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At War with the Mystics is the eleventh album by the Flaming Lips. It was released on April 3, 2006, in international markets, and April 4, 2006, in the United States. It includes a different mix of the song, "Mr. Ambulance Driver", which was originally used as part of the soundtrack to the 2005 film Wedding Crashers. The album is more guitar-driven and features more politically themed lyrics than The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.The track "It Overtakes Me" has gained considerable interest, being featured as the soundtrack to a UK television commercial for Beck's beer, and "The W.A.N.D." has been used in European adverts for Bud Light and for Dell Computers in the U.K. and the U.S.
"The Wizard Turns On..." won a 2006 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical. The album was nominated for the Best Alternative Album Grammy. The 5.1 mix of the album was nominated for Best Surround Sound Album in 2008.
 
Track listing:
1. "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (With All Your Power)" 4:51
2. "Free Radicals (A Hallucination of the Christmas Skeleton Pleading with a Suicide Bomber)" 3:39
3. "The Sound of Failure / It's Dark... Is It Always This Dark??" 7:18
4. "My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion (The Inner Life as Blazing Shield of Defiance and Optimism as Celestial Spear of Action)" 4:48
5. "Vein of Stars" 4:15
6. "The Wizard Turns On... The Giant Silver Flashlight and Puts on His Werewolf Moccasins" 3:41
7. "It Overtakes Me / The Stars Are So Big... I Am So Small... Do I Stand a Chance?" 6:50
8. "Mr. Ambulance Driver" 4:21
9. "Haven't Got a Clue" 3:23
10. "The W.A.N.D. (The Will Always Negates Defeat)" 3:44
11. "Pompeii am Götterdämmerung" 4:22
12. "Goin' On" 3:39
 
Personnel:
Wayne Coyne - guitar, vocals, mixing, production
Michael Ivins - bass guitar, vocals, mixing, production, additional engineering
Steven Drozd - guitars, keyboards, drums, vocals, mixing, production
Kliph Scurlock - drums, percussion
Dave Fridmann - additional songwriting, production, mixing, programming, engineering, mastering
Scott Booker - production
Greg Kurstin - additional songwriting, production, backing vocals and instruments on "Haven't Got a Clue"
 
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