At War With the Mystics by The Flaming Lips

At War With the Mystics

The Flaming Lips

Released: 2006

At War with the Mystics is the eleventh album by the Flaming Lips. It was released on April 3, 2006, in international markets, and April 4, 2006, in the United States. The album is more guitar-driven and features more politically themed lyrics than The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. "The Wizard Turns On..." won a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The album was nominated for the Best Alternative Album Grammy. The 5.1 mix of the album was nominated for Best Surround Sound Album in 2008. The track "It Overtakes Me" has gained considerable interest, being featured as the soundtrack to a UK television commercial for Beck's beer, and "The W.A.N.D." has been used in European advertisements for Bud Light and for Dell Computers in the UK and the U.S. It includes a different mix of the song, "Mr. Ambulance Driver", which was originally used as part of the soundtrack to the 2005 film Wedding Crashers.

Track List

1The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)4:51
2Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading With a Suicide Bomber)3:42
3The Sound of Failure / It's Dark... Is It Always This Dark??7:18
4My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)4:51
5Vein of Stars4:15
6The Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight and Puts on His Werewolf Moccasins3:41
7It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?6:51
8Mr. Ambulance Driver4:21
9Haven't Got a Clue3:26
10The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)3:43
11Pompeii am Götterdämmerung4:22
12Goin' On3:40

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