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Do You Realize??

2002 single by the Flaming Lips

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

"Do You Realize??" is a song by the Flaming Lips, and was released as the first single from their 2002 album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. It is one of the group's most accessible and popular songs, having reached No. 32 in the UK Singles Chart. It was adopted as the Official Rock Song of Oklahoma from 2009 to April 2013 and was ranked No. 31 on Rolling Stone's 100 Best Songs of the 2000s. It is also the band's most popular live song, and has rarely been excluded from setlists since its inception into their live shows in 2002.

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“Do You Realize??” enters the record as 2002 single by the Flaming Lips. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Realize, single and Flaming can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2009, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Realize, single and Flaming.
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“Do You Realize??” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Realize, single and Flaming provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2002, 2009 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Do You Realize??” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.