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“Race For The Prize (remix)” by The Flaming Lips
From the album The Soft Bulletin (1999)
“Race For The Prize (remix)” by The Flaming Lips appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2023. It was first released in 1999 on the album The Soft Bulletin. Its best result is #794 on The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s.
"Race for the Prize" was the first single the Flaming Lips lifted from The Soft Bulletin, their 1999 album on Warner Bros., and it came with a subtitle straight off a pulp sci-fi paperback: "Sacrifice of the New Scientists". This is a remix of a big, swooning blast of neo-psychedelia that sounds like it wants to fill the sky.
It climbed to 39 in the UK, the best any single from the album managed, and a decade on the praise was still coming: Pitchfork put it at 30 on its 2010 list of the top 200 tracks of the '90s. It still opens many of the band's shows. The UK and Japanese singles carried two B-sides, "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)" and "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair", both later reissued on the US release of "Waitin' for a Superman".
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 794 | The Current | The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s | 893 |
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