The Flaming Lips Announce 20th Anniversary Edition of “Clouds Taste Metallic”

Warner Bros. RecordsThis year marks the 20th anniversary of The Flaming Lips' 1995 album Clouds Taste Metallic, and the band is celebrating with a deluxe edition of the record entitled Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997. The collection will be released as a three-CD and a limited edition five-LP set on November 27, which is this year's Record Store Day Black Friday.

Along with the original Clouds Taste Metallic album, Heady Nuggs will include a collection of rarities called The King Bug Laughs (Oddities and Rarities), a previously promo-only disc called Due to High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles for Your Balloons, and a live recording of The Flaming Lips' 1996 show in Seattle.

As for The Flaming Lips of today, the band has a few tour dates left on their schedule for 2015, including festival sets in San Diego, Nashville and Dallas. Last month, Wayne Coyne and company collaborated with pop star Miley Cyrus on her latest album, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz.

Here is the track list for Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997:

Disc 1: Clouds Taste Metallic
"The Abandoned Hospital Ship"
"Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles"
"Placebo Headwound"
"This Here Giraffe"
"Brainville"
"Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World"
"When You Smile"
"Kim's Watermelon Gun"
"They Punctured My Yolk"
"Lightning Strikes the Postman"
"Christmas at the Zoo"
"Evil Will Prevail"
"Bad Days (aurally excited version)"

Disc 2: Due to High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles for Your Balloons
"Bad Days"
"Jets Part 2 (My Two Days As an Ambulance Driver)"
"Ice Drummer"
"Put the Waterbug in the Policeman's Ear"
"Chewin' the Apple of Yer Eye"
"Chosen One"
"Little Drummer Boy"
"Slow Nerve Action"
 
The King Bug Laughs (Oddities and Rarities)
"It Was a Very Good Year"
"Sun Arise"
"Life on Mars"
"Ballrooms of Mars"
"Hot Day"
"Nobody Told Me"
"Magician Vs the Headache"
"She Don't Use Jelly"
 
Disc 3: Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles (Live in Seattle 1996)
"The Abandoned Hospital Ship"
"Unconsciously Screamin'"
"Take Meta Mars"
"Moth in the Incubator"
"Put the Waterbug in the Policeman's Ear"
"Lightning Strikes the Postman"
"Bad Days"
"She Don't Use Jelly"
"Chewin' the Apple of Yer Eye"
"When You Smile"
"Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles"
"Love Yer Brain"
"Placebo Headwound"

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