At War with the Mystics

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At War With the Mystics is the title of 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. It includes a different mix of the song, "Mr. Ambulance Driver," which was released on July 14, 2005 as a part of the soundtrack to the movie Wedding Crashers. The album is more guitar-centric and politically-driven than The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots [1].

The first single from the release, "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)", was released on March 27, 2006. A digital version of "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" appeared on multiple online music stores including iTunes Music Store and AOL Music on January 10, 2006. On March 7, 2006 a CD single for the "The W.A.N.D." was released, featuring two unreleased b-sides: a new studio version of "You Got to Hold On" (which would later appear in an online advertisement for Coca-Cola [2]) and "Time Travel... Yes!!" featuring a digitally-altered Steve Burns delivering a spoken monologue about time travel.

The track "It Overtakes Me" has gained considerable interest, being featured as the soundtrack to a UK television commercial for Beck's beer.

The album itself actually seems to synchronize with the 1992 film Baraka if started at the right time. There is an already synchronized version of it on the Internet called "At War with Baraka".

[edit] Track listing

NOTE: The tracklisting on the back (and front, if you look at the cover clearly) of the CD features shortened titles. These are the full, official titles given both in the insert booklet and on the website.

1. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)" – 4:55
2. "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)" – 3:39
3. "The Sound of Failure / It's Dark... Is It Always this Dark??" – 7:18
4. "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)" – 4:49
5. "Vein of Stars" – 4:15
6. "The Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight and Puts on His Werewolf Moccasins" – 3:41
7. "It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?" – 6:50
8. "Mr. Ambulance Driver" – 4:21
9. "Haven't Got a Clue" – 3:23
10. "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" – 3:44
11. "Pompeii am Götterdämmerung" – 4:19
12. "Goin' On" – 3:39

[edit] iTunes exclusive tracks

1. "Bohemian Rhapsody" (This track originally appeared on Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen) – 6:36
2. "The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness" – 4:47
3. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (Long Version) – 5:22

[edit] At War With the Mystics 5.1

Like The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi, At War With the Mystics was released as a special edition 5.1 CD+DVD mix on October 24, 2006. It is accompanied with studio out-takes, videos and exclusive radio sessions.

[edit] Package content

1. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)" – 4:55
2. "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)" – 3:39
3. "The Sound of Failure / It's Dark... Is It Always this Dark??" – 7:18
4. "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)" – 4:49
5. "Vein of Stars" – 4:15
6. "The Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight and Puts on His Werewolf Moccasins" – 3:41
7. "It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?" – 6:50
8. "Mr. Ambulance Driver" – 4:21
9. "Haven't Got a Clue" – 3:23
10. "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" – 3:44
11. "Pompeii am Götterdämmerung" – 4:19
12. "Goin' On" – 3:39

• Outtakes:

1. "Why Does It End?"
2. "You Gotta Hold On"
3. "Your Face Can Tell the Future"
4. "The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness"
5. "Time Travel?? Yes!!"
6. "Bohemian Rhapsody"

• Radio sessions:

1. "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion"
2. "Goin' On"
3. "Unmade Bed / No Quarter"
4. "The Sound of Failure"
5. "Vein of Stars"
6. "Vein of Stars" (Operatic Spook)
7. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (Chicken Fried Hoedown Protest Rally)
8. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (In Anatropous Reflex)

• Videos:

1. "Mr. Ambulance Driver"
2. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"
3. "The W.A.N.D."
4. "2006 OKC Classen High Commencement Speech"

[edit] External links

• At War With the Mystics at MusicBrainz
• At War With Baraka A synched version of At War with the Mystics and Baraka.