This is simply the greatest record I have ever heard. It's a perfectly captured moment in time. I was lucky enough to reive an advanced copy of , so I can say that nearly 20 years later, it's still the #1 record in my collection.

This album is humanity's crowning achievement, now and forever. If you don't like this you're not paying attention.

RE-RELEASE THIS CLASSIC ON ON VINYL PLEASE!!!

Check out the single version of "I Am a Scientist." I think the recording is better than the version on the album.

This may be one of the most warm, complete and diverse albums I've ever heard. This is rock and roll, real, alive, and burning with passion. The lyrics are original, bizarre, and force upon the listener bouts of pondering and moments of "what did he say?!" This is the soundtrack to just about any situation you can imagine, driving, making out, and perhaps one that always comes to mind: a happy ending to a movie, characters walking into the distance in slow motion, or dancing, fading to black and the credits rolling. If you want to get into indie music, or at least understand what it's about, this may be a good place to start.

This is the greatest album of the 90's. Great sound, Great songs, and plenty of them. And i just have to tell 'Mr. Sweet' that Robert Pollard didn't write 'Aweful Bliss', Tobin Sprout did.

I think this is the best GBV album ever! Alien Lanes is great, but nothing is better than a mix of Hardcore UFO's, Buzzards and Dreadful Crows, Tractor Rape Chain, Goldheart, Hot Freaks, Smothered in Hugs, Yours To Keep, Echos Myron, Gold Star, and I am a Scientist

It may just because of when I first heard this album, but it still stands as my #1 album of all time.

This is Pollard's creative peak with his band Guided by Voices. They are the best band I can think of that mold punk pop into odd-yet-hypnotizing anthems in bite-size length. Although most people either love or hate the lo-fi sound quality of the album, I believe it adds a little charm and mystery to the already genre-breaking masterpiece. They honestly mix every rock genre together, the blues-rock assaults of The Who, R.E.M.'s jangle pop, folk ballads mixed with original melodies and drug-enduced lyrics. You can tell that this album isn't meant to be serious. It's meant to be cranked up to 11 in your basement bursting out sluggish post-punk with a strong pop influence. No one has made an album quite as unique as this -- beneath the fuzzy layers.

Awful Bliss is the best 1:12 song of all time. I love the rest of the album as well, but just in case Pollard ever reads this I want him to know: I wish you woulda written more like this one. Its completely awesome.