We weren’t used to people talking about our music,” Coyne admitted. “We don’t like the idea that music is important – it’s just music. And people would come up to me and say, ‘Your song got me through this and that,’ and little by little we learned that it is important. And it’s important that we listen to them. The Flaming Lips will celebrate two decades since their 10th studio album ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ with a deluxe reissue, as well as anniversary shows in London and Washington, DC. Long, April (July 9, 2002). "Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots". NME. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 . Retrieved May 5, 2011. CD 5 – Live 2002+: Radio Broadcast WBOS (Live at the Paradise Lounge, Boston, October 27 2002), plus Yoshimi Demo

Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Japanese Language Version From The Japanese Edition of Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots) Robot builders often have casual battles amongst themselves, but there are a growing number of bigger competitions happening across the UK. Perpetua, Matthew (April 5, 2011). " The Flaming Lips Plan 'Yoshimi' Musical". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012 . Retrieved September 11, 2012. We didn’t want it to sound like The Soft Bulletin at all,” Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne told this author for an interview published in Record Collector magazine in October 2020. “We don’t really know how to make another one of those. And it wasn’t what we wanted to make.” Listen to ‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ here. Released on 16 July 2002, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots was hailed by Rolling Stone as “the most beauteous of Lips albums” and by Uncut as “astonishing… even by their standards”. With Pitchfork anointing Wayne Coyne as “a genius, equal parts Thomas Edison and PT Barnum” and praising the album for being “bold and inventive… brimming with ideas and sublime moments of brilliance”, Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots became The Flaming Lips’ first Top 50 hit on the Billboard 200 while also scoring the group their greatest UK success to date when it peaked at No.13. Uncut would later place it at No.11 in their run-down of the best 2000s albums and call it the greatest record released since the magazine launched, in May 1997.Professor Angela Doufexi, Head of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Bristol, said: “Robot combat is a great way to test the mettle of engineering concepts and show how fun it can be to put theory into practice. Like many, Joe’s first taste of the sport came from watching Robot Wars on the BBC. But it wasn’t until he began an Electronic Engineering degree at the University of Bristol that he realised how easy it was to get involved. Offiziellecharts.de – The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved November 7, 2021. ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2004 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved November 7, 2021. Across lengthy sessions in producer Dave Fridmann’s Tarbox Road Studios, in Cassadaga, an hour south of Buffalo, New York, The Flaming Lips availed themselves of advances in technology while they sought to harness their obsessions with sci-fi and Big Question themes – love, life, death and the human condition in a rapidly changing world – to a crossover sound that wouldn’t compromise their ambition.

Due out Nov. 25, the 6CD box setboasts the 2002 LP alongside a copious amount of demos, b-sides, EPs, remixes, radio sessions, and live recordings from the era, over 50 of which have never been officially released. Endelman, Michael (March 25, 2007). " Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots musical". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on June 11, 2007 . Retrieved May 5, 2011. Lips Nailed For Cat Stevens Song Similarity". Billboard. June 27, 2003. Archived from the original on February 25, 2013 . Retrieved May 5, 2011. Joe said: "It’s going to be a great event. I’d say Bristol is now the hotbed of robot combat in the UK.” British album certifications – The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots". British Phonographic Industry.Whilst bright and neon-tinged on the surface, Coyne shades these songs with moments of profound reflection; notably on opener ‘Fight Test’ with lines such as: “If it’s not now, then tell me when would be the time that you would stand up and be a man?”. Shot through with a sense of internal conflict that mirrors the fantasy outer battle between man and machine, it’s a touching method of humanisation which prevents the album from floating too far off into the sky. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the tenth studio album by The Flaming Lips. It is their most commercially successful album and the only one to date to be certified gold by the RIAA.