| The Shambolic Birth and Early Life Of | |
| Type: | Compilation album |
| Artist: | The Flaming Lips |
| Cover: | FlamingLips_Shambolic.jpg |
| Released: | 17 September 2002 |
| Recorded: | Goodnight Audio in Dallas, Texas, Hollywood, California, and Bensen Sound in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma[1] |
| Genre: | Psychedelic rock |
| Length: | 49:58 |
| Label: | Restless Records |
| Producer: | The Flaming Lips, Ruben Ayala, Randy Burns, and Scott Booker |
| Chronology: | The Flaming Lips compilation |
| Prev Title: | The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg |
| Prev Year: | 2002 |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
The Shambolic Birth and Early Life Of is a promo compilation album by The Flaming Lips, released in 2002. It summarizes the first six years of The Flaming Lips. Released with limited distribution in music shops to promote Finally the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid and The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg, it is similar in many respects to the 1998 compilation 1984-1990.