Hey detritus fans! Here’s a big, box set-ish slab of news for ya. It seems that big, box set-ish, rock & roll band The Flaming Lips have recently announced the release of Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997, which comprises — as you might guess if you’re good at navigating their increasingly goofy strings of rhetoric — a “deluxe 20th Anniversary Box Set edition of [their] globally influential and essential” Clouds Taste Metallic album from 1995.
This hefty thing is coming at us November 27 via Warner Bros. on the typically absurd variety of formats that one would expect of these kinds of hefty things, including 3CD (plus “digital equivalents”) and “numbered, limited edition,” 5LP versions. Disc 1 of the CD version of the set (which is OBVIOUSLY the best way to re-live 1995) will include the original Clouds Taste Metallic album. Disc 2 contains the promo-only compilation Due To High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons, plus the rarities collection 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). And Disc 3 is “a previously unreleased live recording of the band’s club show at Moe’s captured in Seattle on May 10th, 1996.” In addition to all this dang content, the band is also throwing in all sorts of out-of-print t-shirts and posters and other big, box-set-ish rock & roll gewgaws.
Naturally, all these heady nuggs and more are currently available for pre-order right now on the band’s heady, nuggy website. And of course, those intrepid pre-orderers will also receive “a series of instant downloadable tracks at various dates leading up to the release, each a previously unreleased rarity from this collection.” …And possibly some other stuff, too? This is maximalism at its harried, jewel-cased finest, folks. Start massaging your wallets now. You’ll want them good and warmed-up for this.
Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997 CD Box set tracklisting:
Disc 1: Clouds Taste Metallic
01. The Abandoned Hospital Ship
02. Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles
03. Placebo Headwound
04. This Here Giraffe
05. Brainville
06. Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World
07. When You Smile
08. Kim’s Watermelon Gun
09. 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 / The King Bug Laughs (Oddities and Rarities)
01. Bad Days
02. Jets Part 2 (My Two Days As An Ambulance Driver)
03. Ice Drummer
04. Put the Waterbug in the Policeman’s Ear
05. Chewin’ the Apple of Yer Eye
06. Chosen One
07. Little Drummer Boy
08. Slow Nerve Action
09. 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)
01. The Abandoned Hospital Ship
02. Unconsciously Screamin’
03. Take Meta Mars
04. Moth in the Incubator
05. Put the Waterbug in the Policeman’s Ear
06. Lightning Strikes the Postman
07. Bad Days
08. She Don’t Use Jelly
09. 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
Flaming Lips upcoming tour dates:
10.10.15 - San Diego, CA - CRSSD Festival
10.17.15 - Nashville, TN - SoundHarvest Music Festival
11.07.15 - Dallas, TX - Untapped Festival
01.11.16 - Tauranga, New Zealand - McLaren Valley Music & Arts Festival
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