Pitchfork: Flaming Lips DVD Video Collection Due Soon

Flaming Lips DVD Video Collection Due Soon

It's been full-steam ahead on the good ship Lip as of late, hasn't it me mateys? Arrr, Oklahoma city's finest, the Flaming Lips, have certainly been busy playing festival dates and putting the finishing touches on At War With the Mystics, their new album due January or February 2006. Now they will be giving the fans more of what they really want, by releasing a new DVD collection on August 22 which will feature 19 of their sometimes berserk videos spanning their sojourn with present label Warner. VOID (Video Overview in Declaration) will include their latest tune "Mr. Ambulance Driver", which will be released on the Wedding Crashers soundtrack on July 14 and which will, furthermore, be included on the new album in 2006. All of your favorite Flaming Lips video moments since 1992 are featured both in glorious surround sound and stereo. Don't avoid the VOID:

01 Mr. Ambulance Driver
02 SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy
03 Fight Test
04 Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
05 Do You Realize? (UK Version)
06 Race for the Prize
07 Waitin' for a Superman
08 This Here Giraffe
09 When You Smile
10 Bad Days
11 Christmas at the Zoo
12 Be My Head
13 She Don't Use Jelly
14 Turn It On
15 Frogs
16 Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everybody Wants to Live Forever)
17 Phoebe Battles the Pink Robots
18 Are You a Hypnotist? 19 Do You Realize? (U.S. Version)

In other Flaming Lips news, the band's website claims that filming and production continues unabated on their full-length feature film Christmas on Mars, scheduled for release either at Christmas 2005 or mid-2006 depending on where you're reading your music news. And while we're talking about the visual side of the Lips, and you long to see the boys in action, here's some dates coming up, including one aboard the high seas:

07-15 Masontown, WV - Marvin's Mountaintop, All Good Music Festival
07-30 San Diego, CA - Qualcomm Stadium, Street Scene Festival
10-14 to 17 San Pedro, CA to Ensenada, Mexico - Xingolati Groove Cruise of the Pacific