Fight Test

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Fight Test
EP by The Flaming Lips
Released	April 22, 2003
Recorded	2002
Genre	Indie rock
Length	32:47
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s)	The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork 5/1/2003
The Flaming Lips EP chronology
The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest (2001)	Fight Test (2003)	Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell (2003)

Fight Test (US version) is an EP by The Flaming Lips featuring the song of the same name, released on Warner Bros. Records in 2003, shortly after the release of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots that same year.

It is an enhanced CD, and it contains covers of Radiohead's "Knives Out", Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You out of My Head" and Beck's "The Golden Age". In addition, the Fight Test EP includes two as-yet unreleased original songs. The UK version was a normal CD single release, which also featured some previously unreleased songs.

The song "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.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 UK CD1 1.2 UK CD2 1.3 UK DVD

[edit] Track listing

1. "Fight Test" – 4:14
2. "Can't Get You out of My Head (KEXP Version)" – 4:06
3. "The Golden Age (CD101 Version)" – 3:12 (a cover of Beck's The Golden Age)
4. "Knives Out (KCRW Version)" – 4:21 (a cover of Radiohead's Knives Out)
5. "Do You Realize?? (Scott Hardkiss Floating in Space Mix)" – 9:06
6. "The Strange Design of Conscience" – 4:31
7. "Thank You Jack White (For the Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)" – 3:40

[edit] UK CD1

1. "Fight Test"
2. "Thank You Jack White (For the Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)"
3. "The Deteoriation of the Fight or Flight Response" (Previously unreleased)

[edit] UK CD2

1. "Fight Test"
2. "The Strange Design of Conscience"
3. "Fight Test (Primitive demo with helium voice)"

[edit] UK DVD

1. "Fight Test" (Video)
2. "Fight Test" (Audio)
3. "Knives Out (From July 02 XFM session)"
4. "One More Robot (From July 02 XFM session)"

The Flaming Lips
Wayne Coyne | Michael Ivins | Steven Drozd
Inactive members: 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 | Wastin' Pigs | Due to High Expectations... | The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest | 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
Singles: "She Don't Use Jelly" | "Do You Realize??" | "Fight Test" | "The Golden Path" | "The W.A.N.D." | "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"
Films and Videos: Fearless Freaks | Christmas on Mars | VOID
See also
Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen | Dave Fridmann | Kliph Scurlock | WikiProject This box: view • talk • edit