"Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1" is a

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by the American

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, released as the second single taken from their 2002 album ''

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots ''Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots'' is the tenth studio album by American rock band the Flaming Lips, released on July 16, 2002, by Warner Bros. Records. The album saw the band pursue a more electronic direction than previous efforts, incorporatin ...

''. It reached #18 in the

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as the highest-charting single from the album, after which the band made its debut appearance on ''

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''. It is also a playable song in ''

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'' and '' Fantasia: Music Evolved'' with 2 remixes: Mumbai and Grimecraft. It is also one of the band's most popular songs they've played live, and it usually is accompanied by a massive sing along at Coyne's urging. During a concert in early 2014,

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and Coyne appeared on stage and sang the song together.

Track listing

DVD single

# "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1" (video) # "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1" # "Fish Fry & The Bigot's Drunk" # "Galactic Melancholy"

UK CD1

# "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1" # " Do You Realize??" (Scott

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Floating In Space Vocal Mix) # "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1" (Japanese version)

UK CD2

# "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1" # "Can't Get You Out of My Head" ( KEXP version) # "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1" (Sessions @ AOL version)

Chart positions

References

2003 singles The Flaming Lips songs 2002 songs Warner Records singles Songs written by Wayne Coyne Songs written by Steven Drozd Songs written by Michael Ivins Songs about robots Songs about fictional female characters Cultural depictions of rock musicians Cultural depictions of Japanese women {{2000s-rock-song-stub