Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes

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Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
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Artist...............: Guided By Voices
Album................: Alien Lanes
Genre................: Alternative
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1995
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: LAME 3.98
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: CBR 192, (avg. bitrate: 192kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
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Ripped by............: wolf brother on 23/05/2009
Posted by............: wolf brother on 23/05/2009
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Included.............: NFO, M3U
Covers...............: Front Back CD

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Tracklisting
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1. (00:01:29) Guided By Voices - A Salty Salute
2. (00:00:58) Guided By Voices - Evil Speakers
3. (00:02:24) Guided By Voices - Watch Me Jumpstart
4. (00:00:51) Guided By Voices - They're Not Witches
5. (00:01:37) Guided By Voices - As We Go Up, We Go Down
6. (00:01:13) Guided By Voices - (I Wanna Be A) Dumbcharger
7. (00:01:33) Guided By Voices - Game Of Pricks
8. (00:01:35) Guided By Voices - The Ugly Vision
9. (00:01:07) Guided By Voices - A Good Flying Bird
10. (00:00:18) Guided By Voices - Cigarette Tricks
11. (00:00:43) Guided By Voices - Pimple Zoo
12. (00:00:57) Guided By Voices - Big Chief Chinese Restaurant
13. (00:01:56) Guided By Voices - Closer You Are
14. (00:01:02) Guided By Voices - Auditorium
15. (00:02:07) Guided By Voices - Motor Away
16. (00:00:23) Guided By Voices - Hit
17. (00:02:00) Guided By Voices - My Valuable Hunting Knife
18. (00:00:30) Guided By Voices - Gold Hick
19. (00:01:36) Guided By Voices - King And Caroline
20. (00:02:15) Guided By Voices - Striped White Jets
21. (00:01:06) Guided By Voices - Ex-Supermodel
22. (00:01:40) Guided By Voices - Blimps Go 90
23. (00:01:17) Guided By Voices - Strawdogs
24. (00:02:22) Guided By Voices - Chicken Blows
25. (00:01:47) Guided By Voices - Little Whirl
26. (00:01:41) Guided By Voices - My Son Cool
27. (00:01:45) Guided By Voices - Always Crush Me
28. (00:02:56) Guided By Voices - Alright

Playing Time.........: 00:41:08
Total Size...........: 56.89 MB


It's surprising what a difference it makes when a musician knows someone will actually be hearing his work. After 1994's charmingly sloppy Bee Thousand gained Guided By Voices a nationwide cult following (instead of the local cult following they were accustomed to), 1995's Alien Lanes found Robert Pollard and his partners in hard pop cleaning up their act a bit. For the most part, Alien Lanes isn't radically different from Bee Thousand — it was primarily recorded on a four-track cassette machine (and sounds like it), and Guided By Voices was still a garage band with more in the way of inspirationmore… than chops. But the musicians have put a bit more care and focus into their performance on this set; the playing is tighter and sharper, and the band plays toward their strengths, pushing their occasional sloppiness into a harder, more rock-oriented direction. And if Pollard and Tobin Sprout were still obsessed with tiny fragments of pop song wonderment, they also rounded up a more consistent collection of them; there aren't quite as many obvious masterpieces as on Bee Thousand, but also fewer obvious mistakes, and the sequencing gives the album a more consistent flow than before. Pollard also made genuine inroads into more lyrically cognizant material (though don't fret, "Auditorium" and "Blimps Go 90" are as cryptic as ever), and "Watch Me Jumpstart," "Striped White Jets," and "Motor Away" are simply superb pop/rock songs. (Sprout also gets a few shining moments on "A Good Flying Bird" and "Straw Dogs.") Both Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes sound like they were made by a band of inspired amateurs with great ideas; the difference is that Alien Lanes suggests that Guided By Voices wanted to prove that they could turn pro some day.

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