Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now

Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now
Box set by Guided by Voices
Released 2009
Recorded 1990s-2009
Genre Rock, Lo-fi, indie rock
Label Guided By Voices, Inc.
Guided by Voices chronology

Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow
(2005)
Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now
(2009)
Let's Go Eat the Factory
(2012)
Guided by Voices Box Set chronology
Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow
(2005)
Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Pitchfork Media (5.3/10)[1]

Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now is the third in a series of unreleased songs and instrumental sketches by the Dayton, Ohio band Guided By Voices, released on November 3rd, 2009 on GBV Inc. Like the previous two volumes, Suitcase 3 is a four-disc set containing 100 songs,[2] many of which are credited to fake bands such as "Kelsey Boo Flip, Heartthrob Johnson Firestone, Erotic Zip Codes and the like."[3] The fourth disc consists of impromptu acoustic jams recorded during 1994 and 1995.[2]

Tracklisting

Disc 1

  1. Building a Castle
  2. Tired of Knocking
  3. Together/Apart
  4. Away with Driver
  5. Trash Truck
  6. Dropping the Bomb
  7. What's So Safe About You
  8. Troopers in the Town
  9. Gas
  10. Watch 'Em Diggin' Up the Road
  11. Coastal Town
  12. Escape from Kama Loka
  13. The Annex
  14. Green Ivory Cross
  15. Janet Wait
  16. Independent Productions
  17. Three White Flower
  18. Juggernaut vs. Monolith
  19. Feels Good
  20. Candy Machine
  21. Air and Also a World
  22. Back to the Navy
  23. Speak Like Men
  24. Hi, I'm Kelsey
  25. No Trash Allowed

Disc 2

  1. Raphael Muzak
  2. Tear the Ticket in Half
  3. I'm an Acting Student
  4. I'll Come (and When It Does It's Mine)
  5. Psycholophobia
  6. Take Me Back
  7. Sonny the Monster
  8. I Share a Rhythm
  9. Before My Eyes
  10. Freedom Rings
  11. Cochise
  12. When's the Last Time
  13. That's Good
  14. You Gotta Lotta Nerve
  15. Vagabond Lover
  16. Banners
  17. 100 Colors
  18. Old Engine Driver
  19. Joe
  20. Axtual Sectivity
  21. Call Me
  22. Believe It
  23. Class Clown Spots a UFO
  24. You You You
  25. Dibble

Disc 3

  1. Night Ears
  2. Amnesia
  3. Fly Away (Tommy Sez)
  4. Peace and Persecution
  5. There Are Other Worlds
  6. It's the Song
  7. One Drop
  8. Mainstay
  9. Six Land
  10. How Bridges Fall
  11. A Kind of Love
  12. Bad Whiskey
  13. Naked Believer
  14. Out of the House
  15. Grow
  16. Rough Tracks
  17. Nothing So Hard
  18. Piss Along You Bird
  19. 300 Birds (Quota)
  20. The Fire King Says No Cheating
  21. Poison Shop
  22. Trader Vic
  23. Smothered Hugs (4-Track Version)
  24. Dibble 2
  25. Huffman Prairie Flying Field

Disc 4

  1. Pluto Is Polluted
  2. Aquarian Hovercraft
  3. Brand New Star
  4. Sea-Mint Robots
  5. South Rat Observatory
  6. The Cinnamon Flavored Skull
  7. Porpoise Mitten (Was a Real Good Kitten)
  8. Mr. Spoon
  9. Hey Mr. Soundman
  10. Oh Pie
  11. Kotex Moon
  12. Bingo Pool Hall of Blood
  13. There Goes the King Again
  14. Evil Vandalia/Mojo Crew Zenith
  15. Cuddling Bozo's Octopus
  16. I Shot a Jezebel
  17. After the Quake (Let's Bake a Cake)
  18. P Melts Everything
  19. My Dad Is a Motorboat
  20. Ugly Ba Ba
  21. Hairspray Lies
  22. Sawhorse With Big Blue Ears
  23. Tough Skin River
  24. Cruise (demo)
  25. Alright (demo)

References

  1. Pitchfork Media review
  2. 2.0 2.1 Dombal, Ryan (2009-08-06). "New Guided By Voices Suitcase Due". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
  3. Thompson, Paul (2009-11-16). "Album Review - Guided By Voices - Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved 2009-12-14.