Vampire On Titus: Guided By Voices: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Wished I Was A Giant

2. #2 In The Model Home Series

3. Expecting Brainchild

4. Superior Sector Janitor X

5. Donkey School

6. Dusted

7. Marchers In Orange

8. Sot

9. World Of Fun

10. Jar Of Cardinals

11. Unstable Journey

12. E-5

13. Cool Off Kid Kilowatt

14. Gleemer (The Deeds Of Fertile Jim)

15. Wondering Boy Poet

16. What About It?

17. Perhaps Now The Vultures

18. Non-Absorbing

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5.0 out of 5 stars best GBV album hands down, Jun 17 2004

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M. Beebe (Somerville, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vampire On Titus (Audio CD)

like many other fans, I started getting into GBV with Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes. After that I loved Under the Bushes Under the Stars. Then I bought this album and thought it was OK, but was not immediately stunned by it. I moved on to buy
Propeller, and then Mag Earwhig. I don't like Mag Earwhig, I think Robert Pollard made a huge mistake in firing the band and replacing them. To end this rambling, let me just say that after listening to their albums over and over this album *towers* above the others in it's evocative melodies and rock appeal. It just ROCKS. 'Expecting Brainchild' is awesome. 'Dusted' is another awesome track. But the whole album is great- you just pop it in and the whole thing flows.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Beginning of It All, Feb 23 2002

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"judascat" (Cambridge, MA United States) - See all my reviews

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Looking at the history of Guided by Voices, Vampire on Titus was the first in a string of four albums to really capture the sound that the GBV purist has been after ever since. Most of us outside the Dayton, Ohio rock scene didn't discover the band until 1993's Bee Thousand, an album which was an incredible blend of uplifting songs that were instantly catchy but fleetingly brief. Vampire on Titus is a much darker album than the three that would follow (Propeller, Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes) and it's brilliance is often overlooked. I consider it to be much like the Stones' Beggars Banquet, an album that was the start of a string of albums that captured a sound that marked the band's high point. Although Beggars Banquet is considered by some to be the Stones finest, the same cannot be said of GBV's Vampire on Titus. I would never recommend a newcomer begin with Vampire on Titus, but instead listen to it after digesting Propeller, Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes. There are some gems here, to be sure!!

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5.0 out of 5 stars flowing-just like the days of early GBV, April 12 2001

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S. R Robertson "crap basket" (Oh Henry?) - See all my reviews
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GBV has always been a sailor into the depths of confused and hallucinatory imagery melted down into its spectral essence, and Vampire On Titus represents the earliest stages of their 'unstable journey'. About half of the tracks have the worst sound production they've ever recorded, but also posess some of the most coherent and intellectual lyrics ("Dusted", "Wished I Was A Giant", "Unstable Journey", etc). Meantime, the rest have the trademark lofi medium, shifting between beautiful ballads of melancholy august ("Gleemer", "Jar Of Cardinals", "Wondering Boy Poet") and creppy lapses into nightmarish lost thought ("E-5", "What About It?", "#2 In The Model Home Series", etc). This album is also the shortest of their albums, but that hardly means a thing in their universe...say Fertile Jim, shall we contemplate existence?

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5.0 out of 5 stars Last 6 songs, brilliant
This collection by GBV came right before they would receive that critical acclaim that would lead them to be known as the world best low-fi band ever. Read more

Published on Dec 5 1999 by Dan C.

4.0 out of 5 stars Exemplifies the lo-fi ethos
What is it about lo-fi that proves so compelling, at least to those of us who cut our teeth at VU's garage a few decades ago? Read more

Published on July 9 1999