At War with the Mystics

At War with the Mystics
At War with the Mystics
Studio album by the Flaming Lips
Released	April 3, 2006
Recorded	June 2004 – January 2006
Studio	Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, New York
Genre	Psychedelic rock; dream pop; neo-psychedelia; space rock;
Length	54:53
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	The Flaming Lips; Dave Fridmann; Scott Booker;
The Flaming Lips chronology
Singles from At War with the Mystics
	"The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)"; Released: January 10, 2006; "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)"; Released: April 17, 2006; "It Overtakes Me"; Released: November 13, 2006;

At War with the Mystics is the eleventh studio album by American rock band the Flaming Lips, released on April 3, 2006, by Warner Bros. Records. The album is more guitar-driven and features more politically themed lyrics than the band's previous two albums The Soft Bulletin (1999) and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002). It is the groups' first album featuring contributions from drummer Kliph Scurlock.

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	76/100^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B^[3]
The Guardian	^[4]
The Independent	^[5]
Los Angeles Times	^[6]
NME	8/10^[7]
Pitchfork	6.7/10^[8]
Q	^[9]
Rolling Stone	^[10]
Spin	B+^[11]

At War with the Mystics won a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, and was also nominated for Best Alternative Album. By 2009, the album had sold over 220,000 copies in United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.^[12]

Track listing

All tracks are written by The Flaming Lips

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)"	4:51
2.	"Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)"	3:39
3.	"The Sound of Failure / It's Dark... Is It Always This Dark??"	7:18
4.	"My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)"	4:48
5.	"Vein of Stars"	4:15
6.	"The Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight and Puts on His Werewolf Moccasins"	3:41
7.	"It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?"	6:50
8.	"Mr. Ambulance Driver"	4:21
9.	"Haven't Got a Clue"	3:23
10.	"The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)"	3:44
11.	"Pompeii am Götterdämmerung"	4:22
12.	"Goin' On"	3:39
Total length:		54:53

iTunes exclusive bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
13.	"Bohemian Rhapsody" (This track originally appeared on Killer Queen: A Tribute to Queen)	6:36
14.	"The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness" (Also appears as the final track on the Japanese import version)	4:47
15.	"The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (Long version)	5:22
16.	"Time Travel...YES!!" (Non-album track, featuring Steven Michael Burns)	3:21

5.1 audio mix

Like The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi, At War with the Mystics was released as a special edition 5.1 CD+DVD-Audio mix on October 24, 2006, accompanied by studio outtakes, videos, and exclusive radio sessions.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)"	5:22
2.	"Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)"	3:40
3.	"The Sound of Failure / It's Dark... Is It Always This Dark??"	7:18
4.	"My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)"	5:01
5.	"Vein of Stars"	4:15
6.	"The Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight And Puts On His Werewolf Moccasins"	3:45
7.	"It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?"	6:55
8.	"Mr. Ambulance Driver"	4:22
9.	"Haven't Got a Clue"	3:23
10.	"The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)"	3:43
11.	"Pompeii am Götterdämmerung"	4:22
12.	"Goin' On"	3:37

Outtakes

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Why Does It End?"	4:38
2.	"You Gotta Hold On"	4:52
3.	"Your Face Can Tell the Future"	5:21
4.	"The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness"	4:48
5.	"Time Travel?? Yes!!"	3:23
6.	"Bohemian Rhapsody"	6:36

Radio sessions

No.	Title	Length
1.	"My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion"	4:40
2.	"Goin' On"	3:44
3.	"Unmade Bed / No Quarter"	6:56
4.	"The Sound of Failure"	4:03
5.	"Vein of Stars"	4:50
6.	"Vein of Stars" (Operatic Spook)	4:15
7.	"The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (Chicken Fried Hoedown Protest Rally)	4:44
8.	"The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (In Anatropous Reflex)	4:22

Videos

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Mr. Ambulance Driver"	5:00
2.	"The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song"	4:06
3.	"The W.A.N.D."	3:48
4.	"2006 OKC Classen High Commencement Speech"	12:18

Personnel

The Flaming Lips

Wayne Coyne – vocals, guitars, keyboards, mixing, production
Steven Drozd – guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, vocals, mixing, production
Michael Ivins – bass, keyboards, backing vocals, mixing, production, additional engineering
Kliph Scurlock – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

Scott Booker – production
Dave Fridmann – additional songwriting, production, mixing, programming, engineering, mastering
Greg Kurstin – additional songwriting, production, backing vocals and instruments on "Haven't Got a Clue"

Charts

Year-end charts

Chart (2006)	Position
UK Albums (OCC)^[28]	196

References

External links

At War with the Mystics at MusicBrainz (list of releases)

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