Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes (25th Anniversary Edition)

Originally released on April 4, 1995, Alien Lanes served as the first Guided by Voices album to be released on Matador Records. With 28 tracks spanning the course of 41 minutes, the album would fundamentally alter the concept of what a rock and roll record could be. Bursting at the seams with classic rock bravado (“Game of Pricks”, “Closer You Are”), anthemic power pop (“My Valuable Hunting Knife”, “Motor Away”), punk (“Pimple Zoo”, “My Son Cool”), psychedelic experimentalism (“Ex-Supermodel”, “Alright”), and tape-warped ballads ( “King And Caroline”, “Blimps Go 90”, “Chicken Blows”) Alien Lanes dips and dives between genres and moods with breakneck efficiency and a remarkable amount of intellect and emotion bolstered by the abstract poetry of songwriter and front-man Bob Pollard.

1x 12" LP, 180gm, 25th Anniversary Limited Edition (2.500 copies), multi-coloured vinyl, gatefold sleeve

A1          A SALTY TRIBUTE            

A2          EVIL SPEAKERS 

A3          WATCH ME JUMPSTART

A4          THEY'RE NOT WITCHES 

A5          AS WE GO UP, WE GO DOWN    

A6          (I WANNA BE A) DUMBCHARGER            

A7          GAME OF PRICKS            

A8          THE UGLY VISION           

A9          A GOOD FLYING BIRD    

A10       CIGARETTE TRICKS         

A11       PIMPLE ZOO     

A12       BIG CHIEF CHINESE RESTAURANT            

A13       CLOSER YOU ARE           

A14       AUDITORIUM   

A15       MOTOR AWAY 

B1          HIT       

B2          MY VALUABLE HUNTING KNIFE 

B3          GOLF HICK         

B4          KING AND CAROLINE     

B5          STRIPED WHITE JETS      

B6          EX-SUPERMODEL           

B7          BLIMPS GO 90  

B8          STRAWDOGS    

B9          CHICKEN BLOWS            

B10        LITTLE WHIRL   

B11        MY SON COOL  

B12        ALWAYS CRUSH ME       

B13        ALRIGHT

Matador, 2020 reissue
OLE123LP

Originally released 1995

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