With new album ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’ out on Warners, the Flaming Lips are now set to unveil two deluxe, multi-disc reissue packages via Restless Records and Rykodisc. Planned for release just two weeks apart this Autumn, the albums will include much of the band's pre-major label output from between 1983 and 1991, remastered by longtime producer Dave Fridmann. The first is a three-CD set called ‘Finally the Punk Rockers are Taking Acid 1983-1988’ and includes the band's first three full-length albums: ‘Hear It Is’, ‘Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips’, and ‘Telepathic Surgery’ plus a total of 16 bonus tracks, including the group's long out-of-print first EP, a previously unreleased demo of ‘Killer on the Radio’ and covers of Sonic Youth's ‘Death Valley 69’ and Neil Young's ‘After the Gold Rush’. The second is a double CD called ‘The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg’ and includes the seminal 1990 album ‘In a Priest Driven Ambulance’, the corresponding ‘Unconsciously Screamin EP’ and outtakes from ‘The Mushroom Tapes’ - a collection of demos of many songs that later made ‘Ambulance’. On top of all this the band are reported to be a third of the way through making their feature length movie ‘Christmas On Mars’ in which the band star.
Aug 1, 2002
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Flaming Lips classics rereleased
The Flaming Lips' pre-major-label albums from 1983 to 1991 are being reissued as two deluxe packages this autumn, remastered by Dave Fridmann.