We Did Not Know the Forest Spirit Made the Flowers Grow is the Black Lips' second LP album, released in 2004. The name is a reference to a line from the Hayao Miyazaki film Princess Mononoke.
"Notown Blues" features Bradford Cox of Deerhunter on drums. Notown was the name of a studio and rehearsal space in Marietta, Georgia. Original Black Lips guitarist Ben Eberbaugh, who died in a car accident in 2002, played on "Juvenile."
Track listing
"M.I.A." - 2:24 "Time of the Scab" - 2:17 "Dawn of the Age of Tomorrow" - 1:47 "Nothing At All/100 New Fears" - 3:17 "Stranger" - 2:15 "Juvenile" - 1:50 "Notown Blues" - 2:57 "Ghetto Cross" - 2:14 "Jumpin Around" - 1:26 "Super X-13" - 9:10 "Hope Jazz" (Bonus track)
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