Race for the Prize
"Race for the Prize" | ||||
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Single by The Flaming Lips | ||||
from the album The Soft Bulletin | ||||
Released | June 1999 | |||
Recorded | 1999 | |||
Genre | Neo-psychedelia | |||
Length | 4:09 | |||
Label | Warner Bros. | |||
Songwriter(s) | Wayne Coyne, Michael Ivins, Steven Drozd | |||
Producer(s) | The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker | |||
The Flaming Lips singles chronology | ||||
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"Race for the Prize" (subtitled "Sacrifice of the New Scientists"), is a song by The Flaming Lips, released as the first single taken from their 1999 album The Soft Bulletin, and reaching #39 in the UK Singles Chart as the highest-charting single from the album. In 2010 Pitchfork Media included the song at number 30 on their Top 200 Tracks of the 90s.[1] The song is also played live frequently, and is usually featured as a set opener for many of their concerts.
Single release
The single, released in 1999, was the album's highest charting single, reaching the top 40 at #39.
The b-side of the UK release featured material previously featured in Flaming Lips U.S. releases.
The single's b-sides both featured in the Japanese and UK single releases, "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)" and "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair" later appeared in CD5 of the U.S. release of the album's subsequent single "Waitin' for a Superman."[2]
Track listing
- UK CD 1
- "Race for the Prize"
- "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)" (From Zaireeka CD No.1)
- "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair" (From Zaireeka CD No.1)
- UK CD2
- "Race for the Prize"
- "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)" (From Zaireeka CD No.2)
- "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair" (From Zaireeka CD No.2)
- Japan CD
- "Race for the Prize"
- "Race For the Prize" (Remix)
- "Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)" (Stereo remix)
- "Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair" (Stereo remix)
- "The Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now" (Stereo remix)
Chart positions
Chart (1999) | Peak position |
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UK Singles Chart | 39[citation needed] |
Oklahoma City Thunder fight song
In 2012, the band rewrote some of the lyrics to the song to make a fight song for their hometown NBA team: the Oklahoma City Thunder. The new song is called "Thunder Up: Race for the Prize." The Thunder played in the NBA Finals that year.[3]
References
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- Wayne Coyne
- Steven Drozd
- Derek Brown
- Matt Duckworth Kirksey
- Nicholas Ley
- Mark Coyne
- Jonathan Donahue
- Kliph Scurlock
- Michael Ivins
- Hear It Is
- Oh My Gawd!!!
- Telepathic Surgery
- In a Priest Driven Ambulance
- Hit to Death in the Future Head
- Transmissions from the Satellite Heart
- Clouds Taste Metallic
- Zaireeka
- The Soft Bulletin
- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
- At War with the Mystics
- Embryonic
- The Terror
- Oczy Mlody
- King's Mouth
- American Head
- The Flaming Lips
- Yeah, I Know It's a Drag... But Wastin' Pigs Is Still Radical
- Due to High Expectations... The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles for Your Balloons
- Fight Test
- Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
- Yoshimi Wins! (Live Radio Sessions)
- It Overtakes Me
- Gummy Song Skull
- Gummy Song Fetus
- Strobo Trip
- 24 Hour Song Skull
- A Collection of Songs Representing an Enthusiasm for Recording...By Amateurs
- Finally the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid
- Shambolic Birth and Early Life Of
- The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg
- 20 Years of Weird
- iTunes Originals
- Heady Nuggs
- Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
- Scratching the Door: The First Recordings of the Flaming Lips
- "She Don't Use Jelly"
- "This Here Giraffe"
- "Race for the Prize"
- "Waitin' for a Superman"
- "Do You Realize??"
- "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1"
- "Fight Test"
- "The Golden Path"
- "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)"
- "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)"
Albums | |
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EPs |
- Atlas Eets Christmas (as Imagene Peise)
- Discography
- Late Night Tales: The Flaming Lips
- Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz
- Dave Fridmann
- Bradley Beesley
- George Salisbury
- Ray Suen
- Electric Würms
- Flaming Lips Alley
- Deap Lips