Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Fight Test
2. One More Robot/Sympathy
3. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1
4. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 2
5. In The Morning Of The Magicians
6. Ego Tripping At The Gates Of Hell
7. Are You A Hypnotist??
8. It's Summertime
9. Do You Realize??
10. All We Have Is Now
11. Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon (Utopia Planitia)

Disc 2:

1. Up Above The Daily Hum
2. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 (Japanese Version)
3. If I Go Mad (Funeral In My Head)
4. Do You Realize?? (Floating In Space Remix Edit)
5. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 (AOL Sessions)
6. Do You Realize?? (CD 101 Version)
7. Do You Realize?? (Mark Pellington Version) (Video)
8. Do You Realize?? (Wayne Coyne, Bradley Beesley, George Salisbury Version) (Video)
9. Making of the "Do You Realize??" (Video)
10. Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 (Video)
11. Making of the Yoshimi Video (Video)
12. Fight Test (Video)
13. Phoebe Battles The Pink Robots (Video)
14. Christmas On Mars (Movie Trailer) (Video)
15. Making of the Yoshimi (Video)
16. Are You A Hypnotist?? (George's Photogenic Stimulation Theory #1134) (Video)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56226 in Music
• Brand: FLAMING LIPS
• Released on: 2003-11-18
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .51 pounds

Album Description
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).

Customer Reviews

Wow
If you've heard Zaireeka, you have an idea what the Lips can do with surround sound. The mix here is simply revolutionary, you've never heard anything quite like it before. Its not a quick and dirty "put some sound effects in the back" thing, they've completely reinterpreted the album for the surround sound format. Even if you're not a fan of the lips, this is as good a way to show off your fancy surround setup as any I've heard, and you'll probably end up a fan as a result.

What you get here is:

The brand new 5.1 surround mix of the yoshimi album (in both dolby digital and dvd-audio formats)

A new dvd-audio stereo mix of the yoshimi album

bonus videos for do you realize, yoshimi battles the pink robots, are you a hypnotist, various making of videos, and more.

Bonus stereo audio tracks Up Above the Daily Hum, If I go mad, etc.

And for good measure a standard audio cd of Yoshimi as well.

If you're fortunate enough to have a dvd audio player, the quality of the dvd audio surround mix is amazing, absolutely flawless uncompressed 96kHz 24 bit sound. Even if you don't, you can still experience the new surround mix with a standard dvd player, assuming you have a setup that can handle dolby digital surround sound (the same surround format used for movies). The dolby digital version also has little frequency waveform cartoons to go with the music. Kinda cool but I'd rather skip the cartoons and listen to the higher quality dvd-a version.

Since some people seem to be missing the point, what you're paying for here is the new surround sound mix of yoshimi, and its worth every penny. Everything else is just gravy. So who should buy this version? If you don't already have Yoshimi go ahead and get this version instead of the original, you still get the normal cd, and even if you don't have a surround sound setup theres enough extras on the dvd to be worth the extra cash. And its nice incentive to get surround sound going in the future.

If you already have the Yoshimi album and don't have a decent surround setup, you're probably wasting your money. No sense buying an album you already have just to get a few new extras.

But if you do have a surround setup, you NEED this release, even if you've already got yoshimi. You're bound to be blown away. Now I'm just hoping they rerelease Zaireeka in this format so you can here it in its surround sound glory without fiddling with four seperate cds. :)

A Good Reason to Upgrade to DVD-Audio Surround
DO NOT BUY THE CD VERSION. Why? Because this one comes with it! It's the best solution to DVD-Audio's lack of hybrid capability, like SACD allows. Don't have DVD-Audio, yet? Well, the Dolby Digital goodies are more than enough to get you by until then and all you need for those is a standard DVD Player. But I'm telling you, with just an inexpensive Pioneer DV-655A universal player, the DVD-Audio 24/96 5.1 tracks are ASTOUNDING! The sonic quality alone will amaze you. The decoded HDCD of Soft Bulletin sounded great. Yoshimi's 24bit/96khz blows it away. And that's not even considering the surround aspect of it, which is pretty much revolutionary. Stuff spins around, phases in and out, you name it, this does it...and not in some arbitrary way. It's all musically conducive to the material. The DVD contains both 5.1 and 2.0 versions of the material on Layer 1, which you select between in the DVD menu only. There are also six 2 channel 24bit/48khz live tracks and remixes on layer 2 that can be selected either in the menu or from your DVD player's controls. Then there are the Dolby Digital tracks of even more remixes and video extras. Watch out on the video for Are You A Hypnotist. It gave me a headache, though for the first half of it I was pretty impressed with the editing. If Paul Van Dyk's Global is the benchmark for CD/DVD-Video releases, Yoshimi is the new standard for DVD-Audio releases.

A MUST-HAVE DVD-AUDIO MULTI-CHANNEL DISK
This dual disc, like many of the new, SuperAudio or DVD-Audio multi-channel audio releases, is a completely mis-marketed and misunderstood product (even on this site). It is not, as many owners believe, simply a CD and 5.1 Dolby Digital DVD combo. On the "DVD" portion of the duo, there exists in addition to the compressed Dolby Digital surround track, a completely un-compressed, "lossless" DVD-Audio Multi-Channel version, a format which is 64 times the sampling rate of a CD and many levels of quality higher than Dolby Digital or DTS surround. Unbeknownst to most, this material is playable on neither a CD player nor a standard DVD player. One must own a DVD player specifically equipped and labled with "DVD Audio," one of the two relatively-new uncompressed super-quality surround audio formats (the other of which is called SuperAudio MultiChannel). The format is always decoded by the player, not the receiver; the audio exits the player through not one optical or coax cable but through six RCA-type cables and therefore must be joined to a properly-equipped surround receiver or amplifier (one that specifially possesses a "6-Ch" or "External Decoder" 6-jack input). That said, the DVD-Audio track on this release is one of the greatest, most-discrete sounding surround experiences you will ever hear. If you're only able to monitor the CD, Dolbly Digital, or DVD-Video w/Dolbly Digital version, you have not even begun to live. Stores and websites alike have to get on-the-ball and create sections for "DVD-Audio" and "SuperAudio" multi-channel discs.