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Hit to Death in the Future Head
Rock · 1992 · 11 tracks

Hit to Death in the Future Head

The Flaming Lips

Abrasive guitar textures meeting surrealist pop hooks. The bridge between their gritty garage beginnings and the technicolor symphonies that followed.

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It's like a 90s garage band tried to write a space opera while their equipment was melting.

A frantic, distorted celebration of the strange and the macabre.

Hit to Death in the Future Head · vs · The Flaming Lips
Restless+2.1σ

Restless saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 11 Tracks
01
Talkin’ ’bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to live Forever)
3:50
02
Hit Me Like You Did the First Time
3:41
03
The Sun
3:32
04
Felt Good to Burn
3:21
05
Gingerale Afternoon (The Astrology of a Saturday)
3:45
06
Halloween on the Barbary Coast
5:43
07
The Magician vs. The Headache
3:13
08
You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devil’s Brain)
3:55
09
Frogs
4:28
10
Hold Your Head
4:25
11
Noise Loop
29:16
Moments Worth Waiting For
The explosive, distorted guitar crunch that kicks off the opening track with immediate chaotic intent.
The way the melody in 'Gingerale Afternoon' feels like a sunny pop song viewed through a cracked, dirty lens.
The sheer audacity of the final track's half-hour repetitive pulse that tests the listener's patience and sanity.
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