Clouds Taste Metallic
by The Flaming Lips
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The Flaming Lips bestography
Clouds Taste Metallic is ranked 3rd 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 116 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,799.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Clouds Taste Metallic track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 83 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Top-rated track as rated by BestEverAlbums.com members.
Clouds Taste Metallic rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  Tamthebam | Best of The 90s Pt.2 (101-200) | 29/100 | - |
| 2026 |  flamingyesdept | The Flaming Lips' Albums Ranked | 3/19 | - |
| 2026 | AlienCinema | Top 95 Music Albums of 1995 | 44/95 | 3 |
| 2026 |  Glitterboiii | Top 50 Music Albums of 1995 | 24/50 | 3 |
| 2026 | cicadelic | Les Inrocks Les meilleurs albums 1995 | 37/51 | - |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | My top 100 from BEA's top 2000 | 46/100 | - |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 71 Music Albums of 1995 | 4/71 | 5 |
| 2026 | brent13 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 5/100 | 19 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 53 Music Albums of 1995 | 14/53 | 4 |
| 2026 | juanr1096 | Top 66 Music Albums of 1995 | 35/66 | 2 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 306 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,641 | |||
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Clouds Taste Metallic ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 07/13/2026 13:46 | liquidbottle | 775 | 82/100 |
| ! | 06/28/2026 17:08 |  identifer | 1,008 | 82/100 |
| ! | 06/09/2026 03:57 | almosc | 8 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 3% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 77.6/100, a mean average of 76.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 77.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.9.
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Clouds Taste Metallic forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 10/02/2026 08:18 in Monthly overall chart movements - September 2026View latest topic →
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Clouds Taste Metallic comments
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meccalecca TOP 100 COMMENTER 05/05/2014 01:39 | #110845 | TOP COMMENT
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Your drug dealer and priest are the same person and you've just been baptized.
sageamagoo TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/16/2012 02:32 | #58010 | TOP COMMENT
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*sigh*... this is so amazing... weeks later, and it only gets better...
They Punctured My Yolk is just awe-inspiring... surely one of the best songs ever written.
And then there's the fantastic Placebo Headwound, Evil Will Prevail, Christmas At The Zoo, even Brainville... everything except Psychiatric Explorations is a creative masterwork reflecting on the greatness of our minds and how our dreams are both mysterious and wonderful, and certainly better than the real world.
Started on my chart at 18. Climbed to #7 in a month. If that says nothing about the greatness of this album, then the music will. Try it. You won't be disappointed.
sageamagoo TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/19/2012 21:31 | #55477 | TOP COMMENT
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Just gave it my first good listen today. Can't believe what I was missing. This is now permanently in my top twenty. :)
The first two tracks are great, but everything from Placebo Headwound on is a masterpiece.
Better than Yoshimi by far. BY FAR. A must-have.
ButterThumbz TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/25/2012 15:29 | #55872 | TOP COMMENT
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Today was the first time I heard this album and I can only describe it as the bastard son of Pet Sounds and The Piper at Gates of Dawn. It seems a little early for a review but I can't ever imagine not loving this album.
This is one of my favourite Flaming Lips albums. A kind of psychedelic indie pop for the nineties, Brian Wilson meets Todd Rundgren at an acid party. Like most Lips records it's beautiful and noisy, featuring great songs in, brainville, guy gets a headache, and, kim's watermelon gun. Some great songtitles here. Great fun. (Edited)
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