GUIDED BY VOICES The Bears For Lunch 12" Vinyl LP 2012 Pressing Download

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Guided By Voices

The Bears For Lunch
12" Vinyl LP Download Included 2012 Pressing in Shrink Wrap

Item Description:

Tracklist

A1 King Arthur The Red

Written-By – R. Pollard*

A2 The Corners Are Glowing

Written-By – T. Sprout*

A3 Have A Jug

Written-By – R. Pollard*

A4 Hangover Child

Written-By – R. Pollard*

A5 Dome Rust

Written-By – R. Pollard*

A6 Finger Gang

Written-By – R. Pollard*

A7 The Challenge Is Much More

Written-By – R. Pollard*

A8 Waving At Airplanes

Written-By – T. Sprout*

A9 The Military School Dance Dismissal

Written-By – Demos*, R. Pollard*

A10 White Flag

Written-By – R. Pollard*

B1 Skin To Skin Combat

Written-By – T. Sprout*

B2 She Lives In An Airport

Written-By – R. Pollard*

B3 Tree Fly Jet

Written-By – R. Pollard*

B4 Waking Up The Stars

Written-By – T. Sprout*

B5 Up Instead Of Running

Written-By – R. Pollard*

B6 Smoggy Boy

Written-By – R. Pollard*

B7 Amorphous Surprise

Written-By – R. Pollard*

B8 You Can Fly Anything Right

Written-By – R. Pollard*

B9 Everywhere Is Miles From Everywhere

Written-By – R. Pollard*

Companies, etc.

Copyright (c) – Needmore Songs

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Needmore Songs

Copyright (c) – I'm A Cowboy Songs

Phonographic Copyright (p) – I'm A Cowboy Songs

Recorded At – Waterloo Sound

Engineered At – Waterloo Sound

Pressed By – Well Made Music

Credits

Artwork [Collages], Layout – Robert Pollard

Layout – Joe Patterson (3)

Legal – Richard Grabel

Management – David Newgarden, Eric Weiss (3)

Mastered By – Carl Saff

Producer, Engineer – Todd Tobias (2) (tracks: A1, A4, A6, A7, A10, B2, B5, B6, B7, B9)

Recorded By – Tobin Sprout (tracks: A2, A8, B1, B4)

Notes

All songs by Needmore Songs 2012 (BMI)

Except Corners, Waving, Waking & Combat by Tobin Sprout I'm A Cowboy © 2012 (BMI)

Produced & engineered by Todd Tobias at Waterloo Sound

Except for Toby's songs - Recorded by Tobin Sprout

Military School Dance Dismissal recorded at Greg's house

You Can Fly Anything Right recorded on the boombox

Dome Rust, Have A Jug, & Tree Fly Jet recorded at Mitch's

Rockathon Records: Matt Davis, Mike Lipps, Kevin Poindexter

Review by Fred Thomas

The Bears for Lunch rounds out a ridiculously busy year in the history of Ohio lo-fi pioneers Guided by Voices as their third full-length album released in 2012. Back with a vengeance from an eight-year hiatus, the GbV brand is recalibrated for this trio of new albums with the classic 1993-1996 lineup of the band that produced its most adored records like Alien Lanes and Bee Thousand. The drive to create is audible, with all three of these collections (as well as two solo albums released in 2012 by GbV frontman Robert Pollard) stuffed with frantic amounts of song ideas, from off-the-cuff free-associative ranting to fully formed jangling power pop. Almost 20 years since those early albums of hissy four-track recordings, a couple of things have changed. In the 2010s the band has taken to mixing its infectious pop with slight hints of prog rock, as on the relatively epic album opener "King Arthur the Red" and the spacy paranoia of "Amorphous Surprise." While there are still some nods to home-recorded experiments like the charmingly off-key multi-tracked vocals of the Beatles-folky "Waking Up the Stars" and the lo-fi piano ballad "The Military School Dance Dismissal," these songs are mostly studio-recorded rock, with clear drums, loud guitars, and coherent vocals. The dusty charm of the band's early work is still intrinsic to the songwriting, however. Hooky slices of sad pop magic like "White Flag," "Waving at Airplanes," and the R.E.M.-styled bounce of "Everywhere Is Miles from Everywhere" sound like new chapters in the band's history of incredibly catchy songs rather than rewrites of former glories. However, also true to GbV style, there's a good amount of frustrating filler like the half-baked and drunk-sounding jam "Dome Rust" and the tedious "Tree Fly Jet." The truly curious part of the equation is the band's choice to release three albums of almost interchangeably average quality in the space of one year instead of offering up one collection of standouts. The Bears for Lunch may be the strongest of the three 2012 albums by a small margin, but regardless of whether your preferences fall to the side of pop or snotty noise, a far better album-length "best-of" playlist could be culled from the three records than any of them standing on its own. As an entity unto itself, The Bears for Lunch is much like Let's Go Eat the Factory and Class Clown Spots a UFO before it: completely respectable collections of tunes from a well-oiled machine, but falling short of the almost accidental brilliance of their best work.

Jacket Condition: EX+, EX

(outer sleeve) EX+, Excellent Plus condition, one small mark by jacket opening on lower right hand side. (inner sleeve) EX, Excellent condition, small bends along inner sleeve opening (see pictures). 

Vinyl Condition:  EX

Excellent condition, small scuffs on side 1 but will not affect audio quality, no scratches, looks hardly played (see pictures).

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