Tonics & Twisted Chasers

Infobox Album |
Name = Tonics and Twisted Chasers
Type = Album
Artist = Guided by Voices


Released = 1996
Genre = Rock
Length = 28:00 (vinyl)
36:21 (CD)
Label = Rockathon
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:difoxqqkldhe link]
Last album = "Under the Bushes, Under the Stars" (1996)
This album = "Tonics and Twisted Chasers" (1996)
Next album = "Mag Earwhig!" (1997)

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

"Jellyfish Reflector" (also a GBV live album) was referenced in the Homestar Runner short "Sbemail 150?!?"

Track listing

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

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

Extra tracks on CD version

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