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2002 studio album past the Flaming Lips

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
A painting of the backside of a girl facing a pink robot
Studio album by

the Flaming Lips
Released July 16, 2002 (2002-07-16)
Recorded June 2000 – April 2002
Studio Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, New York
Genre
  • Neo-psychedelia
  • space rock
  • dream pop
Length 47:25
Characterization Warner Bros.
Producer
  • The Flaming Lips
  • Dave Fridmann
  • Scott Booker
The Flaming Lips chronology
The Soft Bulletin
(1999) 		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
(2002) 		At War with the Mystics
(2006)
Singles from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
  1. "Do Y'all Realize??"
    Released: August 19, 2002
  2. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. one"
    Released: March 2003
  3. "Fight Test"
    Released: Apr 22, 2003
  4. "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell"
    Released: November eighteen, 2003

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the 10th studio album by American stone band the Flaming Lips, released on July xvi, 2002, by Warner Bros. Records. The album saw the band pursue a more electronic direction than previous efforts, incorporating acoustic guitars and rhythms influenced by hip hop and summit 40 music. The album was well-received critically and commercially, helping the band pause into popularity, and was adapted into a musical in 2012.[i]

Music and lyrics [edit]

The lyrics of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots concern a various array of subject matter, mostly melancholy ponderings almost love, bloodshed, bogus emotion, pacifism, and deception, while telling the story of Yoshimi's battle. The championship character is inspired by Boredoms/OOIOO member Yoshimi P-We, post-obit a comment in the Flaming Lips studio that her machine-sound abstract singing sounds like she is battling monsters—Coyne added 'pink'.[2] P-We also performs on the anthology. Some listeners consider Yoshimi Battles the Pinkish Robots to exist a concept anthology; withal, the story is debated, equally it is merely directly credible in the beginning four tracks. Despite the story-type title and scientific discipline fiction themes, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has made it clear that Yoshimi is not intended to be a concept album.[iii]

The vocal melody of runway one, "Fight Test", echoes True cat Stevens'southward "Father and Son". Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, is receiving royalties following a relatively uncontentious settlement. Coyne has claimed that he was unaware of the songs' similarities until producer Dave Fridmann pointed them out.[4] This claim, however, is contradicted by his statement to Rolling Stone mag: "I know 'Father and Son' and I knew there would exist a trivial bit of comparison. 'Fight Test' is non a reference necessarily to the ideas of 'Begetter and Son', only definitely a reference to the cadency, the melody, and chord progression. I think it'due south such a nifty arrangement of chords and melody".[5] The final track, "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)", won a 2002 Grammy Honour for Best Stone Instrumental Performance. The Flaming Lips as well won the same laurels for "The Wizard Turns On...", taken from At War with the Mystics, in 2006.[ citation needed ]

Release [edit]

Commercial performance [edit]

In recent years,[ when? ] Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots has had a bigger commercial impact[ specify ] than the band's 1999 breakthrough album The Soft Message, and became their first gold-certified release in April 2006.[vi] As of 2009, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots has sold 570,000 copies in United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[seven]

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Professional person ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 84/100[8]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic [ix]
Blender [10]
Entertainment Weekly B+[11]
The Guardian [12]
NME 9/10[13]
Pitchfork 8.4/x[14]
Q [15]
Rolling Stone [16]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide [17]
Uncut [18]

Yoshimi Battles the Pinkish Robots received widespread acclaim from critics.[8] On Metacritic, the album has a weighted average score of 84 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[19] Calling the album "every bit strange as it is wonderful", Billboard still noted that "below the sunny, computer-generated atmospherics and the campy veneer of talk almost gladiator-style clashes between human and machines with emotions, Yoshimi is really a somber rumination on dearest and survival in an unfathomable globe."[20] Tom Moon of Rolling Stone praised the anthology'due south "ambitious" product,[21] while Fortune magazine called it "a lush and haunting electronic symphony."[22] Uncut declared that "even by their standards, Yoshimi is astonishing."[xviii] Robert Christgau of The Hamlet Phonation gave the anthology a iii-star honorable mention rating,[23] indicating "an enjoyable try consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well treasure".[24] Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots appeared in the best-albums-of-the-decade lists of several music publications, such as Rolling Stone (#27) and Uncut (#11), with Uncut also declaring information technology the greatest album released in the magazine's lifetime. The album was as well included in the book 1001 Albums Yous Must Hear Earlier Yous Die.[25]

Musical [edit]

In 2007, it was announced that the anthology would be made into a Broadway musical by The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin and director Des McAnuff.[26] [27] Frontman Wayne Coyne said of the plot:

There's the real earth and so there's this fantastical world. This girl, the Yoshimi grapheme, is dying of cancer. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the infirmary. And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the daughter, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It's about like the affliction has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that.

Des McAnuff stated that Aaron Sorkin exited the project after it became clear the musical would be sung-through.[28] The musical includes existing songs from the album, as well every bit ii other Flaming Lips albums, The Soft Message and At State of war with the Mystics.[29] The show received its world premiere at the Tony Award-winning La Jolla Playhouse in November 2012, starring Kimiko Glenn as Yoshimi Yasukawa, Paul Nolan every bit Ben Nickel, Nik Walker as Booker, Pearl Sunday equally Mrs. Yasukawa, John Haggerty equally Mr. Yasukawa and Tom Hewitt as Dr. Petersen.[ commendation needed ]

Rails listing [edit]

All tracks are written by The Flaming Lips (Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins) except where noted.

No. Title Length
1. "Fight Exam" (The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Cat Stevens) 4:14
2. "Ane More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21" 4:59
three. "Yoshimi Battles the Pinkish Robots, Pt. 1" four:45
iv. "Yoshimi Battles the Pinkish Robots, Pt. 2" 2:57
5. "In the Morning time of the Magicians" six:18
six. "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" 4:34
seven. "Are Y'all a Hypnotist??" 4:44
viii. "It'southward Summer" 4:20
9. "Do You Realize??" (The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann) 3:33
10. "All We Take Is Now" 3:53
eleven. "Approaching Pavonis Mons past Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" 3:09
Total length: 47:25
Special edition environment sound DVD-Audio
No. Championship Length
1. "Fight Test" 4:14
2. "One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21" 4:59
three. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1" 4:45
four. "Yoshimi Battles the Pinkish Robots Pt. ii" 2:57
5. "In the Morning time of the Magicians" half dozen:19
6. "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" iv:33
7. "Are You a Hypnotist??" 4:44
8. "It'due south Summertime" 5:45
9. "Do You Realize??" 3:32
10. "All We Accept Is Now" iii:53
11. "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Airship (Utopia Planitia)" 3:12
DVD-Audio exclusive tracks
No. Championship Length
1. "Upwards Above the Daily Hum"
2. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. ane" (Japanese version)
iii. "If I Go Mad (Funeral in My Head)"
four. "Do You Realize?? Floating in Space Remix" (Edit)
5. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. ane" (AOL sessions)
vi. "Exercise Yous Realize??" (CD101 version)
DVD-Video bonus tracks
No. Title Length
one. "Exercise You Realize??" (Mark Pellington version)
2. "Do You Realize??" (Wayne Coyne * Bradley Beesley * George Salisbury version)
3. "Making of the Do Yous Realize??" (Video)
iv. "Yoshimi Battles the Pinkish Robots, Pt. 1"
5. "Making of the Yoshimi Video"
6. "Fight Test"
seven. "Phoebe Battles the Pinkish Robots"
8. "Christmas on Mars" (Flick trailer)
ix. "Making of the Yoshimi DVD-A"
ten. "Are You a Hypnotist??" (George'southward Photogenic Stimulation Theory #1134)
DVD-ROM extras
No. Title Length
1. "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. one" (Animated episode)
2. "Fight Test" (Animated episode)

Personnel [edit]

The Flaming Lips

  • Wayne Coyne – songwriting, vocals, guitars, cover paintings, mixing, product
  • Steven Drozd – songwriting, drums, guitars, keyboards, electronics, bass, vocals, mixing, production
  • Michael Ivins – songwriting, bass, keyboards, backing vocals, mixing, production, additional engineering

Boosted personnel

  • Yoshimi P-We – phonation
  • Dave Fridmann – boosted songwriting, product, mixing, programming, engineering, mastering
  • Scott Booker – production
  • Trent Bong – additional tracking
  • Andy Taub – additional tracking
  • George Salisbury – design and layout

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

References [edit]

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