Fight Test
EP by The Flaming Lips
Released	April 22, 2003
Recorded	2002
Genre	Indie rock
Length	32:47
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer(s)	The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Pitchfork Media (6.5/10) link
The Flaming Lips EP chronology
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)	Fight Test (2003)	Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell EP (2003)

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It is an enhanced disc, and it contains covers of Radiohead's "Knives Out", Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head" and Beck's "The Golden Age". In addition, the Fight Test EP includes two as-yet unreleased original songs. The UK version was a normal CD single release, which also featured some previously unreleased songs. Radiohead are an English rock band from Oxfordshire. ... Knives Out is a song written and performed by British musical group Radiohead. ... Kylie Ann Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is a Grammy Award winning Australian singer-songwriter and occasional actress. ... Cant Get You Out of My Head is a pop dance song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue and written by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis. ... Beck Hansen (born Bek David Campbell, July 8, 1970) is an American musician, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, known by his simple stage name of Beck. ...

"Fight Test" echoes Cat Stevens's "Father and Son". Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, is receiving royalties following a relatively uncontentious settlement. The band's frontman, Wayne Coyne, claims that he was unaware of the songs' similarities until producer Dave Fridmann pointed them out. Cat Stevens (born Steven Demetre Georgiou on July 21, 1948), now known as Yusuf Islam or simply Yusuf, is a well-known English musician, singer-songwriter and a prominent convert to Islam. ... Father and Son is a popular song written and originally performed by British singer Cat Stevens on his 1970 album Tea for the Tillerman. ...

Track listing

1. "Fight Test" – 4:14
2. "Can't Get You Out of My Head (KEXP Version)" – 4:06
3. "The Golden Age (CD101 Version)" – 3:12
4. "Knives Out (KCRW Version)" – 4:21 (a cover of Radiohead's Knives Out)
5. "Do You Realize?? (Scott Hardkiss Floating in Space Mix)" – 9:06
6. "The Strange Design of Conscience" – 4:31
7. "Thank You Jack White (For The Fiber-optic Jesus That You Gave Me)" – 3:40

Cant Get You Out of My Head is a pop dance song performed by Australian singer Kylie Minogue and written by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis. ... Radiohead are an English rock band from Oxfordshire. ... Knives Out is a song written and performed by British musical group Radiohead. ... Do You Realize?? is the ninth track and first single off the Flaming Lips 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. ...

UK CD1

1. "Fight Test"
2. "Thank You Jack White (For the Fiber-Optic Jesus That You Gave Me)"
3. "The Deteoriation Of The Fight or Flight Response" (Previously unreleased)

UK CD2

1. "Fight Test"
2. "The Strange Design Of Conscience"
3. "Fight Test (Primitive demo with helium voice)"

UK DVD

1. "Fight Test" (Video)
2. "Fight Test" (Audio)
3. "Knives Out (From July 02 XFM session)"
4. "One More Robot (From July 02 XFM session)"