Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes (1995)

Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes (1995)

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"A Salty Salute" (R. Pollard, Tobin Sprout)  – 1:29

"Evil Speakers"  – 0:58

"Watch Me Jumpstart"  – 2:24

"They're Not Witches" (Greg Demos, Jim Pollard, R. Pollard)  – 0:51

"As We Go Up, We Go Down"  – 1:37

"(I Wanna Be a) Dumbcharger"  – 1:13

"Game of Pricks"  – 1:33

"The Ugly Vision"  – 1:34

"A Good Flying Bird" (Sprout)  – 1:07

"Cigarette Tricks" (Demos, J. Pollard, R. Pollard, Sprout)  – 0:18

"Pimple Zoo"  – 0:42

"Big Chief Chinese Restaurant" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard)  – 0:56

"Closer You Are"  – 1:56

"Auditorium" (R. Pollard, Sprout)  – 1:02

"Motor Away" (R. Pollard, Sprout)  – 2:06

"Hit"  – 0:23

"My Valuable Hunting Knife"  – 2:00

"Gold Hick"  – 0:30

"King and Caroline" (R. Pollard, Sprout)  – 1:36

"Striped White Jets"  – 2:15

"Ex-Supermodel" (R. Pollard, Sprout)  – 1:06

"Blimps Go 90"  – 1:40

"Strawdogs" (Sprout)  – 1:17

"Chicken Blows"  – 2:21

"Little Whirl" (Sprout)  – 1:46

"My Son Cool"  – 1:41

"Always Crush Me"  – 1:44

"Alright"  – 2:56

 

Guided by Voices Band Members / Musicians

Robert Pollard – vocals, guitar, drums, percussion (track 17), keys (track 10)

Tobin Sprout – vocals (tracks 9, 23, 25), guitar, bass, drums, percussion, piano (tracks 8, 27)

Jim Pollard – bass

Mitch Mitchell – guitar, bass

Kevin Fennell – drums, percussion

Jim Greer – bass, backing vocals (track 5)

Greg Demos – bass, guitar (tracks 4, 12), violin (track 22)

Pete Jamison – backing vocals

Bob Ludwig – mastering

Mark Ohe – cover artwork

Stephen Apicella-Hitchcock – photography

Tobin Sprout – engineering

Alien Lanes is the 8th full-length album by American lo-fi band Guided by Voices, released on April 4, 1995.

The album was GBV's first release with Matador Records. According to James Greer's book Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll the advance for the record was close to a hundred thousand dollars, one of the more expensive deals in Matador's history. In contrast to the lucrative deal, Greer mentions that "The cost for recording Alien Lanes, if you leave out the beer, was about ten dollars."