Embryonic
by The Flaming Lips
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Embryonic is ranked 4th 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 119 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,855.
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Embryonic track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 82 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/08/2026 04:41 | Praibonito | 38 | 87/100 |
| ! | 01/03/2026 22:56 | Devilwoac | 415 | 95/100 |
| ! | 12/29/2025 17:33 | mutant | 1,671 | 56/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 14:07 | Araldo | 1,471 | 80/100 |
| ! | 11/29/2025 16:45 | Exist-en-ciel | 7,202 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.3/100, a mean average of 77.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.
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teague 09/09/2021 16:29 | #273587
The Flaming Lips wander around musically for 70 minutes.
Great album. It took a while to grow on me but I think it's a top 3 Lips album along with Soft Bulletin and Clouds taste metallic. Favorite songs are Watching the planets and the sparrow looks up at the machine
LebowskiRams 07/19/2019 04:00 | #239835
It's long, but it makes the most of nearly every second of every track. Excellent album.
ExTeaSea 12/03/2018 16:33 | #226110
Love I Can Be a Frog and I usually love experimental albums but honestly this one is kinda a mess. One of my least favorite Lips albums. Great album cover so I had high expectations. They made up for it with the wonderfully raw and dark The Terror, now that one really grew on me!
JulianR 04/16/2018 04:08 | #213000
Frickin wacky album. I just get this sense listening to it that even though its made on very similar instruments to many other albums, there has really never been anything similar to it that I have ever heard. Just the way the songs are constructed is so odd. I hear maybe traces of krautrock, and a bit of similarity to the more normal synthy stuff they have done on The Terror, but that's kindof the only tangible link to other music that it seems to have. Sometimes it works really well, others not so much. Hopefully I will be able to understand it more as I listen. The standout is probably Ego's Last Stand, though the bonus track UFOs Over Baghdad is pretty cool too, though more in their usual vein.
75/100 (Above Average)
Komorebi-D 03/05/2017 05:52 | #186844
I love the sparse, ambient, psych, kraut and harsh instrumentals permeated throughout, especially when paired with Wayne's beautiful crooning & the enigmatic but random sampling. 2009 was truly the year for neo-psychedelia and this is one of the best documents from that time.
A noisy and psychedelic album, embryonic, is Flaming Lips most challenging record to date. Obviously needs to be listened in one go, it features some great moments; convinced of the hex, is a great opener, watching the planets, is a great closing track and in between there are some wonderful cuts, especially in, I can be a frog, featuring Karen O from Yeah,yeah,yeahs. Great stuff.
A little slow at the beginning but once you hit If the album really takes off. Lots of great tracks on this one. The chaos and out of control psychedelic style definitely makes this one of the Lip's bests works.
Floydian567 02/17/2015 02:05 | #135149
Best Lips album for me.
A good album, but it comes off a little too dense to make it 100% enjoyable. There are still some great tracks hidden in the Embryonic madness.
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