| Fight Test | |
| Type: | EP |
| Artist: | The Flaming Lips |
| Cover: | flaminglips fighttest.jpg |
| Alt: | A painting of pink aliens fighting a girl |
| Recorded: | 2002 |
| Genre: | Indie rock |
| Length: | 32:47 |
| Label: | Warner Bros. |
| Producer: | The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann, Scott Booker |
| Chronology: | The Flaming Lips EP |
| Prev Title: | The Southern Oklahoma Cosmic Trigger Contest |
| Prev Year: | 2001 |
| Next Title: | Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell |
| Next Year: | 2003 |
Fight Test is an extended play (EP) released by the Flaming Lips released on Warner Bros. Records in 2003. The single version of "Fight Test" was released on June 23, 2003, peaking at number 28 on the UK Singles Chart. It is the third single to be picked from the album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.
It is an enhanced CD, containing covers of Radiohead's "Knives Out", Kylie Minogue's "Can't Get You Out of My Head", and Beck's "The Golden Age". In addition, the EP includes two original songs. The UK version was a normal CD single, which also featured some previously unreleased songs. Fight Test was nominated for Best Alternative Album at the 46th Annual Grammy Awards.
The opening of "Fight Test" ("The test begins...now") was sampled from one of the sync tests from the Flaming Lips' own Boombox Experiments. The song was also the theme song for the short-lived MTV cartoon 3-South. It was furthermore used in a season 2 episode of the long-running TV series Smallville.[1]
"Fight Test" is musically similar to Cat Stevens's 1970 song "Father and Son". Following a settlement with the Flaming Lips, Stevens receives 75 percent of the royalties from Fight Test.[2] In an interview with The Guardian, front man Wayne Coyne stated
At the end of the season 3 finale of the AppleTV series Ted Lasso, "Father and Son" and "Fight Test" were played back to back.[3]