Album cover video: I don’t know what the hell the Grammy Award votes think when they vote for Best Instrumental Performance, but this simple track from The Flaming Lips won that award in 2003. I think they ofttimes give the … Continue reading
Album cover video: The final set of lyrics on Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots appears on the penultimate track, “All We Have Is Now.” Wayne Coyne uses the device of a time traveler to drive home a point about life … Continue reading
Live on David Lettermen: “Do You Realize” was the the first single from Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots and may well be the Flaming Lips’ most poignantly lovely song. Let me quote a section of the lyrics: Do you realize … Continue reading
Album cover: There are some appropriate summery animal noises at the start of “It’s Summertime (Throbbing Orange Pallbearers).” For me, that’s the most memorable part of the song. Its otherwise a melancholy, slight trip-hop number that has suffered for being … Continue reading
As near as I can tell, this is an official video: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots really features some mellow tunes, and “Are You A Hypnotist?” is no exception. While the chorus feels like a sort of statement of triumph … Continue reading
Album cover video: “Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell” was the third single from Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. The song is about somebody who imagines certain things (like that a woman is going to love him) but never … Continue reading
Album cover: The opening of “In The Morning Of The Magicians” is this gloriously clean and lovely keyboard line with bass. About a minute in, it shifts to a simple vocal accompanied by acoustic guitar, some gentle drumming and a … Continue reading
Album cover video: This instrumental is allegedly the actual battle between Yoshimi and the pink robots. You can hear her yelling from time to time. She wins! Hurray! Now, I mentioned earlier that singer/songwriter Coyne has stressed that this album … Continue reading
The official video is here and worth a watch. Here’s an album cover video in the meantime: The first part of the title track from Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is a gloriously and deliberately naive superhero story. It reminds … Continue reading
Album cover video: The number 3000-21 in the title refers to the robotic main character of “One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21″. This robot has been programmed to have emotions and, as a result, it “learns to be/something more than a machine.” … Continue reading