Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

{{Infobox album

| name = Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

| type = studio

| artist = the Flaming Lips

| cover = TheFlamingLips-YoshimiBattlesThePinkRobots.jpg

| alt = A painting of the backside of a girl facing a pink robot

| released = {{start date|2002|07|16}}

| recorded = June 2000 – April 2002

| studio = Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, New York

| genre =

Neo-psychedelia
space rock
dream pop
acid rock{{cite web|last= Rolling Stone Staff|title= The 100 Greatest Songs of the Century – So Far|website= Rolling Stone|date= June 28, 2018 |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/the-100-greatest-songs-of-the-century-so-far-666874/|accessdate= May 31, 2023|quote= Wayne Coyne described the band’s 2002 LP Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots as a set of “storytelling acid rock”...}}

| length = 47:25

| label = Warner Bros.

| producer =

The Flaming Lips
Dave Fridmann
Scott Booker

| prev_title = The Soft Bulletin

| prev_year = 1999

| next_title = At War with the Mystics

| next_year = 2006

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

| type = studio

| single1 = Do You Realize??

| single1date = August 19, 2002

| single2 = Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1

| single2date = March 2003

| single3 = Fight Test

| single3date = April 22, 2003

| single4 = Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell

| single4date = November 18, 2003

}}

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the tenth studio album by American rock band the Flaming Lips, released on July 16, 2002, by Warner Bros. Records. The album saw the band pursue a more electronic direction than previous efforts, incorporating acoustic guitars and rhythms influenced by hip hop and top 40 music. The album was well-received critically and commercially, helping the band break into popularity, and was adapted into a musical in 2012.{{cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200604/ai_n16137140|title=Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Certified Gold|access-date=May 5, 2011|work=Market Wire|year=2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211130941/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_pwwi/is_200604/ai_n16137140|archive-date=December 11, 2008|url-status=live}} In 2022, the band announced a 20th anniversary box set version of the album and that they would perform the album in full twice in early 2023.{{cite web |last1=Cohen |first1=Jonathan |title=The Flaming Lips Round Up 50+ Unreleased Tracks For Yoshimi 20th Anniversary Box |url=https://www.spin.com/2022/09/the-flaming-lips-yoshimi-anniversary/ |website=SPIN Magazine |publisher=SPIN |access-date=17 November 2022}}

Music and lyrics

The lyrics of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots concern a diverse array of subject matter, mostly melancholy ponderings about love, mortality, artificial emotion, pacifism, and deception, while telling the story of Yoshimi's battle. The title character is inspired by musician Yoshimi P-We of Boredoms/OOIOO, following a comment in the Flaming Lips studio that her unusual singing style sounds like she is battling monsters. Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne added 'pink'. P-We also performs on the album. Some listeners consider Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots to be a concept album; however, the story is debated, as it is only directly apparent in the first four tracks. Despite the story-type title and science fiction themes, Coyne has made it clear that Yoshimi is not intended to be a concept album.

The vocal melody of track one, "Fight Test", echoes Cat Stevens's "Father and Son". Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, is receiving royalties following a relatively uncontentious settlement. Coyne has claimed that he was unaware of the songs' similarities until producer Dave Fridmann pointed them out. This claim, however, is contradicted by his statement to Rolling Stone magazine: "I know 'Father and Son' and I knew there would be a little bit of comparison. 'Fight Test' is not a reference necessarily to the ideas of 'Father and Son', but definitely a reference to the cadence, the melody, and chord progression. I think it's such a great arrangement of chords and melody".

The final track, "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)", won a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.{{cite web |title=45th Annual GRAMMY Awards |url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/45th-annual-grammy-awards |website=grammy.com |access-date=7 June 2024}} The Flaming Lips also won the same award for "The Wizard Turns On...", taken from At War with the Mystics, in 2006.{{cite web |title=49th Annual GRAMMY Awards |url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/49th-annual-grammy-awards |website=grammy.com |access-date=7 June 2024}} The title of the fifth track, "In the Morning of the Magicians", is a reference to the book The Morning of the Magicians.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/yoshimi-battles-the-pink-robots-mw0000214546|title=Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – the Flaming Lips | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|publisher=AllMusic}}

Release

=Commercial performance=

In recent years,{{when|date=December 2019}} Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots has had a bigger commercial impact{{specify|date=December 2019}} than the band's 1999 breakthrough album The Soft Bulletin, and became their first gold-certified release in April 2006. As of 2009, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots has sold 570,000 copies in United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Critical reception

{{Music ratings

| MC = 84/100

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}

| rev2 = Blender

| rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}

| rev3 = Entertainment Weekly

| rev3score = B+

| rev4 = The Guardian

| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}

| rev5 = NME

| rev5score = 9/10

| rev6 = Pitchfork

| rev6score = 8.4/10

| rev7 = Q

| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}

| rev8 = Rolling Stone

| rev8score = {{Rating|4|5}}

| rev9 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev9score = {{Rating|4|5}}

| rev10 = Uncut

| rev10score = {{Rating|5|5}}

}}

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots received widespread acclaim from critics. On Metacritic, the album has a weighted average score of 84 out of 100 based on 27 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".{{Cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/yoshimi-battles-the-pink-robots/the-flaming-lips|title=Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by the Flaming Lips|website=Metacritic }} Calling the album "as strange as it is wonderful", Billboard nonetheless noted that "beneath the sunny, computer-generated atmospherics and the campy veneer of talk about gladiator-style clashes between man and machines with emotions, Yoshimi is actually a somber rumination on love and survival in an unfathomable world." Tom Moon of Rolling Stone praised the album's "ambitious" production, while Fortune magazine called it "a lush and haunting electronic symphony." Uncut declared that "even by their standards, Yoshimi is astonishing." Robert Christgau of The Village Voice gave the album a three-star honorable mention rating, indicating "an enjoyable effort consumers attuned to its overriding aesthetic or individual vision may well treasure". Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots appeared in the best-albums-of-the-decade lists of several music publications, such as Rolling Stone (#27) and Uncut (#11), with Uncut also declaring it the greatest album released in the magazine's lifetime. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Musical

In 2007, it was announced that the album would be made into a Broadway musical by The West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin and director Des McAnuff. Frontman Wayne Coyne said of the plot:

{{cquote|There's the real world and then there's this fantastical world. This girl, the Yoshimi character, is dying of cancer. And these two guys are battling to come visit her in the hospital. And as one of the boyfriends envisions trying to save the girl, he enters this other dimension where Yoshimi is this Japanese warrior and the pink robots are an incarnation of her disease. It's almost like the disease has to win in order for her soul to survive. Or something like that.}}

Des McAnuff stated that Aaron Sorkin exited the project after it became clear the musical would be sung-through. The musical includes existing songs from the album, as well as two other Flaming Lips albums, The Soft Bulletin and At War with the Mystics. The show received its world premiere at the La Jolla Playhouse in November 2012, starring Kimiko Glenn as Yoshimi Yasukawa, Paul Nolan as Ben Nickel, Nik Walker as Booker, Pearl Sun as Mrs. Yasukawa, John Haggerty as Mr. Yasukawa and Tom Hewitt as Dr. Petersen.{{Cite web |date=2012-11-19 |title=Review: 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' sounds thrilling, at least |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2012-nov-19-la-et-cm-1120-pink-robots-review-20121120-story.html |access-date=2024-09-25 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

Track listing

{{Track listing

| total_length = 47:25

| all_writing = The Flaming Lips (Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins) except where noted

| title1 = Fight Test

| note1 = Cat Stevens, The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann

| length1 = 4:14

| title2 = One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21

| length2 = 4:59

| title3 = Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1

| length3 = 4:45

| title4 = Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2

| length4 = 2:57

| title5 = In the Morning of the Magicians

| length5 = 6:18

| title6 = Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell

| length6 = 4:34

| title7 = Are You a Hypnotist??

| length7 = 4:44

| title8 = It's Summertime

| length8 = 4:20

| title9 = Do You Realize??

| note9 = The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann

| length9 = 3:33

| title10 = All We Have Is Now

| length10 = 3:53

| title11 = Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)

| length11 = 3:09

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Special edition surround sound DVD-Audio

| title1 = Fight Test

| length1 = 4:14

| title2 = One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21

| length2 = 4:59

| title3 = Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1

| length3 = 4:45

| title4 = Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 2

| length4 = 2:57

| title5 = In the Morning of the Magicians

| length5 = 6:19

| title6 = Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell

| length6 = 4:33

| title7 = Are You a Hypnotist??

| length7 = 4:44

| title8 = It's Summertime

| length8 = 5:45

| title9 = Do You Realize??

| length9 = 3:32

| title10 = All We Have Is Now

| length10 = 3:53

| title11 = Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)

| length11 = 3:12

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = DVD-Audio exclusive tracks

| title1 = Up Above the Daily Hum

| title2 = Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1

| note2 = Japanese version

| title3 = If I Go Mad (Funeral in My Head)

| title4 = Do You Realize?? Floating in Space Remix

| note4 = Edit

| title5 = Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1

| note5 = AOL sessions

| title6 = Do You Realize??

| note6 = CD101 version

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = DVD-Video bonus tracks

| title1 = Do You Realize??

| note1 = Mark Pellington version

| title2 = Do You Realize??

| note2 = Wayne Coyne * Bradley Beesley * George Salisbury version

| title3 = Making of the Do You Realize??

| note3 = Video

| title4 = Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1

| title5 = Making of the Yoshimi Video

| title6 = Fight Test

| title7 = Phoebe Battles the Pink Robots

| title8 = Christmas on Mars

| note8 = Movie trailer

| title9 = Making of the Yoshimi DVD-A

| title10 = Are You a Hypnotist??

| note10 = George's Photogenic Stimulation Theory #1134

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = DVD-ROM extras

| title1 = Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1

| note1 = Animated episode

| title2 = Fight Test

| note2 = Animated episode

}}

{{Track listing

| headline = Japanese CD bonus tracks

| title1 = Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Pt. 1 (Japanese Version)

| length1 = 4:57

}}

Personnel

The Flaming Lips

Wayne Coyne – songwriting, vocals, guitars, cover paintings, mixing, production
Steven Drozd – songwriting, drums, guitars, keyboards, electronics, bass, vocals, mixing, production
Michael Ivins – songwriting, bass, keyboards, backing vocals, mixing, production, additional engineering

Additional personnel

Yoshimi P-We – vocalization
Dave Fridmann – additional songwriting, production, mixing, programming, engineering, mastering
Scott Booker – production
Trent Bell – additional tracking
Andy Taub – additional tracking
George Salisbury – design and layout

Charts

=Weekly charts=

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{{album chart\|France\|86\|artist=The Flaming Lips\|album=Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots\|rowheader=true\|access-date=November 7, 2021}}
{{album chart\|Germany4\|93\|artist=The Flaming Lips\|album=Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots\|id=6280\|rowheader=true\|access-date=November 7, 2021}}
{{album chart\|Ireland2\|9\|artist=The Flaming Lips\|rowheader=true\|access-date=November 30, 2021}}
{{album chart\|New Zealand\|47\|artist=The Flaming Lips\|album=Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots\|rowheader=true\|access-date=November 7, 2021}}
{{album chart\|Norway\|15\|artist=The Flaming Lips\|album=Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots\|rowheader=true\|access-date=November 7, 2021}}
{{album chart\|Sweden\|51\|artist=The Flaming Lips\|album=Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots\|rowheader=true\|access-date=November 7, 2021}}
{{album chart\|UK2\|13\|date=20020721\|rowheader=true\|access-date=November 7, 2021}}
{{album chart\|Billboard200\|50\|artist=The Flaming Lips\|rowheader=true\|access-date=November 7, 2021}}

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;" ! Chart (2024) ! Peak position
scope="row"\| Hungarian Physical Albums (MAHASZ){{cite web \|title=Album Top 40 slágerlista (fizikai hanghordozók) – 2024. 45. hét \|url=https://slagerlistak.hu/album-top-40-slagerlista-fizikai-hanghordozok/2024/45 \|publisher=MAHASZ \|access-date=November 13, 2024}} \| 21

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"

! Chart (2024)

! Peak
position

scope="row"| Hungarian Physical Albums (MAHASZ){{cite web |title=Album Top 40 slágerlista (fizikai hanghordozók) – 2024. 45. hét |url=https://slagerlistak.hu/album-top-40-slagerlista-fizikai-hanghordozok/2024/45 |publisher=MAHASZ |access-date=November 13, 2024}}

| 21

=Year-end charts=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" \|+ Year-end chart performance for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots ! Chart (2003) ! Position
scope="row"\| UK Albums (OCC){{cite web\|url=http://www.ukchartsplus.co.uk/ChartsPlusYE2003.pdf\|title=The Official UK Albums Chart 2003\|work=UKChartsPlus\|access-date=December 3, 2021}} \| 151

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"

|+ Year-end chart performance for Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

! Chart (2003)

! Position

scope="row"| UK Albums (OCC){{cite web|url=http://www.ukchartsplus.co.uk/ChartsPlusYE2003.pdf|title=The Official UK Albums Chart 2003|work=UKChartsPlus|access-date=December 3, 2021}}

| 151

Certifications

{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|type=album|artist=The Flaming Lips|title=Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots|award=Gold|relyear=2002|certyear=2004|access-date=November 7, 2021}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=album|artist=The Flaming Lips|title=Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots|award=Platinum|relyear=2002|certyear=2013|id=8386-1928-2|salesamount=322,000|salesref={{cite web |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/iconic-albums-turning-20-in-2022__34756/|title=Iconic albums turning 20 in 2022|work=Official Charts|access-date=September 21, 2023}}}}

{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=album|artist=The Flaming Lips|title=Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robot|award=Gold|relyear=2002|certyear=2006|access-date=November 7, 2021}}

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