| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Chicago Tribune | [2] |
| NME | 7/10[3] |
| Rolling Stone |  [4] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
| Select | 4/5[6] |
Transmissions from the Satellite Heart is the sixth studio album by American rock band The Flaming Lips, released in 1993 by Warner Bros. Records.[7] The album marked the departure of Jonathan Donahue (to Mercury Rev) and Nathan Roberts, and the addition of guitarist Ronald Jones and drummer Steven Drozd.[8]
The track "She Don't Use Jelly" is notable for being the band's first charting radio hit, after its video was featured on the MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head nearly a year after the album's release. "Turn It On" was also a moderately successful single, and also had two different music videos, one of which was shot at a laundromat. By 2002, Transmissions from the Satellite Heart had sold 300,000 copies worldwide.[9]
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."
Critical reception
Trouser Press wrote that "as post-punk novelty singles go, 'She Don’t Use Jelly' ... is grade-A whimsy, with Coyne’s wobbly singing the perfect complement to the band’s loose-limbed rumble."[7]
Track listing
All songs written by The Flaming Lips except where noted.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Turn It On" | 4:39 |
| 2. | "Pilot Can at the Queer of God" | 4:16 |
| 3. | "Oh My Pregnant Head (Labia in the Sunlight)" | 4:06 |
| 4. | "She Don't Use Jelly" | 3:40 |
| 5. | "Chewin the Apple of My Eye" | 3:52 |
| 6. | "Superhumans" | 3:13 |
| 7. | "Be My Head" | 3:15 |
| 8. | "Moth in the Incubator" | 4:12 |
| 9. | "Plastic Jesus" (Ed Rush, George Cromarty) (listed as "★★★★★★★" on all packaging & as "song from Cool Hand Luke" in sleeve notes)) | 2:18 |
| 10. | "When Yer Twenty Two" | 3:34 |
| 11. | "Slow•Nerve•Action" | 5:55 |
Personnel
- Wayne Coyne – vocals, guitar
- Steven Drozd – drums, keyboards, guitar, vocals
- Michael Ivins – bass, backing vocals
- Ronald Jones – guitar, backing vocals
- Keith Cleversley – recording engineer, mixing engineer
References
- ^ Ankeny, Jason. "Transmissions from the Satellite Heart – The Flaming Lips". AllMusic. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
- ^ Kot, Greg (July 1, 1993). "Flaming Lips: Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (Warner)". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "The Flaming Lips: Transmissions from the Satellite Heart". NME. June 19, 1993. p. 34.
- ^ Kot, Greg (October 28, 1993). "Transmissions From The Satellite Heart". Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
- ^ Kot, Greg (2004). "The Flaming Lips". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 300. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
- ^ Perry, Andrew (August 1993). "The Flaming Lips: Transmissions from the Satellite Heart". Select. No. 38. p. 100.
- ^ a b "Flaming Lips". Trouser Press. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ^ Buckley, Peter (August 3, 2003). The Rough Guide to Rock. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781843531050 – via Google Books.
- ^ Derogatis, Jim (25 August 2002). "First Band On Mars". Spin. Retrieved 2 May 2018.