Jellyfish Reflector
Released: Feb 17, 1996
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Released: Feb 17, 1996
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While live records are often little more than a way for artists to fulfill their contract obligations, Guided By Voices' 1996 semi-bootleg release Jellyfish Reflector is as well played and powerful...
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Alien Lanes
Released: Mar 28, 1995
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Released: Mar 28, 1995
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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...
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Box
Released: Feb 28, 1995
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Released: Feb 28, 1995
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Compiling all of Guided By Voices' '80s albums -- Devil Between My Toes, Sandbox, Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia, and Same Place the Fly Got Smashed (the vinyl version includes Propeller, which...
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Bee Thousand
Released: Jun 20, 1994
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Released: Jun 20, 1994
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The cult of indie rock thrives on the unexpected discovery, and in 1994 Guided by Voices was just the sort of musical phenomenon no one figured was still out there -- 30-something rock obsessives...
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Motor Away
Released: 1995
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Released: 1995
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Another single to keep us humming those irresistible GBV tunes until the ninth LP appears in early 1996. "Motor Away" is re-recorded from Alien Lanes, bigger, thicker, harder, raunchier, and better...
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King Shit and the Golden Boys
Released: 1995
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Released: 1995
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Although the 19 songs that make up King Shit and the Golden Boys all hover around the two-minute mark, they manage to feel like full songs rather than simply incomplete snippets. It is this knack...
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King's Ransom: Happy Motherfuckers and Sad Clowns
Released: 2000
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Released: 2000
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A band who inspires in their fans a sense of rabid admiration, paralleled perhaps only by the adoration of Deadheads for the Grateful Dead, it is no wonder that lo-fi founding fathers Guided by...
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Briefcase (Suitcase Abridged: Drinks and Deliveries)
Released: 2000
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Released: 2000
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In 1995, Dayton, OH's lo-fi indie rock monoliths Guided by Voices released a five-disc box set making its extremely hard-to-find first four (five in the vinyl set) releases readily available along...
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Vampire on Titus
Released: 1993
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Released: 1993
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The home-crafted appeal of Guided by Voices finally reached the general public when Vampire on Titus was released in 1993. The band was on a roll at the time, pumping out creative gems like a band...
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