20 Years of Weird: Flaming Lips 1986–2006
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{{Infobox album
| name = 20 Years of Weird: Flaming Lips 1986–2006
| type = Compilation album
| artist = The Flaming Lips
| cover = 20yearsofweird.jpg
| alt =
| released = March 27, 2006 (UK)
| recorded = 1986–2006
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| studio =
| genre = Indie rock
| length = 67:24
| label = Warner Bros.
| producer = The Flaming Lips and various
| chronology = The Flaming Lips compilation
| prev_title = Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
| prev_year = 2002
| next_title = iTunes Originals – The Flaming Lips
| next_year = 2007
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = Pitchfork Media
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20 Years of Weird: Flaming Lips 1986–2006 is an updated version of the free compilation CD given away at the SXSW Film premier of The Flaming Lips documentary "The Fearless Freaks", a film by Bradley Beesley. It is a predominantly live compilation, recorded throughout the career of the Flaming Lips (between 1986 and 2003), though the first three tracks are recorded in the studio. These are: the introduction by Wayne Coyne, "Free Radicals" from the current album At War with the Mystics and "Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential Fear", a previously unavailable track.
Some notable tracks contained on this compilation are "Shine on Sweet Jesus", a track recorded live with a short lived line-up which included Jonathan Donahue (of Mercury Rev), and current Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann, also of Mercury Rev. There is also a cover of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" (sung with the lyrics "Whole Lotta Satan"), which is played before "Cant Stop the Spring". The track "Sleeping on the Roof" is a live recording from the Flaming Lips' "Parking Lot Experiments" in 1996, where the band got some of their fans to play pre-recorded tapes (of music by the band) in their car stereos simultaneously.
Track listing
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| title1 = Wayne's Intro
| length1 = 2:13
| title2 = Free Radicals
| note2 = from At War with the Mystics
| length2 = 3:39
| title3 = Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential Fear...
| length3 = 5:04
| title4 = With You
| note4 = from Hear It Is
| length4 = 3:29
| title5 = Whole Lotta Love/Can't Stop the Spring
| note5 = Led Zeppelin cover/from Oh My Gawd!!!
| length5 = 5:50
| title6 = Shine on Sweet Jesus – Jesus Song No. 5
| note6 = from In a Priest Driven Ambulance
| length6 = 5:36
| title7 = Space Age Love Song
| note7 = Flock of Seagulls cover
| length7 = 3:59
| title8 = Moth in the Incubator
| note8 = from "Transmissions from the Satellite Heart"
| length8 = 5:37
| title9 = When You Smile/Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles{{big|*}}
| note9 = from Clouds Taste Metallic
| length9 = 12:05
| title10 = Sleeping on the Roof
| length10 = 14:31
| title11 = The Observer
| note11 = from The Soft Bulletin
| length11 = 5:15
}}
{{big|{{asterisk}}}} – Not mentioned on CD track list.
References
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