At War with the Mystics
Album by The Flaming Lips
Released	April 3, 2006
Recorded	Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, New York June 2004 – January 2006
Genre	Rock, Psychedelic
Length	54:53
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s)	The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link The Telegraph (favorable) 1 Apr 2006 The Guardian 31 Mar 2006 The Independent 31 Mar 2006 The Music Box 10 May 2006 NME (8/10) link The Observer (favorable) 2 Apr 2006 The Onion A.V. Club (B) 5 Apr 2006 Pitchfork Media (6.7/10) 3 Apr 2006 Playlouder 21 Mar 2006 Rolling Stone link Slant Magazine link Sound Generator (9/10) link Spin (B+) 28 Mar 2006 Stylus (C-) 4 Apr 2006 The Times 1 Apr 2006 Tiny Mix Tapes link
The Flaming Lips chronology
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)	At War with the Mystics (2006)

At War with the Mystics is the title of the eleventh album by the Flaming Lips. It was released on April 3, 2006 in international markets, and April 4, 2006 in the United States. It includes a different mix of the song, "Mr. Ambulance Driver," which was released on July 14, 2005 as a part of the soundtrack to the movie Wedding Crashers. The album is more guitar-oriented and politically-driven than The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots [1]. Image File history File links Mystics. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... The Flaming Lips (formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983) are an idiosyncratic and acclaimed American alternative rock band. ... The incorporated Village of Cassadaga is located within the northeast corner of the Township of Stockton, Chautauqua County, New York, USA. 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The first single from the release, "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)", was released on March 27, 2006. A digital version of "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" appeared on multiple online music stores including iTunes Music Store and AOL Music on January 10, 2006. On March 7, 2006 a CD single for the "The W.A.N.D." was released, featuring two unreleased b-sides: a new studio version of "You Got to Hold On" (which would later appear in an online advertisement for Coca-Cola) and "Time Travel... Yes!!" featuring a digitally-altered Steve Burns delivering a spoken monologue about time travel. The United Kingdom iTunes Music Store. ... The wave shape (known as the dynamic ribbon device) present on all Coca-Cola cans throughout the world derives from the contour of the original Coca-Cola bottles. ... A post-Blues Clues photograph of Burns Steve Burns (October 9, 1973 – ) is an actor, singer, and guitarist best-known for his stint as host of the popular Nickelodeon childrens television show Blues Clues. ...

The track "It Overtakes Me" has gained considerable interest, being featured as the soundtrack to a UK television commercial for Beck's beer. Becks is a brewery in the north German city of Bremen. ...

The album itself actually seems to synchronize with the movie Baraka if started at the right time. There is an already synchronized version of it on the internet called "At War with Baraka". Baraka (1992) is an experimental documentary film directed by Ron Fricke, cinematographer for Koyaanisqatsi, the first of the Qatsi films by Godfrey Reggio. ...

Track listing

1. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" – 4:55 (Or "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song... (With All Your Power)")
2. "Free Radicals" – 3:39 (Or "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)")
3. "The Sound of Failure" – 7:18 (Or "The Sound of Failure"/"It's Dark... Is It Always this Dark??")
4. "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion" – 4:49 (Or "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)")
5. "Vein of Stars" – 4:15
6. "The Wizard Turns On..." – 3:41 (Or "The Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight and Puts on His Werewolf Moccasins")
7. "It Overtakes Me" – 6:50 (Or "It Overtakes Me"/"The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?")
8. "Mr. Ambulance Driver" – 4:21
9. "Haven't Got a Clue" – 3:23
10. "The W.A.N.D." – 3:44 (Or "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)")
11. "Pompeii am Götterdämmerung" – 4:19
12. "Goin' On" – 3:39

iTunes exclusive tracks

1. "Bohemian Rhapsody" – 6:36. This track originally appeared on a various artist tribute to Queen.
2. "The Gold in the Mountain of Our Madness" – 4:47
3. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (Long Version) – 5:22

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External links

• At War With the Mystics at MusicBrainz
• Full Effect: At War with the Mystics Review