Oh My Gawd!!!

Not to be confused with Oh My God.

Oh My Gawd!!! (also known as Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips) is The Flaming Lips' second album, released on Restless Records in 1987.

Oh My Gawd!!!
Studio album by The Flaming Lips
Released	January 6, 1987
Genre	Alternative rock noise rock neo-psychedelia
Length	48:00
Label	Restless
Producer	The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips chronology
Hear It Is (1986) Oh My Gawd!!! (1987) Telepathic Surgery (1989)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Great Rock Discography	7/10[3]
MusicHound	3.5/5[4]
Paste	6.9/10[5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[6]

Production

According to liner notes on a 1998 compilation, Wayne Coyne and Michael Ivins were experimenting with sleep deprivation while recording this album.^[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Everything's Explodin'"	4:44
2.	"One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning"	9:21
3.	"Maximum Dream for Evil Knievel"	2:50
4.	"Can't Exist"	2:48
5.	"Ode to C.C. (Part I)"	0:46
6.	"The Ceiling Is Bendin'"	3:45
7.	"Prescription: Love"	6:10
8.	"Thanks to You"	3:56
9.	"Can't Stop the Spring"	4:11
10.	"Ode to C.C. (Part II)"	1:50
11.	"Love Yer Brain"	7:44
Total length:		48:00

All tracks are written by The Flaming Lips

Notes

• The first track opens with the quote, "Take this, brother. May it serve you well," from the Beatles' "Revolution 9"
• The last track closes with a loop of the phrase "turn off your mind, relax..." sampled from the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows"
• The track "Ode to C.C. (Part I)" references C.C. DeVille from the glam rock band Poison and contains a 30-second clip of "Talk Dirty to Me" when played backward on the vinyl version of the album.

Retrospective reviews

Critics have noted the album's similarity to the music of Pink Floyd, particularly on the track "One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning."^[8][9] Zach Schonfeld, writing for Paste, described Oh My Gawd!!! as the Flaming Lips' "most eclectic early offering", albeit with "plenty of the band’s hooky hillbilly-punk in between."^[8] Brad Shoup wrote for Stereogum that "in time, the Flaming Lips would learn to incorporate their experiments into the songs, rather than cramming them in for the hell of it. But their glee at what they get away with here is infectious."^[7]

Personnel

The Flaming Lips

• Wayne Coyne – lead vocals, guitar
• Michael Ivins – bass
• Richard English – drums, piano, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Can't Exist" and "Thanks to You"

Technical personnel

• Ruben Ayala – engineer
• The Flaming Lips – front cover painting
• Michele Vlasimsky – photography

References

1. "Oh My Gawd!!!...The Flaming Lips – The Flaming Lips". AllMusic.
2. Larkin, Colin (2011). "The Flaming Lips". Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
3. Strong, Martin C. (2004). "Flaming Lips". The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Canongate Books. p. 543–544. ISBN 1-84195-615-5.
4. Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). "The Flaming Lips". MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. p. 428–429. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
5. Schonfeld, Zach (July 31, 2018). "The Flaming Lips: Hear It Is/Oh My Gawd!!!/Telepathic Surgery Reissues". Paste.
6. Cross, Charles R. (2004). "Flaming Lips". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. pp. 300. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
7. Shoup, Brad (January 16, 2013). "The Flaming Lips Albums from Worst to Best: 11. Oh My Gawd!!! (1987)". Stereogum. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
8. Schonfeld, Zach (July 31, 2018). "The Flaming Lips: Hear It Is/Oh My Gawd!!!/Telepathic Surgery Reissues Review". Paste. Archived from the original on July 20, 2020. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
9. Ingalls, Chris (August 8, 2018). "Take a Dive Into the Flaming Lips' Salad Days with 'Seeing the Unseeable'". PopMatters. Archived from the original on July 20, 2020. Retrieved July 20, 2020.