Fiction Man

Studio album by Robert Pollard

Released

2004

Genre

Rock and roll, indie rock

Label

Fading Captain Series/Luna

Producer

Todd Tobias

Robert Pollard chronology

Motel of Fools
(2003)

Fiction Man
(2004)

From a Compound Eye
(2006)

Fiction Man is an album by Robert Pollard, released in 2004. The songs recorded for this album were written during the same time as the material for Guided by Voices' 2003 release Earthquake Glue. Producer Todd Tobias plays almost every instrument on the album.^[1] This album marks a producing relationship between Pollard and Todd Tobias that would carry over to Robert's future solo albums, including From a Compound Eye, Normal Happiness and others.

Track listing

"Run Son Run"
"I Expect a Kill"
"Sea of Dead"
"Children Come On"
"The Louis Armstrong of Rock and Roll"
"Losing Usage"
"Built to Improve"
"Paradise Style"
"Conspiracy of Owls"
"It's Only Natural"
"Trial of Affliction and Light Sleeping"
"Every Word in the World"
"Night of the Golden Underground"
"Their Biggest Win"

References

^ Fiction Man liner notes

Guided by Voices

Robert Pollard Tobin Sprout • Mitch Mitchell • Kevin Fennell • Greg Demos

Former members	Nate Farley • Doug Gillard • Jim Pollard • Chris Slusarenko • Kevin March • Jim Macpherson • Tim Tobias • Don Thrasher • James Greer

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) • Let's Go Eat the Factory (2012) • Class Clown Spots a UFO (2012)

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) • Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now (2009)

Compilation	The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (2003) • Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007 (2007)

Related articles	Discography • Airport 5 • Boston Spaceships • Circus Devils • Cobra Verde • Todd Tobias

Robert Pollard solo albums	Not in My Airforce (1996) • Waved Out (1998) • Kid Marine (1999) • Motel of Fools (2003) • Fiction Man (2004) • From a Compound Eye (2006) • Normal Happiness (2006) • Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007) • Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (2007) • Superman Was a Rocker (2008) • Robert Pollard Is Off to Business (2008) • The Crawling Distance (2009) • Elephant Jokes (2009) • We All Got Out of the Army (2010) • Moses on a Snail (2010) • Space City Kicks (2011) • Lord of the Birdcage (2011) • Mouseman Cloud (2012)

Tobin Sprout albums	Carnival Boy (1996) • Moonflower Plastic (1997) • Let's Welcome the Circus People (1999) • Lost Planets & Phantom Voices (2003) • The Bluebirds Of Happiness Tried To Land On My Shoulder (2010)

Airport 5 albums	Tower in the Fountain of Sparks (2001) • Life Starts Here (2002)

Boston Spaceships albums	Brown Submarine (2008) • The Planets are Blasted (2009) • Zero to 99 (2009) • Our Cubehouse Still Rocks (2010) • Let It Beard (2011)

Acid Ranch albums	Some Of The Magic Syrup Was Preserved (2002) • As Forever: A Manifesto Of Fractured Imagination And Wreckless Living (2005) • The Great Houdini Wasn't So Great (2007)

Circus Devils albums	Ringworm Interiors (2001) • The Harold Pig Memorial (2002) • Pinball Mars (2004) • Five (2005) • Sgt. Disco (2007) • Ataxia (2008) • Gringo (2009) • Mother Skinny (2010) • Capsized! (2011)