Space Gun (studio album)
by Guided By Voices
Guided By Voices bestography
Space Gun is ranked 21st best out of 64 albums by Guided By Voices on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Guided By Voices is Bee Thousand which is ranked number 533 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 3,252.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Space Gun track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 74 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Space Gun rankings
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 |  dihansse | Top 100 Music Albums of 2018 | 41/100 | 3 |
| 2022 | larryrrr | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s | 31/100 | 14 |
| 2019 | mlgprounicorn | 2018 101-200 | 95/99 | - |
| 2018 | Magnet | Top 25 albums of 2018 | 12/25 | 3 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 4 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 20 | |||
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Space Gun ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 01/28/2023 10:24 |  Tamthebam | 22,829 | 69/100 |
| ! | 11/09/2022 13:09 |  Arthurknight | 9,595 | 72/100 |
| ! | 10/13/2022 07:17 | larryrrr | 630 | 76/100 |
| ! | 02/02/2022 23:25 | BigR78 | 525 | 83/100 |
| ! | 12/20/2021 18:33 |  Maxence | 12,622 | 61/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 66.4/100, a mean average of 63.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 63.5/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.
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Their most likable album, all the way through, in quite a few years (also I really loved "Please Be Honest," which is just Robert Pollard by himself being melancholy and making weird jokes). It's a mix of comedy and casual songcraft and not-fussy performance. I can have it on repeat for a while without tiring of it. I think since the moment the music business was taken over by Spotify and the streaming-track economy, Pollard has been not too picky about which songs he decides to release (just a guess), since you probably make more money if you just release more tracks. This made the previous two albums seem pretty unfocused, but this album seems edited and curated.
Is it the simplistic style? Is it the off-vocals? Not sure. Either way, not my thing.
Brad1770 04/15/2018 11:02 | #212935
The prolific GBV release album number 3 within 12 months and album number 25 since 1983 with "Space Gun"
'Gray Spat Matters' clocking in at 1:29 is the best song here , the remaining 14 tracks are quite a mixed bag with many tracks oddly brief ('Colonel Paper 2:00 , 'King Flute' 1:22 , 'Daily Get Ups 1:35' , 'Hudson Rake' 1:44) and none particularly memorable
Track 11 'I Love Kangaroo's' is down right terrible & I'm Australian ! Check these zinger lyrics
"I love kangaroos / Its funny what they do / And they will jump around / And hug you "
Forgettable
40 Dreadful Kangaroos Out Of 100
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