Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots CD + Bonus Track | Alternative Rock Album by The Flaming Lips | Perfect for Road Trips & Music Collectors

DO NOT BUY THE CD VERSION. Why? Because this one comes with it! It's the best solution to DVD-Audio's lack of hybrid capability, like SACD allows. Don't have DVD-Audio, yet? Well, the Dolby Digital goodies are more than enough to get you by until then and all you need for those is a standard DVD Player. But I'm telling you, with just an inexpensive Pioneer DV-655A universal player, the DVD-Audio 24/96 5.1 tracks are ASTOUNDING! The sonic quality alone will amaze you. The decoded HDCD of Soft Bulletin sounded great. Yoshimi's 24bit/96khz blows it away. And that's not even considering the surround aspect of it, which is pretty much revolutionary. Stuff spins around, phases in and out, you name it, this does it...and not in some arbitrary way. It's all musically conducive to the material. The DVD contains both 5.1 and 2.0 versions of the material on Layer 1, which you select between in the DVD menu only. There are also six 2 channel 24bit/48khz live tracks and remixes on layer 2 that can be selected either in the menu or from your DVD player's controls. Then there are the Dolby Digital tracks of even more remixes and video extras. Watch out on the video for Are You A Hypnotist. It gave me a headache, though for the first half of it I was pretty impressed with the editing. If Paul Van Dyk's Global is the benchmark for CD/DVD-Video releases, Yoshimi is the new standard for DVD-Audio releases.