King's Mouth: Music And Songs
by The Flaming Lips

King's Mouth: Music And Songs by The Flaming Lips
Year: 2019
Release date: 2019-07-19
Overall rank: 7,752nd   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
72/100 (from 80 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2019 (123rd)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (1,498th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,752nd)

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The Flaming Lips bestography

King's Mouth: Music And Songs is ranked 14th best out of 47 albums by The Flaming Lips on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Flaming Lips is Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots which is ranked number 118 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,696.

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King's Mouth: Music And Songs
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Rankings summary
Overall rank: 7,752nd | 2010s rank: 1,498th | 2019 rank: 123rd
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2026 flamingyesdeptThe Flaming Lips' Albums Ranked15/19 -
2026 TamthebamTop 97 Music Albums of 201975/971
2026 imacgillMissed The Cut- 201920/31 -
2026 PurplepashRanked listening log 2019 101-20040/100 -
2026PapaShiz86Top 100 Music Albums of 201991/1001
2026bonnequestionTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s86/1003
2026TroutMaskGregTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s14/10017
2026 ExTeaSeaTop 100 Music Albums of 201953/1002
2026bonnequestionBest albums from '15 to '2484/100 -
2026lanadeleswiftTop 100 Music Albums of 201985/1001
2026 bertrandu*All Time* Psychedelic Pop Albums18/100 -
2026TroutMaskGregTop 35 Music Albums of 20191/355
2026TroutMaskGregTop 100 Greatest Music Albums78/10023
2026 LebowskiRamsTop 100 Music Albums of 201952/1002
2025 HelsinkiSnorkelTop 75 Music Albums of 20198/755
2025cicadelicSliding Backwards Best Albums Of 201921/24 -
2025bonnequestionTop 23 Music Albums of 201910/233
2025 EyeKanFlyTop 95 Music Albums of 201991/950
2025borninhockeytownTop 40 Music Albums of 201939/400
2025MatteoMerdokTop 76 Music Albums of 201934/763
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 59
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 164
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72/100 (from 80 votes)
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Rating:  
90/100
An album which again fits so perfect into the music of the flaming lips. It’s a fairy tale for adults , so beautiful narrated by Mick Jones . It’s great music , hope we one day see the music as a play or short film
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75/100
Unique. Especially with all the hiphop and pop music that is released nowadays, in 2019. The 12 songs sound and feels like it is created in one piece. The narrative flow through the album really drags you into the music.
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The narration sounded good on the first listen. But for a Brit like myself Mick Jones' voice just sounds funny, like a bloke at the chip shop telling you about his dreams. I'd like to think they would release a version without, but they seemed so pleased to get him on the record I doubt it.
I wish they had thought a bit more about the story as well, it doesn't have much of a narrative flow. The album also doesn't have the same variety of style as Yoshimi.
Still probably my favourite album of the year.
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85/100
From 08/20/2019 22:30 | #241462
I had no idea what to expect and that's a really special thing in modern music. A really sweet record.
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75/100
A very very good album. I hadn't listened to it, even though I'm a big fan of the Flips because of the nature of the project, but it really is a nice piece and step in their career. As a comment below puts its, it's a return to form. This sounds kinda like their late 90's, early 2000's era, which is my favorite era for this band.
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Rating:  
75/100
Not bad, but certainly not up there with their best and it would have been so much better without the disruptive narration by Mick Jones. Still yeah, good, but nothing earth shattering.
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75/100
From 07/22/2019 22:57 | #240220
Excellent return to form
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