Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
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| Transmissions from the Satellite Heart | ||
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| Studio album by The Flaming Lips | ||
| Released | June 22, 1993 | |
| Recorded | January - February, 1993 | |
| Genre | Alternative rock | |
| Length | 43:04 | |
| Label | Warner Bros. Records | |
| Producer(s) | The Flaming Lips, Keith Cleversley | |
| Professional reviews | ||
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| The Flaming Lips chronology | ||
| Hit to Death in the Future Head (1992) |
Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (1993) |
Clouds Taste Metallic (1995) |
Transmissions from the Satellite Heart is The Flaming Lips' sixth album, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music). Its fourth track, "She Don't Use Jelly", is notable for being The Flaming Lips' first charting radio hit, after its video was featured on the MTV show Beavis and Butt-Head, nearly a year after the album's release. "Turn It On" also was a moderately-successful single, and also had a music video (shot at a laundromat). The album marked the departure of Jonathan Donahue (to Mercury Rev), and the addition of guitarist Ronald Jones and drummer Steven Drozd.
The EP Due to High Expectations... the Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles for Your Balloons was released the following year to promote the album and featured live versions of "Chewin the Apple of Yer Eye" and "Slow Nerve Action". The EP's cover art was also similar to that of Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.
[edit] Track listing
- "Turn It On" – 4:39
- "Pilot Can at the Queer of God" – 4:16
- "Oh, My Pregnant Head (Labia in the Sunlight)" – 4:06
- "She Don't Use Jelly" – 3:40
Sample - "Chewin' the Apple of Yer Eye" – 3:52
- "Superhumans" – 3:13
- "Be My Head" – 3:15
- "Moth in the Incubator" – 4:12
- "Plastic Jesus" (A cover of the song "Plastic Jesus" from the Paul Newman film Cool Hand Luke. The title is obscured on the back of the album.) – 2:18
- "When Yer Twenty-Two" – 3:34
- "Slow Nerve Action" – 5:55
