Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

Infobox Album |
Name = Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
Type = Studio album
Artist = The Flaming Lips


Released = June 22 1993
Recorded = January - February, 1993
Genre = Alternative rock
Length = 43:04
Label = Warner Bros. Records
9 45334-2
Producer = The Flaming Lips, Keith Cleversley
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:596gtr5lkl7x~T1 link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|4|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theflaminglips/albums/album/213086/review/5940534/transmissions_from_the_satellite_heart link]
Last album = "Hit to Death in the Future Head"
(1992)
This album = "Transmissions from the Satellite Heart"
(1993)
Next album = "Clouds Taste Metallic"
(1995)
Misc = Singles
Name = Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
Type = studio
Single 1 = She Don't Use Jelly
Single 1 date = 1993/1994
Single 2 = Turn It On
Single 2 date = 1995

"Transmissions from the Satellite Heart" is The Flaming Lips' sixth album, released in 1993. Its fourth track, "She Don't Use Jelly", is notable for being The Flaming Lips' first charting radio hit, after its video was featured on the MTV show "Beavis and Butt-Head", nearly a year after the album's release. "Turn It On" was also a moderately-successful single, and also had a music video (shot at a laundromat). The album marked the departure of Jonathan Donahue (to Mercury Rev), and the addition of guitarist Ronald Jones and drummer Steven Drozd.

The EP "Due to High Expectations... The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles for Your Balloons" was released the following year to promote the album and featured live versions of "Chewin the Apple of Your Eye" and "Slow Nerve Action". The EP's cover art was also similar to that of "Transmissions from the Satellite Heart".

Track listing

#"Turn It On" – 4:39
#"Pilot Can at the Queer of God" – 4:16
#"Oh, My Pregnant Head (Labia in the Sunlight)" – 4:06
#"
#"Chewin the Apple of Your Eye" – 3:52
#"Superhumans" – 3:13
#"Be My Head" – 3:15
#"Moth in the Incubator" – 4:12
#"Plastic Jesus" (A cover of the song "Plastic Jesus" from the Paul Newman film "Cool Hand Luke." The title is obscured on the back of the album.) – 2:18
#"When Yer Twenty Two" – 3:34
#"Slow Nerve Action" – 5:55

Personnel

* Wayne Coyne
* Steven Drozd
* Michael Ivins
* Ronald Jones

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7U2VdVO1qY "Turn It On" video on YouTube]