Flaming Lips Unveil Crazy Collaborations for Record Store Day

Record Store Day —that grand day in which nostalgia, guilt, commerce, and collectorism come together in a glorious celebration of physical product (and also music)— is looming soon. On April 21. But we can, a month in advance, go ahead and crown the kings of RSD 2012: the Flaming frickin' Lips.

The Oklahoman oddballs have been undertaking a string of adventurous collaborations over the past year, and the fruits of all their cross-pollination and improvisation will come to bear with The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends, an awesomely-titled double-LP platter being released for Record Store Day.

On it, Wayne Coyne and crew collaborate with Chris Martin of Coldplay(!), Nick Cave, Bon Iver, Erykah Badu, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Tame Impala, Neon Indian, Prefuse 73, Lightning Bolt, Yoko Ono, and other figures strange, unexpected, and —fingers crossed— perhaps inspired.

For collector scum of the world: the 2LP package is pressed on multi-colored wax, comes individually numbered, uniquely presented, and is never-to-be-repressed. Flippers, start your engines. Its tracklist is below. Merry Christmas. Or, um, Record Store Day.

The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends
1. "2012 (featuring Ke$ha and Biz Markie)"
2. "Ashes in the Air (featuring Bon Iver)"
3. "Helping the Retarded to Know God (featuring Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros)"
4. "Supermoon Made Me Want To Pee (featuring Prefuse 73)"
5. "Children of the Moon (featuring Tame Impala)"
6. "That Ain't My Trip (featuring Jim James of My Morning Jacket)"
7. "You, Man? Human? (featuring Nick Cave)"
8. "I'm Working at NASA On Acid (featuring Lightning Bolt)"
9. "Do It! (featuring Yoko Ono)"
10. "Is David Bowie Dying? (featuring Neon Indian)"
11. "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (featuring Erykah Badu)"
12. "Thunder Drops (featuring New Fumes)"
13. "I Don't Want You to Die (featuring Chris Martin of Coldplay)"