Vampire on Titus

1993 studio album by Guided by Voices
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
Recorded1993
Studio
  • Steve Wilbur's home studio (Dayton, Ohio)
  • Tobin Sprout's home studio (Dayton, Ohio)
Genre
  • Indie rock
  • lo-fi
Length30:42
LabelScat
Producer
  • Steve Wilbur
  • Tobin Sprout
Guided by Voices chronology
Propeller
(1992) 		Vampire on Titus
(1993) 		Bee Thousand
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

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

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.”[2] 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

  • Robert Pollard – vocals, guitar, drums
  • Jim Pollard – guitar
  • Tobin Sprout – vocals, guitar, bass

Technical

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ "Re-Post of Jim Shepard and Ohio: I'll be reading from these at Brothers Drake Meadery as Part of Word Church Tuesday @ 8:00". 24 February 2014.
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Studio albums
EPsLive 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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