Album: Hit to Death in the Future Head by The Flaming Lips (1992)
Genre: Alternative Rock | Style: Rock/Pop | Mood: Gentle
Record Label: Warner Bros. Records
Format: Album

Description: 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.

"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.

Artist Background: The Flaming Lips are an American rock band, formed in Norman, Oklahoma in 1983. Instrumentally, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles-such as "What Is the Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical by Which We Are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love Is the Same Chemical That Caused the "Big Bang" That Was the Birth of the Accel... Part of the Oklahoma, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Psychedelic Rock movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Related Artists: Mercury Rev, Ween, Beck, Modest Mouse

Music Scene: Part of the Oklahoma, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Psychedelic Rock movement. Known for Rock/Pop style.

Tags: Alternative Rock, Rock/Pop, Gentle, 1990s, Album, Warner Bros. Records

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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.

"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.

Hit to Death in the Future Head

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