Elephant Jokes Explained

Elephant Jokes
Type:	studio
Artist:	Robert Pollard
Cover:	Elephant Jokes.jpg
Released:	2009
Genre:	Rock, indie rock
Label:	Guided by Voices Inc.
Producer:	Todd Tobias
Prev Title:	The Crawling Distance
Prev Year:	2009
Next Title:	We All Got Out of the Army
Next Year:	2010

Elephant Jokes is the 12th studio album released by singer-songwriter Robert Pollard on August 11, 2009, and the 8th full-length album to be released by Pollard (along with several EPs and singles) since the break-up of his band Guided by Voices in 2004. Unlike recent Pollard albums, Todd Tobias does not play all the instruments on Elephant Jokes, as Pollard plays some guitar on this album.

Track listing

1. "Things Have Changed (Down in Mexico City)" - 1:57
2. "Johnny Optimist" - 2:54
3. "When a Man Walks Away" - 1:49
4. "Parts of Your World" - 1:45
5. "Symbols and Heads" - 2:08
6. "I Felt Revolved" - 1:44
7. "Epic Heads" - 1:37
8. "Stiff Me" - 2:16
9. "Compound X" - 1:36
10. "Accident Hero" - 1:38
11. "Tattered Lily" - 3:37
12. "Hippsville (Where the Frisbees Fly Forever)" - 1:11
13. "Newly Selected Dirt Spots" - 1:17
14. "Jimmy" - 1:53
15. "Pigeon Tripping" - 1:36
16. "Spectrum Factory" - 1:53
17. "Perverted Eyelash" - 1:36
18. "Cosmic Yellow Children" - 2:20
19. "Blown Out Man" - 2:31
20. "Desiring" - 2:31
21. "(All You Need) To Know" - 3:44
22. "Architectural Nightmare Man" - 2:33