | Due to High Expectations... | Fight Test | Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell | It Overtakes Me
Compilations: A Collection of Songs... | Punk Rockers | Jesus Egg | Shambolic Birth | Late Night Tales | 20 Years of Weird
Songs: "She Don't Use Jelly" | "Do You Realize??" | "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" | "The W.A.N.D." | "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"
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