# The Flaming Lips discography

The discography of the Flaming Lips, an American rock band formed in 1983, consists of 16 studio albums, 18 extended plays, 15 singles, 10 compilation albums, four video albums and an array of various other appearances.

## Studio albums

| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Title | Album details | US | US Heat. | AUS | BEL | JPN | NZ | UK | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Hear It Is | Released: August 22, 1986 Labels: Restless, Enigma/Pink Dust | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Oh My Gawd!!! | Released: November 1, 1987 Labels: Restless, Enigma | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Telepathic Surgery | Released: February 17, 1989 Labels: Restless, Enigma | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| In a Priest Driven Ambulance | Released: September 12, 1990 Labels: Restless, City Slang | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Hit to Death in the Future Head | Released: August 11, 1992 Label: Warner Bros. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Transmissions from the Satellite Heart | Released: June 22, 1993 Label: Warner Bros. | 108 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Clouds Taste Metallic | Released: September 19, 1995 Label: Warner Bros. | — | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Zaireeka | Released: October 28, 1997 Label: Warner Bros. | — | — | N/R | N/R | N/R | N/R | N/R | |
| The Soft Bulletin | Released: June 22, 1999 Label: Warner Bros. | — | 12 | — | — | — | — | 39 | BPI: Gold |
| Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots | Released: July 16, 2002 Label: Warner Bros. | 50 | — | 62 | — | 80 | 47 | 13 | RIAA: Gold ARIA: Gold BPI: Platinum |
| At War with the Mystics | Released: April 4, 2006 Label: Warner Bros. | 11 | — | 20 | 47 | 50 | 36 | 6 | BPI: Gold |
| Once Beyond Hopelessness | Released: November 11, 2008 Label: Warner Bros. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Embryonic | Released: October 13, 2009 Label: Warner Bros. | 8 | — | 43 | 50 | 61 | — | 43 | |
| The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon | Released: December 22, 2009 Label: Warner Bros. | 157 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends | Released: April 21, 2012 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death, Bella Union | 139 | — | — | 199 | — | — | 99 | |
| The Terror | Released: April 1, 2013 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death, Bella Union | 21 | — | 100 | 39 | 50 | — | 42 | |
| The Time Has Come to Shoot You Down... What a Sound | Released: November 29, 2013 Label: Lovely Sorts of Death | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| With a Little Help from My Fwends | Released: October 28, 2014 Label: Warner Bros. | 58 | — | — | 108 | — | — | 84 | |
| Atlas Eets Christmas | Released: November 28, 2014 Labels: | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Oczy Mlody | Released: January 13, 2017 Labels: Warner Bros./Bella Union | 62 | — | — | 43 | — | — | 38 | |
| King's Mouth | Released: July 19, 2019 Labels: Warner Bros./Bella Union | — | — | — | 174 | — | — | 78 | |
| American Head | Released: September 11, 2020 Labels: Warner Bros./Bella Union | 172 | — | — | 17 | — | — | 17 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. ||||||||||

## Compilations

| Title | Album details |
| A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for Recording...By Amateurs | Released: September 29, 1998 Labels: Restless |
| Finally the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid | Released: September 17, 2002 Labels: Restless, Rykodisc |
| Shambolic Birth and Early Life Of | Released: September 17, 2002 Labels: Restless, Rykodisc |
| The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg | Released: October 1, 2002 Labels: Restless, Rykodisc |
| Late Night Tales: The Flaming Lips | Released: March 14, 2005 Label: Azuli |
| 20 Years of Weird: Flaming Lips 1986–2006 | Released: October 16, 2006 Label: Warner Bros. |
| iTunes Originals – The Flaming Lips | Released: July 3, 2007 |
| Heady Nuggs: The First Five Warner Bros. Records 1992–2002 | Released: April 16, 2011 Label: Warner Bros. |
| Heady Nuggs: 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994–1997 | Released: November 27, 2015 |
| Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 | Released: June 1, 2018 Label: Warner Bros. |
| Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of the Flaming Lips | Released: April 20, 2018 Label: Rhino Entertainment Company |
| Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of the Flaming Lips 1986–1990 | Released: June 29, 2018 Label: Rhino Entertainment Company |
| "The Soft Bulletin Companion Album" | Released: 2021 |

## Extended plays

| Title | EP details | Notes |
| The Flaming Lips | Released: 1984 Labels: Lovely Sorts of Death, Restless, Enigma/Pink Dust | |
| Unconsciously Screamin' | Released: 1990 Labels: Atavistic, City Slang | CD single containing the non-album tracks "Ma, I Didn't Notice", "Lucifer Rising", and "Let Me Be It" |
| Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical | Released: October 31, 1991 Label: Warner Bros. | |
| Due to High Expectations... the Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles for Your Balloons | Released: July 12, 1994 Label: Warner Bros. | Peaked at No. 182 on the US Billboard 200 |
| The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest | Released: March 10, 2001 Label: Independent | |
| Fight Test | Released: April 22, 2003 Label: Warner Bros. | CD single containing non-album tracks "The Strange Design of Conscience" and "Thank You Jack White (for the Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)" Peaked at No. 93 on the US Billboard 200 |
| Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell | Released: November 18, 2003 Label: Warner Bros. | CD single non-album tracks "Assassination of the Sun", "I'm a Fly in a Sunbeam (Following the Funeral Procession of a Stranger)", "Sunship Balloons", and "A Change at Christmas (Say It Isn't So)" |
| Yoshimi Wins! (Live Radio Sessions) | Released: November 15, 2005 Label: Warner Bros. | |
| It Overtakes Me | Released: November 13, 2006 Label: Warner Bros. | CD single containing non-album track "I'm Afraid of Dying... Aren't You?" |
| Paranoia and Peace (with Tame Impala) | Released: October 29, 2013 Label: Lovely Sorts of Death | Split vinyl EP sold at Halloween concerts, with the Flaming Lips covering Tame Impala and Tame Impala covering the Flaming Lips. |
| Peace Sword | Released: October 29, 2013 Label: Warner Bros. | The title track, "Peace Sword (Open Your Heart)", was written for the film Ender's Game. The other tracks on the EP, however, were not accepted by the producers. |

## Singles

| Title | Year | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album |
| Title | Year | US | US Alt. | AUS | UK | Certifications | Album |
| "Drug Machine" | 1989 | — | — | — | — | | Telepathic Surgery |
| "Unconsciously Screamin'" | 1990 | — | — | — | — | | In a Priest Driven Ambulance |
| "She Don't Use Jelly" | 1993 | 55 | 9 | 25 | 94 | | Transmissions from the Satellite Heart |
| "Turn It On" | 1995 | — | — | — | — | | Transmissions from the Satellite Heart |
| "Bad Days" | 1995 | — | — | — | 77 | | Clouds Taste Metallic |
| "This Here Giraffe" | 1996 | — | — | — | 72 | | Clouds Taste Metallic |
| "Brainville" | 1996 | — | — | — | — | | Clouds Taste Metallic |
| "Race for the Prize" | 1999 | — | — | — | 39 | | The Soft Bulletin |
| "Waitin' for a Superman" | 1999 | — | — | — | 73 | | The Soft Bulletin |
| "Do You Realize??" | 2002 | — | — | — | 32 | RIAA: Gold | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1" | 2003 | — | — | — | 18 | | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| "Fight Test" | 2003 | — | — | — | 28 | | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" | 2003 | — | — | — | — | — | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots |
| "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" | 2006 | 108 | — | — | 41 | | At War with the Mystics |
| "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)" | 2006 | — | — | 79 | 16 | | At War with the Mystics |
| "It Overtakes Me" | 2006 | — | — | — | — | 155 | At War with the Mystics |
| "Love the World You Find" | 2007 | — | — | — | — | | Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium |
| "Look... The Sun is Rising" | 2013 | — | — | — | — | | The Terror |
| "Sun Blows Up Today" | 2013 | — | — | — | — | | The Terror |
| "Space Oddity" | 2016 | — | — | — | — | | non-album single |
| "The Castle" | 2016 | — | — | — | — | | Oczy Mlody |
| "How??" | 2016 | — | — | — | — | | Oczy Mlody |
| "Sunrise (Eyes of the Young)" | 2016 | — | — | — | — | | Oczy Mlody |
| "We a Famly" | 2017 | — | — | — | — | | Oczy Mlody |
| "Nigdy Nie (Never No)" | 2017 | — | — | — | — | | Oczy Mlody |
| "Flowers of Neptune 6" | 2020 | — | — | — | — | | American Head |
| "My Religion Is You" | 2020 | — | — | — | — | | American Head |
| "Dinosaurs on the Mountain" | 2020 | — | — | — | — | | American Head |
| "You n Me Sellin' Weed" | 2020 | — | — | — | — | | American Head |
| "Will You Return / When You Come Down" | 2020 | — | — | — | — | | American Head |
| "Mother Please Don't Be Sad" | 2020 | — | — | — | — | | American Head |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that territory. ||||||||

## The Flaming Lips 2011 series

| Title | Month | Details | Type | Notes |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #1: Two Blobs Fucking | February | Released: February 14, 2011 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death | music video | Released as a 12-piece track on YouTube, each accompanied by its own respective video. Similar to their Zaireeka album, it is meant to be played simultaneously on 12 separate smartphones. |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #2: The Flaming Lips with Neon Indian | March | Released: March 23, 2011 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death | EP | Collaborative mini-album with Neon Indian released at various records stores on special colored 12" vinyl. |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #3: Gummy Song Skull | April | Released: April 20, 2011 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death | EP | Released at various record stores as a giant skull made of an edible gelatin substance. Inside the skull was a USB stick containing 4 new songs. |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #4: The Flaming Lips with Prefuse 73 | May | Released: May 23, 2011 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death | EP | Collaborative mini-album with Guillermo Scott Herren, released at various records stores on randomly colored 12" vinyls. |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #5: The Soft Bulletin Live la Fantastique de Institution 2011 | June | Released: June 14, 2011 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death | remix album | Rerecorded version of The Soft Bulletin live in-studio, released at two shows at the Hollywood Cemetery, |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #6: Gummy Song Fetus | June | Released: June 25, 2011 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death | EP | Released at various record stores as a replica of an unborn fetus made of an edible gelatin substance. Inside the fetus was a USB stick containing 3 new songs. |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #7: The Flaming Lips with Lightning Bolt | July | Released: July 26, 2011 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death | EP | Collaborative mini-album with Lightning Bolt, released at various records stores. |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #8: Strobo Trip – Light & Audio Phase Illusions Toy | September | Released: September 20, 2011 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death | album | Box set released at various records stores containing a stroboscope light and a memory stick with three tracks of music, including one six-hour track. |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #9: 7 Skies H3 – 24 Hour Skull | October | Released: October 31, 2011 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death | album | One 24-hour track released on limited edition flash drives encased in real human skulls, for Halloween. A website was also set up, streaming the song on an endless loop. |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #10: Atlas Eets Christmas – Infinite Christmas Sounds | November | Released: November 27, 2011 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death | compilation album | Anthology of Flaming Lips Christmas songs, streamed on a loop at atlaseetschristmas.com. |
| The Flaming Lips 2011 #11: The Flaming Lips with Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band | December | Released: December 31, 2011 Labels: Warner Bros./Lovely Sorts of Death | EP | Collaborative EP with Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band, released at a New Year's Eve concert, on 2000 multi-colored 12" vinyl, 600 of which glowed in the dark. |

## Music videos

Everyone Wants To Live Forever (1992)
Frogs (1992)
Turn It On (1993)
She Don't Use Jelly (1993)
Be My Head (1994)
Bad Days (1995)
Christmas At The Zoo (1995)
When You Smile (1995)
This Here Giraffe (1996)
Race For The Prize (1999)
Watin' For A Superman (1999)
Do You Realize?? (2002)
Are You A Hypnotist?? (2002)
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots PT1 (2002)
Phoebe Battles the Pink Robots (2002)
Fight Test (2002)
The Golden Path (2003)
Physic Wall (2004)
Mr. Ambulance Driver (2005)
The W.A.N.D. (2006)
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (2006)
Powerless (2009)
The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine (2009)
I Can Be A Frog (2009)
Ashes In The Air (2012)
Supermoon Made Me Want To Pee (2012)
I'm Working At NASA On Acid (2012)
Look... The Sun Is Rising (2013)
Try To Explain (2013)
Be Free... A Way (2013)
Turning Violent (2013)
How?? (2017)
There Should Be Unicorns (2017)
Sunrise (Eyes Of The Young) (2017)
Nigdy Nie (Never No) (2017)
The Castle (2017)
Almost Home (Blisko Domu) (2017)
We A Famly (2017)
Giant Baby (2019)
How Many Times (2019)
Will You Return / When You Come Down (2020)
Flowers of Neptune 6 (2020)
Dinosaurs On The Mountain (2020)
At The Movies On Quaaludes (2020)
Brother Eye (2020)
You N Me Sellin' Weed (2020)
Mother Please Don't Be Sad (2020)
Assassins Of Youth (2020)
God And The Policeman (2020)
My Religion Is You (2020)

## Other appearances
### Studio

| Year | Title | Release | Notes |
| 1989 | "After the Gold Rush" | The Bridge: A Tribute to Neil Young | Neil Young cover |
| 1992 | "Ballrooms of Mars" | split single with Mr. Bungle | T-Rex cover |
| 1993 | "Sun Arise" | Welcome to Our Nightmare: A Tribute to Alice Cooper | Rolf Harris cover |
| 1993 | "It Was a Very Good Year" | Chairman of the Board: Interpretations of Songs Made Famous by Frank Sinatra | Ervin Drake cover |
| 1993 | "Life on Mars?" | split single with the Lemonheads | David Bowie cover |
| 1994 | "Ice Drummer" | Your Invitation to Suicide: A Tribute to Songs of Martin Rev, Alan Vega | Suicide cover; some sources give release as 1993 |
| 1995 | "Nobody Told Me" | Working Class Hero: A Tribute to John Lennon | John Lennon cover |
| 1997 | "Hot Day" | SubUrbia | original song |
| 2000 | "White Christmas" | It's a Cool Cool Christmas | Irving Berlin cover |
| 2004 | "Go" | The Late Great Daniel Johnston: Discovered Covered | Daniel Johnston cover with Sparklehorse |
| 2004 | "SpongeBob & Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy" | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Music from the Movie and More... | original song |
| 2005 | "Seven Nation Army" | Late Night Tales: The Flaming Lips | The White Stripes cover |
| 2005 | "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen | Queen cover |
| 2005 | "If I Only Had a Brain" | Stubbs the Zombie: The Soundtrack | Written by Yip Harburg and Harold Arlen |
| 2007 | "The Supreme Being Teaches Spider-Man How to Be in Love" | Spider-Man 3 | original song |
| 2007 | "(Just Like) Starting Over" | Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur | John Lennon cover |
| 2007 | "I Was Zapped by the Lucky Super Rainbow" | Good Luck Chuck | original song |
| 2007 | "The Tale of the Horny Frog" and "Maybe I'm Not the One" | The Heartbreak Kid | original song |
| 2007 | "Love the World You Find" | Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium | original song |
| 2009 | "Borderline" | Covered, a Revolution in Sound | Madonna cover |
| 2009 | "Kundalini Express" | New Tales to Tell: A Tribute to Love and Rockets | Love and Rockets cover |
| 2011 | "Smothered in Hugs" | Sing for Your Meat: A Tribute to Guided by Voices | Guided by Voices cover |
| 2012 | "God Only Knows" | MOJO Presents Pet Sounds Revisited | The Beach Boys cover |
| 2012 | "Smoke on the Water" | Re-Machined: A Tribute to Deep Purple's Machine Head | Deep Purple cover |
| 2015 | "Atlantis" | Gazing with Tranquility: A Tribute to Donovan | Donovan cover |
| 2016 | "Dark Star" | Day of the Dead | Grateful Dead cover |
| 2019 | "Little Hands" | More Oar: A Tribute to the Skip Spence Album | Skip Spence cover |
| 2019 | "Sing It Now, Sing It Somehow" | Hanukkah+ | original song |
| 2021 | "Snail: I'm Avail" | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run | original song |
| 2021 | "Lay Lady Lay" | Dylan ...Revisited | Bob Dylan cover |
| 2022 | "Mrs. Lennon" | Ocean Child: Songs of Yoko Ono | Yoko Ono cover |
| 2022 | "Lucifer Hummingbird" | For the Birds: Vol. II | original song |

### Radio

| Year | Title | Original broadcast | Original artist | Release |
| 1996 | "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" | KCRW, May 1996 | B. J. Thomas | "Brainville" B-side |
| 2003 | "Can't Get You Out of My Head" | KEXP, August 2002 | Kylie Minogue | "Fight Test" B-side |
| 2003 | "The Golden Age" | CD101, August 2002 | Beck | "Fight Test" B-side |
| 2003 | "Knives Out" | KCRW, August 2002 | Radiohead | "Fight Test" B-side |
| 2007 | "War Pigs" | iTunes, 2007 | Black Sabbath | iTunes Originals |

### Live

* "Thank You" and "Death Valley '69" – 1988 split single with the Fleshtones and Steve Kilbey
* "Whole Lotta Love" – 2005 soundtrack Fearless Freaks
* "Gates of Steel" – 2014 split single with Devo

## Video albums

| Title | Album details |
| The Fearless Freaks | Released: May 17, 2005 Formats: DVD |
| VOID | Released: August 23, 2005 Formats: DVD |
| U.F.O.s at the Zoo | Released: August 7, 2007 Formats: DVD |
| Christmas on Mars | Released: November 11, 2008 Formats: DVD, Vinyl + DVD, DVD + CD |

## Guest appearances
### Albums

* Good News for People Who Love Bad News (2004) – Modest Mouse – additional instrumentation ("The Good Times Are Killing Me")
* "My Mechanical Friend" (2012) – Grace Potter – co-writing and instrumentation
* Warrior (2012) – Kesha – producer ("Past Lives")
* Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz (2015) – Miley Cyrus – producer ("Dooo It!", "Karen Don't Be Sad", "The Floyd Song (Sunrise)", "Something About Space Dude", "Fuckin Fucked Up", "BB Talk", "Milky Milky Milk", "Cyrus Skies", "I'm So Drunk", "Tangerine", "Tiger Dreams", "Evil Is But a Shadow" and "Miley Tibetan Bowlzzz")

### Singles

* "The Golden Path" (2003) – The Chemical Brothers