Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft

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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 band name. Variously featured are acoustic demos, album session outtakes, live tapes, rehearsals, and unfinished tape collage fragments which span from the mid-70s to 1998.

Track listing

Fictitious band names 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

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