Guided By Voices
Bee Thousand
Label ©  Scat Records
Release Year  1994
Length  36:30
Genre  Lo-Fi
Personal Star Rating [1-5]  
  Ref#  G-0044
Bitrate  320 Kbps
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    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Hardcore UFO's   (Robert Pollard) 
       1:54  
      2.  
      		 Buzzards And Dreadful Crows   (Robert Pollard; Jim Pollard) 
       1:43  
      3.  
      		 Tractor Rape Chain   (Robert Pollard) 
       3:04  
      4.  
      		 The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory   (Robert Pollard) 
       1:45  
      5.  
      		 Hot Freaks   (Robert Pollard; Tobin Sprout) 
       1:42  
      6.  
      		 Smothered In Hugs   (Robert Pollard; Jim Pollard; Mitch Mitchell) 
       3:00  
      7.  
      		 Yours To Keep   (Robert Pollard) 
       1:15  
      8.  
      		 Echos Myron   (Robert Pollard) 
       2:42  
      9.  
      		 Gold Star For Robot Boy   (Robert Pollard) 
       1:39  
      10.  
      		 Awful Bliss   (Tobin Sprout) 
       1:12  
      11.  
      		 Mincer Ray   (Tobin Sprout) 
       2:21  
      12.  
      		 A Big Fan Of The Pigpen   (Robert Pollard; Jim Pollard; Campbell) 
       2:09  
      13.  
      		 Queen Of Cans And Jars   (Robert Pollard) 
       1:55  
      14.  
      		 Her Psychology Today   (GbV: Robert Pollard; tobin Sprout; Jim Pollard; Mitch Mitchell; Dan Toohey; Kevin Fennell) 
       2:04  
      15.  
      		 Kicker Of Elves   (Robert Pollard) 
       1:04  
      16.  
      		 Esther's Day   (Tobin Sprout) 
       1:51  
      17.  
      		 Demons Are Real   (GbV: Robert Pollard; tobin Sprout; Jim Pollard; Mitch Mitchell; Dan Toohey; Kevin Fennell) 
       0:48  
      18.  
      		 I Am A Scientist   (Robert Pollard) 
       2:24  
      19.  
      		 Peep-Hole   (Robert Pollard) 
       1:25  
      20.  
      		 You're Not An Airplane   (Tobin Sprout) 
       0:33  
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      Midwestern obscure-rock archivists and curators Guided by Voices are back before you could consider them gone with another fun-filled, hook-happy hodge podge of songs, half-songs, ideas, and vaguely pleasing sounds to get you through summer. How many influences can you find in this picture? A Beatles harmony and a Syd Barrett musing here and there are easy to spot, but how about the pack of no-name psychedelicists and prepunk garage dwellers that only Guided by voices have ever heard of? Could be thousands. GBV are so good at integrating references, in fact, their records sound like nothing more than well-groomed and quirky modern rock. Call them post-postmodernists--what else to brand a group that sings a song named "The Golden Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory" without even a smirk and doesn't come off disgustingly pretentious? Sincere? Timeless? We get the joke while they swear they never made one. --Roni Sarig
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