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	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 (937 words)

	Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is a 2002 album by The Flaming Lips.
		In addition to the single compact disc format, there is a two-disc release, composed of the regular album and a DVD containing various alternate takes, b-sides, music videos, video footage from the album recordings, and the trailer for The Flaming Lips' upcoming film, Christmas on Mars.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yoshimi_Battles_the_Pink_Robots (235 words)

	Audio Ideas Guide Music Reviews: The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
		The album received minimal distribution (only 5,000 official copies are thought to have been pressed) but provided The Flaming Lips with nearly immediate notoriety as a band eager to push the limits of conventional pop.
		As might be expected, this is followed by "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots pt.2"; an instrumental number which captures the battle sequence alluded to in the album's title.
		Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, much like its companion The Soft Bulletin, are certainly not the most accessible pop recordings available.
	www.audio-ideas.com /reviews/cd-reviews/flaming-lips-yoshimi.html (1268 words)

	A revew of The Flaming Lips - "yoshimi battles the pink robots" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the Lips tenth studio album and is partly inspired by the sudden death of a Japanese girl who travelled with the band for a while when they were touring Japan.
		She does indeed defeat the robot in the next track in a gladiator style showdown although she herself is left perplexed as to how easy it was in the end.
		Having destroyed the evil robots the album moves along and the remaining songs deal with death, the brevity and precarious nature of life, and the concept of love with a sound that could possibly be described as Neil Young meets Pink Floyd (albeit somewhere in outer-space).
	www.freakscene.com /reviews/yoshimi.htm (405 words)

	Beth Jorgensen - Inspired by Music - The Flaming Lips
		Yoshimi is obviously human, fragile and capable of fierce determination.
		Yoshimi has slain all the other robots, and it is now down to only her and her final nemesis.
		She is shown in mid-victory as she rips out the robot's vitals and leaves him to deactivate in the misery of defeat.
	www.bethjorgensen.com /music/fl/fl.html (925 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....
	metacritic.com /music/artists/flaminglips/yoshimibattlesthepinkrobots (983 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 (762 words)

	Steve Stevens Review: The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Over all this album is not nearly as strong as their 1999 album The Soft Bulletin and has mostly to do with the fact that Yoshimi tends to trail off into oblivion after the first 5 songs.
		This is an album of stark contrasts, the first half is very palatable, the second half is a pile of soundscapes.
		But the album as a whole builds on many of the interesting concepts that the Flaming Lips have been building on since their album destined for obscurity, 1997's Zaireeka.
	www.steve-stevens.com /review.php?reviewID=1 (281 words)

	The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The album gets off to a rollicking start with the winning "Fight Test," a glossy rumination on the call to duty-- whether that's standing up to a playground bully or, as the Lips would have it, an army of rebellious androids bent on world domination.
		Yoshimi shines again with the superior "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell," which pits more existential lyrics over a far more satisfying collage of sounds (vocal samples, snippets of mellotron, a lumbering bass).
		Though Yoshimi could be considered guilty of adhering too strictly to a tried-and-true formula (fast beats, slow melodies), it's really the more disparate elements that keep this album from building emotionally into a classic.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/f/flaming-lips/yoshimi-battles-the-pink-robots.shtml (1150 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips at Epinions.com
		Overrated or not, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is, in addition to being one of the year's most ambitious albums, one of the year's prettiest.
		Heavy-handed, if obvious, societal allegory--- the album might as well been called Rebellion Battles the Frigidization of Humanity, if only that could've been made into something half as fun as a diminutive Japanese anime character whooping it up over hordes of hoary machinery--- is the well from which the Pink Floyd comparisons are drawn...
		Lofty pretensions aside, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is an exemplary allegory and an exercise in gorgeous, dreamy psychedelia.
	www.epinions.com /content_87511305860 (686 words)

	Dallas Music Guide - Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		First things first, this is not a "cutesy" concept album about an Asian female warrior with a funny name that battles robots who are trying to get in touch with their feelings.
		That said, this album is really at its most successful in the songs that balance the organic with the electronic.
		The truth is that this is a fairly weighty album, dealing with themes ranging from the nature of love to forgiveness, from self-doubt to the wonderment of the existence of the world.
	www.dallasmusicguide.com /albums/flaminglips.htm (718 words)

	Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips: Album Reviews
		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.mp3.com /albums/537797/reviews.html (370 words)

	The Flaming Lips - "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Their latest, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots falls into the latter category: gorgeously crafted pop tunes with moving melodies set to inspired bass lines and clunky, irreverent rhythms, buzzing and blurping analog synths, strumming acoustic guitars, and sweeping washes of symphonic sound.
		I was strangely caught up in the tale of Yoshimi, as she works out to prepare herself for her battle against the Pink Robots.
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is a delightful trip: sad, funny, touching, thoughtful, and a pure joy to listen to.
	www.aural-innovations.com /issues/issue21/flamlips.html (285 words)

	Review: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
		begins with cheers and a robotic voice, hinting at a crowd as if this is a live album-but it appears to be entirely recorded in the studio from June 2002 to April 2002.
		The heroine, Yoshimi battles the pink robots in the title track where snippets of spoken voice and school cheers appear to peek in and out of the music.
		The song is pleasantly snug, while recounting the future resistance of a human against the evil-natured robots.
	home.sprynet.com /~lcseiler/yoshimi.htm (495 words)

	Premonition - Reviews
		Also available is a second limited edition CD providing more experimental versions of the album's tracks, further proof of the technical mastery of a band who manages to let the emotion of the original titles peep through totally transformed and revisited versions.
		Partly inspired by the death of a Japanese fan, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots talks about love, life, death and, as the title suggests, the mood swings of Yoshimi (performed by Yoshimi P-we, singer of Japanese experimental band The Boredoms), the album's main character, confronted to a human-exterminating robot in some sort of gladiators dual.
		For the others, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is a perfect opportunity to discover a quite unique band and to plunge into its multicolour and unsettling universe.
	www.premonition.org /chro/chro209011.php3 (1807 words)

	Omnizine Regional Music Zine - CD Review - The Flaming Lips / Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (Oklahoma)
		The latest of these masterworks is ‘ Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots ‘, which is their 9th full length album, and you can take a guess - it’s great.
		Some of my favorite moments are the Yoshimi songs which are the coolest little rock storybook for the child in all of us, consisting of tracks 2 ‘ One More Robot / Sympathy 3000-21 ‘ ( 3000-21 is the robots serial number) and tracks 3 and 4 ‘ Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Prt.
		Some of my favorite moments outside of the battle scenes are track 5, ‘ In The Morning Of The Magician ‘, in which Michael’s bass guitar is just working the cool psyche groove during the introduction ( he’s playing on his toes on the entire album).
	www.omnizine.com /cdreviews/flaminglips_yoshimi.html (730 words)

	FindTutorials.com Shop :: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		YOSHIMI is considered the band's most accessible album, but it is still weird, complex and far too intelligent to really make it in the mainstream, despite great reviews and a modest commercial success.
		The entire album creates a fuzzy warm pink-hued video-game atmosphere reminiscent of psychedelic mushroom Super Mario Bros., but also registers a thoughtful poignancy through the beauty of the music and the wistfulness of the singer's voice.
		As with any album by the band, it's hard not to imagine parades and a sky filled with helium balloons while you listen to any of it--in this case, the party is enhanced brilliantly by digital filters and silver shimmering asides.
	www.findtutorials.com /shop/index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=B000068PQ0 (1195 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, definitly avoid this album if you're someone who gets annoyed bymusic that doesn't have meaning and deep lyrics etc. With the title'Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots' you wouldn't really expect much in theway of deep songs really but I just feel I ought to warn you that thisalbum really is the work of nutcases.
		This album is easily a contender for album of the year, and stands easily the equal of Bulletin, altthough for the moment I prefer this incarnation.
		The album's opener, Fight Test, may have borrowed its tune from Cat Stevens (unintentionally, the band insist), but the lyrics are profound and challenging, a theme which runs through the whole album.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000068PQ0 (1055 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)

	The Flaming Lips "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, despite what the title may lead one to believe is NOT, repeat NOT a concept album.
		Yoshimi is no more conceptual than their 1995 outing Clouds Taste Metallic, which features two, count 'em two songs about spaceships, not to mention a cunning zoo animal prison break, a postal worker who turns into a human lightning rod and a smile that charms on the molecular level.
		But the proof of the Yoshimi pudding is this: Every song on this record is good, and one laurel the Flaming Lips have earned is that they are writing the most complete and unified albums out there today.
	www.graftmachine.com /issue2/lips1.html (417 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! Music - Artists - The Flaming Lips Album Review: YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS
		Their 11th album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots -- like that title isn't enough of a tipoff -- is yet another bizarre, intriguing and sublimely wondrous journey to the edge of the universe and the centre of your mind.
		Partly inspired by the death of a Japanese fan, Yoshimi is part song cycle, part sound story, and part concept album about life, love, humanity, death, funerals, sunshine and, er, robots that fight humans in gladiator combat.
		All in all, Yoshimi's disjointed feel and cool presentation distance it from the listener, meaning it isn't the endearing home run that 1999's orch-pop masterpiece The Soft Bulletin was.
	jam.canoe.ca /Music/Artists/F/Flaming_Lips/AlbumReviews/2002/07/12/770908.html (236 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips at Epinions.com
		Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is The Flaming Lips latest release, an album in which the group took their previous works and both built on them while also going back and delving further into the many avenues of musical exploration.
		Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots is a very complex album, which is perhaps why it will never receive any sort of major mainstream attention.
		The album closes with the soft ballad All We Have Is Now and a harder song, the goofily titled Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon, another song in the long tradition of Flaming Lips songs with weird titles.
	www.epinions.com /content_83095424644 (2001 words)

	Tower Records - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2697112 (527 words)

	The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots review
		Their newly recorded ‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots’ was released by Warner Brothers in July.
		The result is sort of Radiohead without the anti-humanism, an album that, despite its sillier thematic elements—battling against flesh-devouring pink robots and all—managers to be both remarkable engaging and oddly comforting in a world still smarting from highly-publicized death and violence.
		‘Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” is the latest in a series of challenging, daringly original albums from the Flaming Lips.
	fazed.com /music/flaming_lips.html (725 words)

	The Flaming Lips: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots ---Ink Blot Magazine
		The album caused critics to pour beers over one another's heads in ecstatic joy, and the subsequent live shows proved just as out-there, incorporating puppetry, performance art, pre-recorded material and showtunes.
		Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots appeared in 2002.
		In places they've torn down some of the last album's wall of sound, but it only allows them to see that much farther.
	www.inkblotmagazine.com /rev-archive/Flaming_Lips_Yoshimi.htm (619 words)

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