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Cover of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips
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“Fight Test” by The Flaming Lips

From the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (2002)

“Fight Test” by The Flaming Lips appears on 25 radio countdowns from 7 stations between 2003 and 2025. It was first released in 2002 on the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Its best result is #19 on the CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #140 alternative song of 2003 and #3,441 alternative song of all time.

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"Fight Test" comes from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, the Flaming Lips' tenth studio album, which Warner Bros. released in 2002. Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins and Dave Fridmann wrote it, with Yusuf Islam also carrying a composer credit, and Fridmann produced it with the band and Scott Booker; he and the Lips recorded and mixed it themselves.

It's a big, sweet, woozy slab of cosmic pop, and it sits on the album where the band pushed further into electronics than ever before, working acoustic guitars in among rhythms that owed something to hip hop and Top 40 radio. Yoshimi was also the record that helped the Lips break through to a wider audience.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.

RockLists rankings

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Indie & Adult Alternative

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2003 19 CD101 Columbus, OH CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2003 101
2003 35 (tie) WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 2003 196

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
2003 1924 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1878 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1861 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 1497 CD101 CD101 Top 2008 Songs of All-Time (December 2007) 2008
2008 1579 CD101 CD101 Top 2009 Songs of All-Time (December 2008) 2009
2009 421 WYEP WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade 913
2009 1545 CD101 CD101 Top 2010 Songs of All-Time (December 2009) 2010
2009 545 WYEP WYEP 913 Essential Songs 913
2010 1576 CD101 CD101 Top 2011 Songs of All-Time (December 2010) 2011
2011 1642 CD101 CD101 Top 2012 Songs of All-Time (December 2011) 2011
2013 1681 CD101 CD101 Top 2013 Songs of All-Time (December 2013) 2012
2013 493 WXPN WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) 885
2014 1680 CD101 CD101 Top 2014 Songs of All-Time (2014) 2013
2019 538 WYEP WYEP Big Spring Countdown 2019 1017
2019 538 WYEP WYEP Labor Day Weekend Countdown 2019 1099
2020 1982 WXPN WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time 2020
2022 227 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s 907
2022 1075 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2022 603
2023 686 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 1229
2024 325 The Colorado Sound The Colorado Sound Top 1055 Songs of the 21st Century 1055
2024 68 KEXP The Best Opening Tracks of All Time 738
2025 253 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 21st Century 909
2025 256 WYEP WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) 714

Charting alongside it in 2003

Best songs of 2003 →
  1. 1Seven Nation ArmyThe White Stripes
  2. 2Like a StoneAudioslave
  3. 3Bring Me to LifeEvanescence
  4. 4Somewhere I BelongLinkin Park
  5. 5Times Like TheseFoo Fighters
  6. 6Weak and PowerlessA Perfect Circle

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