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	The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork (6.5/10) 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. The single version of the "Fight Test" release was released in June 23, 2003, peaking at #28 in the UK Singles Chart. The song is originally from the 2002 album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots."

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" is musically very similar to Cat Stevens's 1970 song "Father and Son." Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, is receiving royalties following a relatively noncontentious settlement. The band's frontman, Wayne Coyne, claims that he was unaware of the songs' similarities until producer Dave Fridmann pointed them out.^{[citation needed]}

The opening of "Fight Test" ("The test begins...now") was sampled from one of the sync tests from the Flaming Lips' own Boombox Experiments.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 UK CD1 1.2 UK CD2 1.3 UK DVD 2 Chart Positions 2.1 US EP 2.2 UK single

[edit] Track listing

1. "Fight Test" – 4:08
2. "Can't Get You out of My Head (KEXP Version)" – 4:06 (a cover of the Kylie Minogue song)
3. "The Golden Age (CD101 Version)" – 3:12 (a cover the Beck song)
4. "Knives Out (KCRW Version)" – 4:21 (a cover of the Radiohead song)
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)"

[edit] Chart Positions

[edit] US EP

Chart	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Album Chart	93

[edit] UK single

Chart	Peak position
U.K. Singles Chart	28

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