Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots cover
Studio album by The Flaming Lips
Released July 15, 2002 (U.K.)
July 16, 2002 (U.S.)
Recorded June 2000 - April 2002
Genre Psychedelic, Indie rock
Length 47:25
Label Warner Brothers Records
Producer(s) The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker
Professional reviews
The Flaming Lips chronology
The Soft Bulletin
(1999)		 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
(2002)		 At War with the Mystics
(2006)


Alternate cover
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 5.1 cover
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 5.1 cover

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the tenth album by The Flaming Lips, released on July 16, 2002 and characterized by synthesizer-driven, psychedelic-tinged alternative rock compositions. Yoshimi's lyrics concern a diverse array of subject matter, mostly deeply melancholy ponderings about love, mortality, artificial emotion, pacifism, and deception, while telling the story of Yoshimi's battle. The title character is believed to be an allusion to Boredoms/OOIOO member Yoshimi P-We, who also performs on the album.

Some listeners consider Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots to be a concept album, but the storyline is unclear.

The refrain of track one, "Fight Test", echoes Cat Stevens's "Father and Son". Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, is receiving royalties following a relatively uncontentious settlement. The band's frontman, Wayne Coyne, claims that he was unaware of the songs' similarities until producer Dave Fridmann pointed them out [1].

"Fight Test" was also the theme song for the short-lived MTV cartoon, 3 South.

"Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" won a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

In addition to the single compact disc format, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots was also released as a special two-disc release in 2003. This version contains the regular album and a DVD containing various alternate takes, b-sides, music videos, video footage from the album recordings, and the trailer for The Flaming Lips' upcoming film, Christmas on Mars. In addition to bonus content on the DVD, there is a 5.1 DVD-Audio version of the entire album included. There was also a limited edition translucent pink/orange LP version.

A secret message from the band is included on the original album on the inside of the right spine. It reads "You Have Found The Secret Message, Do You Have too Much Time on Your Hands? ...Let it Go".

In 2003, British bastard pop DJ Eric Kleptone released an album called Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots which paired instrumentals from the Flaming Lips' album with rap lyrics.

The album was certified Gold in April 2006. [2]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Regular edition

  1. "Fight Test" – 4:14
  2. "One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21" – 4:59
  3. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1" – 4:45
  4. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2" – 2:57
  5. "In the Morning of the Magicians" – 6:18
  6. "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" – 4:34
  7. "Are You a Hypnotist??" – 4:44
  8. "It's Summertime" (Throbbing Orange Pallbearers) – 4:20
  9. "Do You Realize??" – 3:32
  10. "All We Have Is Now" – 3:53
  11. "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" – 3:09

[edit] Special edition DVD

  1. "Fight Test" – 4:12
  2. "One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21" – 5:01
  3. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1" – 4:48
  4. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2" – 2:52
  5. "In the Morning of the Magicians" – 6:25
  6. "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" – 4:25
  7. "Are You a Hypnotist??" – 4:50
  8. "It's Summertime" – 5:45
  9. "Do You Realize??" – 3:32
  10. "All We Have Is Now" – 3:53
  11. "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" – 3:12
Bonus DVD audio tracks
  1. "Up Above the Daily Hum"
  2. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1 (Japanese version)"
  3. "If I Go Mad (Funeral in my Head)"
  4. "Do You Realize?? Floating in Space Remix (Edit)"
  5. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1 (AOL sessions)"
  6. "Do You Realize?? (CD101 version)"
Bonus DVD video tracks
  1. "Do You Realize?? (Mark Pellington version)"
  2. "Do You Realize?? (Wayne Coyne * Bradley Beesley * George Salisbury version)"
  3. "Making of the Do You Realize?? Video"
  4. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1"
  5. "Making of the Yoshimi Video"
  6. "Fight Test"
  7. "Phoebe Battles the Pink Robots"
  8. "Christmas on Mars (Movie trailer)"
  9. "Making of the Yoshimi DVD-A"
  10. "Are You a Hypnotist?? (George's Photogenic Stimulation Theory #1134)"
DVD-ROM extras
  1. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1 (Animated episode)"
  2. "Fight Test (Animated episode)"

[edit] See also

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"
Related articles
Fearless Freaks | Christmas on Mars | VOID | Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen | Dave Fridmann
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