The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends
by The Flaming Lips
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The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends is ranked 22nd best out of 48 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 116 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,789.
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The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 6 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 58 Music Albums of 2012 | 40/58 | 2 |
| 2026 |  EyeKanFly | Top 67 Music Albums of 2012 | 58/67 | 1 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | F2LF: Flaming Lips | 13/25 | - |
| 2026 |  flamingyesdept | The Flaming Lips' Albums Ranked | 13/19 | - |
| 2026 | AAL2014 | The Flaming Lips: So Far.. | 12/14 | - |
| 2026 | ExTeaSea | Top 89 Music Albums of 2012 | 47/89 | 2 |
| 2025 | flamingyesdept | Top 23 Music Albums of 2012 | 20/23 | 1 |
| 2025 | Jaymantheman | Top 22 Music Albums of 2012 | 21/22 | 0 |
| 2025 | Juneof44 | Top 50 Music Albums of 2012 | 46/50 | 1 |
| 2024 | henriknaess | Top 52 Music Albums of 2012 | 43/52 | 1 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 29 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 48 | |||
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The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/07/2026 17:24 | cicadelic | 14,292 | 73/100 |
| ! | 06/15/2026 14:20 | AAL2014 | 4,347 | 75/100 |
| ! | 03/09/2025 06:40 | PapaShiz86 | 11,830 | 79/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 65.7/100, a mean average of 64.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 64.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.7.
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Komorebi-D 05/10/2018 06:51 in What album are you listening to right now?The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends comments
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Fuck this shit. I devoted more than an hour to this piece of crap. Fuck Chris Martin, in particular. Burn this album and forget about it: only names, names, names. No music. Ok, 1 or 2 tracks: That ain't my trip; I'm working at NASA on Acid.
Trickington 05/14/2012 02:14 | #42264
Very different than their stuff from Soft Bulletin. I've listened to about half the tracks so far and I have to say its pretty creepy. Its very cool that all these artists worked a bit on this album, but I don't think they did a proper job.
I'd probably like it if it wasn't so creepy sounding.
I like some of the tracks on this album, but it doesn't feel like it all really comes together. The weakest Flaming Lips album since the early 90s.
JulianR TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/18/2018 05:38 | #213155
Definitely not a great intro for anyone not super familiar with the Lips. I would only really recommend this album for those that like their Embryonic phase. I'm not really one of those people (though I do think they are the greatest band of all time regardless), so it feels to me like a large excuse to name-drop some collabs. I had much higher hopes for the Bon Iver, Tame Impala, and (especially) Nick Cave collaborations, but they were pretty lackluster. Tame Impala was alright I guess. There are a couple of moments on the album as a whole that are pretty cool, but there is a lot of drudgery to balance out. "Is David Bowie Dying?" (and yes, he was) is probably the highlight. Overall, there are much better oddities that the Lips have put out.
70/100 (Average)
tfw kesha was the best guest performance on here
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