Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes

--------------------------------------------------------------------- Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes --------------------------------------------------------------------- Artist...............: Guided By Voices Album................: Alien Lanes Genre................: Alternative Source...............: CD Year.................: 1995 Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520 Codec................: LAME 3.98 Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III Quality..............: CBR 192, (avg. bitrate: 192kbps) Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3 Information..........: Ripped by............: wolf brother on 23/05/2009 Posted by............: wolf brother on 23/05/2009 News Server..........: News Group(s)........: Included.............: NFO, M3U Covers...............: Front Back CD --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tracklisting --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. (00:01:29) Guided By Voices - A Salty Salute 2. (00:00:58) Guided By Voices - Evil Speakers 3. (00:02:24) Guided By Voices - Watch Me Jumpstart 4. (00:00:51) Guided By Voices - They're Not Witches 5. (00:01:37) Guided By Voices - As We Go Up, We Go Down 6. (00:01:13) Guided By Voices - (I Wanna Be A) Dumbcharger 7. (00:01:33) Guided By Voices - Game Of Pricks 8. (00:01:35) Guided By Voices - The Ugly Vision 9. (00:01:07) Guided By Voices - A Good Flying Bird 10. (00:00:18) Guided By Voices - Cigarette Tricks 11. (00:00:43) Guided By Voices - Pimple Zoo 12. (00:00:57) Guided By Voices - Big Chief Chinese Restaurant 13. (00:01:56) Guided By Voices - Closer You Are 14. (00:01:02) Guided By Voices - Auditorium 15. (00:02:07) Guided By Voices - Motor Away 16. (00:00:23) Guided By Voices - Hit 17. (00:02:00) Guided By Voices - My Valuable Hunting Knife 18. (00:00:30) Guided By Voices - Gold Hick 19. (00:01:36) Guided By Voices - King And Caroline 20. (00:02:15) Guided By Voices - Striped White Jets 21. (00:01:06) Guided By Voices - Ex-Supermodel 22. (00:01:40) Guided By Voices - Blimps Go 90 23. (00:01:17) Guided By Voices - Strawdogs 24. (00:02:22) Guided By Voices - Chicken Blows 25. (00:01:47) Guided By Voices - Little Whirl 26. (00:01:41) Guided By Voices - My Son Cool 27. (00:01:45) Guided By Voices - Always Crush Me 28. (00:02:56) Guided By Voices - Alright Playing Time.........: 00:41:08 Total Size...........: 56.89 MB It's surprising what a difference it makes when a musician knows someone will actually be hearing his work. After 1994's charmingly sloppy Bee Thousand gained Guided By Voices a nationwide cult following (instead of the local cult following they were accustomed to), 1995's Alien Lanes found Robert Pollard and his partners in hard pop cleaning up their act a bit. For the most part, Alien Lanes isn't radically different from Bee Thousand — it was primarily recorded on a four-track cassette machine (and sounds like it), and Guided By Voices was still a garage band with more in the way of inspirationmore… than chops. But the musicians have put a bit more care and focus into their performance on this set; the playing is tighter and sharper, and the band plays toward their strengths, pushing their occasional sloppiness into a harder, more rock-oriented direction. And if Pollard and Tobin Sprout were still obsessed with tiny fragments of pop song wonderment, they also rounded up a more consistent collection of them; there aren't quite as many obvious masterpieces as on Bee Thousand, but also fewer obvious mistakes, and the sequencing gives the album a more consistent flow than before. Pollard also made genuine inroads into more lyrically cognizant material (though don't fret, "Auditorium" and "Blimps Go 90" are as cryptic as ever), and "Watch Me Jumpstart," "Striped White Jets," and "Motor Away" are simply superb pop/rock songs. (Sprout also gets a few shining moments on "A Good Flying Bird" and "Straw Dogs.") Both Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes sound like they were made by a band of inspired amateurs with great ideas; the difference is that Alien Lanes suggests that Guided By Voices wanted to prove that they could turn pro some day. Enjoy! :)

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moondingo (2010-05-27)

thanx! ;)*