The Flaming Lips 1984-1990: A Collection Of Songs Representing An Enthusiasm For Recording...By Amateurs

From the booklet: Track 1: "recorded the summer of 1984 in O.K.C." Track 2: "all of "Hear It Is" was recorded, played and mixed in two days somewhere in L.A." Track 3: "first attempt at the "expanded" theme type song... Beginning uses of "accidental musicalness"" Track 4: "I think someone showed me the chords to "Sweet Child Of Mine" by Guns 'N Roses" Track 5: "Me, literally waking Michael up with a sort of Paul Leary guitar solo" Track 6: "...this is an edited version of, what is otherwise, a twenty five minute sound college." Track 7: "The first song off the "Priest Driven" album to be mixed..." Track 8: "originally a very fast, up-tempo song that was made even faster to the point of too fast... Jonathan slowed down the play-back speed and we re-recorded the singing.." Track 9: "Recorded in one take with one guitar over-dub at the end of the Telepathic Surgery sessions...." Track 10 & 11: "This was a flexi-disc that was available in an east coast New Rock magazine called "the Bob"..." Recorded sometime in between "Hear it is" and "Oh My Gawd" Track 12: "Recorded in OKC shortly after "Priest Driven" was finished" Track 13: "...recorded while doing "Telepathic Surgery" for "The Bridge," a Neil Young compilation, done by No. 6" Track 14: "Recorded around the same time as "Ma". Done for "Guitarrorist" compilation again on No. 6" Not in booklet: Track 1: Vocals on this track are by [a941822]; Taken from [m114232] Track 2: Taken from [m114228] Track 3: Taken from [m114248] Track 4 & 5: Taken from [m114230] Track 6: Full version found on [m114230] Track 7: Misspelled as "Unconciously Screamin'" on the tray card; found on both [m114249] & [m114242] Track 8: Taken from [m114242] Track 9: Taken from [m146472]; tracks 9a and 9b appear as one track on the release, total duration 3:24 Track 10 & 11: Taken from [r2085863]; recorded 1987-09-11 at the Milestone Club, Charlotte, NC Track 12: Taken from [m114249] Track 13: Taken from [m31997] Track 14: Credited to just [a42612] on the compilation [m81155] Video: Misspelled as "Unconciously Screamin'" on the back cover and inside booklet. Video file on CD filesystem also misspelled. ℗ © 1998 Restless Records. ©Lovely Sorts of Death/La Rana Music (BMI) Track 9(a) published Valet Publishing Publishing Company (BMI) Track 9(b) published by Plangent Publishing Visions Music Inc. (ASCAP) Track 10 published by Zomba Songs Inc./Songs Tooth Music (BMI) Track 11 published by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP) Track 13 published by Broken Arrow Music Corporation / Cotillion Music inc. (BMI) For a very similar issue pressed by a different pressing plant (according to its sid codes) see [r417940]