At War with the Mystics

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At War with the Mystics
At War with the Mystics cover
Studio album by The Flaming Lips
Released April 3, 2006
April 4, 2006 (U.S.)
Recorded Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, New York
June 2004 – January 2006
Genre Rock, Psychedelic
Length 54:53
Label Warner Bros. Records
Producer The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker
Professional reviews
The Flaming Lips chronology
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
(2002)
At War with the Mystics
(2006)
Alternate cover
At War with the Mystics 5.1 cover.
At War with the Mystics 5.1 cover.

At War with the Mystics is the title of the Grammy-winning eleventh album by the Flaming Lips. It was released on April 3, 2006 in international markets, and April 4, 2006 in the United States. It includes a different mix of the song, "Mr. Ambulance Driver", which was originally used as part of the soundtrack to the 2005 film Wedding Crashers. The album is more guitar-driven than The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, and has a stronger political bent lyrically than previous efforts.[1]

The track "It Overtakes Me" has gained considerable interest, being featured as the soundtrack to a UK television commercial for Beck's beer, and "The W.A.N.D." has been used in European adverts for Bud Light and for Dell Computers in the U.K. and the U.S.

"The Wizard Turns On..." won a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The album was nominated for the Best Alternative Album Grammy. The 5.1 mix of the album was nominated for Best Surround Sound Album in 2008.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

  1. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)" – 4:51
  2. "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)" – 3:39
  3. "The Sound of Failure / It's Dark... Is It Always this Dark??" – 7:18

[edit] Side two

  1. "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)" – 4:48
  2. "Vein of Stars" – 4:15
  3. "The Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight and Puts on His Werewolf Moccasins" – 3:41

[edit] Side three

  1. "It Overtakes Me/The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?" – 6:50
  2. "Mr. Ambulance Driver" – 4:21
  3. "Haven't Got a Clue" – 3:23

[edit] Side four

  1. "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" – 3:44
  2. "Pompeii am Götterdämmerung" – 4:22
  3. "Goin' On" – 3:39

[edit] iTunes exclusive tracks

  1. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (This track originally appeared on Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen) – 6:36
  2. "The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness" – 4:47
  3. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (Long version) – 5:22

"The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness" also appears as the final track on the Japanese import version.

[edit] At War with the Mystics 5.1

Like The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi, At War with the Mystics was released as a special edition 5.1 CD+DVD-Audio mix on October 24, 2006. It is accompanied with studio outtakes, videos and exclusive radio sessions.

[edit] Package content

  1. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)" – 5:22
  2. "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)" – 3:39
  3. "The Sound of Failure / It's Dark... Is It Always this Dark??" – 7:18
  4. "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)" – 5:01
  5. "Vein of Stars" – 4:58
  6. "The Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight and Puts on His Werewolf Moccasins" – 3:45
  7. "It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?" – 6:55
  8. "Mr. Ambulance Driver" – 4:21
  9. "Haven't Got a Clue" – 3:23
  10. "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" – 3:44
  11. "Pompeii am Götterdämmerung" – 4:19
  12. "Goin' On" – 3:44
  • Outtakes:
  1. "Why Does It End?" – 4:38
  2. "You Gotta Hold On" – 4:52
  3. "Your Face Can Tell the Future" – 5:20
  4. "The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness" – 4:47
  5. "Time Travel?? Yes!!" – 3:23
  6. "Bohemian Rhapsody" – 6:36
  • Radio sessions:
  1. "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion" – 4:39
  2. "Goin' On" – 3:43
  3. "Unmade Bed / No Quarter" – 6:55
  4. "The Sound of Failure" – 4:03
  5. "Vein of Stars" – 4:50
  6. "Vein of Stars" (Operatic Spook) – 4:15
  7. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (Chicken Fried Hoedown Protest Rally) – 4:44
  8. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (In Anatropous Reflex) – 4:22
  • Videos:
  1. "Mr. Ambulance Driver"
  2. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"
  3. "The W.A.N.D."
  4. "2006 OKC Classen High Commencement Speech"

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