Vampire on Titus

Infobox Album |
Name = Vampire on Titus
Type = Album
Artist = Guided by Voices


Released = 1993
Recorded = 1993
Genre = Indie rock
Length = 30:42
Label = Scat Records
Producer = Steve Wilbur
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ne5e8qnpbtn4 link]
Last album = "Propeller" (1992)
This album = "Vampire on Titus" (1993)
Next album = "Bee Thousand" (1994)

"Vampire on Titus" is the sixth album by indie rock group Guided by Voices, from Dayton, Ohio, United States.

The image on the cover is from "The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary" by Henry Lee, 1887. [ [http://www.compulink.co.uk/~museumgh/veglamb.htm Museum of Garden History — The Vegetable Lamb] ]

Overview

"Vampire on Titus" was recorded after a short-lived dissolution of the band (after 1992's "farewell" album "Propeller") but prior to the full-time regrouping that occurred with the assemblage of the "Bee Thousand" album and the band's return to live performance. The album was recorded with a skeletal line-up consisting of Robert Pollard (drums, guitar and vocals), Jim Pollard (guitar, noise), and Tobin Sprout (bass, guitar, and vocals). This is the final Guided by Voices album to be recorded with longtime producer Steve Wilbur. The album is often acknowledged as being the most abrasively lo-fi in the entire Guided by Voices catalog while still often being regarded as one of the band's finest recordings.

Track listing

All songs written by Robert Pollard unless otherwise noted.

ide A

# ""Wished I Was a Giant"" – 2:43
# "#2 in the Model Home Series" (R. Pollard, Tobin Sprout) – 1:45
# "Expecting Brainchild" (Jim Pollard, R. Pollard) – 2:30
# "Superior Sector Janitor X" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard, Sprout) – 0:37
# "Donkey School" (Sprout) – 1:03
# "Dusted" – 2:08
# "Marchers in Orange" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard) – 1:24
# "Sot" (R. Pollard, Sprout) – 2:35
# "World of Fun" – 0:55

ide B

#

"Jar of Cardinals" – 1:22
# "Unstable Journey" – 2:15
# "E-5" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard, Sprout) – 1:29
# "Cool Off Kid Kilowatt" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard, Sprout) – 0:56
# "Gleemer (The Deeds of Fertile Jim)" (Sprout) – 2:24
# "Wondering Boy Poet" (R. Pollard, Sprout) – 0:59
# "What About It?" – 1:37
# "Perhaps Now the Vultures" – 2:23
# "Non-Absorbing" – 1:37

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