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- Clouds Taste Metallic
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The Flaming Lips
Released 1995

This Here Giraffe
03:45
9,016 plays

The Abandoned Hospital Ship
03:37
8,963 plays

Psychiatric Explorations Of The Fetus With Needles
03:27
8,073 plays

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- 1
- The Abandoned Hospital Ship
- 03:37
- 8,963 plays

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- Psychiatric Explorations Of The Fetus With Needles
- 03:27
- 8,073 plays

- 3
- Placebo Headwound
- 03:39
- 7,667 plays

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- This Here Giraffe
- 03:45
- 9,016 plays

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- Brainville
- 03:12
- 7,839 plays

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- Guy Who Got A Headache And Accidentally Saves The World
- 04:27
- 7,006 plays

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- When You Smile
- 03:12
- 13,319 plays

- 8
- Kim's Watermelon Gun
- 03:21
- 6,717 plays

- 9
- They Punctured My Yolk
- 04:21
- 5,976 plays

- 10
- Lightning Strikes The Postman
- 02:50
- 6,597 plays

- 11
- Christmas At The Zoo
- 03:06
- 7,481 plays

- 12
- Evil Will Prevail
- 03:45
- 6,254 plays

- 13
- Bad Days (Aurally Excited Version)
- 04:37
- 15,382 plays

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album review

The same extraordinary madness that infected the best work of Brian Wilson rears its head on the shimmering and melodic Clouds Taste Metallic, a masterful collection which completes the Flaming Lips' odyssey into the pop stratosphere. The Pet Sounds comparisons are obvious -- two of the highlights are titled "This Here Giraffe" and "Christmas at the Zoo" -- yet not unfair; like Brian Wilson, Wayne Coyne has refined his unique vision into something both highly personal and powerfully universal. Similarly, while Coyne's lyrics remain as acid-damaged and inscrutable as ever, his densely constructed songs convey emotional complexities far beyond the scope of their head-case titles ("Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles," "Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World"); galvanized by equal parts newfound maturity and childlike wonderment, Clouds Taste Metallic is both the Flaming Lips' most intricate and most irresistible work. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide