Telepathic Surgery is the third studio album by The Flaming Lips, released in 1989 (see 1989 in music). Beginning life as a concept album, the band initially set out to create a thirty minute sound collage. The plan was later scrapped; however, the remnants of this original idea are evident within the album's loose, meandering structure and the epic "Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory". The Album is named after a line from the Flaming Lips song "Chro...
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Telepathic Surgery is the third studio album by The Flaming Lips, released in 1989 (see 1989 in music). Beginning life as a concept album, the band initially set out to create a thirty minute sound collage. The plan was later scrapped; however, the remnants of this original idea are evident within the album's loose, meandering structure and the epic "Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory". The Album is named after a line from the Flaming Lips song "Chrome Plated Suicide".
"Chrome Plated Suicide" stands out as one of the group's most accomplished early recordings, possibly due to being based on Guns N' Roses' critically-acclaimed "Sweet Child o' Mine". Sub Pop asked the group to record "Drug Machine in Heaven" for their 'single of the month' series. It was retitled as "Drug Machine" and is the group's first official single. The 'A-side' was backed with "Strychnine/What's So Funny (About Peace, Love and Understanding)" a cover of both "Strychnine" by The Sonics and Peace, Love, and...
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