Tonics & Twisted Chasers

Tonics and Twisted Chasers is a Guided by Voices album, initially released as a 19-track limited-edition fanclub-only vinyl LP in 1996. The following year, it was released in a limited CD edition, with five additional tracks. The album was primarily recorded by principal songwriters Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout.

Tonics and Twisted Chasers
Studio album by
Guided by Voices
Released1996
GenreIndie rock
Lo-fi
Length28:00 (vinyl)
36:21 (CD)
LabelRockathon
Guided by Voices chronology
Under the Bushes, Under the Stars
(1996)		 Tonics and Twisted Chasers
(1996)		 Mag Earwhig!
(1997)
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The song "Jellyfish Reflector" was referenced in the Homestar Runner short "Sbemail 150?!?"

Track listing

All songs written by Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Satellite" – 1:42
  2. "Dayton, Ohio—19 Something and 5" – 1:45
  3. "Is She Ever?" – 1:03
  4. "My Thoughts Are a Gas" (Fucked Up Version) (R. Pollard) - 1:18
  5. "Knock 'Em Flyin'" (R. Pollard) – 1:04
  6. "The Top Chick's Silver Chord" – 1:22 [called "Top Chick Silver Chord" on the CD version]
  7. "Key Losers" – 2:27
  8. "Ha Ha Man" – 0:39
  9. "Wingtip Repair" – 0:58
  10. "At the Farms" – 2:30
  11. "Unbaited Vicar of Scorched Earth" – 2:10
  12. "Optional Bases Opposed" – 1:38
  13. "Look, It's Baseball" – 1:21
  14. "Maxwell Jump" – 0:46
  15. "The Stir-Crazy Pornographer" – 2:16
  16. "158 Years of Beautiful Sex" (R. Pollard) – 1:21
  17. "Universal Nurse Finger" – 1:04
  18. "Sadness Is to End" – 0:56 [called "Sadness to the End" on the CD version] (Sprout)
  19. "Reptilian Beauty Secrets" (R. Pollard) – 1:40

Extra tracks on CD version
  1. "Long as the Block Is Black" (R. Pollard) – 1:16
  2. "Jellyfish Reflector" (Kevin Fennell, Mitch Mitchell, R. Pollard, Sprout) – 1:33
  3. "The Kite Surfer" (R. Pollard) – 1:47
  4. "Girl from the Sun" (R. Pollard) – 1:37
  5. "The Candyland Riots" (R. Pollard) – 2:08

Personnel

The credits do not give specific instruments played by each individual, but rather list every performer who appeared on the release in any capacity.[1]

GBV
  • Robert Pollard - composer
  • Tobin Sprout - composer
gollark: I do not want to parse that.
gollark: The format is *horrible* but it works.
gollark: Done.
gollark: I may have a lead on the recipe dumps.
gollark: In this case it's kind of justified because it needs to pull in dwarf fortress, but still.

References
  1. "Guided By Voices – Tonics And Twisted Chasers (credits section)". Discogs.
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