- electronic, experimental, experimental rock, neo-psychedelia
- 182 min
- 32 tracks
- Warner Bros. Records
Zaireeka is the eighth studio album by the American rock band the Flaming Lips, released on October 28, 1997, by Warner Bros. Records. It consists of four CDs designed so that when played simultaneously on four separate audio systems, they would produce a harmonic or juxtaposed sound; the discs could also be played in different combinations, omitting one, two or three discs. Each of its eight songs consists of four stereo tracks, one from each CD.
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- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- 1Okay I’ll Admit That I Really Don’t Understand2:52
- 2Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)7:02
- 3Thirty‐Five Thousand Feet of Despair4:59
- 4A Machine in India10:24
- 5The Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the Gnat6:13
- 6How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)2:24
- 7March of the Rotten Vegetables6:27
- 8The Big Ol’ Bug Is the New Baby Now5:05
- 1Okay I’ll Admit That I Really Don’t Understand2:52
- 2Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)7:02
- 3Thirty‐Five Thousand Feet of Despair4:59
- 4A Machine in India10:24
- 5The Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the Gnat6:13
- 6How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)2:24
- 7March of the Rotten Vegetables6:27
- 8The Big Ol’ Bug Is the New Baby Now5:11
- 1Okay I’ll Admit That I Really Don’t Understand2:52
- 2Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)7:02
- 3Thirty‐Five Thousand Feet of Despair4:59
- 4A Machine in India10:24
- 5The Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the Gnat6:14
- 6How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)2:24
- 7March of the Rotten Vegetables6:27
- 8The Big Ol’ Bug Is the New Baby Now5:11
- 1Okay I’ll Admit That I Really Don’t Understand2:52
- 2Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)7:02
- 3Thirty‐Five Thousand Feet of Despair4:59
- 4A Machine in India10:24
- 5The Train Runs Over the Camel but Is Derailed by the Gnat6:13
- 6How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos)2:24
- 7March of the Rotten Vegetables6:27
- 8The Big Ol’ Bug Is the New Baby Now5:11
32 tracks, 182 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Flaming Lips
- Label
- Warner Bros. Records
- Released
- October 28, 1997
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- US
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