Also forgot the album vote. No prob though.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 26 September 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
too busy to vote but can't wait for the spotify playlist.
― skip, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
V79 i can assure you that at least one person voted for it
― some lady (La Lechera), Monday, 26 September 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HqqC6.jpg
8. SAME PLACE THE FLY GOT SMASHED / 1990 (7 points)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
(this always happens in polls! people start talking about something and it's the very next thing to come up.)
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay
hard to pick my favorite song from this album, but hard way -- drinker's peace -- mammoth cave -- when she turns 50 is a great string of songs. excellent album to sing the hell out of on a road trip.
― some lady (La Lechera), Monday, 26 September 2011 14:29 (twelve years ago) link
The 5 albums list was tough because I could pretty much argue for any of them on any given day, depending on what type of Pollard mood I'm in that week - pop Pollard? proggy Pollard? etc etc etc
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
what's that you're eating? could be midleading.
― some lady (La Lechera), Monday, 26 September 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
oof
MISLEADING
you don't wanna know
― some lady (La Lechera), Monday, 26 September 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
:))) thanks LL! (and everyone else who voted for this one)
― V79, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:31 (twelve years ago) link
and you're OTM about that great string of songs. and then there are, of course, Local Mix-up and the closer!
― V79, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
i've always thought of it as a hit paradealso i would like to reiterate that mammoth cave is an excellent tourist destination and everyone should visit it. hiking, history, nature, mammoth underground caves.
― some lady (La Lechera), Monday, 26 September 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
I meant to go there several times when I lived in Nashville (where it was reasonably nearby), but never did. :(
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
oh, so it's a tourist destination? so nice to know
― V79, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
2004, second trip to mammoth cave, something fucking stinks in herehttp://farm7.static.flickr.com/6166/6185047123_e9dfa14aa5_m.jpg
― some lady (La Lechera), Monday, 26 September 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
it's a national park!
http://i.imgur.com/uGx5s.jpg
7. ISOLATION DRILLS / 2001 (10 points)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
Ok, too low. I think Isolation Drills is a very underrated album.
― righteousmaelstrom, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
Same Place the Fly Got Smashed is really good. Really glad to get turned on to it.
― grandavis, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
Really like some of the unhinged Pollard moments. He really sings the hell out of some of these songs.
― grandavis, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
they've got at least 10 albums better than ID. it's good, but misses greatness to my ears. most boring show i saw by them was on that tour.
― tylerw, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:52 (twelve years ago) link
Disappointed that "Mammoth Cave" the song isn't included in this list of music composed in the honor of Mammoth Cave (the place) http://www.nps.gov/maca/photosmultimedia/sounscapes.htm
Still, one of the oldest tourist attractions in the US -- began tours in 1816!
I also agree that Isolation Drills shows were dull. I felt like they had drank a bit too much Kool Aid at that point.
― some lady (La Lechera), Monday, 26 September 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. gillard was always good, but the rest of the band, it sort of felt like they had picked a few fans out of the crowd.
― tylerw, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
xp hey thanks, the more you know!
re ID, I just hope for a good placing of "Chasing Heather Crazy". like, top 10 would be nice enough
― V79, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
ID was my #3. Love it.
― Jeff, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
The show I saw for that tour was pretty good. Pretty debauched. I think that was Pollard's tequila stage. I will agree that the lows on that album are pretty low but 'Glad Girls'? 'Run Wild'? 'Chasing Heather Crazy'? 'The Brides Have Hit Glass'?
― righteousmaelstrom, Monday, 26 September 2011 14:57 (twelve years ago) link
well, yeah, those songs are great!
― tylerw, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
I don't really like any of them tbh -- esp Glad Girls. I don't have a lot of negativity about GBV to offer, but that song always felt really lame to me, kinda lowest common denominator "give them what they want" boring rock song. Maybe it sounds half-hearted/uninspired? I dunno.
If there is anything I've learned about GBV fans over the years it's that there are as many different types as there are types of GBV songs.
― some lady (La Lechera), Monday, 26 September 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, I voted for "Glad Girls", it possesses a certain steam-rollering quality imho, the song "drives" to my ears.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 26 September 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/uuwFO.jpg
6. VAMPIRE ON TITUS / 1993 (12 points)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, i was all for GBV making a polished, radio-friendly rock album and ID comes closest to that. but there's just too much boring stuff on there -- i mean, if pollard had taken the hits from speak kindly of your volunteer etc. and put them on there, he'd have a classic, maybe?
― tylerw, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
Don't rate ID among their best at all though.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 26 September 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
Not much to say about VoT really. I could spend twice as much time with it as I have and still not know it that well, though when I hear individual songs from it I think "hey, that's a really good one!"
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/iAoGP.jpg
5. MAG EARWHIG! / 1997 (13 points)
(perhaps not my favorite GBV album, but definitely my favorite GBV album cover.)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that's a nice one
― V79, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
If you want to know what lurks in the mind of the Tobin Sprout hater: GBV's best moments, for me, are their most desperate--the poster child being for that strain being Vampire--and Sprout tends to mar that mood with his whimsical doings (see: "Gleemer"). Of course now I'm taking a closer look at the credits and he's all over the rest of the damn thing, so...
― bentelec, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
Aside from Bulldog Skin, never understood the love for this album. But then I like Isolation Drills.
― righteousmaelstrom, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
Not much to say about VoT really. I could spend twice as much time with it as I have and still not know it that well, though when I hear individual songs from it I think "hey, that's a really good one!"otm
I had the VoT/Propeller combo cd and I'll admit that I skipped to Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox at least 2/3 of the time. It's not that I don't like it, but I never really gave it a full chance. How could it have a chance next to Propeller?!
― some lady (La Lechera), Monday, 26 September 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
i think mag earwig is a bit too much of a hodge podge (not that bob can't make a masterpiece out of a hodge podge). again, great stuff on here, but not terribly consistent.
― tylerw, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
I like the hodge podginess - I just don't feel particularly moved by most of the songs. The "get wild!" part of Bulldog Skin is enough to buoy me through a bunch of boring songs.
― some lady (La Lechera), Monday, 26 September 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
did not in my airforce come out the same year as ME? i think i ended up liking that one better. the cobra verde-era live shows were pretty great though, even if it was initially disappointing that the classic lineup was gone.
― tylerw, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
I think Airforce came out in 96 (the same day, or maybe month, as Tobin's Carnival Boy). We didn't find out until 97 that they weren't going to be working together in GBV anymore.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Aside from Bulldog Skin, never understood the love for this album.
ā righteousmaelstrom, Monday, September 26, 2011 5:29 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark
This is the opposite for me! I don't like Bulldog Skin (anymore ~ it's like Nada Surf's 'Popular', for a lot of people "that one song by that one band that had a cool video"), but man are there some gems on ME. 'Learning to Hunt', 'Not Behind the Fighter Jet', 'Choking Tara', 'I Am A Tree'...
Well, I think I voted for songs from ME the most, didn't keep count.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 26 September 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I definitely like a lot of songs on ME!, but Bulldog Skin isn't one of them.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
so many lovely ballady things on ME.
― ledge, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
^^ yeah I'm a sucker for those introspective GBV moments. At least more than all GBV aficionados I know. Lol melancholy soul.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 26 September 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
I'm a right sucker for GBV's moments of spleen
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 26 September 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/GM1pm.jpg
4. UNDER THE BUSHES UNDER THE STARS / 1996 (39 points)
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
ahaaa, here's one i voted for. classic through and through (including the amazing bonus ep)
― tylerw, Monday, 26 September 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
I just learned something unbelievable about a GBV song I thought I knew! According to the gbvdb official lyrics for the original version of "If We Wait", the last line is
We'll all be there
not, as I have thought for literally umpteen years
We'll all be dead
My mind: it is blown.
― Paul Smon (La Lechera), Friday, 23 March 2012 04:53 (twelve years ago) link
Actually, even worse, now that I look, it's (acc to gbvdb) "Then we'll be there"
― Paul Smon (La Lechera), Friday, 23 March 2012 04:54 (twelve years ago) link
are we sure it's not we'll all be dead? that's what i thought it was too! gah!
― tylerw, Friday, 23 March 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, it's definitely "we'll all be ..." maybe it's a mistake? please let it be a mistake!
― tylerw, Friday, 23 March 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
i know! it HAS to be "dead"!! but i checked and listened to it a few times and it could either pollard using his fake english accent OR a poorly articulated "dead."
i just know that i have been singing "dead" at the top of my lungs for a long time and don't believe i will stop now.
― Paul Smon (La Lechera), Friday, 23 March 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
listening to a stream of Class Clown -- title track is some kind of instant classic.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
Is this a stream you can share with the class?
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
sorry, did not mean to be a tease, it's some kinda password protected thing. i'm sure it'll be available shortly. really sounding good though!
― tylerw, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
Class Clown Spots A UFO is an old GBV song, known as Crocker's Favorite Song on King Shit and the Golden Boys. There's also a version on Suitcase 3. The clip I heard from this newest version sounds fantastic...
― ColinO, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 04:38 (twelve years ago) link
ah ok, knew the title had been around for a while, didn't know it was that song. actually not the *worst* idea pollard's had -- to go back and rework some of those older tunes?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
he's been doing that for ages -- tractor rape chain was one of those!
― Paul Smon (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
right, yeah! see, he should write songs, let them sit around for a decade or so, and then re-write them. instant classics!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
another great one on the new gbv - Roll Of The Dice, Kick In The Head, 46 seconds of perfection.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Hoping Class Clown is their "no fuckin' around" reunion album.
Just now getting around to listening to it. Less fuckin' around than Let's Go Eat the Factory, but still not a terrible lot of umph to it. So this is the sound of old dudes making choons, I guess.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 13 June 2012 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
i like it a lot more than factory so far in general, but sprout's tunes are worse than ever
― sissy space echo (electricsound), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 05:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/guided-by-voices-ready-third-album-of-2012-20120727
With a pair of albums already out this year, Guided By Voices releases another new effort this fall ā and plans to put out a new album every six months after that, guitarist Tobin Sprout says.
The Bears for Lunch is due in November, and the band is set to begin work on the next LP, English Little League, in August.
The Bears for Lunch track listing:
"King Arthur the Red""The Corners are Glowing""Have a Jug""Hangover Child""Dome Rust""Finger Gang""The Challenge Is Much More""Waving at Airplanes""The Military School Dance Dismissal""White Flag""Skin to Skin Combat""She Lives in an Airport""Tree Fly Jet""Waking Up the Stars""Up Instead of Running""Smoggy Boy""Amorphous Surprise""You Can Fly Anything Right""Everywhere Is Miles From Everywhere"
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 July 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
i'm glad pollard is adhering to the one-album-about-airplanes-every-four-albums rule.
― all the worlds a stage and kitty's just stepped into the spotlight (cajunsunday), Monday, 30 July 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
good tracklist
― ciderpress, Monday, 30 July 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
I saw them in Philly on their latest tour, and they played "Hangover Child". It was nothing special, but who knows, could be another grower. In general they were very good live, though, way tighter than on the reunion tour (until the 2nd encore or so, but it usually gets ropey way earlier).
So far Class Clown > Factory for me; but both are victims of Pollard's refusal to self-edit, unfortunately.
― cwkiii, Monday, 30 July 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think the leak of English Little League I just acquired is complete (it's missing some tracks and includes some b-sides, so whatever), but "Islands (She Talks in Rainbows)" is Tobin's best song in a dog's age.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 14 April 2013 07:57 (eleven years ago) link
― What About The Half That's Never Been POLLed (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 14 April 2013 12:53 (eleven years ago) link
i had no idea gbv albums COULD leak. i thought they released them 35 seconds after recording them.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 14 April 2013 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
idk where else to put this where my fellow enthusiasts will appreciate it so i am putting it here1 of my bands has a show wednesday and it's just two of us instead of 3 and i convinced guitar player/singer to cover my 6th favorite gbv song!!i am going to switch best/worst in the second verse because belligerence is truly the worstso excited!!!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 29 October 2016 21:55 (seven years ago) link
Exit flagger
― calstars, Saturday, 29 October 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
We thought about it but went with Quality of Armor
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Saturday, 29 October 2016 22:05 (seven years ago) link
MEAGH GEAR FIX?!?!?!
― calstars, Saturday, 29 October 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
sorry I'm . wasted
― calstars, Saturday, 29 October 2016 23:04 (seven years ago) link
Thought about that one but guitarist wanted something peppier. Sorry you're wasted :(
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 30 October 2016 00:54 (seven years ago) link
playing gbv songs with a band sounds like so much fun, totally jealous
― brimstead, Sunday, 30 October 2016 01:34 (seven years ago) link
My old band used to do "big boring wedding" and "tractor tape chain"
Brim are you in NYC? I wonder if we have enough musician ilxors who like gbv who would like to kick out the jams
― calstars, Sunday, 30 October 2016 15:41 (seven years ago) link
How about you Lech?
― calstars, Sunday, 30 October 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
I'm in Chicago. You guys should totally kick out some gbv jams.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 30 October 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link
Lol tape chain
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 30 October 2016 18:14 (seven years ago) link
i am not in NYC but would totally highkick out some gbv jams with ilxors in a neutral safe space
― brimstead, Sunday, 30 October 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
I dug their show last summer at Wicker Park Fest in Chicago. Better than when I saw them at Metro in late 90s (too drunk), not as great as a small club in '93 when they were like how I imagined The Who in '68. "Space Gun" from the upcoming album is quite good, and last year's August By Cake has some choons. Belatedly working my way through How Do You Spell Heaven now. Time for a GBV 2010s list/playlist?
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 29 January 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
Iām an exclusively pre-Mag Earwig man myself
― calstars, Monday, 29 January 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link