Cool Planet
2014 studio album by Guided by Voices
Cool Planet | ||||
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Studio album by Guided by Voices | ||||
Released | May 13, 2014 | |||
Recorded | 2014 | |||
Studio | Cyberteknics in Dayton, Ohio | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Length | 36:28 | |||
Label | Guided by Voices Inc. / Fire Records | |||
Producer | Robert Pollard | |||
Guided by Voices chronology | ||||
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Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 68/100[1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Exclaim! | 7/10[3] |
MusicOMH | [4] |
Paste | 7.0/10[5] |
Pitchfork | 6.2/10[6] |
Cool Planet is the 22nd album by Ohio-based group, Guided by Voices. It was the final album by the band[7] before their 2016 reformation. It was released in the United States on May 13, 2014, on the band's own label, Guided by Voices Inc.[8] It was released in the UK a few days later, May 19, on Fire Records.[9]
Track listing
All tracks are written by Robert Pollard, except where noted
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Authoritarian Zoo" | 2:22 |
2. | "Fast Crawl" | 1:42 |
3. | "Psychotic Crush" (Tobin Sprout) | 1:23 |
4. | "Costume Makes the Man" (R. Pollard/Greg Demos) | 2:04 |
5. | "Hat of Flames" | 1:32 |
6. | "These Dooms" | 2:00 |
7. | "Table at Fool's Tooth" | 1:21 |
8. | "All American Boy" (Sprout) | 3:45 |
9. | "You Get Every Game" | 2:08 |
10. | "Pan Swimmer" | 1:02 |
11. | "The Bone Church" (Sprout/Mitch Mitchell) | 2:15 |
12. | "Bad Love Is Easy to Do" | 2:05 |
13. | "The No Doubters" | 2:37 |
14. | "Narrated by Paul" (Sprout) | 1:06 |
15. | "Cream of Lung" | 1:14 |
16. | "Males of Wormwood Mars" | 2:53 |
17. | "Ticket to Hide" (Sprout) | 3:04 |
18. | "Cool Planet" | 1:55 |
Total length: | 36:28 |
Charts
Chart | Peak position |
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US Billboard 200[10] | 7 |
References
- ^ "Cool Planet Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
- ^ Deming, Mark. "Cool Planet - Guided by Voices". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
- ^ Barakat, Fariah (May 15, 2014). "Exclaim! Review". Exclaim!. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- ^ Kilby, Dylan (May 19, 2014). "MusicOMH Review". MusicOMH. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
- ^ Martin, Garrett (2014-05-13). "Guided by Voices: Cool Planet Review". Paste. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
- ^ Heller, Jason (2014-05-13). "Guided By Voices: Motivational Jumpsuit". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
- ^ Pelly, Jenn (2014-09-18). "Guided By Voices Break Up (Again)". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 2014-11-01. Retrieved 2014-11-03.
- ^ "Guided By Voices Database". Retrieved 2014-07-28.
- ^ "Guided By Voices' New Album 'Cool Planet' Due Out 19 May 2014". contactmusic.com. 5 March 2014. Retrieved 2014-07-28.
- ^ "Guided by Voices Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved April 28, 2020.
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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
- 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)
- 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 from Austin, TX (2007)
- 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 (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)
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)
- 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)
- Tower in the Fountain of Sparks (2001)
- Life Starts Here (2002)
- Brown Submarine (2008)
- The Planets are Blasted (2009)
- Zero to 99 (2009)
- Our Cubehouse Still Rocks (2010)
- Let It Beard (2011)
Doug Gillard albums
- Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (1999)
- Mist King Urth (2003)
- Waving at the Astronauts (2011)
- 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)
- 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)
- Stomping Grounds (2015)
- Laughs Last (2017)