Released August 11, 1992 Release date 5 August 1992 | Artist The Flaming Lips Label Warner Bros. Records | |
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Length 39:53
69:04 (CD version) Producer The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann Hit to Death in the Future Head
(1992) Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
(1993)1 Genres Alternative rock, Psychedelic rock, Indie rock, Neo-psychedelia, Noise pop Similar The Flaming Lips albums, Noise pop albums, Other albums | ||
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Hit to Death in the Future Head is The Flaming Lips' fifth album and their debut album on Warner Bros. Records. It was released on August 5, 1992. It is also the first Flaming Lips album to receive a Parental Advisory warning.
Contents
- The flaming lips hit me like you did the first time 02
- 1992 talkin bout the smiling deathporn immortality blues everyone wants to live forever
- Recording and release
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
"Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever)" was released as the lead track on the EP Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin Pigs Is Still Radical to promote the album.
The title provided the inspiration for the name of the British band The Futureheads.
1992 talkin bout the smiling deathporn immortality blues everyone wants to live forever
Recording and release
Recorded in 1991 by the same lineup that had featured on In a Priest Driven Ambulance, the album's release was delayed for nearly a year due to the use of a sample from Michael Kamen's score for the film Brazil in the track "You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devil's Brain)", which required a lengthy clearance process. During the intervening period, both Nathan Roberts and Jonathan Donahue left the band (the latter resuming his duties in Mercury Rev). By the time of the album's release both Steven Drozd and Ronald Jones had joined, and performed on the subsequent tour.
The album is known for its particularly long hidden track at the end of the CD, consisting of a continuous burst of staccato noise, panning from channel to channel, lasting for nearly a half-hour. According to the band's website: "The CD features a joke eleventh track of a forty odd seconds loop repeating for about thirty-five minutes."
Personnel
Songs
1Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever)3:50
2Hit Me Like You Did the First Time3:41
3The Sun3:32