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2012 studio album by Guided by Voices

Class Clown Spots a UFO

Studio album by Guided by Voices

Released

June 11, 2012

Recorded

2012

Genre

Indie rock

Length

39:54

Label

Guided by Voices Inc. (US)
Fire (UK)

Producer

Guided by Voices

Guided by Voices chronology

Let's Go Eat the Factory
(2012)

Class Clown Spots a UFO
(2012)

The Bears for Lunch
(2012)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
HEAVEmedia
The A.V. Club	B+
Spectrum Culture
Pitchfork	(7.0/10)
AllMusic
Consequence of Sound	C+

Class Clown Spots a UFO is the 17th album by Dayton, Ohio rock group Guided by Voices. The album is the second released since the reunion of the band's classic lineup earlier in the same year and it debuted at #12 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers albums chart.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Robert Pollard, except where noted

No.	Title	Length
1.	"He Rises! Our Union Bellboy"	3:02
2.	"Blue Babbleships Bay"	1:18
3.	"Forever Until It Breaks" (Tobin Sprout)	3:16
4.	"Class Clown Spots a Ufo"	3:17
5.	"Chain to the Moon" (Greg Demos, Pollard)	1:00
6.	"Hang Up and Try Again"	2:16
7.	"Keep It in Motion"	2:07
8.	"Tyson's High School" (Mitch Mitchell, Pollard)	2:36
9.	"They and Them" (Sprout)	1:10
10.	"Fighter Pilot" (Sprout)	1:00
11.	"Roll of the Dice, Kick in the Head"	0:47
12.	"Billy Wire"	2:04
13.	"Worm with 7 Broken Hearts"	0:50
14.	"Starfire" (Sprout)	1:27
15.	"Jon the Croc"	2:33
16.	"Fly Baby" (Demos, Pollard)	1:43
17.	"All of This Will Go" (Sprout)	1:46
18.	"The Opposite Continues"	1:37
19.	"Be Impeccable"	2:57
20.	"Lost in Spaces" (Sprout)	0:51
21.	"No Transmission"	2:19
Total length:		39:54

References

Cory Clifford (June 12, 2012). "Guided By Voices' Class Clown Spots A UFO : 8/10". album review. HEAVEmedia.
Steven Hyden (June 12, 2012). "Guided By Voices' Class Clown Spots A UFO : B+". album review. The A.V. Club.
David Mansdorf (June 10, 2012). "Guided By Voices' Class Clown Spots A UFO : 4.25/5". album review. Spectrum Culture. Archived from the original on February 2, 2013. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
Paul Thompson (June 27, 2012). "Guided By Voices: Class Clown Spots a UFO". Pitchfork Media.
"Class Clown Spots a UFO - Guided by Voices | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
"Guided By Voices - "Class Clown Spots A UFO"". Fire Records. Archived from the original on 2012-09-23. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
https://www.billboard.com/artist/guided-by-voices/chart-history/

v t e Guided by Voices
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)

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