In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music by Nightwalker 1984–1993

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In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music by Nightwalker 1984–1993
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Studio album by Nightwalker
Released 1999
Genre Alternative rock, Indie, Lo-fi
Label Fading Captain Series
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In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music by Nightwalker 1984–1993 is an album by Nightwalker, a pseudonym for archival Guided by Voices recordings, a side project by Robert Pollard, released in 1999. [2]

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Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Robert Pollard unless otherwise noted.

  1. "Drum Solo" – 0:55
  2. "The Fink Swan (Swims Away)" (R. Pollard, Jim Pollard) – 2:46
  3. "Kenneth Ray" (R. Pollard, J. Pollard, Mitch Mitchell) – 2:54
  4. "Dogwood Grains" – 1:07
  5. "Amazed" (R. Pollard, J. Pollard) – 2:23
  6. "Signifying UFO" – 0:20
  7. "Ceramic Cock Einstein" – 6:08
  8. "U235" – 0:23
  9. "Weird Rivers & Sapphire Sun" – 2:53
  10. "Trashed Canned Goods" – 1:40
  11. "Those Little Bastards Will Bite" – 11:08

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Mitch Mitchell English drummer

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References

  1. ↑ Swihart, Stanton. "In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music By Nightwalker - Nightwalker | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved 11 November 2013.
  2. ↑ Nightwalker at Discogs
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