Encyclopedia > Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)
Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia) is the eleventh and final track of the Flaming Lips 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. It won the 2002 Grammy for Best Instrumental Rock Performance. Only 3 minutes, 9 seconds long, it features, according to the CD insert, "weird singing and screaming." The Flaming Lips is an American rock band with psychedelic influences, formed in 1983 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Mark Coyne, Wayne Coyne and Michael Ivins. ... Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is the tenth album by The Flaming Lips, released in July 2002. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music...