Transmissions From The Satellite Heart (studio album)
by The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips bestography
Transmissions From The Satellite Heart is ranked 6th best out of 47 albums by The Flaming Lips on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Flaming Lips is The Soft Bulletin which is ranked number 119 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,939.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 11/23/2025 18:39 |  Montpejo | 658 | 81/100 |
| ! | 08/10/2025 19:19 |  BroknsocialShawn | 261 | 85/100 |
| ! | 07/21/2025 18:07 | traistboar | 1,455 | 79/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2025 23:23 |  Volee | 290 | 69/100 |
| ! | 01/25/2025 15:42 | cicadelic | 11,400 | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.5/100, a mean average of 75.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.0.
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Reminds me of Dinosaur Jr and just as good
Album Rating: 82.91
(912/11)
1. Turn It On. 85
2.Pilot Can At The Queer Of God. 79
3.Oh, My Pregnant Head (Labia In The Sunlight). 70
4.She Don't Use Jelly. 95
5.Chewin' The Apple Of Your Eye. 77
6.Superhumans. 89
7.Be My Head. 97
8.Moth In The Incubator. 80
9.Plastic Jesus. 78
10.When Yer Twenty Two. 76
11.Slow•Nerve•Action. 86
teague 08/27/2021 18:02 | #272944
Of course you have the 90s psychedelic classic, She Don't Use Jelly, but the rest is just as catchy and noisy. I love how weird these guys can get, but they can streamline their sound like this and it works wonders.
Alternative rock noise pop neo-psychedelia noise rock
Not entirely sure why I rate this above Yoshimi but I just do at the moment. It's probably even more silly with She Don't Use Jelly a clear example.
ExTeaSea 11/08/2019 02:02 | #244545
Flaming Lips were the best in the 90s IMO because they found their perfect sound. This is their second best album under Clouds. It's raw/distorted, it's weird and catchy as hell.
Although "A Priest" was really good, I reckon this is the Lips' first great moment. All the noise comes together deliciously in a poppier format.
An enveloping gloominess clouds The Flaming Lips' "Transmissions From The Satellite Heart", and in turn it forms an improvement over the fun but indulgent "Hit to Death in the Future Head". More than anything, this record reminds me of the splendid "In a Priest Driven Ambulance" with its layers of noise rock and melancholy lyrics complete with interesting little flourishes. Definitely worth listening to.
JulianR 11/08/2017 00:06 | #200949
another brilliant work from the flaming lips
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Not quite as brilliant as their later records, still, tranmission's, is a very enjoyable album. All the quirks they would master on later LP's are there, but the album's strength is the fact that it's a lot more ragged and raw than the later LP's would become. An underrated Flaming Lips album.
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