Our Cubehouse Still Rocks

2010 studio album by Boston Spaceships

Studio album by

Boston Spaceships

Released

2010

Genre

Alternative rock, Indie, Lo-fi

Label

Guided By Voices Inc.

Boston Spaceships chronology

Zero to 99
(2009)

Our Cubehouse Still Rocks
(2010)

Let It Beard
(2011)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	(78/100)[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Pitchfork	(7.4/10)[2]
Allmusic	[3]

Our Cubehouse Still Rocks is the fourth album by the Boston Spaceships, released in 2010.^[1] The title refers to a passage from Finnegans Wake, the classic modernist novel by James Joyce. This album is the highest rated Boston Spaceships release on Metacritic, exceeding Let It Beard.^[2] This release is also the highest rating Robert Pollard project on the site, with his solo album, Lord Of The Birdcage, being his highest rating album in general.

Track listing

All songs written by Robert Pollard.

Side A

Track Star - 3.08
John The Dwarf Wants To Become An Angel - 2.49
I See You Coming - 2.53
Fly Away (Terry Sez) - 2.46
Trick Of The Telekinetic Newlyweds - 2.36
Saints Don't Lie - 3.09
The British And The French - 1.45
Unshaven Bird - 2.28

Side B -

Come On Baby Grace - 2.34
Freedom Rings - 3.53
Stunted - 2.12
Bombadine - 2.07
Airwaves - 2.29
Dunkirk Is Frozen - 2.44
King Green Stamp - 1.53
In The Bathroom (Up 1/2 The Night) - 3.08

Personnel

Robert Pollard - vocals
John Moen - drums, percussion
Chris Slusarenko - guitar, bass, keyboards

References

^ Boston Spaceships at Discogs
^ Let It Beard by Boston Spaceships, retrieved 2017-07-04

Guided by Voices

Robert Pollard
Doug Gillard
Mark Shue
Bobby Bare Jr.
Kevin March

Tobin Sprout
Mitch Mitchell
Greg Demos
Kevin Fennell
Jim Macpherson
James Greer

Discography

Studio 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)
Please Be Honest (2016)
August by Cake (2017)
How Do You Spell Heaven (2017)
Space Gun (2018)
Zeppelin Over China (2019)
Warp and Woof (2019)
Sweating the Plague (2019)
Surrender Your Poppy Field (2020)
Mirrored Aztec (2020)
Styles We Paid For (2020)
Earth Man Blues (2021)
It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them! (2021)
Crystal Nuns Cathedral (2022)
Tremblers and Goggles by Rank (2022)
La La Land (2023)
Welshpool Frillies (2023)
Nowhere to Go but Up (2023)
Strut of Kings (2024)

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 (2001)
The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet (2002)
Down by the Racetrack (2013)
Wine Cork Stonehenge (2018)
100 Dougs (2018)
1901 Acid Rock (2019)
Umlaut Over the Ozone (2019)

Live albums

Live from Austin, TX (2007)

Compilation albums

The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (2003)
Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007 (2007)
Scalping the Guru (2022)

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)

Robert Pollard
solo albums

Not in My Airforce (1996)
Waved Out (1998)
Kid Marine (1999)
Motel of Fools (2003)
Fiction Man (2004)
Relaxation of the Asshole (2005)
From a Compound Eye (2006)
Normal Happiness (2006)
Silverfish Trivia (2007)
Standard Gargoyle Decisions (2007)
Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (2007)
Superman Was a Rocker (2008)
Weatherman and Skin Goddess (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)
Of Course You Are (2016)

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)
The Universe & Me (2017)

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)

Lifeguards and
Doug Gillard albums

Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (1999)
Mist King Urth (2003)
Waving at the Astronauts (2011)

Robert Pollard side projects

In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music by Nightwalker 1984–1993 (1999)
Big Trouble (2000)
Choreographed Man of War (2001)
Calling Zero (2002)
Blues and Boogie Shoes (2006)

Circus Devils albums