Race for the Prize

Infobox Single
Name = Race for the Prize


Artist = The Flaming Lips
from Album = The Soft Bulletin
Released = 1999
Format = 7", CD, Maxi-CD, DVD
Recorded = 1999
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 4:09
Label = Warner Bros.
Producer = The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker
Last single = "Brainville" (1996)
This single = "Race for the Prize" (1999)
Next single = "Waitin' for a Superman" (1999)

"Race for the Prize" is a song by The Flaming Lips, released as the first single taken from their 1999 album "The Soft Bulletin", and reaching #39 in the UK Singles Chart as the highest charting single from the album.

ingle release

The single, released in 1999, was the album's highest charting single, reaching the top 40 at #39.

The b-side of the UK release featured material previously featured in Flaming Lips U.S. releases.

The single's b-sides both featured in the Japanese and UK single releases, "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)" and "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair" later appeared in CD5 of the U.S. release of the album's subsequent single "Waitin' for a Superman." [ [http://www.flaminglips.com/content/discography/s/11_main.php?sid= "Race for the Prize" at The Flaming Lips' official website] ]

Track listing

# "Race for the Prize"
# "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)"
# "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair"

UK CD2

# "Race for the Prize"
# "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)"
#

Japan CD

# "Race for the Prize"
# "Race For the Prize" (Remix)
# "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)" (Stereo remix)
# "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair" (Stereo remix)
# "The Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now" (Stereo remix)

Chart positions

References