In a Priest Driven Ambulance

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{{Infobox album

| name = In a Priest Driven Ambulance

| type = studio

| artist = the Flaming Lips

| cover = InaPriestDrivenAmbulance.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 18, 1990

| recorded =

| studio =

| genre = *Alternative rock

• noise pop
• psychedelic rock

| length = 46:36 {{small|(original release)}}
55:43 {{small|(1995 re-release)}}

| label = Restless Records/Enigma

| producer = The Flaming Lips, Dave Fridmann

| prev_title = Telepathic Surgery

| prev_year = 1989

| next_title = Hit to Death in the Future Head

| next_year = 1992

| misc = {{Singles

| name = In a Priest Driven Ambulance

| type = studio

| single1 = Unconsciously Screamin'

| single1date = March 1990

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/in-a-priest-driven-ambulance-mw0000309874 |title=In a Priest Driven Ambulance – The Flaming Lips |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=May 6, 2020 |last=Ankeny |first=Jason}}

| rev2 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book |first=Colin |last=Larkin |author-link=Colin Larkin |chapter=The Flaming Lips|title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&q=flaming+lips&pg=PA324 |publisher=Omnibus Press |year=2011 |isbn=9780857125958}}

| rev3 = The Great Rock Discography

| rev3score = 6/10{{cite book |last=Strong |first=Martin C. |author-link=Martin C. Strong |title= The Great Rock Discography|chapter=Flaming Lips|date=2004|edition=7th|publisher=Canongate Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/greatrockdiscogr0000stro_r9o1/page/544/mode/1up 543–544]|isbn=1-84195-615-5}}

| rev4 = MusicHound Rock

| rev4Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite book |editor1-last=Graff |editor1-first=Gary |editor2-last=Durchholz |editor2-first=Daniel |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |publisher=Visible Ink Press |year=1999 |isbn=1-57859-061-2 |chapter=The Flaming Lips|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/429/mode/1up 428–429]}}

| rev5 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide

| rev5score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book |chapter=Flaming Lips |last=Kot |first=Greg |author-link=Greg Kot |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |editor2-link=Christian Hoard |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |edition=4th |year=2004 |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/300 300]}}

| rev6 = Select

| rev6score = 4/5{{cite magazine |title=The Flaming Lips: In a Priest Driven Ambulance |magazine=Select |url=https://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2011/10/albumsins.jpg |issue=11 |date=May 1991 |last=Perry |first=Andrew |page=71}}

| rev7 = Sounds

| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine |first=Leo |last=Finlay |magazine=Sounds |title=The Flaming Lips: In a Priest Driven Ambulance |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Sounds/90s/Sounds-1991-02-02-S-OCR.pdf |page=39 |date=2 February 1991|access-date=17 July 2024}}

}}

In a Priest Driven Ambulance (With Silver Sunshine Stares) is the fourth album by the Flaming Lips, released in 1990. It is the first Flaming Lips album to feature Jonathan Donahue (also of Mercury Rev) and drummer Nathan Roberts. This line-up would subsequently be signed by Warner Bros. Records and go on to record the follow-up album Hit to Death in the Future Head. It is a concept album primarily focused on frontman Wayne Coyne's fascination with religion.

A music video for the song "Unconsciously Screamin" was shot at a religious theme park called Holy Land USA in Waterbury, Connecticut, as well as Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and City Gardens in Trenton, New Jersey. It was directed by Jim Spring and Jens Jurgensen.

The album was re-released as a CD with two bonus tracks on January 17, 1995, although the full name with subtitle appears only on the vinyl release. It was also re-released in a two-CD special edition in 2002 under the title The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg. The first disc of this release, composed of the entire Priest album and numerous bonus tracks, was also released as a limited-edition two-record vinyl release on pink vinyl.

"Unconsciously Screamin'" was released as an EP in 1991 to promote the album. Two of the B-sides were featured as bonus tracks on the 1995 re-release.