The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg - The Priest Driven Ambulance Album, Demos and Outtakes Music

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by: The Flaming Lips

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Average Rating: Rating: - Remarkable Era "In A Priest Driven Ambulance" was actually a bit of a strange album through the first two or three listens. The pallete seemed oddly straight-forward as compared to "Oh My Gawd!!!" or "Hit To Death In the Future Head". But after a few listens I found a new sence of craftmanship and the album seemed much greater as they had excelled to a new level from the previous. From the frequent acoustic guitar riffs to the psychedelic atmosphere and effects, I saw what was "hidden" below, this journey. The demo disc contains some great material, including a demo of "There You Are" which in my opinion showed the way for the psychedelic-prog proggressions that the band would use, and even though the demo was recorded instrumental (except for the aahs and oohs for soaring vocal harmony)the demo at first listen enlightened me to the opinion that it should have actually made the album cut instead of the version that did! Overall the album (for creativity, packaging, and photos) deserves 4 stars. Ben. the 15 year old. Rating: - Fantastic Is my 5 star rating biased because I'm a big lips fan? Of course! Still, this is great stuff. Jesus Egg is a companion release to the collection Finally The Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid, and between the two of them comprise ALL of the Lip's pre warner bros material. Both are essential buys for collectors. For more casual fans looking to delve into the Lip's past though, this is the one to get first. The highpoint of Jesus Egg is the first disk, containing the complete album 'In a Priest Driven Ambulance' and a handful of extra tracks. It was on 'In a Priest Driven Ambulance' that the Lips really started to find their sound, and were able to catch the attention of warner bros records. In fact, Wayne himself considers this to be their first really great album. The 2nd disk is admittedly less exciting, containing mostly alternate versions of priest driven ambulance songs and some low quality demos. Still, there's fun stuff to be found, and given the price of the collection you're basically getting the 2nd disk for free. A classic Lips album together with a pile of bonus material, you really can't go wrong. Rating: - one more step towards cracked brilliance The first cd of this double album is the album "in a priest driven ambulance", with some bonus tracks. It's said this band didn't really fully get going till the major label debut, and this is pretty much true, as most of the rest of their albums . However, this is easily the best of their pre-warner brothers albums, and if it doesn't meet the quality of things like the soft bulletin and hit to death in the future head, it certainly comes close. The whole thing basically alternates between gorgeous acoustic ballads and noisy but catchy pop rock, and this time around they've written some really great melodies (although vocalist Wayne Coyne is more than a little off key on most of them), and some brilliantly odd recording tricks, like the eerie experimental jazz sample in "stand in line" or the ambient cricket sounds and passing trucks in "there you are" that are actually present because the band recorded the song on acoustic guitars in the middle of the night in the parking lot of a grocery store near a highway. Highlights include "five stop mother superior rain", "unconsciously screamin'" and the cover of "what a wonderful world". The bonus section features a few noisy punkers more reminscent of their earlier material, a pretty epic ballad called "ma I didn't notice", a pop song called "let me be it", and a wonderfully garage rocking medley of the sonics' "strychnine" and Nick Lowe/Elvis Costello's "peace love and understanding". The second cd features a set of demos for the album known as "the mushroom tapes". While this really only contains a few unreleased gems like chainsaw kittens cover "she's gone mad", it's a very intriguing look into the band's creative process, from a slide guitar jam that later developed into "there you are" to two versions of "five stop mother superior rain", one filled with feedback drones, the other with a lovely piano line, to a few spontaneous noise jams. If you're a fan of the band, it's an interesting glimpse behind the scenes, and besides there's just something charming about Wayne laughing his way through the first verse of "take meta mars", or realizing how sonic youth sounding the "agonizing" jam sounds and muttering "...sounds like something Lee Ranaldo would do" in the middle of the song.

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