Scratching The Door: The First Recordings Of The Flaming Lips (Remastered) The Flaming Lips

• 1 Bag Full Of Thoughts 05:36
• 2 Out For A Walk 03:14
• 3 Garden Of Eyes 01:56
• 4 Forever Is A Long Time 03:19
• 5 Scratching The Door 07:09
• 6 My Own Planet 04:11
• 7 Killer On The Radio 02:58
• 8 Batman Theme 01:47
• 9 Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere 02:32
• 10 Handsome Johnny 02:56
• 11 Flaming Lips Theme Song 03:53
• 12 The Future Is Gone 03:22
• 13 Underground Pharmacist 04:48
• 14 Real Fast Words 03:15
• 15 Groove Room 06:07
• 16 Jesus Shooting Heroin 07:05
• 17 Trains, Brains & Rain 03:25
• 18 Communication Breakdown 03:44
• 19 Summertime Blues 02:29
• Total Runtime 01:13:46

Info for Scratching The Door: The First Recordings Of The Flaming Lips (Remastered)

The Flaming Lips have pushed the envelope and bent boundaries for more than two decades with the band’s Grammy®-winning music and ground-breaking concerts. Scratching The Door highlights tracks recorded by The Flaming Lips’ original line-up, which featured Wayne Coyne’s brother Mark on vocals. The album includes the band’s first and second cassette demos, in addition to The Flaming Lips first self-released EP, and marks the first time all of these recordings have been collected together on a single release. Among the other featured tracks are covers of The Who’s Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, Led Zeppelin’s Communication Breakdown and the theme song from the 1960’s Batman television series, which previously appeared on Rykodisc’s 2002 compilation, Finally The Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid. All of the music on Scratching The Door has been remastered from original sources by the band’s longtime musical foil and producer, David Fridmann with help from the Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Michael Ivins.

The Flaming Lips

Digitally remastered

The Flaming Lips are an American rock band, formed in Norman, Oklahoma in 1983.

Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles", "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)" and "Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical". They are also acclaimed for their elaborate live shows, which feature costumes, balloons, puppets, video projections, complex stage light configurations, giant hands, large amounts of confetti, and frontman Wayne Coyne's signature man-sized plastic bubble, in which he traverses the audience. In 2002, Q magazine named The Flaming Lips one of the "50 Bands to See Before You Die".

The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s and early 1990s. After signing to Warner Brothers, they scored a hit in 1993 with "She Don't Use Jelly". Although it has been their only hit single in the U.S., the band has maintained critical respect and, to a lesser extent, commercial viability through albums such as 1999's The Soft Bulletin (which was NME magazine's Album of the Year) and 2002's Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. They have had more hit singles in the UK and Europe than in the U.S. In February 2007, they were nominated for a 2007 BRIT Award in the "Best International Act" category. By 2007, the group garnered three Grammy Awards, including two for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

On October 13, 2009 the group released their latest studio album, titled Embryonic. On December 22, 2009, the Flaming Lips released a remake of the 1973 Pink Floyd album The Dark Side Of The Moon. In 2011, the band announced plans to release new songs in every month of the year, with the entire process filmed.

This album contains no booklet.