Vampire on Titus

1993 studio album by Guided by Voices From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Vampire on Titus is the sixth studio album by American indie rock band Guided by Voices.

Released1993 July 1[1]
Recorded1993
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Vampire on Titus
An illustration of a plant with tiny lambs emerging from its flowers. The band name and title appear above and below the illustration, respectively.
The image on the cover is a Vegetable Lamb of Tartary from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville, 1499.
Studio album by
Guided by Voices
Released1993 July 1[1]
Recorded1993
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Length30:42
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Guided by Voices chronology
Propeller
(1992)		 Vampire on Titus
(1993)		 Bee Thousand
(1994)
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Background

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, Jim Pollard and Tobin Sprout. Jim Shepard of V-3 remarked to Pollard once that he “was like a vampire on Titus, sucking songs out of the earth.”[3] Pollard lived on Titus Ave. in Dayton, Ohio. The album is often acknowledged as being the most abrasively lo-fi in the entire Guided by Voices catalog.

Track listing

All songs written by Robert Pollard unless otherwise noted.

Side A

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

Side B

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

Personnel

Guided by Voices

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