Transmissions From The Satellite Heart (studio album) by The Flaming Lips

Transmissions From The Satellite Heart by The Flaming Lips
Year: 1993
Overall rank: 1,904th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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77/100 (from 294 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1993 (30th)
Award Top albums of the 1990s (352nd)
Award Best albums of all time (1,904th)

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Transmissions From The Satellite Heart is ranked 6th best out of 46 albums by The Flaming Lips on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by The Flaming Lips is The Soft Bulletin which is ranked number 113 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 13,479.

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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.6/100, a mean average of 76.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.4.

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90/100
From 06/08/2022 10:38
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
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From 08/27/2021 18:02
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.
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80/100
From 01/27/2020 17:29
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.
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95/100
From 11/08/2019 02:02
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.
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From 10/24/2018 12:15
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.
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From 05/01/2018 23:56
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.
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85/100
From 11/08/2017 00:06
another brilliant work from the flaming lips
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From 06/26/2016 17:51
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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From 10/01/2014 18:22
Clouds and Soft are better albums but this one always gets to me. Pilot Can and Moth are just terrific.
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