Sleeping On The Roof (track)
by The Flaming Lips

• Summary
• Buy
• Ratings
• Favourites
• Comments
• Your feedback

Sleeping On The Roof by The Flaming Lips
Year: 1999
From the album The Soft Bulletin (track #12)

Average Rating: 

82/100 (from 238 votes)

     

Listen on Spotify

Sleeping On The Roof appears on the following album(s) by The Flaming Lips:

• The Soft Bulletin (track #12) (this album) (1999)
• The Fearless Freaks - 20 Years Of Weird: The Flaming Lips 1986-2006 (track #10) (compilation) (2006)
• Heady Nuggs: The First Five Warner Bros. Records 1992-2002 (track #47) (compilation) (2011)
• The Soft Bulletin: Recorded Live At Red Rocks Amphitheatre (track #12) (2019)

Upcoming concerts

Dec

31

Wed

21:30

The Flaming Lips

The Anthem, Washington, United States.

Tickets from Ticketmaster Get tickets

 

Listen to Sleeping On The Roof on YouTube

Sleeping On The Roof ratings

Sort by

• Rating
• Date updated
• Member

Rating	Date updated	Member	Track ratings	Avg. track rating
80/100  !	11/23/2025 16:20	Exist-en-ciel	50,603	70/100
85/100  !	08/27/2025 20:53	ExTeaSea	12,264	85/100
90/100  !	07/06/2025 07:12	Igtonumama	31,393	81/100
95/100  !	05/30/2025 00:55	matterhornrider	22,509	86/100
75/100  !	02/06/2025 13:56	Scrabbler	773	82/100

Rating metrics: Outliers can be removed when calculating a mean average to dampen the effects of ratings outside the normal distribution. This figure is provided as the trimmed mean. A high standard deviation can be legitimate, but can sometimes indicate 'gaming' is occurring. Consider a simplified example* of an item receiving ratings of 100, 50, & 0. The mean average rating would be 50. However, ratings of 55, 50 & 45 could also result in the same average. The second average might be more trusted because there is more consensus around a particular rating (a lower deviation).
(*In practice, some tracks can have several thousand ratings)
This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 82.0/100, a mean average of 81.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.2/100. The standard deviation for this track is 11.8.

• Related links:
• Top tracks by The Flaming Lips
• Top tracks of the 1990s
• Top tracks of 1999

Sleeping On The Roof favourites

Showing all 6 members who have added this track as a favourite

SUPERJEFF6

matterhornrider

Timestarter

lleon79

animals0809

HoldenM

Sleeping On The Roof comments

Showing all 4 comments |
Most Helpful First | Newest First | Positive Sentiment First | Longest Comments First
(Only showing comments with -2 votes or higher. You can alter this threshold from your profile page. Manage Profile)

From Yann 06/20/2017 16:51 | #192931

it really feels like the title says. Exquisite.

Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Rating:  

90/100

From flamingyesdept 09/08/2016 22:25 | #174571

Phenomenal instrumental, a beautiful and fitting closer

Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Rating:  

90/100

From GandalfORiley345 03/02/2015 20:53 | #135952

Another cute instrumental

Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Rating:  

100/100

From Anti 03/15/2014 00:06 | #106295

Fantastic instrumental closer, it's like the end of an era or a lengthy period of time.

Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)

Your feedback for Sleeping On The Roof

Let us know what you think of this track by adding a comment or assigning a rating below!

Buy track