Alien Lanes

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Alien Lanes
Alien Lanes cover
Studio album by Guided by Voices
Released March 28, 1995
Recorded 1995
Genre Rock
Length 41:00
Label Matador
Producer Mr. Japan at Collider X-L
Professional reviews
Guided by Voices chronology
Bee Thousand
(1994)		 Alien Lanes
(1995)		 Under the Bushes, Under the Stars
(1996)

Alien Lanes is a 1995 (see 1995 in music) album by lo-fi band Guided by Voices. It is, along with Bee Thousand, widely considered among the band's best albums.[weasel words]

Pitchfork Media have included Alien Lanes in both of their 'Top 100 Albums of the 90s' polls, at No. 33 and 27 respectively.[citation needed]

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."

[edit] Track listing

  1. "A Salty Salute" (Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout) – 1:29
  2. "Evil Speakers" (Pollard) – :58
  3. "Watch Me Jumpstart" (Pollard) – 2:24
  4. "They're Not Witches" (Greg Demos, Jim Pollard, R. Pollard) – :51
  5. "As We Go Up We Go Down" (Pollard) – 1:37
  6. "(I Wanna Be a) Dumbcharger" (Pollard) – 1:13
  7. "Game of Pricks" (Pollard) – 1:33
  8. "The Ugly Vision" (Pollard) – 1:34
  9. "A Good Flying Bird" (Sprout) – 1:07
  10. "Cigarette Tricks" (Guided by Voices) – :18
  11. "Pimple Zoo" (Pollard) – :42
  12. "Big Chief Chinese Restaurant" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard) – :56
  13. "Closer You Are" (Pollard) – 1:56
  14. "Auditorium" (Pollard, Sprout) – 1:02
  15. "Motor Away" (Pollard, Sprout) – 2:06
  16. "Hit" (Pollard) – :23
  17. "My Valuable Hunting Knife" (Pollard) – 2:00
  18. "Gold Hick" (Pollard) – :30
  19. "King and Caroline" (Pollard, Sprout) – 1:36
  20. "Striped White Jets" (Pollard) – 2:15
  21. "Ex-Supermodel" (Pollard, Sprout) – 1:06
  22. "Blimps Go 90" (Pollard) – 1:40
  23. "Strawdogs" (Sprout) – 1:17
  24. "Chicken Blows" (Pollard) – 2:21
  25. "Little Whirl" (Sprout) – 1:46
  26. "My Son Cool" (Pollard) – 1:41
  27. "Always Crush Me" (Pollard) – 1:44
  28. "Alright" (Pollard) – 2:56

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Guided by Voices
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Tobin Sprout • Mitch Mitchell • Tim Tobias • Jim Pollard • Kevin Fennell • Greg Demos • Jim Macpherson • Don Thrasher • Jim Greer
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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)
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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)
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