The Flaming Lips Are Providing Needles for Your Balloons, the 1995 album Clouds Taste Metallic and two unreleased discs - a rarities compilation called The King Bug Laughs and an unreleased live show titled Psychiatric Exploration Of The Fetus With Needles (Live In Seattle 1996). It comprised the 1994 EP Due to High Expectations. While sorting through advance copies of new albums and trying to decide which to listen to first - the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pavement or the Flaming Lips. On Decemanother box set using the Heady Nuggs title was released by The Flaming Lips, entitled Heady Nuggs: 20 Years After Clouds Taste Metallic 1994-1997.
On the interior of the packaging is an Easter Egg featuring lyrics from the song "Moth in the Incubator" off the album Transmissions from the Satellite Heart.
A special edition version, pressed on colored vinyl and limited to 1,000 copies, was sold on the band's website. The box set was released on Apto coincide with the third annual Record Store Day, and is limited to 6,500 copies on black vinyl. Not included is 1997's Zaireeka, which was later released in a four disk box set on Record Store Day in 2013. These five albums are Hit to Death in the Future Head, Transmissions from the Satellite Heart, Clouds Taste Metallic, The Soft Bulletin, and Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. Early Flaming Lips (and later Flaming Lips) can get a bit too wacky for its own good. It isn’t just the gorgeous orchestral arrangements that set this album apart, it’s pure emotion. The album is the band’s greatest achievement. Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros Records 1992-2002 is a box set by Oklahoma-based band The Flaming Lips, containing vinyl reissues of the five albums that span the band's first decade on Warner Bros. A lot of people consider the Soft Bulletin to be the Flaming Lips’ Sgt. Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros Records 1992-2002