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Quiz about The Flaming Lips in Another Dimension

The Flaming Lips in Another Dimension Quiz

The Flaming Lips have a strange habit of giving their songs more than one title. The concept of the quiz is simple. I will give you the weird alternate title of a song and you pick the standard song title.

A multiple-choice quiz by orgo. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
orgo

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
258,540

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
182

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Question 1 of 10

1. What is the regular title for this ear crashing song: "Battle Hymn for the Wounded Mathematician"? Hint

The Gash

A Spoonful Weighs a Ton

Race for the Price

Suddenly Everything Has Changed

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Question 2 of 10

2. "Throbbing Orange Pallbearers" is another title for what sad sounding song? Hint

It's Summertime

In the Morning of the Magicians

Are You a Hypnotist??

All We Have Is Now

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Question 3 of 10

3. "A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading With a Suicide Bomber" is a really strange title. What title for the same song is a little less strange? Hint

The Sound of Failure

Haven't Got a Clue

Mr. Ambulance Driver

Free Radicals

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Question 4 of 10

4. The Lips actually sing a lot about Jesus. Which song is also known as "Jesus Song No. 7"? Hint

There You Are

Shine On Sweet Jesus

God Walks Among Us Now

Jesus Shooting Heroin

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which slow song can also be called "Autopsy of the Devil's Brain"? Hint

You Have to be Joking

The Magician Verses the Headache

Talkin Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues

Felt Good to Burn

6. "An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That the Chemical (In Our Brains) by Which We are Able to Experience the Sensation of Being in Love is the Same Chemical that Caused the "Big Bang" that Was the Birth of the Accelerating Universe" is a really, really long title. The Flaming Lips save time by refering to this song by a shorter name? What is it? Hint

What is the Light?

Feeling Yourself Disintegrate

The Spark that Bled

Waitin' for a Superman

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Question 7 of 10

7. "Following the Funeral Procession of a Stranger." This is an alternate title, but it can also be combined with the regular title to make one extra long title.

Hint

I'm a Fly in a Sunbeam

Sunship Balloons

Assassination of the Sun

A Change at Christmas

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Question 8 of 10

8. "The Astrology of a Saturday" is the alternate title for what fizzy song?

Hint

Hold Your Head

Ginger ale Afternoon

Hit Me Like You Did the First Time

The Sun

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Question 9 of 10

9. "The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action." What is the regular title for this melodic masterpeiece? Hint

It Overtakes Me

The Wizard Turns On...

The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song

My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion

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Question 10 of 10

10. "Utopia Planitia." This is the alternate title for the song, but the regular title might actually be weirder. What might that be? Hint

Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon

Fight Test

Do You Realize

One More Robot

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What is the regular title for this ear crashing song: "Battle Hymn for the Wounded Mathematician"?

Answer: The Gash

All of these were off of The Flaming Lips' ninth album "The Soft Bulletin." It was the last Flaming Lips album of the 20th Century.

2. "Throbbing Orange Pallbearers" is another title for what sad sounding song?

Answer: It's Summertime

These are all tracks from The Lips tenth album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots." While on tour for this album The Lips played as the opening and the back up band for alternative legend Beck.

3. "A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading With a Suicide Bomber" is a really strange title. What title for the same song is a little less strange?

Answer: Free Radicals

The Flaming Lips eleventh album, "At War With the Mystics" was released in April 2006. All of these tracks are from that album, but "Mr. Ambulance Driver" was originally released on "The Wedding Crashers" soundtrack.

4. The Lips actually sing a lot about Jesus. Which song is also known as "Jesus Song No. 7"?

Answer: There You Are

All of these are off of The Lips fourth album, "In a Priest Driven Ambulance", except "Jesus Shooting Heroin" which was on their very first LP entitled "Hear it is!" Incidentally, "Shine on Sweet Jesus" and "God Walks Among Us Now" Are Jesus songs No. 5 and No. 6, respectively.

5. Which slow song can also be called "Autopsy of the Devil's Brain"?

Answer: You Have to be Joking

All of these are off the fifth album: "Hit to Death in the Future Head." As well as a very strange untitled thirty minute bonus track.

Answer: What is the Light?

These are all from "The Soft Bulletin." This album has often been compared to the album "Pet Sounds" by The Beach Boys.

7. "Following the Funeral Procession of a Stranger." This is an alternate title, but it can also be combined with the regular title to make one extra long title.

Answer: I'm a Fly in a Sunbeam

These are all off the "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" EP that was released in-between "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" and "At War With the Mystics."

8. "The Astrology of a Saturday" is the alternate title for what fizzy song?

Answer: Ginger ale Afternoon

These are more great tracks from "Hit to Death in the Future Head." That album marked The Lips major label debut on Warner Brothers.

9. "The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action." What is the regular title for this melodic masterpeiece?

Answer: My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion

These songs are from "At War With the Mystics." This album was nominated for best Alternative Album at the 2006 Grammy Awards. The track "The Wizard Turns On..." won the Grammy that year for the Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

10. "Utopia Planitia." This is the alternate title for the song, but the regular title might actually be weirder. What might that be?

Answer: Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon

"Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" also scored at the Grammy Awards as "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon" won the Grammy for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2002. Incidentally, Pavonis Mons is the middle of three volcanoes on the planet Mars collectively known as Tharsis Montes

Source: Author orgo

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