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Mag Earwhig! by Guided By Voices
Mag Earwhig! is an album by Guided By Voices, released in 1997. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 14 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “I Am A Tree”, on 14 lists with a best position of #1489.
Mag Earwhig!, Guided by Voices' tenth album, came out on Matador in 1997, and it was a new band in all but name. With the classic lineup gone, Robert Pollard drafted the Cleveland group Cobra Verde as his backing band, so the lineup now included John Petkovic, Don Depew and Dave Swanson, with Doug Gillard back for his second go-round after co-writing a song on the Tigerbomb EP.
Most of it was cut in a proper studio in Cleveland, with a few more songs taped in Dayton, and the four-track fuzz gives way to real muscle. Tracks like "Portable Men's Society" and "Little Lines" stomp into hard rock and even prog territory, while the usual brief, blurry lo-fi sketches still pop up between them. "I Am a Tree" is the one the countdowns kept coming back to.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Mag Earwhig! on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I Am A Tree | 14 | #1489 | – | 1999–2014 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.