Album · 2003
Fight Test
Fight Test is an album by The Flaming Lips, released in 2003 on Warner Bros. Records, with 7 tracks.
- 7
- Tracks
- 33 min
- Runtime
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Album · 2003
Fight Test is an album by The Flaming Lips, released in 2003 on Warner Bros. Records, with 7 tracks.
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Fight Test is an EP by The Flaming Lips featuring the song of the same name, released on Warner Bros. Records in 2003. The single version of "Fight Test" was released on June 23, 2003, peaking at #28 in the UK Singles Chart. It is the third single to be picked from the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. It is an enhanced CD, containing covers of Radiohead's "Knives Out", Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head", and Beck's "The Golden Age." In addition, the EP includes two original songs. The UK version was a normal CD single, which also featured some previously unreleased songs. Plagiarism accusations "Fight Test" is musically very similar to Cat Stevens's 1970 song "Father and Son." Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, is receiving royalties following a relatively non-contentious settlement. In an interview with The Guardian, front man Wayne Coyne stated I want to go on record for the first time and say that I really apologize for the whole thing. I really love Cat Stevens. I truly respect him as a great singer-songwriter. And now he wants his money. There was a time during the recording when we said, this has a similarity to 'Father and Son'. Then we purposefully changed those…