Guided By Voices
Alien Lanes LP

Originally released on April 4, 1995, Alien Lanes served as the first Guided by Voices album to be released on Matador Records. With 28 tracks spanning the course of 41 minutes, the album would fundamentally alter the concept of what a rock and roll record could be. Bursting at the seams with classic rock bravado (“Game of Pricks”, “Closer You Are”), anthemic power pop (“My Valuable Hunting Knife”, “Motor Away”), punk (“Pimple Zoo”, “My Son Cool”), psychedelic experimentalism (“Ex-Supermodel”, “Alright”), and tape-warped ballads ( “King And Caroline”, “Blimps Go 90”, “Chicken Blows”) Alien Lanes dips and dives between genres and moods with breakneck efficiency and a remarkable amount of intellect and emotion bolstered by the abstract poetry of songwriter and front-man Bob Pollard.

“A brilliant collection of songs whose importance feels predestined.” - Rolling Stone “The gold standard in intoxicated-visionary psych-pop scrapbook-ing... your first exposure to this band changes you forever.” – Stereogum “The greatest post-modern classic rock album ever made.” – Pitchfork “Genius, loon or mystical union of both, Pollard’s consistent songsmith-ery and charisma are joys to behold.”

NEW / Released in 1994 / Reissue 

Tracklist:

A1 A Salty Salute

A2 Evil Speakers

A3 Watch Me Jumpstart

A4 They're Not Witches

A5 As We Go Up, We Go Down

A6 (I Wanna Be A) Dumbcharger

A7 Game Of Pricks

A8 The Ugly Vision

A9 A Good Flying Bird

A10 Cigarette Tricks

A11 Pimple Zoo

A12 Big Chief Chinese Restaurant

A13 Closer You Are

A14 Auditorium

A15 Motor Away

B1 Hit

B2 My Valuable Hunting Knife

B3 Gold Hick

B4 King And Caroline

B5 Striped White Jets

B6 Ex-Supermodel

B7 Blimps Go 90

B8 Straw Dogs

B9 Chicken Blows

B10 Little Whirl

B11 My Cool Son

B12 Always Crush Me

B13 Alright