Class Clown Spots a UFO
2012 studio album by Guided by Voices
Class Clown Spots a UFO | ||||
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Studio album by Guided by Voices | ||||
Released | June 11, 2012 | |||
Recorded | 2012 | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Length | 39:54 | |||
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Producer | Guided by Voices | |||
Guided by Voices chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
HEAVEmedia | [1] |
The A.V. Club | B+[2] |
Spectrum Culture | [3] |
Pitchfork | (7.0/10)[4] |
AllMusic | [5] |
Consequence of Sound | C+ |
Class Clown Spots a UFO is the 17th album by Dayton, Ohio rock group Guided by Voices.[6] The album is the second released since the reunion of the band's classic lineup earlier in the same year and it debuted at #12 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers albums chart.[7]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Robert Pollard, except where noted
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "He Rises! Our Union Bellboy" | 3:02 |
2. | "Blue Babbleships Bay" | 1:18 |
3. | "Forever Until It Breaks" (Tobin Sprout) | 3:16 |
4. | "Class Clown Spots a Ufo" | 3:17 |
5. | "Chain to the Moon" (Greg Demos, Pollard) | 1:00 |
6. | "Hang Up and Try Again" | 2:16 |
7. | "Keep It in Motion" | 2:07 |
8. | "Tyson's High School" (Mitch Mitchell, Pollard) | 2:36 |
9. | "They and Them" (Sprout) | 1:10 |
10. | "Fighter Pilot" (Sprout) | 1:00 |
11. | "Roll of the Dice, Kick in the Head" | 0:47 |
12. | "Billy Wire" | 2:04 |
13. | "Worm with 7 Broken Hearts" | 0:50 |
14. | "Starfire" (Sprout) | 1:27 |
15. | "Jon the Croc" | 2:33 |
16. | "Fly Baby" (Demos, Pollard) | 1:43 |
17. | "All of This Will Go" (Sprout) | 1:46 |
18. | "The Opposite Continues" | 1:37 |
19. | "Be Impeccable" | 2:57 |
20. | "Lost in Spaces" (Sprout) | 0:51 |
21. | "No Transmission" | 2:19 |
Total length: | 39:54 |
References
- ^ Cory Clifford (June 12, 2012). "Guided By Voices' Class Clown Spots A UFO : 8/10". album review. HEAVEmedia.
- ^ Steven Hyden (June 12, 2012). "Guided By Voices' Class Clown Spots A UFO : B+". album review. The A.V. Club.
- ^ David Mansdorf (June 10, 2012). "Guided By Voices' Class Clown Spots A UFO : 4.25/5". album review. Spectrum Culture. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
- ^ Paul Thompson (June 27, 2012). "Guided By Voices: Class Clown Spots a UFO". Pitchfork Media.
- ^ "Class Clown Spots a UFO - Guided by Voices | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
- ^ "Guided By Voices - "Class Clown Spots A UFO"". Fire Records. Archived from the original on 2012-09-23. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
- ^ https://www.billboard.com/artist/guided-by-voices/chart-history/
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- Robert Pollard
- Doug Gillard
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- Kevin March
- Tobin Sprout
- Mitch Mitchell
- Greg Demos
- Kevin Fennell
- Jim Macpherson
- James Greer
- Devil Between My Toes (1987)
- Sandbox (1987)
- Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia (1989)
- Same Place the Fly Got Smashed (1990)
- Propeller (1992)
- Vampire on Titus (1993)
- Bee Thousand (1994)
- Alien Lanes (1995)
- Under the Bushes Under the Stars (1996)
- Tonics & Twisted Chasers (1996)
- Mag Earwhig! (1997)
- Do the Collapse (1999)
- Isolation Drills (2001)
- Universal Truths and Cycles (2002)
- Earthquake Glue (2003)
- Half Smiles of the Decomposed (2004)
- Let's Go Eat the Factory (2012)
- Class Clown Spots a UFO (2012)
- The Bears for Lunch (2012)
- English Little League (2013)
- Motivational Jumpsuit (2014)
- Cool Planet (2014)
- Please Be Honest (2016)
- August by Cake (2017)
- How Do You Spell Heaven (2017)
- Space Gun (2018)
- Zeppelin Over China (2019)
- Warp and Woof (2019)
- Sweating the Plague (2019)
- Surrender Your Poppy Field (2020)
- Mirrored Aztec (2020)
- Styles We Paid For (2020)
- Earth Man Blues (2021)
- It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them! (2021)
- Crystal Nuns Cathedral (2022)
- Tremblers and Goggles by Rank (2022)
- La La Land (2023)
- Welshpool Frillies (2023)
- Nowhere to Go but Up (2023)
- Strut of Kings (2024)
- Forever Since Breakfast (1986)
- The Grand Hour (1993)
- Static Airplane Jive (1993)
- Get Out of My Stations (1994)
- Fast Japanese Spin Cycle (1994)
- Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer (1994)
- I Am a Scientist (1994)
- Tigerbomb (1995)
- Sunfish Holy Breakfast (1996)
- Plantations of Pale Pink (1996)
- Wish in One Hand… (1997)
- Plugs for the Program (1999)
- Hold on Hope (2000)
- Dayton, Ohio–19 Something and 5 (2000)
- Daredevil Stamp Collector (2001)
- The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (2002)
- Down by the Racetrack (2013)
- Wine Cork Stonehenge (2018)
- 100 Dougs (2018)
- 1901 Acid Rock (2019)
- Umlaut Over the Ozone (2019)
- Live from Austin, TX (2007)
- The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (2003)
- Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007 (2007)
- Scalping the Guru (2022)
- Box (1995)
- Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft (2000)
- Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere (2003)
- Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow (2005)
- Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now (2009)
- Suitcase 4: Captain Kangaroo Won the War (2015)
solo albums
- Not in My Airforce (1996)
- Waved Out (1998)
- Kid Marine (1999)
- Motel of Fools (2003)
- Fiction Man (2004)
- Relaxation of the Asshole (2005)
- From a Compound Eye (2006)
- Normal Happiness (2006)
- Silverfish Trivia (2007)
- Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007)
- Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (2007)
- Superman Was a Rocker (2008)
- Weatherman and Skin Goddess (2008)
- Robert Pollard Is Off to Business (2008)
- The Crawling Distance (2009)
- Elephant Jokes (2009)
- We All Got Out of the Army (2010)
- Moses on a Snail (2010)
- Space City Kicks (2011)
- Lord of the Birdcage (2011)
- Mouseman Cloud (2012)
- Jack Sells the Cow (2012)
- Honey Locust Honky Tonk (2013)
- Blazing Gentlemen (2013)
- Faulty Superheroes (2015)
- Of Course You Are (2016)
- Carnival Boy (1996)
- Moonflower Plastic (1997)
- Let's Welcome the Circus People (1999)
- Lost Planets & Phantom Voices (2003)
- The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder (2010)
- The Universe & Me (2017)
- Tower in the Fountain of Sparks (2001)
- Life Starts Here (2002)
- Brown Submarine (2008)
- The Planets are Blasted (2009)
- Zero to 99 (2009)
- Our Cubehouse Still Rocks (2010)
- Let It Beard (2011)
Doug Gillard albums
- Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (1999)
- Mist King Urth (2003)
- Waving at the Astronauts (2011)
- In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music by Nightwalker 1984–1993 (1999)
- Big Trouble (2000)
- Choreographed Man of War (2001)
- Calling Zero (2002)
- Blues and Boogie Shoes (2006)
- Ringworm Interiors (2001)
- The Harold Pig Memorial (2002)
- Pinball Mars (2004)
- Five (2005)
- Sgt. Disco (2007)
- Ataxia (2008)
- Gringo (2009)
- Mother Skinny (2010)
- Capsized! (2011)
- When Machines Attack (2013)
- My Mind Has Seen the White Trick (2013)
- Escape (2014)
- Stomping Grounds (2015)
- Laughs Last (2017)
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