What Is The Light? (track)
by The Flaming Lips
Year: 1999
From the album The Soft Bulletin (track #6)
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What Is The Light? appears on the following album(s) by The Flaming Lips:
- The Soft Bulletin (track #6) (this album) (1999)
- Greatest Hits, Vol 1 (track #18) (compilation) (2018)
- Heady Nuggs: The First Five Warner Bros. Records 1992-2002 (track #40) (compilation) (2011)
- The Soft Bulletin: Recorded Live At Red Rocks Amphitheatre (track #6) (2019)
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hypnotic piano and heartbeat. i love it!
Anti TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/22/2014 03:37 | #107126
The sturdy beat is slightly hypnotizing.
What a good question! What the heck _is_ the light? :O
GandalfORiley345 03/02/2015 20:27 | #135943
It started great, and connects good with the next song
