Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell

Infobox Album |
Name = Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
Type = EP
Artist = The Flaming Lips


Released = November 2003
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 33:12
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:sf4gtq6zzu46 link]
*Pitchfork (7.0/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/17751/Flaming_Lips_Ego_Tripping_at_the_Gates_of_Hell_EP 11/21/2003]
*Robert Christgau Rating-Christgau|dud [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=The+Flaming+Lips link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|2|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theflaminglips/albums/album/300770/review/5940498/ego_tripping_at_the_gates_of_hell link]
Chronology = The Flaming Lips EP
Last album = "Fight Test"
(2003)
This album = "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell"
(2003)
Next album = "It Overtakes Me"
(2006)

"Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" is an EP by The Flaming Lips, released on Warner Bros. Records in late 2003.

It was released while "At War With the Mystics", the full length follow up to "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots", was being recorded. Despite being named after the "Yoshimi..." album track "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell", the song is not the 'lead' track and doesn't even appear in its original form, rather as two club-oriented remixes. What is most notable about the EP are the four completely original recordings, which is in juxtapostion to the number of covers on the "Fight Test" EP.

"Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" is also the name of the 1987 debut album by Australian blues rocker Louis Tillett. It is not known whether this replication is coincidental or a deliberate tribute.

Track listing

#"Assassination of the Sun" – 4:22
#"I'm a Fly in a Sunbeam (Following the Funeral Procession of a Stranger)" – 3:12
#"Sunship Balloons" – 4:03
#"Do You Realize?? [TPS Remix] " (The Postal Service) – 4:02
#"Ego Tripping (Ego in Acceleration) [Jason Bentley Remix] " – 5:36
#"Ego Tripping [Self-Admiration With Blow-Up Mix] " – 6:38
#"A Change at Christmas (Say It Isn't So)" (with Ghosty) – 5:25
#"Ego Tripping (Birth Of A Mega-Hero) [Utah Saints Remix] " - 6:31 (iTunes only bonus track)