| Transmissions from the Satellite Heart | ||||
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| Released | June 22, 1993 | |||
| Recorded | January–February 1993 | |||
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| Length | 43:04 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
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| The Flaming Lips chronology | ||||
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| Singles from Transmissions from the Satellite Heart | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Chicago Tribune | [2] |
| Encyclopedia of Popular Music |  [3] |
| The Great Rock Discography | 8/10[4] |
| MusicHound | 5/5[5] |
| NME | 7/10[6] |
| Rolling Stone | [7] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [8] |
| Select | 4/5[9] |
Transmissions from the Satellite Heart is the sixth studio album by Americanrock bandthe Flaming Lips, released in 1993 byWarner Bros. Records.[10] The album marked the departure of Jonathan Donahue (toMercury Rev) and Nathan Roberts, and the addition of guitaristRonald Jones and drummerSteven Drozd.[11]
The track "She Don't Use Jelly" is notable for being the band's first charting radio hit, after its video was featured on theMTV seriesBeavis and Butt-Head nearly a year after the album's release. "Turn It On" was also a moderately successful single, and also had two different music videos, one of which was shot at a laundromat. By 2002,Transmissions from the Satellite Heart had sold 300,000 copies worldwide.[12]
The EPDue to High Expectations... The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles for Your Balloons was released the following year to promote the album and featured live versions of "Chewin the Apple of Yer Eye" and "Slow•Nerve•Action."
Trouser Press wrote that "as post-punk novelty singles go, 'She Don’t Use Jelly' ... is grade-A whimsy, with Coyne’s wobbly singing the perfect complement to the band’s loose-limbed rumble."[10]
All songs written by the Flaming Lips except where noted.
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "Turn It On" | 4:39 | |
| 2. | "Pilot Can at the Queer of God" | 4:16 | |
| 3. | "Oh My Pregnant Head (Labia in the Sunlight)" | 4:06 | |
| 4. | "She Don't Use Jelly" | 3:40 | |
| 5. | "Chewin the Apple of Yer Eye" | 3:52 | |
| 6. | "Superhumans" | 3:13 | |
| 7. | "Be My Head" | 3:15 | |
| 8. | "Moth in the Incubator" | 4:12 | |
| 9. | "Plastic Jesus" ([note 1]) | Ed Rush, George Cromarty | 2:18 |
| 10. | "When Yer Twenty Two" | 3:34 | |
| 11. | "Slow•Nerve•Action" | 5:55 |
| Chart (1995) | Peak position |
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| USBillboard 200[15] | 108 |
