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Vampire on Titus
Vampire on Titus
	The image on the cover is a Vegetable Lamb of Tartary from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by John Mandeville, 1499.
Studio album by Guided by Voices
Released	1993
Recorded	1993
Studio	Steve Wilbur's home studio (Dayton, Ohio); Tobin Sprout's home studio (Dayton, Ohio);
Genre	Indie rock; lo-fi;
Length	30:42
Label	Scat
Producer	Steve Wilbur; Tobin Sprout;
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Vampire on Titus is the sixth studio album by American indie rock band Guided by Voices.

Background

Vampire on Titus was recorded after a short-lived dissolution of the band (after 1992's "farewell" album Propeller) but prior to the full-time regrouping that occurred with the assemblage of the Bee Thousand album and the band's return to live performance. The album was recorded with a skeletal line-up consisting of Robert Pollard, Jim Pollard and Tobin Sprout. Jim Shepard of V-3 remarked to Pollard once that he “was like a vampire on Titus, sucking songs out of the earth.”^[2] Pollard lived on Titus Ave. in Dayton, Ohio. The album is often acknowledged as being the most abrasively lo-fi in the entire Guided by Voices catalog.

Track listing

All songs written by Robert Pollard unless otherwise noted.

Side A

""Wished I Was a Giant"" – 2:43
"#2 in the Model Home Series" (R. Pollard, Tobin Sprout) – 1:45
"Expecting Brainchild" (Jim Pollard, R. Pollard) – 2:30
"Superior Sector Janitor X" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard, Sprout) – 0:37
"Donkey School" (Sprout) – 1:03
"Dusted" – 2:08
"Marchers in Orange" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard) – 1:24
"Sot" (Sprout, R. Pollard) – 2:35
"World of Fun" – 0:55

Side B

"Jar of Cardinals" – 1:22
"Unstable Journey" – 2:15
"E-5" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard, Sprout) – 1:29
"Cool Off Kid Kilowatt" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard, Sprout) – 0:56
"Gleemer (The Deeds of Fertile Jim)" (Sprout) – 2:24
"Wondering Boy Poet" (R. Pollard, Sprout) – 0:59
"What About It?" – 1:37
"Perhaps Now the Vultures" – 2:23
"Non-Absorbing" – 1:37

Personnel

Guided by Voices

Robert Pollard – vocals, guitar, drums
Jim Pollard – guitar
Tobin Sprout – vocals, guitar, bass

Technical

Bruce Greenwald – photography
John Mandeville – cover artwork

References

[1] Allmusic review

[2] "Re-Post of Jim Shepard and Ohio: I'll be reading from these at Brothers Drake Meadery as Part of Word Church Tuesday @ 8:00". 24 February 2014.

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+| alt          = An illustration of a plant with tiny lambs emerging from its flowers. The band name and title appear above and below the illustration, respectively.
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+*Steve Wilbur's home studio ([[Dayton, Ohio]])
-|  Last album  = ''[[Propeller (album)|Propeller]]''<br/>(1992)
-|  This album  = '''''Vampire on Titus'''''<br/>(1993)
+*Tobin Sprout's home studio ([[Dayton, Ohio]])
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+| prev_year    = 1992
+| next_title   = [[Bee Thousand]]
+| next_year    = 1994
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+{{Album ratings
-'''''Vampire on Titus''''' is the sixth [[album]] by [[indie rock]] group [[Guided by Voices]], from [[Dayton, Ohio]], [[United States]].
+|rev1 = [[Allmusic]]
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+}}'''''Vampire on Titus''''' is the sixth studio [[album]] by American [[indie rock]] band [[Guided by Voices]].
-==Overview==
+==Background==
-''Vampire on Titus'' was recorded after a short-lived dissolution of the band (after 1992's "farewell" album ''[[Propeller (album)|Propeller]]'') but prior to the full-time regrouping that occurred with the assemblage of the ''[[Bee Thousand]]'' album and the band's return to live performance.  The album was recorded with a skeletal line-up consisting of [[Robert Pollard]] (drums, guitar and vocals), [[Jim Pollard (Guided by Voices)|Jim Pollard]] (guitar, noise), and [[Tobin Sprout]] (bass, guitar, and vocals).  This is the final Guided by Voices album to be recorded with longtime producer [[Steve Wilbur]].  The album is often acknowledged as being the most abrasively [[lo-fi]] in the entire Guided by Voices catalog while still often being regarded as one of the band's finest recordings.
+''Vampire on Titus'' was recorded after a short-lived dissolution of the band (after 1992's "farewell" album ''[[Propeller (Guided by Voices album)|Propeller]]'') but prior to the full-time regrouping that occurred with the assemblage of the ''[[Bee Thousand]]'' album and the band's return to live performance.  The album was recorded with a skeletal line-up consisting of [[Robert Pollard]], Jim Pollard and [[Tobin Sprout]]. Jim Shepard of V-3 remarked to Pollard once that he “was like a vampire on Titus, sucking songs out of the earth.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://belakoekrompecher.wordpress.com/2014/02/24/re-post-of-jim-shepard-and-ohio-ill-be-reading-from-these-at-brothers-drake-meadery-as-part-of-word-church-tuesday-800/|title = Re-Post of Jim Shepard and Ohio: I'll be reading from these at Brothers Drake Meadery as Part of Word Church Tuesday @ 8:00|date = 24 February 2014}}</ref> Pollard lived on Titus Ave. in [[Dayton, Ohio]]. The album is often acknowledged as being the most abrasively [[lo-fi]] in the entire Guided by Voices catalog.
 ==Track listing==
+All songs written by [[Robert Pollard]] unless otherwise noted.
-#""Wished I Was a Giant""
-#"#2 in the Model Home Series"
-#"Expecting Brainchild"
-#"Superior Sector Janitor X"
-#"Donkey School"
-#"Dusted"
-#"Marchers in Orange"
-#"Sot"
-#"World of Fun"
-#"Jar of Cardinals"
-#"Unstable Journey"
-#"E-5"
-#"Cool Off Kid Kilowatt"
-#"Gleemer (The Deeds of Fertile Jim)"
-#"Wondering Boy Poet"
-#"What About It?"
-#"Perhaps Now the Vultures"
-#"Non-Absorbing"
-==Trivia==
+===Side A===
+# ""Wished I Was a Giant"" – 2:43
-* The image on the cover is from ''The [[Vegetable Lamb of Tartary]]'' by Henry Lee, 1887. <ref>[http://www.compulink.co.uk/~museumgh/veglamb.htm Museum of Garden History History<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
+# "#2 in the Model Home Series" (R. Pollard, [[Tobin Sprout]]) – 1:45
+# "Expecting Brainchild" (Jim Pollard, R. Pollard) – 2:30
+# "Superior Sector Janitor X" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard, Sprout) – 0:37
+# "Donkey School" (Sprout) – 1:03
+# "Dusted" – 2:08
+# "Marchers in Orange" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard) – 1:24
+# "Sot" (Sprout, R. Pollard) – 2:35
+# "World of Fun" – 0:55
+===Side B===
-{{GBV}}
+#<li value="10"> "Jar of Cardinals" – 1:22
+# "Unstable Journey" – 2:15
+# "E-5" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard, Sprout) – 1:29
+# "Cool Off Kid Kilowatt" (J. Pollard, R. Pollard, Sprout) – 0:56
+# "Gleemer (The Deeds of Fertile Jim)" (Sprout) – 2:24
+# "Wondering Boy Poet" (R. Pollard, Sprout) – 0:59
+# "What About It?" – 1:37
+# "Perhaps Now the Vultures" – 2:23
+# "Non-Absorbing" – 1:37
+== Personnel ==
+=== Guided by Voices ===
+* Robert Pollard – vocals, guitar, drums
+* Jim Pollard – guitar
+* Tobin Sprout – vocals, guitar, bass
+=== Technical ===
+* Bruce Greenwald – photography
+* [[John Mandeville]] – cover artwork
 ==References==
-{{Reflist}}
+{{reflist}}
+{{Guided by Voices}}
+{{Authority control}}
 [[Category:1993 albums]]
 [[Category:Guided by Voices albums]]
+[[Category:Scat Records albums]]
-[[nl:Vampire on Titus]]

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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 Discography
Studio albums	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)
EPs	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 albums	Live from Austin, TX (2007)
Compilation albums	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 sets	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)
Robert Pollard 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)
Tobin Sprout albums	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)
Airport 5 albums	Tower in the Fountain of Sparks (2001) Life Starts Here (2002)
Boston Spaceships albums	Brown Submarine (2008) The Planets are Blasted (2009) Zero to 99 (2009) Our Cubehouse Still Rocks (2010) Let It Beard (2011)
Lifeguards and Doug Gillard albums	Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (1999) Mist King Urth (2003) Waving at the Astronauts (2011)
Robert Pollard side projects	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)
Circus Devils albums	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)