The Flaming Lips - Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997 (2015)

Clouds Taste Metallic, the band's seventh album, is considered one of The Lips' best and earned them much critical fanfare. All-Music called it "a masterful collection that completesthe Flaming Lips' odyssey into the pop stratosphere" and compared it to the Beach Boys' definitive album Pet Sounds. Released on September 19th, 1995, Clouds Taste Metallic is also the last Lips album to feature guitarist Ronald Jones.

Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997, will be released in several configurations, including a three-CD set (plus digital equivalents) and a numbered, limited edition five-LP box set. (Individual vinyl LPs will be released at a later date.) The Official FlamingLips Store will carry an exclusive numbered and colored vinyl version of the five-LP box set along with three exclusive out-of-print t-shirts and three out-of-print posters, designed by Wayne that were originally sold during the Clouds era, that will belimited to a one time run. The CD set will include three discs. The first features the entirety of Clouds Taste Metallic plus the rarities 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). The second is a promo-only compilation CD entitled Due To High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons, and the third is a previously unreleased live recording of the band's club show at Moe's captured in Seattle on May 10th, 1996. Click here to have a look at posters, T-shirts and packaging. Mmmm…Nice!

TRACKLIST

CD1: 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)

CD2: 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)

CD3: 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