30 years ago today (4/4/95), Guided By Voices released Alien Lanes, the first GBV album on Matador Records. Their eighth album served up 28 tracks spanning 41 minutes, and the album fundamentally altered the concept of what a rock and roll record could be. Bob Pollard gave it up with frontman fury and poetic abstractness. Check out the hook and dagger of “Game of Pricks” off of Alien Lanes.
