4/30/2023 0 Comments The flaming lips fight test![]() ![]() The coarse, painful and breathtaking vocal performance is only one of the many things to savor in this brilliant cover others are the simple yet extremely enjoyable guitar, with a slow and climbing guitar strum, as well as the backup instruments that include piano, slide guitar and a pounding drum performance. It's an acoustic gem, complete with an ailing and trudging piano. The cover of Beck's The Golden Age is about as incredible as a good portion of Nirvana's Unplugged session. The cover songs are brilliant, to say the least. If you're over 12, then you really shouldn't waste you're time. If you're eight years old, this song can amuse you. Clocking in at over nine minutes long, this song doesn't leave a good mark on the album it, unfortunately, is just one of those Crazy Frog or Hampster Dance songs that takes the brilliance of the Flaming Lips and butchers it. The whole fizzy space pop gets old really fast, and it just doesn't seem to end. It's essentially a 1999 party dance mix, and it's really, really boring. The remix of the formerly brilliant Do You Realize? is a long, dull and anything-but-Lipsish version of the song. ![]() The songs are quiet varied and don't tell as story, so therefore the result isn't as interesting as the full length albums it's just a bunch of good songs. Unfortunately, this isn't the running mood of the album hell, they've already used it for Yoshimi, but it's a shame because this album seems to have a lack of flow. The result is an amazing song that is the musical equivalent of the Yoshimi cover art - a young warrior facing horrible odds of survival against a large, frightening and oddly adorable giant creature. The vocals are also very proffesional, something not that the Lips are not most fond of they're very calm, yet distraught as they sing about the training of a little, eight-year-old girl who's off to fight a swarm of gigantic pink robots. ![]() As far as the music goes, it's not too impressive, so to say, but it's not how they play it's the effect that the spectacular chord structures and the variety of instruments that make your jaw drop the overall beauty of the song is almost over-whelming. Sort of like the starting pistol at the 1,000 meter dash, this song has enough oddities to make it's claim as a Lips song, but also has the definitive touch of sincerity that makes it an amazing listen. The album kicks off with the original album version of Fight Test. Is it a covers album? Partially, but what it most dominantly is just a damn fine, seven-track album that at places really packs a punch towards the listener. When one listens to this EP, the listener is usually confused at what this is is it a remix EP? Nope. This is only a petit example on the first of their Yoshimi EP's, Fight Test. Just take a look at these guys whether it's Wayne Coyne wearing a $2000 suit covered in fake blood on stage, the band rolling around in clear, ten foot tall/wide bubbles over the audience, or just a picture of the band standing and giving us their little eight year old smirks, these guys may be odd, but it's hard to deny their amazing music. Constantly defying what's popular, yet somehow forcing themselves into everyone's cd library. Taken from the hugely popular and successful album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.If Radiohead are the kings of alternative rock, then The Flaming Lips are the jokers.Limited edition pressed on Ruby Red vinyl.This limited-edition version is pressed on Ruby Red Vinyl. In addition to the title track, it features a remix of “Do You Realize?”, “Thank You Jack White”, and 3 covers including a live version of the Kyle Minogue hit “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”, and Radiohead’s “Knives Out”. The 7-track EP was included in the 6 CD Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 20th Anniversary box set released in November 2022, and it is now being released on vinyl for the first time. Released in June 2003, the single entered the US Billboard Top 100 and peaked at #28 in the UK singles chart. “Fight Test” was the third single released from The Flaming Lips hugely popular and successful album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. ![]()
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