Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

THE FLAMING LIPS – Pyschedelic Eccentrics Impress (Again) With An Eye-And-Ear Catching Spectacle In ANTWERP BELGIUM

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5 June 2025

Every single time I saw THE FLAMING LIPS perform (about 10 times now) it was a special spectacle, visually and sonically. And the over the years expanding visual attractions that fit the theatrical music perfectly, make every concert, an even more spiritual and unforgettable experience.

Exactly what happened again last Friday in Antwerp, Belgium when the Lips played their magical 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in full, followed by a fan favorites set.

The whole bombastic extravaganza includes two huge (plastic) pink robots, massive confetti raining, multi-colored balloons, a lasers-directed light show, gigantic eyeballs, goblins, puppets, an inflatable rainbow and lost of other bedazzling attributes. In the middle of it all, glam & glitter magician Wayne Coyne, conducts the psychedelic rock opera.

He doesn’t stop to encourage the willing audience to scream, scream and just scream.
His keyword is LOVE. “Scream it, c’mon, scream it”. Get the loud picture? I bet you have.

The Lips are all about putting on a carnival-esque, ear-and-eye catching raree-show
filled with orchestral epicness, ecstatic highs and 60s cinematic romanticism where demons and dragons get floored and love conquers all. It’s phenomenally entertaining
and extremely mind-boosting. I only saw happy faces, and adrenaline-elated, dancing people. MAGIC! PURE MAGIC! Come back soon.

The set’s fantastic closer.

Part 1 – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots album in full

Fight Test
One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2
In the Morning of the Magicians
Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
Are You a Hypnotist??
It’s Summertime
Do You Realize??
All We Have Is Now
Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)

Part 2

She Don’t Use Jelly
Flowers of Neptune 6
The Spark That Bled
Pompeii Am Götterdämmerung
Waitin’ for a Superman
The Golden Path
(The Chemical Brothers cover)
Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)

Encores

True Love Will Find You in the End
(Daniel Johnston cover)
Race for the Prize


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All photos by Turn Up The Volume

THE FLAMING LIPS Will Fight The Pink Robots In UK/Ireland And Europe In 2025

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31 December 2024


Amsterdam, 2018 – photo by TUTV

Oklahoma‘s psych-rock heroes THE FLAMING LIPS‘ 10th longplayer YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS turned 20, already two years ago, but they still keep on celebrating the anniversary. They did it in the US last and this year and in 2025 UK/Ireland/Europe will enjoy the Lips‘ spectacular live rhapsody.

The Flaming Lips are among my all-time favorite bands (on/off stage),
so I just bought my first concert ticket (Antwerp, Belgium) for 2025

UK/Ireland

EUROPE

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THE FLAMING LIPS On The Road To Celebrate The 20th Birthday Of 10th LP ‘YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS’

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The colourful, experimental psych wackos of THE FLAMING LIPS announced new
dates for North America to celebrate the 20th birthday of their superb 10th album YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS (released July 2002). And more shows TBA.

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This is what a Lips concert looks like.
(Amsterdam 2018 – photos by Turn Up The Volume)

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Eccentric Squad THE FLAMING LIPS Released 10th LP ‘YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS’ 20 Years Ago Today

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Back in time

16 July 2022

Band: The Flaming Lips
Who: The eccentric fairy tale rockers from Oklahoma,
conducted by mastermind Wayne Coyne

Album: YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS – the band’s tenth LP
Released: 16 July 2002 – 20 years ago today

AllMusic wrote: “After the symphonic majesty of  ‘The Soft Bulletin’, the Flaming Lips
return with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a sublime fusion of Bulletin’s newfound
emotional directness, the old-school playfulness of Transmissions From the Satellite
Heart, and, more importantly, exciting new expressions of the group’s sentimental,
experimental sound. Funny, beautiful, and moving, ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’
finds The Flaming Lips continuing to grow and challenge themselves in not-so
obvious ways after delivering their obvious masterpiece.” Score: 4.5/5.

Turn Up The Volume: One of my all-time favorite bands on record and live. This is
their second-best longplayer after their outstanding tour de force The Soft Bulletin‘, released three years before. It sounds like listening to a sonic science fiction fairy tale
with lots of blissful and starry-eyed reveries, wondrous stories and magical tunes.

The singles: Do You Realize? / Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 / Fight Test

– DO YOU REALIZE? –

– YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS PT. 1 –

– FIGHT TEST –

Album in full…

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5 Outstanding Albums Turning 20 In 2022

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Back in time

1. ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ by INTERPOL (New York City)

Released: 20 August 2002

The band’s jarring debut album with single NYC
as one of my all-time favorite rock standouts.

AllMusic said: “One might go into a review like this one wondering
how many words will pass before Joy Division is brought up. In this
case, the answer is 16. The music made by both bands explores the
vast space between black and white and produces something pained,
deftly penetrating, and beautiful.” Score: 5/5.

Stream album here…

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2. ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’ by THE FLAMING LIPS (Oklahoma)

Released: 16 July 2002 – their 10th LP

One of the best works by one of the
best bands ever, on record and live.

Alternative Press said: “Smartly packaged pop that’s
as slick as Stereolab, but human enough–thanks to Coyne’s
earnestness and sincerity, to malfunction in all the right places.”
Score: 9/10.

Stream here…

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3. ‘Songs For The Deaf’ by QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE (L.A. California)

Released: 27 August 2002 – their third full length
With Dave Grohl on drums

The macho stoner rockers speeding like a hot-rod
on the run in the blistering Los Angeles desert.

Mojo Magazine: “All the elements which made its
predecessor so great are here, but in excelsis, and
occasionally excess.” Score: 8/10.

Steam up here…

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4. ‘Highly Evolvded’ by THE VINES (Sydney, Australia)

Released: 14 July 2002

Red-hot-blooded debut longplayer by these Nirvana fans from down
under, fronted by fanatic demon-fighter frontman Craig Nicholls

NME wrote: “They’re a shaggy-haired, surf’s up pop
band and painfully vulnerable all at the same time.”
Score: 4/5.

Turn it up…

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5. ‘Source Tags And Codes’ by …. AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD

Released: 26 February 2002 – third LP

Post-punk madness and prog-rock-noise from Austin, Texas.
Heavy on record, manic on stage (saw them about a dozen
times live smashing up their instruments now and then).

Uncut Magazine said: “Compared to so many noisemongers,
TOD understand that restraint enables unleashed firepower to
be exhilarating and awesome.” Score: 8/10.

Cracked-up noise…

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‘Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’ – Tenth Album By THE FLAMING LIPS (2002)

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Old and new albums to make your day…

12 February 2020

Band: The Flaming Lips

Album: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – the band’s tenth LP

Released: 16 July 2002

AllMusic wrote: “After the symphonic majesty of  ‘The Soft Bulletin’, the Flaming Lips
return with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a sublime fusion of Bulletin’s newfound
emotional directness, the old-school playfulness of Transmissions From the Satellite
Heart, and, more importantly, exciting new expressions of the group’s sentimental,
experimental sound. Funny, beautiful, and moving, ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’
finds The Flaming Lips continuing to grow and challenge themselves in not-so
obvious ways after delivering their obvious masterpiece.”

Turn Up The Volume: One of my all-time favorite bands on record and live. This is
their second-best longplayer after their outstanding tour de force The Soft Bulletin‘, released three years before. It sounds like listening to a sonic science fiction fairy tale
with lots of blissful and starry-eyed reveries, wondrous stories and magical orchestrations.

The singles: Do You Realize? / Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 / Fight Test / Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell

– DO YOU REALIZE? –

– YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS PT. 1 –

– FIGHT TEST –

– EGO TRIPPING AT THE GATES OF HELL –

Album in full…

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THE FLAMING LIPS: Facebook – All Albums


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