The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg

The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg is a most likely out-of-print compilation released by the Flaming Lips' first record label Restless in 2002, compiling the In a Priest Driven Ambulance album along with outtakes from the 2 year period surrounding it and liner notes with a write-up by Wayne Coyne.

The compilation’s second disc features the original demos recorded for Priest (tracks 16-27). Collectively dubbed ‘The Mushroom Tapes’, the band recorded these demos in the house that Michael Ivins’s parents had vacated and were waiting to sell. Most of the demos feature Ivins playing raw rhythms on a minimal drum setup, as actual drummer Nathan Roberts hadn’t joined the group yet.
The second disc is rounded out by 6 more outtakes – track 30 is an alternate mix of the album version of Unconsciously Screamin'.

All of these recordings subsequently appeared on the 2018 Rhino compilation Seeing the Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings of the Flaming Lips 1986–1990, in remastered form, with a standalone vinyl of The Mushroom Tapes also released for Record Store Day 2018.