The Flaming Lips discography
| The Flaming Lips discography | |
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 The Flaming Lips performing in Mexico City | |
| Studio albums | 17 |
| Compilation albums | 10 |
| Video albums | 4 |
| EPs | 18 |
| Singles | 15 |
The discography of The Flaming Lips, an American rock band formed in 1983, consists of seventeen studio albums, eighteen extended plays, fifteen singles, ten compilation albums, four video albums and an array of various other appearances.
Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) | ||||||
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| US [1] |
US Heat. [2] |
AUS [3] |
BEL [4] |
JP [5] |
NZ [6] |
UK [7] | |||
| 1986 | Hear It Is | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1987 | Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1989 | Telepathic Surgery
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| 1990 | In a Priest Driven Ambulance (with Silver Sunshine Stares)
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1992 | Hit to Death in the Future Head
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1993 | Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
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108 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1995 | Clouds Taste Metallic
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— | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 1997 | Zaireeka
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— | — | N/R | N/R | N/R | N/R | N/R | |
| 1999 | The Soft Bulletin
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— | 12 | — | — | — | — | 39 | |
| 2002 | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
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50 | — | 62 [9] |
— | 80 | 47 | 13 | |
| 2006 | At War with the Mystics
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11 | — | 20 | 47 | 50 | 36 | 6 |
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| 2009 | 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2012 | The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
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139 | — | — | 199 | — | — | 99 | |
| 2013 | The Terror
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21 | — | 100 | 39 | 50 | — | 42 | |
| 2014 | With a Little Help from My Fwends
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58 | — | — | 108 | — | — | 84 | |
Compilations
| Year | Album details |
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| 1998 | A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for Recording...By Amateurs
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| 2002 | 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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| 2005 | Late Night Tales: The Flaming Lips
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| 2006 | 20 Years of Weird: Flaming Lips 1986–2006
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| 2007 | iTunes Originals – The Flaming Lips
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| 2011 | Heady Nuggs: The First Five Warner Bros. Records 1992-2002
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The Flaming Lips 2011 #5: The Soft Bulletin Live la Fantastique de Institution 2011
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The Flaming Lips 2011 #10: Atlas Eets Christmas - Infinite Christmas Sounds
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Extended plays
| Year | Album details | Notes |
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| 1984 | The Flaming Lips
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| 1990 | Unconsciously Screamin'
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| 1991 | Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical
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| 1994 | Due to High Expectations... the Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles for Your Balloons
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Peaked at #182 on the US Billboard 200[1] |
| 2001 | The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest
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| 2003 | Fight Test
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Peaked at #93 on the US Billboard 200[1] |
Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
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| 2005 | Yoshimi Wins! (Live Radio Sessions)
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| 2006 | It Overtakes Me
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| 2011 | The Flaming Lips 2011 #1: Two Blobs Fucking
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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.[12] |
The Flaming Lips 2011 #2: The Flaming Lips with Neon Indian
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The Flaming Lips 2011 #3: Gummy Song Skull
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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
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The Flaming Lips 2011 #6: Gummy Song Fetus
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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
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The Flaming Lips 2011 #8: Strobo Trip - Light & Audio Phase Illusions Toy
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The Flaming Lips 2011 #9: 24 Hour Song Skull
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The Flaming Lips 2011 #11: The Flaming Lips with Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band
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| 2013 | 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
| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Album | |||
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| US [14] |
US Alt. [14] |
AUS [3] |
UK [7][8] | |||
| 1988 | "Drug Machine" | — | — | — | — | Telepathic Surgery |
| 1993 | "She Don't Use Jelly" | 55 | 9 | 25 | — | Transmissions from the Satellite Heart |
| 1995 | "Turn It On" | — | — | — | — | |
| "Bad Days" | — | — | — | 77 | Clouds Taste Metallic | |
| 1996 | "This Here Giraffe" | — | — | — | 72 | |
| "Brainville" | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1999 | "Race for the Prize" | — | — | — | 39 | The Soft Bulletin |
| "Waitin' for a Superman" | — | — | — | 73 | ||
| 2002 | "Do You Realize??" | — | — | — | 32 | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| 2003 | "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1" | — | — | — | 18 | |
| "Fight Test" | — | — | — | 28 | ||
| "The Golden Path" (with The Chemical Brothers)[15] | — | — | — | 17 | Singles 93–03 | |
| 2006 | "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" | 108 | — | — | 41 | At War with the Mystics |
| "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)" | — | — | 79 | 16 | ||
| 2007 | "Love the World You Find" | — | — | — | — | Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium |
| 2014 | "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (featuring Miley Cyrus) |
— | — | — | — | With a Little Help from My Fwends |
Video albums
| Year | Album details |
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| 2005 | The Fearless Freaks
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| 2005 | VOID
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| 2007 | U.F.O.s at the Zoo
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| 2008 | Christmas on Mars
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Other appearances
Recorded cover songs
- "Moonlight Mile" - The Rolling Stones
- "After the Gold Rush" - Neil Young
- "The Good Times Are Killing Me" - Modest Mouse
- "Baba O'Riley" - The Who
- "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen
- "Can't Get You Out of My Head" - Kylie Minogue
- "Death Valley '69" - Sonic Youth
- "Ice Drummer" - Alan Vega
- "Unmade Bed" - Sonic Youth
- "The Golden Age" - Beck
- "I Can't Explain" - The Who
- "Knives Out" - Radiohead
- "Life on Mars?" - David Bowie
- "Space Oddity" - David Bowie
- "Heroes" - David Bowie
- "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" - The Beatles (Uploaded to the band's SoundCloud page, recorded whilst rehearsing for their 2013/14 New Year's Eve Show)
- "I Am The Walrus" - The Beatles
- "Nobody Told Me" - John Lennon (for the 1995 tribute album Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon)
- "Plastic Jesus" - The Goldcoast Singers
- "Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes
- "Strychnine/Peace, Love, and Understanding" - The Sonics, Nick Lowe (The latter popularized by Elvis Costello and the Attractions)
- "Ballrooms of Mars" - T. Rex
- "Thank You" - Led Zeppelin
- "What a Wonderful World" - Louis Armstrong
- "Whole Lotta Love" - Led Zeppelin
- "It Was a Very Good Year" - Frank Sinatra
- "Breathe" - Pink Floyd
- "Us and Them" - Pink Floyd
- "Lucifer Sam" - Pink Floyd
- "Elephant" - Tame Impala
- "Runway, Houses, City, Clouds" - Tame Impala
- "Over the Rainbow" (Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg's classic song, first performed and best known by Judy Garland, from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz)
- "Summertime Blues" - Eddie Cochran
- "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" - The Who
- "Batman Theme" - Neal Hefti (composer and conductor of hit tune from the mid-60s TV show, and an even bigger hit the same year for The Marketts)
- "Communication Breakdown" - Led Zeppelin
- "Mind Games" - John Lennon
- "School" - Nirvana
- "Pennyroyal Tea" - Nirvana
- "All That Jazz / Happy Death Men" - Echo & The Bunnymen
- "White Christmas" - Irving Berlin (perennial made immortal by Bing Crosby - appears on the 2003 holiday compilation album, Maybe This Christmas Too?)
- "Little Drummer Boy" - (The Harry Simeone Chorale's huge 1958 choral hit composed by Simeone, Katherine Davis and Henry Onorati)
- "War Pigs" - Black Sabbath
- "No Quarter" - Led Zeppelin
- "(Just Like) Starting Over" - John Lennon (Charity recording for Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur)
- "Borderline" - Madonna (Appears on the 2009 Warner Bros. covers album Covered: A Revolution in Sound)
- "God Only Knows - The Beach Boys (Appears on the covers album MOJO Presents Pet Sounds Revisited)
- "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" - B.J. Thomas
- "Gates of Steel" - Devo
- "Chosen One" - Smog
- "She's Gone Mad" - Chainsaw Kittens
- "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" - B.J. Thomas
- "Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You - the Bee Gees
- "Sonic Reducer - The Dead Boys
Soundtrack appearances
- 3 South - "Fight Test"
- Love and a .45 (1994) - "Turn It On"
- Batman Forever (1995) - "Bad Days"
- SubUrbia (1997) - "Hot Day"
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) - "Buggin'"
- It's a Cool Cool Christmas (2000) - "White Christmas"
- Smallville: The Talon Mix (2003) - "Fight Test"
- Freaky Friday (2003) - "Fight Test"
- How to Deal (2003) - "Do You Realize??"
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) "SpongeBob & Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy"
- 50 First Dates (2004) - "Do You Realize??"
- Wedding Crashers (2005) - "Mr. Ambulance Driver"
- Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse" (2005) - "If I Only Had a Brain" (cover)
- Summercamp! (2006)
- Spider-Man 3 (2007) - "The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to Be in Love" and "Theme From Spider-Man" (bonus track)
- Okie Noodling (2007)
- Good Luck Chuck (2007) - "I Was Zapped By The Lucky Super Rainbow"
- The Brothers Solomon (2007) - "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"
- Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007) - "Love the World You Find"
- The Heartbreak Kid (2007) - "The Tale of the Horny Frog", "Maybe I'm Not the One"
- Christmas on Mars (2008)
- Know Your Mushrooms (2009) - "Anything You Say Now I Believe You", "The Wizard Turns On..." and "What Is the Light?"
- Boyhood (2014) - "Do You Realize??"
Production and featured songs
- Warrior (2012) - Ke$ha - 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")
References
- 1 2 3 "Artist Chart History (albums) - The Flaming Lips". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ↑ "The Flaming Lips > Charts & Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- 1 2 "Discography The Flaming Lips". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ↑ "Discography Marc Almond". ultratop.be. Retrieved 2011-09-24.
- ↑ "Japan: Album positions". oricon.co.jp. Retrieved 2013-05-13.
- ↑ "Discography The Flaming Lips". Charts.org.nz. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
- 1 2 "Chart Stats - The Flaming Lips". Chartstats. Archived from the original on 2013-01-02. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- 1 2 3 4 "UK Chartlog". zobbel.de. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
- ↑ "ARIA Top 100 Albums" (PDF) (735). Australian Recording Industry Association. 2004-03-29. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ↑ "Accreditations - 2004 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ↑ "Gold & Platinum search results: The Flaming Lips". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ↑ Murray, Robin. "The Flaming Lips release new track". www.clashmusic.com. Retrieved 21 June 2013.
- ↑ http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18677-the-flaming-lips-peace-sword-ep/
- 1 2 "Artist Chart History (singles) - The Flaming Lips". Billboard. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
- ↑ "Chart Stats - The Chemical Brothers/The Flaming Lips". Chartstats. Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2009-07-11.
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