At War With The Mystics
by The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips bestography
At War With The Mystics is ranked 5th 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 120 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,784.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| ! | 12/29/2025 17:43 | mutant | 1,671 | 56/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 14:07 | Araldo | 1,471 | 80/100 |
| ! | 12/07/2025 02:54 | shanelovesyou111 | 711 | 74/100 |
| ! | 10/13/2025 05:55 | Sumbody | 1,784 | 76/100 |
| ! | 09/30/2025 10:27 |  ssteve | 2,480 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.0/100, a mean average of 74.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.9.
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I find this album more interesting, entertaining, and exciting than Yoshimi (which I also like).
teague 09/24/2021 17:27 | #274139
And thus their amazing album run ended.
The Flaming Lips is one of my favorite bands of the 2000s. On this album, the Flaming Lips want to re-enchant the world, but without emptying it of its darkness, without refusing the confrontation with the morbid one. Myth, magic and fantasy are the essence of Flaming Lips. But being sidetracked by a moronic fundamentalism, their obsessions have become elsewhere a weapon, responsible for massacres. "At War with the Mystics" is a virulent charge against this misguided mysticism. This album is probably the most Underrated of the band and remains one of the best of their discography in my opinion.
8/10
Best track: "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)"
One of my favs from the lips.
I must admit this is my least favourite Flaming Lips album, at least of the millennium. It starts of well but then it fizzles out a bit. Probably, it's a bit overlong. Take out a few of the weaker tracks and you have a tight little album. Having said that, it is the Flaming Lips, so it's never going to be bad, but there has to be one album by any band you love that you consider the weakest. This is it for me for the Flaming Lips.
flamingyesdept 08/13/2015 15:22 | #147617
Fantastic album, criminally underrated - how this isn't even in the top 1000 confounds me. This album perhaps sees the Lips at their most versatile, the album with the most dynamic range - rocking hard on one song to creating astounding beautiful music on the next and not a weak track here (well, maybe Haven't Got a Clue, but c'mon even that's great) and considering there's near-on an hour of brilliance here that's no mean feat. Best album of 2006, top 5 of the 2000s and The Flaming Lips' second best only to the outstanding Soft Bulletin.
Kalos 02/15/2014 09:26 | #103194
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I agree this is underrated - especially as Embryonic is rated higher!
My favourite Flamping Lips album - it's got something for everyone - ballads, rock, dance and Pompei am Gotterdammerung which is like early Genesis on speed. Quality.
junodog4 04/13/2012 17:28 | #40153
Flaming Lips continuing the streak set by The Soft Bulletin through Yoshimi... Funky, thoughtful and original.
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