The Flaming Lips by The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips

1984

The Flaming Lips is a Rock album by The Flaming Lips, originally released in 1984. On Gatefold: 9 pressings tracked.

Sound DNA

  • Rock
  • Psych Rock
  • fuzzy
  • psychedelic
  • chaotic

About

Oklahoma’s psychedelic pop purveyors are masters at wrapping emotionally heavy proclamations inside cosmic blasts of sonic bliss. This is best exemplified on 2002’s <i>Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots</i>, where The Flaming Lips deliver a gorgeous, tearjerking meditation on death (“Do You Realize??”). Thematically, <i>The Terror</i> feels like a sequel to <i>Yoshimi</i>. Amid whirring, warbling layers of sound, the Lips create a dark, post-apocalyptic planet that gives birth to some of their most bleak (“You Are Alone”), industrial (“Butterfly, How Long It Takes to Die”), and atmospheric compositions to date. The deluxe version of <i>The Terror</i> follows a celestial arc, from the opener (“Look . . . the Sun Is Rising”) through the first bonus track, "Sun Blows Up Today." It also includes a seamless mix of the album’s songs, woven together in all of their haunting, pulsating glory.

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Tracklist

  1. 1Look...The Sun Is Rising (Individual Shuffle-Ready Version)3:38
  2. 2Be Free, A Way (Individual Shuffle-Ready Version)4:29
  3. 3Try to Explain (Individual Shuffle-Ready Version)4:43
  4. 4You Lust (Individual Shuffle-Ready Version)9:48
  5. 5The Terror (Individual Shuffle-Ready Version)5:29
  6. 6You Are Alone (Individual Shuffle-Ready Version)3:45
  7. 7Butterfly, How Long It Takes to Die (Individual Shuffle-Ready Version)6:11
  8. 8Turning Violent (Individual Shuffle-Ready Version)4:17
  9. 9Always There...In Our Hearts (Individual Shuffle-Ready Version)4:15
  10. 10The Terror (Full Album)54:58
  11. 11Sun Blows Up Today (Non-Album Bonus Track)3:08
  12. 12We Don't Control The Controls (Mashed-The-F-Up-Remix) [Bonus Track]14:36

Credits

Performers

Rare pressing on Gatefold · 9 pressings tracked on Gatefold