At War with the Mystics
At War with the Mystics is the eleventh studio album by American rock band the Flaming Lips, released on April 3, 2006 by Warner Bros. Records. The album is more guitar-driven and features more politically themed lyrics than the band's previous two albums The Soft Bulletin (1999) and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002).
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| Released | April 3, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | June 2004 – January 2006 | |||
| Studio | Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, New York | |||
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| Length | 54:53 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 76/100[1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Entertainment Weekly | B[3] |
| The Guardian | [4] |
| The Independent | [5] |
| Los Angeles Times | [6] |
| NME | 8/10[7] |
| Pitchfork | 6.7/10[8] |
| Q | [9] |
| Rolling Stone | [10] |
| Spin | B+[11] |
At War with the Mystics won a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, and was also nominated for Best Alternative Album. By 2009, the album had sold over 220,000 copies in United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.[12]
Track listing
All tracks are written by The Flaming Lips.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)" | 4:51 |
| 2. | "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)" | 3:39 |
| 3. | "The Sound of Failure / It's Dark... Is It Always This Dark??" | 7:18 |
| 4. | "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)" | 4:48 |
| 5. | "Vein of Stars" | 4:15 |
| 6. | "The Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight And Puts On His Werewolf Moccasins" | 3:41 |
| 7. | "It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?" | 6:50 |
| 8. | "Mr. Ambulance Driver" | 4:21 |
| 9. | "Haven't Got a Clue" | 3:23 |
| 10. | "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" | 3:44 |
| 11. | "Pompeii am Götterdämmerung" | 4:22 |
| 12. | "Goin' On" | 3:39 |
| Total length: | 54:53 | |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 13. | "Bohemian Rhapsody" (This track originally appeared on Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen) | 6:36 |
| 14. | "The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness" (Also appears as the final track on the Japanese import version) | 4:47 |
| 15. | "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (Long version) | 5:22 |
| 16. | "Time Travel...YES!!" (Non-album track, featuring Steven Michael Burns) | 3:21 |
5.1 audio mix
Like The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi, At War with the Mystics was released as a special edition 5.1 CD+DVD-Audio mix on October 24, 2006, accompanied by studio outtakes, videos, and exclusive radio sessions.
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)" | 5:22 |
| 2. | "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)" | 3:40 |
| 3. | "The Sound of Failure / It's Dark... Is It Always This Dark??" | 7:18 |
| 4. | "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)" | 5:01 |
| 5. | "Vein of Stars" | 4:15 |
| 6. | "The Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight And Puts On His Werewolf Moccasins" | 3:45 |
| 7. | "It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?" | 6:55 |
| 8. | "Mr. Ambulance Driver" | 4:22 |
| 9. | "Haven't Got a Clue" | 3:23 |
| 10. | "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" | 3:43 |
| 11. | "Pompeii am Götterdämmerung" | 4:22 |
| 12. | "Goin' On" | 3:37 |
Outtakes
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Why Does It End?" | 4:38 |
| 2. | "You Gotta Hold On" | 4:52 |
| 3. | "Your Face Can Tell the Future" | 5:21 |
| 4. | "The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness" | 4:48 |
| 5. | "Time Travel?? Yes!!" | 3:23 |
| 6. | "Bohemian Rhapsody" | 6:36 |
Radio sessions
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion" | 4:40 |
| 2. | "Goin' On" | 3:44 |
| 3. | "Unmade Bed / No Quarter" | 6:56 |
| 4. | "The Sound of Failure" | 4:03 |
| 5. | "Vein of Stars" | 4:50 |
| 6. | "Vein of Stars" (Operatic Spook) | 4:15 |
| 7. | "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (Chicken Fried Hoedown Protest Rally) | 4:44 |
| 8. | "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (In Anatropous Reflex) | 4:22 |
Videos
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Mr. Ambulance Driver" | 5:00 |
| 2. | "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" | 4:06 |
| 3. | "The W.A.N.D." | 3:48 |
| 4. | "2006 OKC Classen High Commencement Speech" | 12:18 |
Personnel
The Flaming Lips
- Wayne Coyne – vocals, guitars, keyboards, mixing, production
- Steven Drozd – guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, vocals, mixing, production
- Michael Ivins – bass, keyboards, backing vocals, mixing, production, additional engineering
- Kliph Scurlock – drums, percussion
Additional personnel
- Scott Booker – production
- Dave Fridmann – additional songwriting, production, mixing, programming, engineering, mastering
- Greg Kurstin – additional songwriting, production, backing vocals and instruments on "Haven't Got a Clue"
References
- "Reviews for At War With The Mystics by The Flaming Lips". Metacritic. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
- Phares, Heather. "At War with the Mystics – The Flaming Lips". AllMusic. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
- Collis, Clark (April 7, 2006). "The Flaming Lips: At War with the Mystics". Entertainment Weekly: 59.
- Lynskey, Dorian (March 31, 2006). "The Flaming Lips, At War With the Mystics". The Guardian. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
- Gill, Andy (March 31, 2006). "Album: The Flaming Lips". The Independent. Archived from the original on April 6, 2006. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
- Appleford, Steve (March 26, 2006). "Lips flame with pure euphoria". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
- Long, Pat (March 31, 2006). "The Flaming Lips: At War With The Mystics". NME. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
- Richardson, Mark (April 2, 2006). "The Flaming Lips: At War With the Mystics". Pitchfork. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
- "The Flaming Lips: At War with the Mystics". Q (238): 118. May 2006.
- Hoard, Christian (April 6, 2006). "At War With The Mystics". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
- Hermes, Will (April 2006). "The Flaming Lips: At War With the Mystics". Spin. 22 (4): 89. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
- "Flaming Lips dial down the whimsy on "Embryonic"". 26 September 2009 – via Reuters.
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