Transmissions from the Satellite Heart

Album |

  Name        = Transmissions from the Satellite Heart |

Type = Album | Artist = The Flaming Lips |

  Cover       = Transmissions from the satellite heart album cover.jpg |
  Background  = Orange |
  Released    = 1993 |
  Recorded    = January-February 1993 |

Genre = Alternative |

  Length      = 43:04 |

Label = Warner Bros. | Producer = The Flaming Lips,
Keith Cleversley | Reviews =
*All Music Guide

4 and a half out of 5 stars

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) |

Transmissions from the Satellite Heart is The Flaming Lips' sixth album, released in 1993 (see 1993 in music). Its fourth track, "She Don't Use Jelly", is notable for being The Flaming Lips' highest charting radio hit, after being featured on the MTV show Beavis and Butt-head, nearly a year after the album's release.

With the departure of Jonathan Donahue, and the addition of guitarist Ronald Jones and drummer Steven Drozd, The Flaming Lips approached this album from an entirely new perspective. Jones, a talented guitarist, and Drozd, a gifted drummer, The Flaming Lips were reborn with Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.

The EP "Due to high expectations... The Flaming Lips are Providing Needles For Your Balloons.." was released the following year to promote the album, it featured live versions of "Chewin the Apple of Yer Eye" and "Slow Nerve Action". The EP's coverart was also similar to that of Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.

Track listing

#"Turn It On" â€" 4:39#"Pilot Can at the Queer of God" â€" 4:16#"Oh, My Pregnant Head (Labia in the Sunlight)" â€" 4:06#"She Don't Use Jelly" â€" 3:40#"Chewin' the Apple of Yer Eye" â€" 3:52#"Superhumans" â€" 3:13#"Be My Head" â€" 3:15#"Moth in the Incubator" â€" 4:12#"Plastic Jesus" (A cover of the song "Plastic Jesus" from the Paul Newman film Cool Hand Luke. The title is censored on the back of the album.) â€" 2:18#"When Yer Twenty-Two" â€" 3:34#"Slow Nerve Action" â€" 5:55

Personnel

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