Same Place the Fly Got Smashed

by Guided by Voices

Same Place the Fly Got Smashed cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Rocket #9
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 31:45
  • Community rating: 3.82/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Don Thrasher, Greg Demos, Tobin Sprout, Jim Pollard, Fingston Redwing, Liquid Insect Hammer, Spider Blackhead, Robert Pollard

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Considered one of Robert Pollard's darkest lyrical statements, this lo-fi concept album loosely follows the narrative of an alcoholic's tragic decline. The primitive, four-track recording techniques provide a raw, uncompromising backdrop to his deeply melancholic and cryptic songwriting.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, alcohol, lo-fi, melodic, fragmented

Tracklist

  1. Airshow '88 (2:12)
  2. Order For The New Slave Trade (3:09)
  3. The Hard Way (2:53)
  4. Drinker's Peace (1:52)
  5. Mammoth Cave (2:17)
  6. When She Turns 50 (2:07)
  7. Club Molluska (1:35)
  8. Pendulum (1:49)
  9. Ambergris (0:52)
  10. Local Mix-Up / Murder Charge (6:39)
  11. Starboy (1:10)
  12. Blatant Doom Trip (3:59)
  13. How Loft I Am? (1:06)

Credits

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