The discography of the Flaming Lips, an American rock band formed in 1983, consists of 16 studio albums, 18 extended plays, 15 singles, 10 compilation albums, four video albums and an array of various other appearances.
| The Flaming Lips discography | |
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 The Flaming Lips performing in Mexico City | |
| Studio albums | 16 |
| EPs | 18 |
| Compilation albums | 10 |
| Singles | 15 |
| Video albums | 4 |
Studio albums
edit| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||||||
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| US [1] |
US Heat. [2] |
AUS [3] |
BEL [4] |
JPN [5] |
NZ [6] |
UK [7] | |||
| Hear It Is | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Oh My Gawd!!! |
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| Telepathic Surgery |
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| In a Priest Driven Ambulance |
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| Hit to Death in the Future Head |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Transmissions from the Satellite Heart |
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108 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Clouds Taste Metallic |
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— | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Zaireeka |
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— | — | N/R | N/R | N/R | N/R | N/R | |
| The Soft Bulletin |
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— | 12 | — | — | — | — | 39 | |
| Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
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50 | — | 62 | — | 80 | 47 | 13 | |
| At War with the Mystics |
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11 | — | 20 | 47 | 50 | 36 | 6 |
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| Once Beyond Hopelessness |
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Embryonic |
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8 | — | 43 | 50 | 61 | — | 43 | |
| The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon |
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157 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends |
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139 | — | — | 199 | — | — | 99 | |
| The Terror |
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21 | — | 100 | 39 | 50 | — | 42 | |
| The Time Has Come to Shoot You Down... What a Sound |
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| With a Little Help from My Fwends |
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58 | — | — | 108 | — | — | 84 | |
| Atlas Eets Christmas |
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| Oczy Mlody |
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62 | — | — | 43 | — | — | 38 | |
| King's Mouth |
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— | — | — | 174 | — | — | 78 | |
| American Head |
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172 | — | — | 17 | — | — | 17 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||||
Compilations
edit| Title | Album details | |
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| A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for Recording...By Amateurs |
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| Finally the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid |
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| Shambolic Birth and Early Life Of |
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| The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg |
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| Late Night Tales: The Flaming Lips |
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| 20 Years of Weird: Flaming Lips 1986–2006 |
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| iTunes Originals – The Flaming Lips |
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| Heady Nuggs: The First Five Warner Bros. Records 1992–2002 |
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| Heady Nuggs: 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994–1997 |
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| Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 |
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| Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of the Flaming Lips |
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| Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of the Flaming Lips 1986–1990 |
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| "The Soft Bulletin Companion Album" |
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Extended plays
edit| Title | EP details | Notes |
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| The Flaming Lips |
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| Unconsciously Screamin' |
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CD single containing the non-album tracks "Ma, I Didn't Notice", "Lucifer Rising", and "Let Me Be It" |
| Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical |
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| Due to High Expectations... the Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles for Your Balloons |
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Peaked at No. 182 on the US Billboard 200[1] |
| The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest |
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| Fight Test |
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CD single containing non-album tracks "The Strange Design of Conscience" and "Thank You Jack White (for the Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)"
Peaked at No. 93 on the US Billboard 200[1] |
| Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell |
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CD single non-album tracks "Assassination of the Sun", "I'm a Fly in a Sunbeam (Following the Funeral Procession of a Stranger)", "Sunship Balloons", and "A Change at Christmas (Say It Isn't So)" |
| Yoshimi Wins! (Live Radio Sessions) |
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| It Overtakes Me |
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CD single containing non-album track "I'm Afraid of Dying... Aren't You?" |
| Paranoia and Peace (with Tame Impala) |
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Split vinyl EP sold at Halloween concerts, with the Flaming Lips covering Tame Impala and Tame Impala covering the Flaming Lips.[12] |
| Peace Sword |
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The title track, "Peace Sword (Open Your Heart)", was written for the film Ender's Game. The other tracks on the EP, however, were not accepted by the producers.[13] |
Singles
edit| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||
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| US [14] |
US Alt. [14] |
AUS [3] |
UK [7][15] | ||||
| "Drug Machine"[A] | 1989 | — | — | — | — | Telepathic Surgery | |
| "She Don't Use Jelly" | 1993 | 55 | 9 | 25 | 94 | Transmissions from the Satellite Heart | |
| "Turn It On" | 1995 | — | — | — | — | ||
| "Bad Days"[B] | — | — | — | 77 | Clouds Taste Metallic | ||
| "This Here Giraffe" | 1996 | — | — | — | 72 | ||
| "Brainville" | — | — | — | — | |||
| "Race for the Prize" | 1999 | — | — | — | 39 | The Soft Bulletin | |
| "Waitin' for a Superman" | — | — | — | 73 | |||
| "Do You Realize??" | 2002 | — | — | — | 32 |
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Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1" | 2003 | — | — | — | 18 | ||
| "Fight Test" | — | — | — | 28 | |||
| "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" | 2006 | 108 | — | — | 41 | At War with the Mystics | |
| "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)" | — | — | 79 | 16 | |||
| "Love the World You Find" | 2007 | — | — | — | — | Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium | |
| "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (featuring Miley Cyrus and Moby) |
2014 | — | — | — | — | With a Little Help from My Fwends | |
| "Space Oddity" | 2016 | — | — | — | — | non-album single | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. | |||||||
The Flaming Lips 2011 series
edit| Title | Month | Details | Type | Notes |
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| The Flaming Lips 2011 #1: Two Blobs Fucking | February |
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music video | Released as a 12-piece track on YouTube, each accompanied by its own respective video. Similar to their Zaireeka album, it is meant to be played simultaneously on 12 separate smartphones.[18] |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #2: The Flaming Lips with Neon Indian | March |
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EP | Collaborative mini-album with Neon Indian released at various records stores on special colored 12" vinyl. |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #3: Gummy Song Skull | April |
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Released at various record stores as a giant skull made of an edible gelatin substance. Inside the skull was a USB stick containing 4 new songs. | |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #4: The Flaming Lips with Prefuse 73 | May |
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Collaborative mini-album with Guillermo Scott Herren, released at various records stores on randomly colored 12" vinyls. | |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #5: The Soft Bulletin Live la Fantastique de Institution 2011 | June |
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remix album | Rerecorded version of The Soft Bulletin live in-studio, released at two shows at the Hollywood Cemetery, |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #6: Gummy Song Fetus |
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EP | Released at various record stores as a replica of an unborn fetus made of an edible gelatin substance. Inside the fetus was a USB stick containing 3 new songs. | |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #7: The Flaming Lips with Lightning Bolt | July |
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Collaborative mini-album with Lightning Bolt, released at various records stores. | |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #8: Strobo Trip – Light & Audio Phase Illusions Toy | September |
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album | Box set released at various records stores containing a stroboscope light and a memory stick with three tracks of music, including one six-hour track. |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #9: 7 Skies H3 – 24 Hour Skull | October |
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One 24-hour track released on limited edition flash drives encased in real human skulls, for Halloween. A website was also set up, streaming the song on an endless loop. | |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #10: Atlas Eets Christmas – Infinite Christmas Sounds | November |
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compilation album | Anthology of Flaming Lips Christmas songs, streamed on a loop at atlaseetschristmas.com.[19] |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #11: The Flaming Lips with Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band | December |
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EP | Collaborative EP with Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band, released at a New Year's Eve concert, on 2000 multi-colored 12" vinyl, 600 of which glowed in the dark.[20] |
Other appearances
editStudio
edit| Year | Title | Release | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | "After the Gold Rush" | The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young | Neil Young cover |
| 1992 | "Ballrooms of Mars" | split single with Mr. Bungle | T-Rex cover |
| 1993 | "Sun Arise" | Welcome to Our Nightmare: A Tribute to Alice Cooper | Rolf Harris cover |
| "It Was a Very Good Year" | Chairman of the Board: Interpretations of Songs Made Famous by Frank Sinatra[21] | Ervin Drake cover | |
| "Life on Mars?" | split single with the Lemonheads | David Bowie cover | |
| 1994 | "Ice Drummer" | Your Invitation to Suicide: A Tribute to Songs of Martin Rev, Alan Vega[22] | Suicide cover; some sources give release as 1993 |
| 1995 | "Nobody Told Me" | Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon | John Lennon cover |
| 1997 | "Hot Day" | SubUrbia | original song |
| 2000 | "White Christmas" | It's a Cool Cool Christmas | Irving Berlin cover |
| 2004 | "Go" | The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered | Daniel Johnston cover with Sparklehorse |
| "SpongeBob & Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy" | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Music from the Movie and More... | original song | |
| 2005 | "Seven Nation Army" | Late Night Tales: The Flaming Lips | The White Stripes cover |
| "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen | Queen cover | |
| "If I Only Had a Brain" | Stubbs the Zombie: The Soundtrack | Written by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen | |
| 2007 | "The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to Be in Love" | Spider-Man 3 | original song |
| "(Just Like) Starting Over" | Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur | John Lennon cover | |
| "I Was Zapped by the Lucky Super Rainbow" | Good Luck Chuck | original song | |
| "The Tale of the Horny Frog" and "Maybe I'm Not the One" | The Heartbreak Kid[23] | ||
| "Love the World You Find" | Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium[24] | ||
| 2009 | "Borderline" | Covered, a Revolution in Sound | Madonna cover |
| "Kundalini Express" | New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets | Love and Rockets cover | |
| 2011 | "Smothered in Hugs" | Sing for Your Meat: A Tribute to Guided by Voices | Guided by Voices cover |
| 2012 | "God Only Knows" | MOJO Presents Pet Sounds Revisited | The Beach Boys cover |
| "Smoke on the Water" | Re-Machined: A Tribute to Deep Purple's Machine Head | Deep Purple cover | |
| 2015 | "Atlantis" | Gazing with Tranquility: A Tribute to Donovan | Donovan cover |
| 2016 | "Dark Star" | Day of the Dead | Grateful Dead cover |
| 2019 | "Little Hands" | More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album | Skip Spence cover |
| "Sing It Now, Sing It Somehow" | Hanukkah+[25] | original song | |
| 2021 | "Snail: I'm Avail" | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run | |
| "Lay Lady Lay" | Dylan ...Revisited[26] | Bob Dylan cover | |
| 2022 | "Mrs. Lennon" | Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono[27] | Yoko Ono cover |
| "Lucifer Hummingbird" | For the Birds: Vol. II[28] | original song |
Radio
edit| Year | Title | Original broadcast | Original artist | Release |
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| 1996 | "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" | KCRW, May 1996 | B. J. Thomas | "Brainville" B-side |
| 2003 | "Can't Get You Out of My Head" | KEXP, August 2002 | Kylie Minogue | "Fight Test" B-side |
| "The Golden Age" | CD101, August 2002 | Beck | "Fight Test" B-side | |
| "Knives Out" | KCRW, August 2002 | Radiohead | "Fight Test" B-side | |
| 2007 | "War Pigs" | iTunes, 2007 | Black Sabbath | iTunes Originals |
Live
edit- "Thank You" and "Death Valley '69" – 1988 split single with the Fleshtones and Steve Kilbey[29]
- "Whole Lotta Love" – 2005 soundtrack Fearless Freaks[30]
- "Gates of Steel" – 2014 split single with Devo[31]
Video albums
edit| Title | Album details |
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| The Fearless Freaks |
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| VOID |
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| U.F.O.s at the Zoo |
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| Christmas on Mars |
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Guest appearances
editAlbums
edit- Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004) – Modest Mouse – additional instrumentation ("The Good Times Are Killing Me")
- "My Mechanical Friend" (2012) – Grace Potter – co-writing and instrumentation
- Warrior (2012) – Kesha – producer ("Past Lives")
- Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz (2015) – Miley Cyrus – producer ("Dooo It!", "Karen Don't Be Sad", "The Floyd Song (Sunrise)", "Something About Space Dude", "Fuckin Fucked Up", "BB Talk", "Milky Milky Milk", "Cyrus Skies", "I'm So Drunk", "Tangerine", "Tiger Dreams", "Evil Is But a Shadow" and "Miley Tibetan Bowlzzz")
Singles
edit- "The Golden Path" (2003) – The Chemical Brothers
Notes
editReferences
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- ^ "The Flaming Lips Chart History: Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
- ^ a b Peaks in Australia:
- All except noted: "Discography The Flaming Lips". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: "ARIA Top 100 Albums" (PDF). The ARIA Report (735). Australian Recording Industry Association. March 29, 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 6, 2004. Retrieved July 11, 2009.
- The Terror: "The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 22 April 2013" (PDF). The ARIA Report (1208). Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 6, 2013. Retrieved November 28, 2021 – via Pandora Archive.
- ^ "Discography The Flaming Lips". ultratop.be. Retrieved September 24, 2011.
- ^ "Japan: Album positions". oricon.co.jp. Retrieved May 13, 2013.
- ^ "Discography The Flaming Lips". charts.nz. Retrieved April 27, 2013.
- ^ a b "The Flaming Lips | full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
- ^ a b c "British certifications – The Flaming Lips". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved March 17, 2023. Type The Flaming Lips in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
- ^ a b "American certifications – The Flaming Lips". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved March 17, 2023.
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- ^ "The Flaming Lips / Tame Impala – Peace And Paranoia Tour 2013 – New 12". Shuga Records. Retrieved December 2, 2021.
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- ^ a b "The Flaming Lips Chart History: Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
- ^ "UK Chartlog". zobbel.de. Retrieved January 12, 2009.
- ^ Flaming Lips – Drug Machine (1989, small center hole, Vinyl), retrieved September 18, 2021
- ^ "The Flaming Lips – Bad Days". Discogs. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
- ^ Murray, Robin (February 15, 2011). "The Flaming Lips release new track". Clashmusic.com. Retrieved June 21, 2013.
- ^ "Hear Flaming Lips Brand New, Original Christmas Song; Watch Their Holiday Show". The Future Heart. December 25, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
- ^ "Flaming Lips Release Collab EP with Plastic Ono Band on Multi-Color, Glow-In-Dark 12″ – Also Plan Gummy Frog". The Future Heart. December 23, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
- ^ "Various – Chairman Of The Board – Interpretations Of Songs Made Famous By Frank Sinatra". Discogs. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ^ "Various – Your Invitation to Suicide – A Tribute to the Songs of Martin Rev, Alan Vega". Discogs. Retrieved September 30, 2021.
- ^ "Various – The Heartbreak Kid Music From The Motion Picture". Discogs. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ^ "Alexandre Desplat And Aaron Zigman – Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]". Discogs. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ^ "Various – Hannukah+". Discogs. Retrieved October 5, 2021.
- ^ Dylan ...Revisited (14 Of His Greatest Songs Reinterpreted For Uncut) (2021, CD), retrieved October 1, 2021
- ^ "Various Artists – 'Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono' review: a fittingly unique tribute". NME. February 14, 2022. Retrieved March 17, 2022.
- ^ "Hear New Birdsong-Inspired Songs From Elvis Costello, Flaming Lips, Jeff Tweedy, & More". Stereogum. June 24, 2022. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
- ^ Fleshtones / Steve Kilbey / Flaming Lips – The Bob Magazine No. 32 (1988, Flexi-disc), retrieved September 18, 2021
- ^ "The Flaming Lips – The Fearless Freaks – 20 Years Of Weird: The Flaming Lips 1986–2006". Discogs. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
- ^ "Devo / The Flaming Lips – Gates Of Steel (Live)". Discogs. Retrieved September 18, 2021.
External Links
edit- The Flaming Lips discography at Discogs