The Flaming Lips Announce Clouds Taste Metallic 20th Anniversary Reissue Box Set

The Flaming Lips Announce Clouds Taste Metallic 20th Anniversary Reissue Box Set

It’s been twenty years since the Flaming Lips released Clouds Taste Metallic, their seventh LP as well as their last album to feature guitarist Ronald Jones. Today, the band announced a deluxe reissue of the record featuring rarities, B-sides, and other ephemera, out November 27 via Warner Bros. Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic will be available in a number of configurations, including a three-CD collection and a seven-LP boxset. Check out the tracklisting for the CD boxset below. 

The first disc contains the whole album as well as The King Bug Laughs, a collection of rarities and outtakes); the second contains a promo-only compilation CD entitled Due To High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons; the third contains a previously unreleased live recording from a 1996 gig in Seattle.

The Flaming Lips website will also be carrying exclusive numbered, colored versions of the latter, along with exclusive t-shirts and posters. Individual vinyl LPs will become available at a later date.

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

Disc 1: Clouds Taste Metallic / The King Bug Laughs (Oddities and Rarities)
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
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

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