Under the Bushes Under the Stars

1996 studio album by Guided by Voices

Under the Bushes Under the Stars

Studio album by

Guided by Voices

Released| March 26, 1996
Recorded| 1995
Genre| Indie rock
Length| 55:45 (38:01 / 17:44)
61:20 (with bonus tracks)
Label| Matador
Producer|

* John Shough
* Doug Easley
* Davis McCain
* Kim Deal[A]
* Steve Albini[B]

Guided by Voices chronology
| Alien Lanes
(1995)  | Under the Bushes Under the Stars
(1996)  | Tonics & Twisted Chasers
(1996)

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Singles from  Under the Bushes Under the Stars

1. "The Official Ironmen Rally Song"
Released: February 27, 1996
2. "Cut-Out Witch"
Released: June 17, 1996

Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]
Alternative Press| [2]
Entertainment Weekly| B+[3]
NME| 8/10[4]
Rolling Stone| [5]
Spin| 6/10[6]

Under the Bushes Under the Stars is the ninth Guided by Voices album overall, and the last until 2012's Let's Go Eat the Factory[7] to feature the "classic" lineup including Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, and Kevin Fennell in addition to leader Robert Pollard. The album is noted as Guided by Voices' first stab at professionalism, being recorded in 24 track studios rather than their customary 4 track. Sessions for the album were reportedly arduous, spread as they were across at least four studios and as many sets of producers, and many titles and configurations were vetted before a final sequence was reached.

The final six tracks on the CD do not appear on the album's back cover. These tracks, which were included as a separate 12" EP in the vinyl edition, were not originally included in the completed album sequence, having been dropped from earlier proposed versions of the album, but were included at the request of Matador label executives who regretted their exclusion.

## Track listing

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All songs written by Robert Pollard unless otherwise noted.

### Side A

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1. "Man Called Aerodynamics" – 2:01
2. "Rhine Jive Click" – 1:34
3. "Cut-Out Witch" – 3:04
4. "Burning Flag Birthday Suit" – 2:22
5. "The Official Ironmen Rally Song" – 2:48
6. "To Remake the Young Flyer" (Tobin Sprout) – 1:43
7. "No Sky" – 2:03
8. "Bright Paper Werewolves" – 1:14
9. "Lord of Overstock" – 2:34

### Side B

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1.   2. "Your Name Is Wild" – 2:01
3. "Ghosts of a Different Dream" – 2:30
4. "Acorns & Orioles" – 2:12
5. "Look at Them" – 2:27
6. "The Perfect Life" (Sprout) – 0:59
7. "Underwater Explosions" – 2:02
8. "Atom Eyes" (Sprout) – 1:42
9. "Don't Stop Now" – 2:39
10. "Office of Hearts" – 2:06

### Side C

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1.   2. "Big Boring Wedding" – 3:43
3. "It's Like Soul Man" (Sprout) – 2:09
4. "Drag Days" – 2:50

### Side D

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1.   2. "Sheetkickers" (Jim Pollard, Robert Pollard) – 3:17
3. "Redmen and Their Wives" – 3:55
4. "Take to the Sky" – 1:50

### 1998 bonus tracks

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1.   2. "Finks" – 2:28
3. "The Finest Joke Is Upon Us" – 3:09

## Personnel

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### Guided by Voices

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* Robert Pollard – lead vocals, guitar, drums, bass guitar
* Tobin Sprout – bass guitar, guitar
* Kevin Fennell – drums
* James Greer – bass guitar
* Mitch Mitchell – guitar

### Additional musicians

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* Tripp Lamkins – guitar
* John Shough – piano
* Shelby Bryant – strings

### Technical

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* Mark Ohe – cover artwork
* Robert Pollard – cover artwork
* Greg Calbi – mastering

## Notes

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* A ^ Tracks "The Official Ironmen Rally Song", "Don't Stop Now", "Big Boring Wedding", "Drag Days" and "Redmen and Their Wives" were produced by Kim Deal.[8]
* B ^ Tracks "It's Like Soul Man" and "Sheetkickers" were produced by Steve Albini.[8]

## References

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1. ^ "Under the Bushes Under the Stars - Guided by Voices - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". Allmusic. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
2. ^ Slankard, Noah (May 1996). "Music Reviews". Alternative Press. Vol. 10, no. 94\. p. 78.
3. ^ "Under the Bushes Under the Stars". Entertainment Weekly. 29 March 1996. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
4. ^ John Mulvey. "NME.COM - GUIDED BY VOICES - Under The Bushes Under The Stars - 23/3/1996". NME. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
5. ^ Michael Corcoran (2 February 1998). "Guided By Voices: Under The Bushes Under The Stars". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
6. ^ Guided by Voices - Under the Bushes Under the Stars
7. ^ "Guided by Voices Releasing New Album, Let's Go Eat the Factory | BUZZGRINDER". Archived from the original on 2012-01-20. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
8. ^ a b "Steve Albini & Kim Deal produce Guided by Voices album tracks". MTV News. 1 July 1995. Archived from the original on September 26, 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2016.

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* Robert Pollard
* Doug Gillard
* Mark Shue
* Bobby Bare Jr.
* Kevin March

* Tobin Sprout
* Mitch Mitchell
* 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)

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)
* Daredevil Stamp Collector (2001)
* The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (2002)
* Down by the Racetrack (2013)
* Wine Cork Stonehenge (2018)
* 100 Dougs (2018)
* 1901 Acid Rock (2019)
* Umlaut Over the Ozone (2019)

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)

Robert Pollard
solo albums|

* Not in My Airforce (1996)
* Waved Out (1998)
* Kid Marine (1999)
* Motel of Fools (2003)
* Fiction Man (2004)
* Relaxation of the Asshole (2005)
* From a Compound Eye (2006)
* Normal Happiness (2006)
* Silverfish Trivia (2007)
* Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007)
* Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (2007)
* Superman Was a Rocker (2008)
* Weatherman and Skin Goddess (2008)
* Robert Pollard Is Off to Business (2008)
* The Crawling Distance (2009)
* Elephant Jokes (2009)
* We All Got Out of the Army (2010)
* Moses on a Snail (2010)
* Space City Kicks (2011)
* Lord of the Birdcage (2011)
* Mouseman Cloud (2012)
* Jack Sells the Cow (2012)
* Honey Locust Honky Tonk (2013)
* Blazing Gentlemen (2013)
* Faulty Superheroes (2015)
* Of Course You Are (2016)

Tobin Sprout albums|

* Carnival Boy (1996)
* Moonflower Plastic (1997)
* Let's Welcome the Circus People (1999)
* Lost Planets & Phantom Voices (2003)
* The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder (2010)
* The Universe & Me (2017)

Airport 5 albums|

* Tower in the Fountain of Sparks (2001)
* Life Starts Here (2002)

Boston Spaceships albums|

* Brown Submarine (2008)
* The Planets are Blasted (2009)
* Zero to 99 (2009)
* Our Cubehouse Still Rocks (2010)
* Let It Beard (2011)

Lifeguards and
Doug Gillard albums|

* Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (1999)
* Mist King Urth (2003)
* Waving at the Astronauts (2011)

Robert Pollard side projects|

* In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music by Nightwalker 1984–1993 (1999)
* Big Trouble (2000)
* Choreographed Man of War (2001)
* Calling Zero (2002)
* Blues and Boogie Shoes (2006)

Circus Devils albums|

* Ringworm Interiors (2001)
* The Harold Pig Memorial (2002)
* Pinball Mars (2004)
* Five (2005)
* Sgt. Disco (2007)
* Ataxia (2008)
* Gringo (2009)
* Mother Skinny (2010)
* Capsized! (2011)
* When Machines Attack (2013)
* My Mind Has Seen the White Trick (2013)
* Escape (2014)
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