Alien Lanes

about this album

Alien Lanes is the eighth full length album by American lo-fi indie rock band Guided by Voices, released in 1995. It is, along with Bee Thousand, widely considered among the band's best albums. Pitchfork Media have included Alien Lanes in both of their 'Top 100 Albums of the 90s' polls, at No. 33 and 27 respectively. Magnet named it the best album of 1995. The album was GBV's first release with Matador Records. According to James Greer's book Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll the advance for the record was close to a hundred thousand dollars, one of the more expensive deals in Matador's history. In contrast to the lucrative deal, Greer mentions that "The cost for recording Alien Lanes, if you leave out the beer, was about ten dollars." "Game of Pricks" was covered by American pop punk band Jimmy Eat World and released on the deluxe edition of Bleed American. "Ex-Supermodel" is referenced by Natalie Dee in a comic. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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