Hit to Death in the Future Head

Infobox Album
Name = Hit to Death in the Future Head
Type = Studio album
Artist = The Flaming Lips


Released = August 5 1992
Recorded =
Genre = indie rock
alternative rock
neo-psychedelia
noise pop
Length = 69:04
39:53 (12" release)
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:mr5k8qctbt04 link]
Last album = "In a Priest Driven Ambulance"
(1990)
This album = "Hit to Death in the Future Head"
(1992)
Next album = "Transmissions from the Satellite Heart"
(1993)

"Hit to Death in the Future Head" is The Flaming Lips' fifth album and their debut album on Warner Bros. Records. It was released on August 5 1992. It is also the first and only Flaming Lips album to receive a Parental Advisory warning. The title provided the inspiration for the name of the British band The Futureheads.

"Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever)" was released as the lead track on the EP "Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin Pigs Is Still Radical" to promote the album.

The album is known for its particularly long hidden track at the end of the CD, which lasts for almost a half hour. According to the band's website, "The CD features a joke eleventh track of a forty odd seconds loop repeating for about thirty-five minutes." [http://www.flaminglips.com/content/discography/a/05_main.php?sid=e7407c5e86581b002b3918c92906d98d]

Track listing

#"Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever)" – 3:49
#"Hit Me Like You Did the First Time" – 3:41
#"The Sun" – 3:31
#"Felt Good to Burn" – 3:21
#"Gingerale Afternoon (The Astrology of a Saturday)" – 3:45
#"Halloween on the Barbary Coast" – 5:42
#"The Magician vs. the Headache" – 3:12
#"You Have to Be Joking (Autopsy of the Devil's Brain)" – 3:55
#"Frogs" – 4:28
#"Hold Your Head" – 4:24
#Untitled – 29:16

Personnel

* Wayne Coyne
* Michael Ivins
* Jonathan Donahue
* Nathan Roberts