GUIDED BY VOICES

LP

CLASS CLOWN SPOTS A UFO

LIMITED EDITION VINYL

SEALED

US 21 Track LP

Just found this – SEALED since 2012

It may be coloured vinyl ?

Promo info –

The new Guided By Voices album is the best thing

the band has recorded since the last album by the

legendary Dayton, Ohio rockers. That's not meant

facetiously: the last thing Guided By Voices

recorded was the rapturously received Let's Go Eat

The Factory, and Class Clown Spots A UFO ups the

ante raised by that stellar effort, both in terms of

recording fidelity (boring!) and songcraft (not

boring!) One could argue there's more depth and

variety here than on Alien Lanes, that there are

better songs here than on Bee Thousand, but that's

an argument no one's ever going to win, at least

definitively. And this album is a win, by any

(definitive) definition. Class Clown is classic GBV,

starting with the head-body-head combination of

"He Rises (Our Union Bellboy)," "Blue Babbleship

Bay," and "Forever Until It Breaks" before finishing

you off with the title track, a ridiculously catchy,

melodically-complex, shot-through-with-melancholia

song that serves as a kind of sadder and wiser

riposte to XTC's "Making Plans For Nigel" as

performed by the Hollies. If that makes any sense at

all (it will when you hear it, hopefully). And that's

just the first four songs of a 21-track album clocking

in at just under 40 minutes. We've yet to get to

"Keep It In Motion," a propulsive, drum-machine

driven pop song which features, unusually, acoustic

guitars, strings, and Bob/Toby singing together in a

way not heard since "14 Cheerleader Coldfront" on

1992's Propeller. Possibly. (The song was one of a

few that Bob recorded and sent to Toby at his home

studio in Michigan for over-dubbing.) Nor have we

discussed galvanic rocker "Jon the Croc," a clear

single candidate, or "Chain To The Moon," one of

the saddest and (why not?) prettiest songs Pollard

has ever written. In between you get wah-wah guitar

solos, a wide range of unusual recording techniques

of varying fidelity (but, as referenced above, much

less of the murk lurking on Let's Go Eat The

 Factory), and a generous helping of Alien Lanes-

style snippets.

Tracks –

Side A

1. He Rises! (Our Union Bellboy)

2. Blue Babbleships Bay

3. Forever Until It Breaks

4. Class Clown Spots a UFO

5. Chain To The Moon

6. Hang Up and Try Again

7. Keep It In Motion

8. Tyson's High School

9. They and Them

10. Fighter Pilot

Side B

11. Roll Of The Dice, Kick In The Head

12. Billy Wire

13. Worm w_ 7 Broken Hearts

14. Starfire 15. Jon the Croc

16. Fly Baby

17. All Of This Will Go

18. The Opposite Continues

19. Be Impeccable

20. Lost In Space

21. No Transmission.

 Cat. No. - GBVI22

CONDITION – MINT / UNPLAYED (SEALED)

Date – 2012

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