Flaming Lips to Release 'Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997'

The Flaming Lips have announced the release of Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997, on November 27th. This will be the Deluxe 20th Anniversary Box Set edition of THE LIPS globally influential and essential edition of CLOUDS TASTE METALLIC 1995 classic album. The album is available for pre-order through THE LIPS Official Store beginning today. Those who pre-order will receive a series of instant downloadable tracks at various dates leading up to the release, each a previously unreleased rarity from this collection. The first instant track will be available starting today and will be a live version of "Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles".

Clouds Taste Metallic, the band's seventh album, is considered one of The Lips' best and earned them much critical fanfare. All-Music called it "a masterful collection that completes the Flaming Lips' odyssey into the pop stratosphere" and compared it to the Beach Boys' definitive album Pet Sounds. Released on September 19th, 1995, Clouds Taste Metallic is also the last Lips album to feature guitarist Ronald Jones.

Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997, will be released in several configurations, including a three-CD set (plus digital equivalents) and a numbered, limited edition five-LP box set. (Individual vinyl LPs will be released at a later date.) The Official Flaming Lips Store will carry an exclusive numbered and colored vinyl version of the five-LP box set along with three exclusive out-of-print t-shirts and three out-of-print posters, designed by Wayne that were originally sold during the Clouds era, that will be limited to a one time run. The CD set will include three discs. The first features the entirety of Clouds Taste Metallic plus the rarities The King Bug Laughs (Oddities and Rarities) (a collection of previously unreleased, promo-only, and compilation-only tracks gathered together and available for the first time ever in one place). The second is a promo-only compilation CD entitled Due To High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons, and the third is a previously unreleased live recording of the band's club show at Moe's captured in Seattle on May 10th, 1996. Click here to have a look at posters, T-shirts and packaging.

Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997 CD Box Set:

Disc 1: Clouds Taste Metallic

1. The Abandoned Hospital Ship

2. Psychiatric Explorations Of The Fetus With Needles

3. Placebo Headwound

4. This Here Giraffe

5. Brainville

6. Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World

7. When You Smile

8. Kim's Watermelon Gun

9. They Punctured My Yolk

10. Lightning Strikes The Postman

11. Christmas At The Zoo

12. Evil Will Prevail

13. Bad Days (aurally excited version)

Disc 2: Due To High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons

1. Bad Days

2. Jets Part 2 (My Two Days As An Ambulance Driver)

3. Ice Drummer

4. Put The Waterbug In the Policeman's Ear

5. Chewin' the Apple Of Yer Eye

6. Chosen One

7. Little Drummer Boy

8. Slow Nerve Action

The King Bug Laughs (Oddities and Rarities)

9. It Was A Very Good Year

10. Sun Arise

11. Life on Mars

12. Ballrooms of Mars

13. Hot Day

14. Nobody Told Me

15. Magician Vs The Headache

16. She Don't Use Jelly (Live @KJ103)

Disc 3: Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles (Live in Seattle 1996)

1. The Abandoned Hospital Ship

2. Unconsciously Screamin'

3. Take Meta Mars

4. Moth In The Incubator

5. Put The Waterbug In The Policeman's Ear

6. Lightning Strikes The Postman

7. Bad Days

8. She Don't Use Jelly

9. Chewin' The Apple Of Yer Eye

10. When You Smile

11. Psychiatric Explorations Of The Fetus With Needles

12. Love Yer Brain

13. Placebo Headwound

THE FLAMING LIPS are on tour now:

Oct 10 San Diego, CA CRSSD Festival

Oct 17 Nashville, TN SoundHarvest Music Festival

Nov 7 Dallas, TX Untapped Festival

Jan 11 Tauranga, New Zealand McLaren Valley Music & Arts Festival

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