The reissue of Hear It Is has a cover of "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran, In a Priest Driven Ambulance has a cover of "What a Wonderful World", Transmissions from the Satellite Heart has a cover of Ed Cromarty and George Rush's "Plastic Jesus" note probably best known for appearing in Cool Hand Luke, At War With the Mystics' iTunes release has a cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody" (originally recorded for a tribute album) among the bonus tracks, Heady Fwends has a cover of Ewan MacColl's "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" (in collaboration with Erykah Badu). Cover Version: Apart from the Dark Side of the Moon album, these are quite rare on their albums.
They also did The Stone Roses' debut as a Black Friday exclusive, The Time Has Come To Shoot You Down.Followed up by With A Little Help From My Fwends a cover album of Sgt.Cover Album: The band decided to do a whole-album cover of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, which turned out exactly as bizarre as you'd expect.Yoshimi isn't officially considered since only the first four tracks have any actual connection to them, but the album is united by the themes of fighting for what you believe in, The Power of Love, and again our impending deaths. Concept Album: Embryonic, The Soft Bulletin, and King's Mouth, focusing on the meaning of morality and literal search of meaning, The Soft Bulletin in the words of Wayne Coyne "is about despair", and Kings Mouth being an actual Rock Opera, respectively.Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Wayne Coyne in frickin' spades.It's more of an experimental Christmas movie. Christmas Special: Christmas On Mars, Sort of.If there ain't no heaven, maybe there ain't no hell. Cessation of Existence: Wayne Coyne's belief in this fuels some of their songs like "Do You Realize?", "Vein Of Stars", "All We Have Is Now" and "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate.".Also, the entirety of "Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, Pt 2." Careful with That Axe: In the middle of "Riding to Work in the Year 2025" and in the middle of the second hour of "I Found a Star on the Ground".Call-and-Response Song: "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song".Brown Note: Zaireeka has a warning label on the front stating that "on rare occasion" the various frequencies used on the album have caused listeners to become disoriented.The Headache" repeated for close to a half-hour. Broken Record: The hidden track on the album Hit to Death in the Future Head, which is simply the outro to the song "The Magician vs.Similarly, touring backing vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Derek Brown also recently became a full-time member.Ascended Extra: Kliph Scurlock was originally hired as a roadie during The Soft Bulletin tour, and later became the band's touring drummer to promote Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, due to Steve Drozd branching out to keyboards and other assorted instruments, but was eventually brought in as the band's full-time drummer.Arc Words: Several of their songs are about/make reference to the Sun, most notably "The Sun" (duh) as well as the titles of the first three tracks on Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell: "Assassination of the Sun", "I'm a Fly in a Sunbeam" and "Sunship Balloons".
King's Mouth note featuring narration from Mick Jones of The Clash (2019).