Class Clown Spots a UFO

Class Clown Spots a UFO
Class Clown Spots a UFO
Studio album by Guided by Voices
Released	June 11, 2012
Recorded	2012
Genre	Indie rock
Length	39:54
Label	Guided by Voices Inc. (US); Fire (UK);
Producer	Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices chronology

ReleasedJune 11, 2012

Recorded2012

GenreIndie rock

Length39:54

Professional ratings
Review scores
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]

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No.	Title	Length
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

v t e Guided by Voices
Robert Pollard Doug Gillard Mark Shue Bobby Bare Jr. Kevin March Tobin Sprout Greg Demos Kevin Fennell Jim Macpherson James Greer Discography
Studio albums	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) Universe Room (2025)
EPs	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) The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (2002) Down by the Racetrack (2013)
Live albums	Live from Austin, TX (2007)
Compilation albums	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 sets	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)
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