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Mag Earwhig!
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Mag Earwhig!
Artist
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Guided By Voices
Label
Matador
Catalogue Number
OLE2416
Release Date
May 20, 1997

The first GBV album by their new lineup, which consists of leaders Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout, backed by the entire lineup of Cobra Verde. This is a conceptual rock opera inspired by the Who's Tommy, the Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow, Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, and the Edgar Broughton Band's Wasa Wasa. Pollard is the main character in this sprawling narrative, an insectile cartoon figure named the Magnificent Earwhig, who interacts with a wild cast of characters in songs evoking nostalgiac memories of an Ohio boyhood, starting one's first band, and inhaling American roadside pop culture. 'Despite the progressive conceptual '70s mindset informing this project, the record is still a collection of beautifully twisted pop songs and can be listened to as either an opera or just a series of rock arias'.

Digital Tracklist

  1. 1 Can't Hear The Revolution 1:36 Buy

    Can't Hear The Revolution

  2. 2 Sad If I Lost It 3:10 Buy

    Sad If I Lost It

  3. 3 I Am A Tree 4:40 Buy

    I Am A Tree

  4. 4 The Old Grunt 1:28 Buy

    The Old Grunt

  5. 5 Bulldog Skin 3:00 Buy

    Bulldog Skin

  6. 6 Are You Faster? 1:13 Buy

    Are You Faster?

  7. 7 I am Produced 1:06 Buy

    I am Produced

  8. 8 Knock 'Em Flying 1:52 Buy

    Knock 'Em Flying

  9. 9 Not Behind The Fighter Jet 2:13 Buy

    Not Behind The Fighter Jet

  10. 10 Choking Tara 1:24 Buy

    Choking Tara

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