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At War With the Mystics by The Flaming Lips
At War With the Mystics is an album by The Flaming Lips, released in 2006. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Mr. Ambulance Driver”, on 1 list with a best position of #87.
At War with the Mystics, the Flaming Lips' eleventh studio album, came out on Warner Bros. on April 3, 2006, and after the lush cosmic reveries of The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, the Oklahoma City band plugged the guitars back in and started pointing fingers. Dave Fridmann produced, and the record is thicker with riffs than its two predecessors, while Wayne Coyne's lyrics turn toward politics, with Steven Drozd and Michael Ivins stirring the psychedelic stew. It also brought in drummer Kliph Scurlock, though he wouldn't get his name alongside the others until Embryonic.
"Mr. Ambulance Driver" is the gentle exhale amid the racket. The Grammys handed the album two awards, Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, plus a nomination for Best Alternative Album, and it had sold more than 220,000 copies in the US by 2009.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from At War With the Mystics on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mr. Ambulance Driver | 1 | #87 | – | 2005 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.