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}} ''Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'' is the tenth studio album by The Flaming Lips, released by Warner Bros. Records on July 16, 2002, in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States. It is characterized by electronic-influenced, psychedelic-tinged indie rock compositions. It has been certified Gold by the RIAA.〔 ''Yoshimi'' was well-received critically and commercially, helping the band break into the mainstream. The album was adapted into a musical in 2012. ==Structure and release== The lyrics of ''Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'' concern a diverse array of subject matter, mostly melancholy ponderings about love, mortality, artificial emotion, pacifism, and deception, while telling the story of Yoshimi's battle. The title character is believed to be an allusion to Boredoms/OOIOO member Yoshimi P-We, who also performs on the album. Some listeners consider ''Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'' to be a concept album; however, the story is debated, as it is only directly apparent in the first four tracks. Despite the story-type title and science fiction themes of the album, Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has made it clear that the album is not intended to be a concept album.〔 The vocal melody of track one, "Fight Test", echoes Cat Stevens's "Father and Son". Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, is receiving royalties following a relatively uncontentious settlement. The band's frontman, Wayne Coyne, claims that he was unaware of the songs' similarities until producer Dave Fridmann pointed them out.〔 This claim however is contradicted by his statement to ''Rolling Stone'' magazine: 'I know "Father and Son" and I knew there would be a little bit of comparison. "Fight Test" is not a reference necessarily to the ideas of "Father and Son", but definitely a reference to the cadence, the melody, and chord progression. I think it's such a great arrangement of chords and melody'.〔 The final track, "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)", won a 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The Flaming Lips also won the same award for "The Wizard Turns On...", taken from ''At War with the Mystics'', in 2006. In addition to the single Compact Disc format, ''Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'' was also released as a special two-disc release in 2003. This version contains the regular album and a DVD containing various alternate takes, b-sides, music videos, video footage from the album recordings, and the trailer for The Flaming Lips' film, ''Christmas on Mars''. In addition to bonus content on the DVD, there is a 5.1 DVD-Audio version of the entire album included. There was also a limited edition translucent red LP version. In recent years, ''Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'' has proved itself to have a bigger commercial impact than the band's 1999 breakthrough album, ''The Soft Bulletin'', and became their first gold-certified release in April 2006.〔 In 2003, British bastard pop DJ Eric Kleptone released a mashup album called ''Yoshimi Battles the Hip-Hop Robots'' which paired instrumentals from the album with rap samples and lyrics. For the television show ''Friends'', Flaming Lips re-wrote the song "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots" into "Phoebe Battles The Pink Robots" to fit one of the show's main characters. The music video appears on Disc 4 of the 9th Season DVD. As a 2014 April Fool's gag, Funny or Die posted a fake trailer for ''Yoshimi: Fall of the Chosen'' starring members of The Flaming Lips. The short is laced with references from the album: "Evil Natured Robots Programed to Destroy Us" scrolls by during news footage, "Yoshimi! Don't let them eat me!" is heard in the dialogue, and there is a quick shot of Yoshimi taking her vitamins. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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