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# Alien Lanes (1995)
- URL: https://dailygroove.club/alien-lanes-1995/
- Published: 2026-01-31T05:52:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-31T16:10:25.000Z
- Author: Phil Gruneich
- Tags: rock

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The best way to approach this Guided by Voices album is to hear it in a dive bar. “A Salty Salute” is a call to arms to hit the pub. “Pimple Zoo” is for those days when you’re annoying the bartender. “My Valuable Hunting Knife” is a talk you have with a stranger by the counter after the third pint.

Every song fits one of the following contexts:

- I want a beer;
- I’m holding a beer;
- I had too many beers;

It’s drunk talk that speaks volumes, enough to fill up a stadium and impossible to ignore. A nonstop influx of tales from bar regulars and their craves and concerns. You’ll know all the lyrics by the time the record is over.

I usually think of concerts as contemplative moments, but if Guided by Voices ever returns to Montréal, I’ll be in the front row holding my beer can high and singing along:

> Fools and kings decide  
> Ways to live your life  
> This is just the way we want to be

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