At War With The Mystics
by The Flaming Lips
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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 116 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,652.
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At War With The Mystics track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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At War With The Mystics rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | shanelovesyou1111 | Top 74 Music Albums of 2006 | 62/74 | 1 |
| 2026 |  ssteve | Top 68 Music Albums of 2006 | 7/68 | 5 |
| 2026 | saltysurprise | Top 39 Music Albums of 2006 | 36/39 | 1 |
| 2026 | bonnequestion | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 33/100 | 66 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 45 Music Albums of 2006 | 9/45 | 4 |
| 2026 |  NowhereMan | Top 19 Music Albums of 2006 | 3/19 | 4 |
| 2026 |  junodog4 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 68/100 | 7 |
| 2026 |  Robert Anton Wilson | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 83/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  imacgill | Top 100 Music Albums of 2006 | 41/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | martintho | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 64/100 | 7 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 253 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 956 | |||
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 3 days ago | RemainInLight | 3,776 | 35/100 |
| ! | 06/15/2026 20:35 | Pollo | 106 | 82/100 |
| ! | 06/13/2026 16:29 | Johnnyo | 9,942 | 77/100 |
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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 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.
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At War With The Mystics forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 07/17/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5376): By bonnequestion
Romanelli 02/13/2025 14:58 in The Romanelli Music Diary: Sacred CowAt War With The Mystics comments
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I find this album more interesting, entertaining, and exciting than Yoshimi (which I also like).
teague TOP 100 COMMENTER 09/24/2021 17:27 | #274139
And thus their amazing album run ended. (Edited)
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)" (Edited)
After the excellent three-peat "Zaireeka", "Soft Bulletin" & "Yoshimi" , the bar has unfortunately been set incredibly high for "Mystics" and although it is a solid record, it can't help but pale in comparison. There are some really good ideas here, but it doesn't really coalesce into a unified vision like the three previous records from the Lips that I namedropped. Still, definitely worth checking out for some good pop tunes.
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