Please Be Honest

Please Be Honest
Studio album by Guided by Voices
Released	April 22, 2016
Studio	Cyberteknics in Dayton, Ohio
Genre	Indie rock
Length	33:21
Label	Guided by Voices Inc.
Guided by Voices chronology

Please Be Honest is the 23rd album by Dayton, Ohio, rock group Guided by Voices. It was released April 22, 2016, on Guided by Voices Inc. Robert Pollard wrote all the music and played every instrument on the record.[5]

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	65/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Pitchfork Media	5.9/10[3]
The A.V. Club	B+[4]
Consequence of Sound	C+

Track listing

All tracks are written by Robert Pollard.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"My Zodiac Companion"	2:12
2.	"Kid On a Ladder"	1:47
3.	"Come On Mr. Christian"	2:04
4.	"The Grasshopper Eaters"	3:22
5.	"Glittering Parliaments"	2:27
6.	"The Caterpillar Workforce"	1:29
7.	"Sad Baby Eyes"	0:35
8.	"The Quickers Arrive"	2:56
9.	"Hotel X (Big Soap)"	3:01
10.	"I Think a Telescope"	2:30
11.	"Please Be Honest"	2:05
12.	"Nightmare Jamboree"	2:00
13.	"Unfinished Business"	1:30
14.	"Defeatists' Lament"	2:23
15.	"Eye Shop Heaven"	3:00
Total length:		33:21

References

"Please Be Honest by Guided By Voices". Retrieved 2016-09-05.
Deming, Mark. "Please Be Honest - Guided by Voices". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
MacDonald, John (2016-04-21). "Guided By Voices: Please Be Honest". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
John Hugar (2016-04-22). "Guided By Voices' Please Be Honest : B+". album review. The A.V. Club.
"Guided By Voices Database". Retrieved 2016-09-05.

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[1] "Please Be Honest by Guided By Voices". Retrieved 2016-09-05.

[2] Deming, Mark. "Please Be Honest - Guided by Voices". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 2016-09-05.

[3] MacDonald, John (2016-04-21). "Guided By Voices: Please Be Honest". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2016-09-05.

[4] John Hugar (2016-04-22). "Guided By Voices' Please Be Honest : B+". album review. The A.V. Club.

[:0-5] "Guided By Voices Database". Retrieved 2016-09-05.

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
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)
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 (Guided by Voices album) (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)
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)
Related articles	Discography
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	Ringworm Interiors (2001) The Harold Pig Memorial (2002) Pinball Mars (2004) Five (2005) Sgt. Disco (2007) Ataxia (2008) Gringo (2009) Mother Skinny (2010) Capsized! (2011) When Machines Attack (2013) My Mind Has Seen the White Trick (2013) Escape (2014) Stomping Grounds (2015) Laughs Last (2017)