The Bears for Lunch

The Bears for Lunch
The Bears for Lunch
Studio album by Guided by Voices
Released	November 13, 2012
Genre	Indie rock
Length	43:05
Label	Guided by Voices Inc. / Fire Records (UK)
Producer	Todd Tobias/Guided by Voices
Guided by Voices chronology

ReleasedNovember 13, 2012

GenreIndie rock

Length43:05

LabelGuided by Voices Inc. / Fire Records (UK)

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Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
Pitchfork Media	(7.3/10) link
Consequence of Sound	C+

The Bears for Lunch is the 18th album by Dayton, Ohio rock group Guided by Voices.^[1] The album is the third released by the band's classic lineup in 2012 and it debuted at No. 9 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers albums chart

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No.	Title	Length
1.	"King Arthur The Red"	2:15
2.	"The Corners Are Glowing" (Tobin Sprout)	3:02
3.	"Have A Jug"	1:09
4.	"Hangover Child"	2:58
5.	"Dome Rust"	1:10
6.	"Finger Gang"	1:51
7.	"The Challenge Is Much More"	1:49
8.	"Waving At Airplanes" (Sprout)	3:14
9.	"The Military School Dance Dismissal" (Greg Demos, Pollard)	2:07
10.	"White Flag"	2:15
11.	"Skin To Skin Combat" (Sprout)	3:43
12.	"She Lives In An Airport"	2:44
13.	"Tree Fly Jet"	2:46
14.	"Waking Up The Stars" (Sprout)	2:14
15.	"Up Instead Of Running"	2:13
16.	"Smoggy Boy"	0:35
17.	"Amorphous Surprise"	2:00
18.	"You Can Fly Anything Right"	1:55
19.	"Everywhere Is Miles From Everywhere"	3:05
Total length:		43:05

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) Thick Rich and Delicious (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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