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Album Details: Alien Lanes

Release Date:03/28/1995
Label:Matador Records
UPC:744861012320

Track List: Alien Lanes

  1. A Salty Salute  
  2. Evil Speakers  
  3. Watch Me Jumpstart  
  4. They`re Not Witches  
  5. As We Go Up, We Go Down  
  6. (I Wanna Be A) Dumbcharger  
  7. Game Of Pricks  
  8. The Ugly Vision  
  9. A Good Flying Bird  
  10. Cigarette Tricks  
  11. Pimple Zoo  
  12. Big Chief Chinese Restaurant  
  13. Closer You Are  
  14. Auditorium  
  1. Motor Away  
  2. Hit  
  3. My Valuable Hunting Knife  
  4. Gold Hick  
  5. King And Caroline  
  6. Striped White Jets  
  7. Ex-Supermodel  
  8. Blimps Go 90  
  9. Straw Dogs  
  10. Chicken Blows  
  11. Little Whirl  
  12. My Son Cool  
  13. Always Crush Me  
  14. Alright  

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User Reviews: Alien Lanes

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    So brilliant....

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 21, 2000

    My God, I am addicted to this album now (this and the new Radiohead! wooo!!!)I have like a half dozen of their cds and this is the best definitely. The tunes are all classic (even if some of them are sub 20 seconds long) and they just sound great. G...BV! GBV!!!!ROCK!DJ PAUL Read more Less

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    GUIDED BY VOICES - ALIEN LANES

    By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 21, 2000

    This record restored my faith in 90's music. Until I heard it I refused to listen to anything after 1979. I'd heard a couple of GBV tracks on a compilation CD which were OK and when I saw this LP for £1.99 in Selectadisc, Soho I thought I'd buy it ...(I liked the front cover). In an interview, Bob Pollard stated that he loved the recording quality of Beatles and Who bootlegs. What sets Alien Lanes apart from other Lo-Fi band's outings is that it captures the melodic quality of these bands as well.This record does take a few good listens before it registers, but once it does you'll have a friend for life. Although it was released in 1995, it could have quite easily been recorded in 1968, simply because of the songs' antiquated feel and the sound quality. This record works marvellously well conceptually and is a timeless classic. In my opinion GBV reached their peak the following year on the Sunfish Holy Breakfast EP (although some tracks on this were recorded a few years before!) and since then it's been a gradual downhill slide. A lot of this is to do with the fact that the band now use 'real' studios and once you become accustomed to the group's original sound, the new songs sound very cold and polished. Also I don't believe that the songs themselves are as good as before - a lot of this seems due to the departure of founder member Tobin Sprout (and that fact that Bob has penned around 5000 songs - we'll excuse his muse for having a vacation. Hopefully it'll return in the not too distant future. Whip out the old 4-track Bob, you know it makes sense!)Buy this record!!!Other GBV releases I'd recommend are:-(EP)Static Airplane Jive (1993)(LP)Vampire On Titus (1993)(LP)Bee Thousand (1994)(EP)Sunfish Holy Breakfast (1996) Read more Less

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Pro Reviews: Alien Lanes

  • All Music Guide

    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 inspiration 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. - Mark Deming, All Music Guide Read more Less

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Guided by Voices

Inspired equally by jangle pop and arty post-punk, Guided by Voices created a series of treblely, hissy indie rock records filled with infectiously brief pop songs that fell somewhere between the British Invasion and prog rock. After recording six self-released albums between 1986 and 1992, the Dayton, OH-based band attracted a handful of fans within the American indie-... Read more
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