Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft

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Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft
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Box set by Guided by Voices
Released September 19, 2000
Recorded 1975-1998
Genre Rock, Lo-fi, indie rock
Label Fading Captain Series
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 3/5 stars link

Guided by Voices chronology
Do the Collapse
(1999)
Suitcase
(2000)
Isolation Drills
(2001)
Guided by Voices Box Set chronology
Box
(1995)
Suitcase
(2000)
Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere
(2003)


Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft is a four-CD box set released by Guided by Voices in 2000. Named for the reputed literal Suitcase in which bandleader Robert Pollard allegedly stored his hundreds of unreleased tapes, the set is a trawl through decades worth of material from throughout (and even predating) GbV's recorded career. Each song was credited to a fictitious bandname. Variously featured are acoustic demos, album session outtakes, live tapes, rehearsals, and unfinished tape collage fragments which span from the mid-70's to 1998.

[edit] Track listing

Fictitious bandnames shown in italics.

Disc 1:

  1. Styles We Paid For - The Terrible Two – 1:46
  2. Standard Generator - Bloodbeast – 1:02
  3. Huge On Pluto - The Kissing Life – 2:44
  4. Whitey Museum - Bottoms Up! (You Fantastic Bastard) – 3:25
  5. (The Amazing) Ben Zing - Tear It Out – 4:27
  6. Meat Kingdom Group - Cinnamon Flavored Skulls – 0:35
  7. Elf God - Bunco Men – 2:22
  8. Judas & The Piledrivers - Bad And Rare – 1:04
  9. Eric Pretty - Dorothy's A Planet – 2:15
  10. Global Witch Awakening - Pluto The Skate – 1:17
  11. Magic Toe - Let's Go Vike – 2:38
  12. Hazzard Hotrods - Sabotage – 4:26
  13. Tax Revlon - Pink Drink [Demo] – 3:09
  14. Champion Hairpuller - James Riot – 2:47
  15. Burns Carpenter - It's Easy – 0:46
  16. A A Bottom - Dank Star Ground Control – 2:24
  17. Crushed Being Groovy - Spring Tigers – 2:08
  18. Rex Polaroyd - Born On Seaweed – 2:11
  19. Monkey Business - Flesh Ears From June – 1:58
  20. Ghetto Blaster - Driving In The U.S. of A. – 1:53
  21. Turned On Turner - My Big Day [3 Versions] – 5:55
  22. Maxwell Greenfield - Have It Again – 1:02
  23. Little Bobby Pop - Little Jimmy The Giant – 1:52
  24. Bozo's Octopuss - Taco, Buffalo, Birddog And Jesus – 3:23
  25. Mooshoo Wharf - Ding Dong Daddy (Is Back From The Bank) – 0:38

Disc 2:

  1. Clinton Killingsworth - Supermarket The Moon – 2:12
  2. Stingy Queens - Hold On To Yesterday – 3:19
  3. Judy Plus Nine, The - Ha Ha Man [Different Version] – 1:19
  4. Nicotine Cranes - Our Value Of Luxury – 2:59
  5. Arthur Psycho And The Trippy Warts - Bug House [2 Versions] – 3:43
  6. Groovy Lucifer - Rainbow Billy – 1:40
  7. Approval Of Mice - Shrine To The Dynamic Years (Athens Time Change Riots) – 1:56
  8. Eric Pretty - On Short Wave – 2:48
  9. Artrock Unicorns - I Can See It In Your Eyes – 2:12
  10. Kuda Labranche - Tobacco's Last Stand – 1:42
  11. Elvis Caligula - Shifting Swift Is A Lift – 2:17
  12. Tabatha's Flashpot - Sing It Out – 1:11
  13. Ricked Wicky - Messenger – 1:54
  14. K.C. Turner - The Fool Ticket – 2:24
  15. Brown Smoothies - Mallard Smoke – 1:55
  16. Edison Shell - Mr. McCaslin Will Sell No More Flowers – 1:26
  17. Ceramic Cock Einstein - Shit Midas – 0:55
  18. Moonchief - Blue Gil – 2:51
  19. Ricked Wicky - Invest In British Steel – 3:49
  20. Pearly Gates Smoke Machine - Spinning Around – 2:10
  21. 1st Joint - Let's Go! (To War) – 0:47
  22. Antler - Grasshopper Rap – 1:27
  23. King Of Cincinnati - I'm Cold – 2:41
  24. Ghost Fart - Damn Good Mr. Jam [Different Version] – 2:41
  25. Ben Zing - In Walked The Moon – 4:08

Disc 3:

  1. Fake Organisms - Long Way To Run – 1:38
  2. Tom Devil - Mr. Media – 1:24
  3. Urinary Track Stars - Settlement Down – 2:59
  4. Red Hot Helicopter - Mr. Japan – 1:47
  5. Doctor Formula - A Kind Of Love [Live] – 2:52
  6. Ben Zing - Meddle – 2:42
  7. Hazzard Hotrods - Big Trouble – 7:49
  8. Eric Pretty - A Good Circuitry Soldier – 1:38
  9. Antler - Devil Doll – 1:05
  10. Indian Alarm Clock - Pantherz [Demo] – 2:04
  11. Flaming Ray - Cocaine Jane – 0:52
  12. Grabbit - Exploding Anthills – 1:39
  13. 8th Dwarf - Perch Warble – 1:36
  14. Coward Of The Hour - Medley: This View/True Sensation/On The Wall – 3:52
  15. Oil Can Harry - What Are We Coming Up To? – 1:56
  16. Too Proud To Practice - Scissors And The Clay Ox (In) – 2:58
  17. Zeppelin Commander - Cody's Antler – 2:24
  18. God's Brother - Once In A While – 2:00
  19. Antler - Buzzards And Dreadful Crows [Different Version] – 1:28
  20. Kink Zego - Carnival At The Morning Star School – 1:05
  21. Royal Japanese Daycare - Cruise [Different Version] – 2:53
  22. Stingy Queens - Gayle – 1:17
  23. Homosexual Flypaper - Gift – 2:55
  24. Fast Forward Life - The Flying Party – 0:55
  25. Bus Of Trojan Hope - Trashed Aircraft – 2:16

Disc 4:

  1. Pete Eastwood - Trying To Make It Work Again – 1:04
  2. Panzee - Turbo Boy – 3:12
  3. Unfriendly, The - Chain Wallet Bitch – 0:29
  4. King Of Cincinnati - Little Head – 2:19
  5. Matted Pelt - Why Did You Land? [Slow Version] – 2:47
  6. Ben Zing - Time Machines [Different Version] – 3:11
  7. Hazzard Hotrods - A Farewell To Arms – 2:13
  8. Jumped Or Pushed? - Best Things Goin' Round – 0:55
  9. Good Parts Only Corporation - Sickly Sweet – 1:27
  10. Ben Zing - United – 3:51
  11. John The Croc - Unshaven Bird – 1:19
  12. Go Back Snowball - Black Ghost Pie – 0:50
  13. Brown Star Jam - Go For The Answers – 2:19
  14. Factory Rat - Rocking Now [Demo] – 1:47
  15. God's Brother - Excellent Things – 2:33
  16. Antler - Static Airplane Jive – 1:11
  17. Fake Organisms - Where I Come From – 2:47
  18. Fat Chance - Try To Find You – 2:57
  19. Antler - Deaf Ears [Different Version] – 2:06
  20. Academy Of Crowsfeet - Good For A Few Laughs – 2:14
  21. Nelly & The Dirtfloor - Raphael – 2:59
  22. Maxwell Greenfield - My Feet's Trustworthy Existence – 2:29
  23. Bravery Umpire - Eggs – 3:24
  24. Clinton Killingsworth - Wondering Boy Poet [Piano Version] – 1:08
  25. Styles We Paid For - Oh, Blinky
Guided by Voices
Robert Pollard
Doug Gillard | Nate Farley | Chris Slusarenko | Kevin March
Tobin Sprout | Mitch Mitchell | Tim Tobias | Jim Pollard | Kevin Fennell | Greg Demos | Jim Macpherson | Don Thrasher | Jim Greer
Discography
Albums: Devil Between My Toes (1987) | Sandbox (1987) | Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia (1989) | Same Place The Fly Got Smashed (1990) | Propeller (1992) | Vampire on Titus (1993) | Bee Thousand (1994) | Alien Lanes (1995) | Under the Bushes Under the Stars (1996) | Tonics and Twisted Chasers (1996) | Mag Earwhig! (1997) | Do the Collapse (1999) | Isolation Drills (2001) | Universal Truths and Cycles (2002) | Earthquake Glue (2003) | Half Smiles of the Decomposed (2004)
EPs: Forever Since Breakfast (1986) | The Grand Hour (1993) | Static Airplane Jive (1993) | Get Out of My Stations (1994) | Fast Japanese Spin Cycle (1994) | Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer (1994) | I Am a Scientist (1994) | Tigerbomb (1995) | Sunfish Holy Breakfast (1996) | Plantations of Pale Pink (1996) | Wish in One Hand... (1997) | Plugs For The Program (1999) | Hold On Hope (2000) | Dayton, Ohio-19 Something and 5 (2000) | Daredevil Stamp Collector: Do The Collapse B-sides (2001) | The Pipe Dreams Of Instant Prince Whippet (2002)
Box Sets: Box (1995) | Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft (2000) | Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere (2003) | Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow (2005)
Compilation: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (2003)
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