In A Priest Driven Ambulance
by The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips bestography
In A Priest Driven Ambulance is ranked 9th best out of 47 albums by The Flaming Lips on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Flaming Lips is Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots which is ranked number 120 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 10,720.
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In A Priest Driven Ambulance track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| 03/09/2026 08:45 | cicadelic | 12,217 | 73/100 | |
| 03/07/2026 22:46 | davidleewrong | 2,337 | 81/100 | |
| 12/18/2025 04:43 | Proto | 4,109 | 33/100 | |
| 11/29/2025 03:47 |  Kingturtle | 7,579 | 73/100 | |
| 08/27/2025 15:06 | thepardunk | 2,572 | 69/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 14% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 73.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.3.
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teague 07/13/2020 22:16 | #255533
In a Priest Driven Ambulance suffers from a serious lack of cohesion, especially for a supposed concept album. Lyrically, every song fits into a puzzle, yet musically it is all over the place. Nothing sounds truly awful, but nothing feels like the same album. A good example is from track 8 to 9, it feels like whiplash. Other than that, this is a fine enough offering from the Flaming Lips.
Yup, this is where The Flaming Lips really kicked it up a notch.
Right from the off, something is different about The Flaming Lips. The record quite literally sounds huge, far huger than their first three LPs (which are not to be dismissed). If "Telepathic Surgery" was the Lips dipping their toes into the darkness, then "In A Priest Driven Ambulance" is an outright plunge.
Sandrof1969 02/18/2018 20:30 | #208745
Interessante questa miscela di rock a volte furioso a volte acustico, sempre con il marchio della psichedelia ben impresso.
JulianR 09/04/2017 18:51 | #197251
awesome and eclectic. A modern noise-rock masterpiece. Equal parts insanity and heartfelt balladry, sometimes at the same time
ButterThumbz 05/17/2016 20:22 | #166320
Here's where the magic begins.
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