Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Shine On Sweet Jesus
2. Unconsciously Screamin'
3. Rainin' Babies
4. Take Meta Mars
5. Five Stop Mother Superior Rain
6. Stand In Line
7. God Walks Among Us Now
8. There You Are
9. Mountain Side
10. Wonderful World (What A)
11. Lucifer Rising
12. Ma I Didn't Notice
13. Let Me Be It
14. Drug Machine
15. Strychnine/Peace Love And Understanding

Disc 2:

1. Take Meta Mars
2. Mountain Side
3. There You Are
4. Five Stop Mother Superior Rain
5. Rainin' Babies
6. Unconsciously Screamin'
7. Stand In Line
8. God's A Wheeler Dealer
9. Agonizing
10. One Shot
11. Cold Day
12. Jam
13. She's Gone Mad
14. Golden Hearse
15. Unconsciously Screamin'
16. Stand In Line
17. I Want To Kill My Brother; The Cymbal Head
18. Five Stop Mother Superior Rain

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #23214 in Music
• Released on: 2002-08-16
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Customer Reviews

Great compilation collection!
This is often called the first great flaming lips album and, although their earlier work still has its merits, i tend to agree. It is a great album, and the extras provided are top notch. Even if all these tracks are not to your taste, you can't go wrong for 10.99 and two disks. A great set at a great price, not much more needs to be said. Thanks Amazon for a great price!

Compilation of The Lips from 1989 to 1991...
The Day We Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg is a companion to the recent triple-cd Finally The Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid (1983-1988) and takes up The Lips story from the formative years to the period where Jonathan Donahue joined the band; from 1989 to 1991.

Both these compilations are detailed, the care in which they have been compiled is at odds with any notion of cashing in on The Lips popularity following the acclaimed Soft Bulletin & Yoshima albums. Both these compilations are a much sounder purchase than the 1998 Restless-compilation, A Collection of Songs , 1984-1990.

It's a messy world the Lips are in, sketches of pop songs can be found loitering within the landscape not unlike Hairway to Steven/Locust Abortion Technician- Butthole Surfers. Where Finally the Punk Rockers... takes in material from albums like Hear It Is and Oh My Gawd..., this focuses on the era of Telepathic Surgery (1989) and In a Priest Driven Ambulance (1990- where Donahoe joined and would stay until 92's Hit to Death in the Future Head).

There are some odd cover versions, Louis Armstrong's standard What a Wonderful World (which was sincere, not ironic and can be seen as the place where Do You Realize? eventually came from) and a medley of rockabilly standard Strychnine (covered by The Cramps and The Fall) and Nick Lowe's Peace, Love & Understanding (those higher themes/though the Elvis Costello version is more famous). There is still the messy, though it can be seen with Lucifer Rising that they were doing the Kenneth Anger thang decades before Death in Vegas/Liam Gallagher. The more apparent songs here are Shine on Sweet Jesus, Unconscious Screamin' & God Walks Among Us Now- where Wayne & co would explore the notion of God, Religion and science (with dashings of Jungian exploration and sci-fi headf***ery). It is also where the bizarre titles began to go into overdrive- titles like I Want to Kill My Brother:The Cymbal Head and Five Star Superior Rain are as out there and on the ONE as later classics like Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles, Talkin' 'Bout The Smiling DeathPorn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever) & The Train Runs Over the Camel But is Derailed by the Gnat!

This compilation is a great way to explore the messy perfection of The Lips world, though it might make more sense to move back from Yoshima/Soft Bulletin to Zaireeka, Clouds Taste Metallic to Transmissions/Satellite Heart to Hit to Death in the Future Head...Take in the joys of their career backwards (it'll make more sense) and a scan through Flaubert's A Sentimental Education won't not help! Great stuff- can we have one for the missing tracks from 1992 onwards, e.g Waterbug?

Fantastic, early more raw sound for the Lips
Great music, raw and experimental. This version contains some great out takes and unreleased material. Essential for any Lips fan.