At War With the Mystics
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The Flaming Lips
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studio album
First released:
Apr 3 2006

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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. 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. The album is more guitar-driven and features more politically themed lyrics than The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.

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 adverts for Bud Light and for Dell Computers in the U.K. and the U.S.

"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.

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Catalog number:
WPCR-12282
Release dates:
  • Apr 4 2006 in United States
  • Oct 24 2006

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5 stars Ignore what I have to say
Don't listen to me--or anyone else for that matter. Instead go to flaminglips.com, select the audio section and there you can hear every track in its entirety for free. That's what I did. And I bought the CD immediately.
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3 stars It's no "Soft Bulletin"
This album, like it's predecessor "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" has the same fantastic production & unique arrangements of the band's 1999 masterpiece "The Soft Bulletin." However, to me, the songs aren't nearly as strong. In fact, it heads in the direction of bands like Elbow & Super Furry Animals, laden with nifty sound effects & arrangements but with songs that don't stick with you at all.

If you agree that "Yoshimi" was just "Soft Bulletin" lite, then don't bother with this one - at lea…
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Written by David W. Thompson

Track listing Edit

  • CD

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    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)
    4:51
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    2
    Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading With a Suicide Bomber)
    3:41
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    3
    The Sound of Failure / It's Dark... Is It Always This Dark??
    7:18
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    4
    My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)
    4:51
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    5
    Vein of Stars
    4:15
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    6
    The Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight and Puts on His Werewolf Moccasins
    3:41
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    7
    It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?
    6:50
    		Play Buy track
    8
    Mr. Ambulance Driver
    4:21
    		Play Buy track
    9
    Haven't Got a Clue
    3:25
    		Play Buy track
    10
    The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)
    3:42
    		Play Buy track
    11
    Pompeii am Götterdämmerung
    4:21
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    12
    Goin' On
    3:39
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At War With the Mystics 12 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: Warner Bros / Wea
catalog number: WPCR-12282
release dates: Apr 3 2006 in United Kingdom
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15 tracks format: 1 x CD
release dates: Apr 4 2006 in United States
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At War With the Mystics 13 tracks format: 1 x CD
record label: WEA Japan
release dates: Apr 12 2006 in Japan
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At War With the Mystics 14 tracks format: 1 x CD
catalog number: WPCR-12282
release dates: Nov 6 2006 in United Kingdom
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At War With the Mystics 14 tracks 5.1 CD + DVD
format: 1 x DVD
record label: Warner Bros. Records
catalog number: WPCR-12282
release dates: Oct 24 2006 in United States
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At War With the Mystics 12 tracks 180G Version
format: 1 x vinyl
record label: ADA/Warner Bros
release dates: Jun 20 2006
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At War With the Mystics 12 tracks Coloured Vinyl
format: 1 x vinyl
record label: ADA/Warner Bros
release dates: Jul 11 2006
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