| Artist |
Flaming Lips |
| Album Title: |
Embryonic |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Rock: Psychedelic Rock |
| Format |
CD (2) DVD (1) |
| Released |
10/13/2009 |
| Label |
Warner Bros. Records |
| Catalog No |
520859-2 |
| Bar Code No |
0 9362-49733-4 8 |
| Packaging |
Book Bound Thang |
| Tracks |
| Embryonic [Disc 1] |
| 1.
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Convinced of the Hex (3:56)
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| 2.
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The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine (4:13)
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| 3.
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Evil (5:38)
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| 4.
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Aquarius Sabotage (2:10)
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| 5.
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See the Leaves (4:24)
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| 6.
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If (2:04)
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| 7.
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Gemini Syringes (3:41)
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| 8.
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Your Bats (2:34)
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| 9.
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Powerless (6:57)
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| Embryonic [Disc 2] |
| 1.
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The Ego's Last Stand (5:40)
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| 2.
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I Can Be a Frog (2:14)
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| 3.
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Sagittarius Silver Announcement (2:58)
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| 4.
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Worm Mountain (5:21)
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| 5.
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Scorpio Sword (2:01)
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| 6.
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The Impulse (3:29)
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| 7.
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Silver Trembling Hands (3:58)
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| 8.
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Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast (3:44)
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| 9.
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Watching the Planets (5:16)
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| Embryonic (Disc 3) (24/96 DVD-A) |
| 1.
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Convinced Of The Hex (3:56)
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| 2.
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The Sparrow Looks Up At The Machine (4:13)
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| 3.
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Evil (5:38)
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| 4.
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Aquarius Sabotage (2:10)
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| 5.
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See the Leaves (4:24)
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| 6.
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If (2:04)
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| 7.
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Gemini Syringes (3:41)
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| 8.
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Your Bats (2:34)
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| 9.
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Powerless (6:57)
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| 10.
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The Ego's Last Stand (5:40)
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| 11.
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I Can Be a Frog (2:14)
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| 12.
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Sagittarius Silver Announcement (2:58)
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| 13.
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Worm Mountain (5:21)
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| 14.
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Scorpio Sword (2:01)
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| 15.
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The Impulse (3:29)
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| 16.
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Silver Trembling Hands (3:58)
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| 17.
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Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast (2:34)
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| 18.
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Watching the Planets (5:16)
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| Date Acquired |
10/13/2009 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Best Buy |
| Purchase Price |
18.16 |
Web Links |
Discogs Entry:
All Music Guide Entry: |
Notes |
Special edition Two CD One DVD Bookbound Release
DVD has 24/96 and 16/44 versions of the two cd contents.
foobar2000 1.3.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
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Analyzed: The Flaming Lips / Embryonic, Disc 1
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR4 -0.93 dB -5.96 dB 3:57 01-Convinced of the Hex
DR2 0.00 dB -3.38 dB 4:14 02-The Sparrow Looks Up At the Machine
DR6 -0.10 dB -8.72 dB 5:38 03-Evil
DR2 0.00 dB -5.03 dB 2:10 04-Aquarius Sabotage
DR4 0.00 dB -6.26 dB 4:24 05-See the Leaves
DR13 -0.48 dB -17.52 dB 2:05 06-If
DR7 -1.14 dB -10.54 dB 3:41 07-Gemini Syringes
DR2 0.00 dB -5.05 dB 2:35 08-Your Bats
DR4 -0.83 dB -7.53 dB 6:58 09-Powerless
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Number of tracks: 9
Official DR value: DR5
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 785 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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foobar2000 1.3.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2015-01-09 00:42:15
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Analyzed: The Flaming Lips / Embryonic, Disc 2
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR3 0.00 dB -7.30 dB 5:40 01-The Ego's Last Stand
DR7 -0.69 dB -10.22 dB 2:14 02-I Can Be a Frog
DR5 -0.64 dB -7.65 dB 2:59 03-Sagittarius Silver Announcement
DR2 0.00 dB -3.05 dB 5:22 04-Worm Mountain
DR6 -0.07 dB -8.39 dB 2:02 05-Scorpio Sword
DR7 -0.82 dB -9.29 dB 3:30 06-The Impulse
DR4 0.00 dB -5.98 dB 3:59 07-Silver Trembling Hands
DR11 -0.35 dB -16.55 dB 3:44 08-Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast
DR3 0.00 dB -3.85 dB 5:17 09-Watching the Planets
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Number of tracks: 9
Official DR value: DR5
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 1067 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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foobar2000 1.3.6 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2015-01-09 01:02:05
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Analyzed: The Flaming Lips / Embryonic
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR4 -0.96 dB -5.96 dB 3:57 01-Convinced of the Hex
DR2 -0.10 dB -3.38 dB 4:14 02-The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine
DR6 -0.10 dB -8.72 dB 5:39 03-Evil
DR2 -0.10 dB -5.12 dB 2:12 04-Aquarius Sabotage
DR4 -0.10 dB -6.31 dB 4:24 05-See the Leaves
DR13 -0.46 dB -17.51 dB 2:03 06-If
DR7 -1.12 dB -10.54 dB 3:42 07-Gemini Syringes
DR2 -0.10 dB -5.12 dB 2:36 08-Your Bats
DR4 -0.82 dB -7.53 dB 6:57 09-Powerless
DR3 -0.10 dB -7.30 dB 5:40 10-The Ego's Last Stand
DR7 -0.69 dB -10.23 dB 2:15 11-I Can Be a Frog
DR5 -0.64 dB -7.64 dB 2:59 12-Sagittarius Silver Announcement
DR2 -0.10 dB -3.05 dB 5:22 13-Worm Mountain
DR6 -0.10 dB -8.38 dB 2:02 14-Scorpio Sword
DR7 -0.82 dB -9.29 dB 3:29 15-The Impulse
DR4 -0.10 dB -5.98 dB 3:59 16-Silver Trembling Hands
DR11 -0.36 dB -16.20 dB 3:25 17-Virgo Self-Esteem Broadcast
DR3 -0.10 dB -4.09 dB 5:36 18-Watching the Planets
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Number of tracks: 18
Official DR value: DR5
Samplerate: 96000 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 3470 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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***Notice: The DVD is still as stupidly compressed as the CD recordings which I find ignorant. I hate what this band has become.
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review:
Review by Heather Phares
Christmas on Mars might be the Flaming Lips' bona fide sci-fi epic, but Embryonic is the musical equivalent of the final scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey: transformative chaos that results in a new start. From The Soft Bulletin onward, the Lips seemed focused on tidying the loose ends of their earlier work, almost to the point of constraining themselves. Their wilder side is unleashed on Embryonic's 18 tracks, and the band sound, more off-the-cuff than it has in years — some tracks are barely longer than snippets, others are rangy epics, and it all holds together so organically that listeners might wonder just how much these songs were edited. Musically, Embryonic is the least polite the Flaming Lips have been in nearly two decades, mixing in-the-red drums, blobby, dubby bass, squelchy wah-wah guitars, and sparkling keyboards into a swirl of sounds that are strangely liquid and abrasive at the same time. Occasionally, the band uses noise in an almost ugly way, as on "Convinced of the Hex," which scrapes eardrums with static and distortion before falling into a loose but driving Krautrock groove that adds to the song's tribal pull (complete with growling and wailing in the background). The Miles Davis-inspired "Aquarius Sabotage" opens fuzz bass and keyboards so chaotic, it isn't just free jazz, it's free-for-all jazz, while "Your Bats" is as soulful as it is noisy, piling roomy drums atop more delicate hand percussion, strings, and brass. The Lips balance these confrontational tracks with calmer moments like the vocodered loveliness of "The Impulse " and "Gemini Syringes," an expansive respite that features "additional spoken announcements" by mathematician Thorsten Wormann. Embryonic might not be a literal concept album, but it often plays like one. An astrology motif runs through the ultra-spacy "Virgo Self Esteem Broadcast" and the tumbling instrumental "Scorpio Sword," another track that suggests that the album's ultimate concept may be that chaos is a profound agent of change. It's also the Flaming Lips' most emotionally raw album, despite — or perhaps because of — its free-flowing nature. Wayne Coyne often sounds like he's singing from another dimension, musing on humankind's frailty with the wonder of an alien or a newborn on "If" and "The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine." This is also some of the band's most bittersweet work; on the beautiful "Powerless," Coyne sings "no one is ever really powerless," but the music dwells on the weighty implications of that thought rather than its potential freedom. Even the playful "I Can Be a Frog," which features Karen O as a one-woman noisemaker, is minor-key. Then again, little about Embryonic is clear-cut or straightforward — these noisy, pensive, sometimes meandering songs take awhile to decipher and often feel like they're still in the process of becoming. These very qualities, however, make these songs some of the Flaming Lips most haunting and intriguing music in some time.
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