Vampire on Titus


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 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.” 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" – 1:45
  3. "Expecting Brainchild" – 2:30
  4. "Superior Sector Janitor X" – 0:37
  5. "Donkey School" – 1:03
  6. "Dusted" – 2:08
  7. "Marchers in Orange" – 1:24
  8. "Sot" – 2:35
  9. "World of Fun" – 0:55

Side B

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

Personnel

Guided by Voices

Technical