Motivational Jumpsuit

Studio album by Guided by Voices

Released

February 18, 2014

Genre

Indie rock

Length

37:39

Label

Guided by Voices Inc. / Fire Records (UK)

Guided by Voices chronology

English Little League
(2013)

Motivational Jumpsuit
(2014)

Cool Planet
(2014)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100^[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
Exclaim!	9/10^[3]
Pitchfork Media	7.3/10^[4]
The A.V. Club	C+^[5]

Motivational Jumpsuit is the 20th album by Dayton, Ohio rock group Guided by Voices. It was released in February 2014 under their own record label Guided by Voices Inc. It reached #18 on the Top Heatseekers chart.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Robert Pollard, except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Littlest League Possible"	1:18
2.	"Until Next Time"	1:28
3.	"Writer's Bloc (Psycho All the Time)"	2:43
4.	"Child Activist"	1:21
5.	"Planet Score"	1:41
6.	"Jupiter Spin" (Tobin Sprout)	2:23
7.	"Save the Company"	2:21
8.	"Go Without Packing"	1:14
9.	"Record Level Love" (Sprout)	1:16
10.	"I Am Columbus"	2:54
11.	"Difficult Outburst and Breakthrough"	1:42
12.	"Calling Up Washington" (Sprout)	1:12
13.	"Zero Elasticity"	2:06
14.	"A Bird With No Name"	1:23
15.	"Shine (Tomahawk Breath)" (Sprout)	3:03
16.	"Vote For Me Dummy"	2:21
17.	"Some Things Are Big (And Some Things Are Small)" (Sprout)	2:08
18.	"Bulletin Borders"	1:23
19.	"Evangeline Dandelion"	1:16
20.	"Alex and the Omegas"	2:15
Total length:		37:39

References

↑ "Motivational Jumpsuit Reviews". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
↑ Thomas, Fred. "Motivational Jumpsuit - Guided by Voices". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
↑ Barakat, Farah (2014-02-14). "Guided by Voices - Motivational Jumpsuit". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2014-02-25.
↑ Berman, Stuart (2014-02-19). "Guided By Voices: Motivational Jumpsuit". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2014-03-07.
↑ Bowman, Patrick (2014-02-18). "Guided By Voices keeps grasping at former glory with reunited lineup". The A.V. Club. Retrieved 2014-03-07.

Guided by Voices

Robert Pollard Bobby Bare, Jr. Nick Mitchell Mark Shue Kevin March Tobin Sprout Mitch Mitchell Greg Demos Kevin Fennell Nate Farley Doug Gillard Jim Pollard Chris Slusarenko Jim Macpherson Tim Tobias Don Thrasher James Greer

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)

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: Do the Collapse B-sides (2001) The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (2002) Down by the Racetrack (2013)

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)

Compilation albums	The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (2003) Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007 (2007)

Related articles	Discography Airport 5 Boston Spaceships Circus Devils Cobra Verde Todd Tobias

Robert Pollard solo albums	Not in My Airforce (1996) Waved Out (1998) Kid Marine (1999) Motel of Fools (EP) (2003) Fiction Man (2004) From a Compound Eye (2006) Normal Happiness (2006) Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007) Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (2007) Superman Was a Rocker (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)

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)

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)

Acid Ranch albums	Some of the Magic Syrup was Preserved (2002) As Forever: A Manifesto of Fractured Imagination and Wreckless Living (2005) The Great Houdini Wasn't So Great (2007)

Lifeguards and Doug Gillard albums	Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (1999) Mist King Urth (2003) Waving at the Astronauts (2011)

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)

Ricked Wicky albums	I Sell the Circus (2015) King Heavy Metal (2015) Swimmer to a Liquid Armchair (2015)

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