The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
| Label: | Warner Bros. Records – 520857-1, Warner Bros. Records – 520857-2 |
|---|---|
| Format: | Vinyl, LP, Blue Vinyl, LP, Yellow All Media, Album |
| Country: | US |
| Released: | |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Style: | Psychedelic Rock, Experimental |
Tracklist
| A1 | Convinced Of The Hex | 3:55 | |
| A2 | The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine | 4:13 | |
| A3 | Evil | 5:38 | |
| A4 | Aquarius Sabotage | 2:11 | |
| B1 | See The Leaves | 4:24 | |
| B2 | If | 2:05 | |
| B3 | Gemini Syringes | 3:41 | |
| B4 | Your Bats | 2:35 | |
| B5 | Powerless | 7:07 | |
| C1 | The Ego's Last Stand | 5:41 | |
| C2 | I Can Be A Frog | 2:15 | |
| C3 | Sagittarius Silver Announcement | 2:57 | |
| C4 | Worm Mountain | 5:23 | |
| D1 | Scorpio Sword | 2:00 | |
| D2 | The Impulse | 3:30 | |
| D3 | Silver Trembling Hands | 3:59 | |
| D4 | Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast | 3:27 | |
| D5 | Watching The Planets | 5:39 | |
| CD-1 | Convinced Of The Hex | 3:57 | |
| CD-2 | The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine | 4:14 | |
| CD-3 | Evil | 5:38 | |
| CD-4 | Aquarius Sabotage | 2:10 | |
| CD-5 | See The Leaves | 4:24 | |
| CD-6 | If | 2:05 | |
| CD-7 | Gemini Syringes | 3:41 | |
| CD-8 | Your Bats | 2:35 | |
| CD-9 | Powerless | 6:57 | |
| CD-10 | The Ego's Last Stand | 5:40 | |
| CD-11 | I Can Be A Frog | 2:14 | |
| CD-12 | Sagittarius Silver Announcement | 2:59 | |
| CD-13 | Worm Mountain | 5:22 | |
| CD-14 | Scorpio Sword | 2:02 | |
| CD-15 | The Impulse | 3:30 | |
| CD-16 | Silver Trembling Hands | 3:59 | |
| CD-17 | Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast | 3:44 | |
| CD-18 | Watching The Planets | 5:17 |
Companies, etc.
- Record Company – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
- Record Company – Warner Music Group
- Recorded At – Tarbox Road Studios
- Recorded At – Dull Roar Studios
- Copyright © – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Warner Bros. Records Inc.
- Copyright © – WEA International Inc.
- Phonographic Copyright ℗ – WEA International Inc.
- Published By – EMI Blackwood Music Inc.
- Published By – Lovely Sorts Of Death Music
- Lacquer Cut At – Masterdisk
- Pressed By – Schallplattenfabrik Pallas GmbH – 19615
- Pressed By – Schallplattenfabrik Pallas GmbH – 19616
Credits
- Design, Layout – George Salisbury Who Is Particle?*
- Engineer [Additional] – Michael Ivins
- Lacquer Cut By – WWW.DONGROSSINGER.COM*
- Mastered By [Vinyl] – Don Grossinger
- Music By, Songwriter – The Flaming Lips
- Performer [Additional Singing & Playing] – MGMT (tracks: C4 / 13)
- Performer [Additional Singing, Screaming, Animal Sounds And Noises] – Karen O (tracks: B3, C2, D5 / 7, 11, 18)
- Performer [MGMT] – Andrew Van Wyngarden* (tracks: C4 / 13), Ben Goldwasser (tracks: C4 / 13)
- Performer [The Flaming Lips Are] – Kliph Scurlock, Michael Ivins, Steven Drozd, Wayne Coyne
- Producer – Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker, The Flaming Lips
- Programmed By, Engineer, Mastered By – Dave Fridmann
- Recorded By, Mixed By – Dave Fridmann, The Flaming Lips
- Voice [Additional Spoken Announcements] – Thorsten Wörmann*
Notes
Gatefold package. Includes full album CD packaged in a cardboard sleeve.
©℗2009 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.
Recorded at Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, New York
& Dull Roar Studios in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
February - July 2009.
All Music & Songs ©2009 EMI Blackwood Music Inc./Lovely Sorts Of Death Music BMI.
Karen O appears courtesy of Interscope Records (for North America), Polydor Records (for the world excluding North America, Australia and New Zealand) and Modular Recordings (for Australia and New Zealand)
MGMT appears courtesy of Columbia Records
From sticker on shrink wrap:
"CUSTOM DOUBLE DISC
COLORED VINYL
BONUS CD OF THE FULL ALBUM
OVER 70+ MINUTES OF MUSIC!"
©℗2009 Warner Bros. Records Inc. for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.
Recorded at Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, New York
& Dull Roar Studios in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
February - July 2009.
All Music & Songs ©2009 EMI Blackwood Music Inc./Lovely Sorts Of Death Music BMI.
Karen O appears courtesy of Interscope Records (for North America), Polydor Records (for the world excluding North America, Australia and New Zealand) and Modular Recordings (for Australia and New Zealand)
MGMT appears courtesy of Columbia Records
From sticker on shrink wrap:
"CUSTOM DOUBLE DISC
COLORED VINYL
BONUS CD OF THE FULL ALBUM
OVER 70+ MINUTES OF MUSIC!"
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Barcode (Text): 0 9362-49733-6 2
- Barcode (Scanned): 093624973362
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout): 1-520857-A MASTERDISK -19615- WWW.DONGROSSINGER.COM
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout): 1-520857-B MASTERDISK WWW.DONGROSSINGER.COM -19615-
- Matrix / Runout (Side C runout): 1-520857-C RE4 MASTERDISK 1-520857-CRE4 -19616-
- Matrix / Runout (Side D runout): 1-520857-D RE4 1-520857-DRE4 -19616-
- Matrix / Runout (CD): Z81995 1 520857-2 TEXT 01 M1S2
- Mastering SID Code (CD): ifpi L909
- Mould SID Code (CD): IFPI 2U8E
- Rights Society: BMI
Other Versions (5 of 24)
View All| Title (Format) | Label | Cat# | Country | Year | |||
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| Embryonic (CD, Album) | Warner Bros. Records | 520857-2 | US | 2009 | |||
Recently Edited | Embryonic (2×CD, Album, DVD, DVD-Video, NTSC, Stereo, Linear PCM, All Media, Limited Edition) | Warner Bros. Records | 520859-2 | US | 2009 | ||
| Embryonic (CD, Album) | Warner Bros. Records, Warner Bros. Records, Warner Bros. Records | 9362-49733-8, 9362497338, 0-9362-49733-8-6 | Europe | 2009 | |||
Recently Edited | Embryonic (LP, Blue, LP, Mispress, Black) | Warner Bros. Records, Warner Bros. Records | 520857-1, 520857-2 | US | 2009 | ||
New Submission | Embryonic (CD, Album) | Warner Bros. Records | 520857-2 | Mexico | 2009 |
Recommendations
Reviews
- Agreed. History will be *very* kind to Embryonic. Pound for pound, it's a great record. I love this album over anything they've ever done, including The Soft Bulletin which is great from soup to nuts. Get while the getting is still good.
This is my favourite Flaming Lips record. It's just so fucking intense and aggressive in its sound. The production is both masterful and sloppy. It seems to have been given a very rough, unfinished kind of sound. But it's totally intentional and this makes it all the better. Honestly, if you have a high end hi-fi, don't play this record through that. The more detail you can hear in the sound, the worse the listening experience is. Play it through something basic, but loud. I think it sounds much better this way.
And when you get to the final track, 'Watching the Planets'. Turn it up all the way. Because that song is the soundtrack to the fucking apocalypse!!
Edited 4 years agoVinyl sounds great to me. Although it lacks the "special" feeling that all albums that came before had. I have a feeling that this was the first Flaming Lips vinyl release that didn't get a dedicated vinyl mastering. I have original pressings all the way back to "Transmissions.." and every album up through "At War With the Mystics" just simply sounds better on vinyl. I'm not saying Embryonic sounds worse on vinyl, I'm just saying it's nothing special. It just doesn't have that same depth that previous albums have.
As for the album itself, this is quite possibly one of the greatest Flaming Lips albums ever recorded. I put this above "At War With the Mystics" and "Yoshimi".
