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	flaming lips - yoshimi battles the pink robots - hey cd reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		while yoshimi is dense with layered studio sounds like the soft bulletin, stylistically the album is more in the vein of transmissions from the satellite heart.
		yoshimi battles the pink robots is filled with electronic bubblings, synths, and sampled ambient sounds – like people talking… – that switch back and forth and pop in and out faster than beck’s pastiche.
		1” but focuses on an ascending and descending bass line with funk/hip-hop beats like those featured in “one more robot.” the track is also graced with the odd screaming of yoshimi p we, of boredoms fame.
	www.goshen.edu /~mikess/hey/f/yoshimibattles.html (660 words)

	Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the tenth album by The Flaming Lips, released on July 16, 2002 and characterized by synthesizer-driven, pyschedelic-tinged alternative rock compositions.
		Yoshimi's lyrics concern a diverse array of subject matter, mostly deeply melancholy ponderings about love, mortality, artificial emotion, pacifism, and deception, while telling the story of Yoshimi's battle.
		Some listeners consider Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots to be a concept album, but the storyline is unclear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yoshimi_Battles_the_Pink_Robots (433 words)

	The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002): Reviews
		Yoshimi of Japanese band The Boredoms guests on vocals on one track and lends her name to part of the album's title (the "Yoshimi" part, not the "Pink Robots" part).
		Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is a bold and inventive work, brimming with ideas and sublime moments of brilliance.
		Yoshimi isn't the end-to-end triumph that was 1999's The Soft Bulletin....
	www.metacritic.com /music/artists/flaminglips/yoshimibattlesthepinkrobots (1006 words)

	SoundStage! The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots uses some of the same keyboard sounds as The Soft Bulletin, but this time the group adds some funk to them.
		Although Coyne insists, "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is not a concept album," he wrestles here with a number of weighty themes, such as responsibility, mortality, the nature of love, and what it is that makes us human.
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots isn’t quite as focused as The Soft Bulletin was.
	www.soundstage.com /music/reviews/rev463.htm (761 words)

	The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - PopMatters Music Review
		Yoshimi sounds like an album that was made not because the Lips had something new to say, but rather because that's what bands do to capitalize on a successful run.
		Vocally at least, Yoshimi may be the Lips strongest album to date.
		Yoshimi isn't bad, but it just seems as though the Lips are mistaking acoustic guitars and staccato drumming for genuine change.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/f/flaminglips-yoshimi.shtml (1197 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: Music: Flaming Lips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Produced by Dave Fridmann and the band themselves, 'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' continues in the vein of previous work, with bizarre lyrical stories, psychedelic guitar parts and the general quirkiness that The Flaming Lips are renowned for.
		Yoshimi is a little more 'electro' than other Flaming Lips records, perhaps by design or perhaps in part down to the (at the time)drug problems of multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd (who, nevertheless completely goes out on one for this record).
		Yoshimi is a rather sci-fi inflected album with keyboards and robot voices etc but nevertheless won Album of the Year in mags like (alterna-country Ryan Adams loving) Uncut and many others.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Yoshimi-Battles-Robots-Flaming-Lips/dp/B000068PQ0 (1330 words)

	Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots sung by The Flaming Lips and kind of Alternative Rock (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips' long awaited follow-up to 1999's The Soft Bulletin.
		Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is a half-psychedelic-half-pop journey that transforms u into a person bright w/ joy and then changes your mood to adepressed sad man! These dual tranformations are frankly worth buying the ticket to the journey.
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is sung by The Flaming Lips and is a kind of Blowout Music and Alternative Rock music
	www.musicxy.com /music119.html (537 words)

	In Music We Trust - Flaming Lips, The: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
		Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is the real deal, an album like The Beatles' Let It Be, or even The Replacements' Let It Be, that fans, critics, and musicians will be talking about for decades to come.
		Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is an album that even those who don't get it (parish the thought) will agree that it is driven by mad genius and experimentation that pays off.
		It is a colossal album of imagination, experience, and optimism, a beautiful album that, like a child, is born into the world and grows when nurtured and loved, becoming something different each and every time it is listened to.
	www.inmusicwetrust.com /articles/53r07.html (935 words)

	The Flaming Lips * Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Bio - janecek.com
		· "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots" is not a concept album - but it does have several "sound story" compositions connected throughout the record - the Yoshimi depicted in the songs and titles is a fictional character.
		Yoshimi P-we and the Flaming Lips became fast friends while both were playing on the Lollapallooza tour in 1994.
		But, this robot's circuitry (3000-21 model unit) has the capacity to react to changes with synthetic emotions - and even though it's programmed to kill her - it falls in love with Yoshimi - and by the end of the song (the sad reprise) the robot has decided to hill himself rather than harm Yoshimi...
	www.janecek.com /yoshimibio.html (1230 words)

	Amazon.com: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Deluxe Edition CD + DVD): Music: The Flaming Lips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This Smartpak brings together the Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots CD plus a DVD that features the complete album (stereo and 5.1 mixes), nearly everything recorded during the album cycle (b-sides, acoustic versions of Yoshimi tracks and more), videos (including "making ofs" and the trailer to the Lips’ to-be-released Christmas On Mars film).
		Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is a great album, and yes, the 5.1 surround sound is quite something.
		Yoshimi's audio channels are too clearly defined, when a sound switches from one speaker to another you can hear the switch instantly, taking away from the "circling" effect.
	www.amazon.com /Yoshimi-Battles-Pink-Robots-Deluxe/dp/B0000B1A2O (1696 words)

	The Flaming Lips
		The robot theme begins with 'One More Robot', which is the tale of a consciousness being born and the dawn of an emotional awareness leading to love.
		In terms of Wayne's narrative, that love is for Yoshimi, whom Robot 3000-21 must fight - the song is almost claustrophobic to begin with, as skittering rhythms and floating voices bubble behind the tale and a building melody, before breaking down into the lovelorn sound of the instrumental, 'Sympathy 3000-21'.
		The song tells the tale of Yoshimi battling the seemingly invincible Pink Robots, with jumping rhythms and jangling guitars knitted together by strange voices and rasping machine noises into some kind of indescribable pure pop.
	www.flaminglips.com /content/discography/a/11_main.php (1072 words)

	Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Pts. 1 & 2 by The Flaming Lips Songfacts
		Though Yoshimi isn't her, and the robots have nothing to do with this event, the band did write the song "It's Summertime" as a message of condolence to the woman's family.
		yoshimi is yoshimi p-we, the drummer for the boredoms, who appears on the album
		So 'Yoshimi' is the little girl and 'The Pink Robots' are the cancer.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=2623 (510 words)

	Plan 9 - The Flaming Lips : Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Following an acclaimed album is always a craggy cliff of anticipation, but if BULLETIN was the Flaming Lips' PET SOUNDS, then the ethereal YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS may be their SMILEY SMILE, a record which skillfully straddles the line between pop and experimentation.
		YOSHIMI offers lush, enveloping arrangements, forging a soundscape both comfortably predictable and satisfyingly, even dizzyingly, diverse, awash in Todd Rundgren-like grandiosity, yet startlingly simple in structure like the better work of Paul McCartney.
		Despite having the air of a quasi-concept album, YOSHIMI betrays little pretension, even in the face of the Lips' trademark deceptively complex lyrics.
	www.buymusichere.net /rel/v2_viewupc.php?storenr=12&upc=09362481412 (499 words)

	The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Album Review)
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots begins with its strongest cut (Fight Test), which features a funky guitar groove, spacey bass-line, and cool lyrics pondering the mysteries of life.
		Heavy bass and funky, pounding drum machines reverberate through the rest of the beautiful, yet exasperating songs on Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, particularly on the tracks One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 and the first of the two title cuts.
		Accordingly, Yoshimi fails to capture the hooks — and the sheer joy — of The Soft Bulletin.
	www.musicbox-online.com /fl-yosh.html (534 words)

	The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Review - Stylus Magazine
		The plot about Yoshimi and her enemies certainly appears to make up the heart of the album.
		The motifs surface regularly, but most of the lyrics are written from the point of a view of a child, who is watching the story as it unfolds on his television.
		Everyone thought that record was ambitious, but on Yoshimi, Coyne attempts to draw the truths of the universe from a source as tiny and unyielding as the mind of a child.
	www.stylusmagazine.com /review.php?ID=426 (1203 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
		Review: After the symphonic majesty of The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips return with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a sublime fusion of Bulletin's newfound emotional directness, the old-school playfulness of Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, and, more importantly, exciting new expressions of the group's sentimental, experimental sound.
		Paradoxically, the Lips use simpler arrangements to create more diverse sounds on Yoshimi, spanning the lush, psychedelic reveries of "It's Summertime"; the instrumental "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon"; the dubby "Are You a Hypnotist?"; and the barely organized chaos of "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt.
		Yoshimi features some of the sharpest emotional peaks and valleys of any Lips album -- the superficially playful "Fight Test" is surprisingly bittersweet, while sad songs like "All We Have Is Now" and "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" are leavened by witty lyrics and production tricks.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/search.jsp?srchType=ISBN&srchTerms=093624814122 (365 words)

	Scream & Yell - The Flaming Lips- entrevista por Julio Costelo
		Agora a banda lança Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots e antes que apareça a inevitável pergunta, eu respondo: sim o Flaming Lips conseguiram fazer outro grande disco, nada inferior ao "Soft Bulletin".
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots analisa profundamente dilemas e problemas existenciais motivados pela perda recente de uma amiga de Osaka, Japão e de uma historinha com enredo bem peculiar: a garota Yoshimi deverá combater os temíveis robôs cor-de-rosa.
		Apresentação da heroína Yoshimi, faixa preta em caratê, pronta para destruir os robôs malvados que ameaçam as pessoas de sua cidade.
	www.screamyell.com.br /secoes/flaminglips.html (1712 words)

	The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots [2002] Shaking Through.net: Music: Review
		Interestingly, the trio of songs involving the heroine, Yoshimi, and her battle against the pink robots (well, just one, actually) has the least to do with the rest of the album, either thematically or sonically.
		2" is a punchy, dramatically orchestrated instrumental recounting the battle, with the robot throwing the fight, allowing Yoshimi to win and, thus, reaffirming humanity's superiority over the sentient machines.
		The inclusion of such a lighthearted tale (aided greatly by the energetic vocalizations of the Boredoms' Yoshimi P-we) does serve to effectively offset the deeper musings on the album, thus reinforcing the weightier themes by providing a noticeably whimsical contrast.
	www.shakingthrough.net /music/reviews/2002/flaming_lips_yoshimi_battles_the_pink_robots_2002.html (767 words)

	The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots\| Album Review @ Music-Critic.com : the source for music reviews, ...
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots finds these good ol' boys from Oklahoma venturing deeper into the electronics bin than ever before, thus imbuing the album with an overwhelming sense of futurism.
		The album continues in its electro-funk-rock gait throughout, all the while preaching the wonders of love and truth and how they just might be the what it will take to save the world.
		Truthfully, Yoshimi is not quite the masterpiece The Soft Bulletin was - but nowhere does it ever try to be.
	www.music-critic.com /rock/flaminglips_yoshimi.htm (455 words)

	The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots ---Ink Blot Magazine
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots appeared in 2002.
		Where The Soft Bulletin sought (and found) a higher sonic plane, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots looks inward, tackling Big Universal Questions about manhood and growing old and love with profound intelligence.
		"Yoshimi Part II" even acts out the battle (between Yoshimi and the Robots, presumably) in trip-hop concrete.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Flaming_Lips_Yoshimi.htm (619 words)

	Rolling Stone : Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots : Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots isn't the end-to-end triumph that was 1999's The Soft Bulletin, still the most beauteous of Lips albums.
		Techno isn't the band's forte, as "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt.
		But elsewhere the trio's love of sound sorcery is gently folded into gorgeous melodies such as "In the Morning of the Magicians," "Are You a Hypnotist??" and "Do You Realize?" "All we have is now," Wayne Coyne sings, and the Lips sound absolutely ecstatic to be living in the moment.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/album/243152/yoshimi_battles_the_pink_robots (218 words)

	Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips - Music Records Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Yoshimi (as I’ll now refer to the record) is a great blend of sound.
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips : The test begins...
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips : Yoshimi's Victory
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /music-records/yoshimi-battles-the-pink-robots-flaming-lips (340 words)

	Flaming Lips, The-Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots 5.1 (DVD-Audio) (2003)
		Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots was recorded in New York in late 2000 and early 2001 and stands as their 10th album or their 3rd of original material.
		Problems of sync and gathering together the necessary hardware are solved with the release of Yoshimi on a medium capable of surround sound.
		Although the band often denied Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots to be a concept album, there is no mistaking the fantasy of Yoshimi's magical struggle against the evil Pink Robots or the coherence and natural flow of the album.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=3900 (1377 words)

	Amazon.com: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: Music: The Flaming Lips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hardly a song on Yoshimi isn't resonated, echoed, and reverberated--floating the listener higher until they have the ultimate bird's-eye view of what makes a great band tick.
		The most immediate songs, like "One More Robot (3000-21)," are digital (almost trip-hop) dance numbers that lift the band out of the cornfields and into the loopy land of Björk.
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots ~ The Flaming Lips
	www.amazon.com /Yoshimi-Battles-Robots-Flaming-Lips/dp/B000068PQ0 (1329 words)

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