It’s been twenty years since the Flaming Lips released Clouds Taste Metallic, their seventh LP as well as their last album to feature guitarist Ronald Jones. Today, the band announced a deluxe reissue of the record featuring rarities, B-sides, and other ephemera, out November 27 via Warner Bros. Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallicwill be available in a number of configurations, including a three-CD collection and a seven-LP boxset. Check out the tracklisting for the CD boxset below.
The first disc contains the whole album ; the second contains a promo-only compilation CD entitled Due To High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons as well as The King Bug Laughs, a collection of rarities and outtakes; the third contains a previously unreleased live recording from a 1996 gig in Seattle.
The Flaming Lips website will also be carrying exclusive numbered, colored versions of the latter, along with exclusive t-shirts and posters. Individual vinyl LPs will become available at a later date.
Heady Nuggs 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997 CD Box Set:
Disc 1: Clouds Taste Metallic 01 The Abandoned Hospital Ship 02 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles 03 Placebo Headwound 04 This Here Giraffe 05 Brainville 06 Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World 07 When You Smile 08 Kim’s Watermelon Gun 09 They Punctured My Yolk 10 Lightning Strikes the Postman 11 Christmas At the Zoo 12 Evil Will Prevail 13 Bad Days (aurally excited version)
Disc 2: Due To High Expectations The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles For Your Balloons / The King Bug Laughs (Oddities and Rarities) 01 Bad Days 02 Jets Part 2 (My Two Days As An Ambulance Driver) 03 Ice Drummer 04 Put the Waterbug in the Policeman’s Ear 05 Chewin’ the Apple of Yer Eye 06 Chosen One 07 Little Drummer Boy 08 Slow Nerve Action 09 It Was a Very Good Year 10 Sun Arise 11 Life on Mars 12 Ballrooms of Mars 13 Hot Day 14 Nobody Told Me 15 Magician Vs The Headache 16 She Don’t Use Jelly (Live @KJ103)
Disc 3: Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles (Live in Seattle 1996) 01 The Abandoned Hospital Ship 02 Unconsciously Screamin’ 03 Take Meta Mars 04 Moth in the Incubator 05 Put the Waterbug in the Policeman’s Ear 06 Lightning Strikes the Postman 07 Bad Days 08 She Don’t Use Jelly 09 Chewin’ the Apple of Yer Eye 10 When You Smile 11 Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles 12 Love Yer Brain 13 Placebo Headwound