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The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satelli (1993)

Track listing:
  1. Turn it On 4:40
  2. Pilot at the Queer of God 4:14
  3. Oh, My Pregnant Head 4:05
  4. She Don't Use Jelly 3:43
  5. Chewin' the Apple of Your Eye 3:43
  6. Superhumans 3:10
  7. Be My Head 3:21
  8. Moth in the Incubator 4:09
  9. ********* 2:22
  10. When Yer Twenty Two 3:26
  11. Slow Nerve Action 5:50

Notes

The addition of guitarist Ronald Jones and drummer Steven Drozd recharges the Flaming Lips' batteries for the superb Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, another prismatic delicacy that continues the group's drift toward pop nirvana. In typical fashion, the record's left-field hit, the freak-show singalong "She Don't Use Jelly," bears little resemblance to the album as a whole; the remainder of Transmissions is much more sonically and structurally ambitious — the towering "Moth in the Incubator" keeps generating new layers of noise before erupting into an amphetamine waltz, "Pilot Can at the Queer of God" dive-bombs with kamikaze recklessness, and the slow-burning "Oh My Pregnant Head" is as mind-expanding as its title.