What Is The Light? (track)
by The Flaming Lips

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What Is The Light? by The Flaming Lips
Year: 1999
From the album The Soft Bulletin (track #6)

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85/100 (from 263 votes)

     

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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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Rating	Date updated	Member	Track ratings	Avg. track rating
90/100	03/23/2026 22:41	alexandermause	17,421	85/100
80/100	11/23/2025 16:20	Exist-en-ciel	97,711	71/100
85/100	08/27/2025 20:52	ExTeaSea	12,714	85/100
95/100	07/06/2025 07:12	Igtonumama	31,385	81/100
95/100	05/30/2025 00:51	matterhornrider	22,893	86/100

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This track is rated in the top 2% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 84.6/100, a mean average of 84.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 84.9/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.1.

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From pertbanking 07/20/2015 16:01 | #146101

What a good question! What the heck _is_ the light? :O

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From GandalfORiley345 03/02/2015 20:27 | #135943

It started great, and connects good with the next song

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From pannkakesangen 08/07/2014 17:32 | #118940

hypnotic piano and heartbeat. i love it!

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From Anti 03/22/2014 03:37 | #107126

The sturdy beat is slightly hypnotizing.

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