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Live From Austin TX

The Austin City Limits set from weeks before the 2004 farewell, issued as a two-disc album.
Guided by Voices, 2007

Released
15 May 2007
Recorded
9 November 2004
Studio
KLRU Studio 6A, Austin
Label
New West
Type
live

The Austin City Limits performance recorded at KLRU Studio 6A on 9 November 2004 was broadcast by PBS on 22 January 2005. New West released it on 15 May 2007 as a two-CD set, and it was reissued in 2017 as a 2LP set and as 2CD plus DVD. The two discs hold thirty songs, including Tractor Rape Chain and Glad Girls. The taping came weeks before the farewell show at the Metro in Chicago on 31 December 2004. The farewell run also reached Irving Plaza in New York on 4 December, where, according to a tape on the Internet Archive, the band played half an hour longer than on the first night and included five songs from Pollard side projects.

Track listing

  1. Demons Are Real1:39
  2. Pimple Zoo1:33
  3. Everybody Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)3:27
  4. Exit Flagger2:15
  5. Sleep Over Jack3:00
  6. Girls of Wild Strawberries2:33
  7. Navigating Flood Regions2:47
  8. Gold Star for Robot Boy1:58
  9. Window of My World3:08
  10. Redmen and Their Wives4:07
  11. Dayton, Ohio-19 Something and 52:12
  12. My Impression Now2:23
  13. Do the Earth3:22
  14. Game of Pricks2:24
  15. Secret Star7:32
  16. My Kind of Soldier3:36
  17. Sad If I Lost It3:34
  18. Cut-Out Witch3:33
  19. Gonna Never Have to Die2:33
  20. Best of Jill Hives2:50
  21. Watch Me Jumpstart2:50
  22. Tractor Rape Chain2:57
  23. Buzzards and Dreadful Crows1:57
  24. Pendulum2:04
  25. Murder Charge2:53
  26. Fair Touching3:33
  27. Teenage FBI2:58
  28. Glad Girls3:59
  29. I Am a Scientist2:49
  30. Echos Myron2:45

More from Guided by Voices

Propeller (1992), Bee Thousand (1994), Alien Lanes (1995), Under the Bushes Under the Stars (1996), Mag Earwhig! (1997), Do the Collapse (1999), Isolation Drills (2001), I Am a Scientist / Tractor Rape Chain (30th Anniversary Versions) (2024)

Sources

  1. Live From Austin TX, GBVDB
  2. Guided by Voices, Wikipedia
  3. Guided by Voices Live - 2004-12-04 Irving Plaza, New York City, Internet Archive (2004-12-04)