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Bee Thousand by Guided By Voices
Bee Thousand is an album by Guided By Voices, released in 1994. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “I Am A Scientist”, on 4 lists with a best position of #264.
Bee Thousand, the seventh album from Dayton, Ohio's Guided by Voices, came out on Scat Records on June 21, 1994, and it's the record that made Robert Pollard's band standard-bearers for lo-fi, the slacker-rock corner of indie where tape hiss is a feature, not a bug. The songs flash past before you've caught your breath, scruffy little gems soaked in British Invasion melody and punk rock nerve, with Mitch Mitchell's guitar and Kevin Fennell's drums clattering away behind Pollard's voice.
"I Am A Scientist" and "Hardcore UFOs" are two of the tunes that have stuck around. The fallout was immediate: other labels came calling, and Guided by Voices signed with Matador for the next one, Alien Lanes.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Bee Thousand on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Am A Scientist | 4 | #264 | – | 2001–2021 | |
| 2 | Hardcore UFOs | 1 | #535 | – | 2024 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.