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20. "The Brides Have Hit Glass" (Isolation Drills, 2001) [327 points, 13 votes]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 13:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbh this song has never stood out to me in any way at all, so I was very surprised when all the votes for it started rolling in.
Nice song, like a lot of "Isolation Drills" it's a post-divorce heart-tugger
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 13:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp to archcarrier -- That's interesting about the universality of that song -- I've honestly never thought about it as anything but extremely specific to (for lack of better words) a place and a point in time :)
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 13:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Nice drums in "Brides Have Hit Glass"
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 13:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
19. "Hardcore UFO's" (Bee Thousand, 1994) [331 points, 14 votes, 1 #1 vote]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
First GBV song I ever heard. As I imagine it was for many.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
really like the guitars during the chorus on "Brides" but see where JF is coming from. There's also a weird dissonance running through that keeps it interesting.
― skip, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wish I had gotten bee thousand at the time. too wrapped up in middle school KROQ stuff to know it even existed.
― skip, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
my first GBV song tooevokes driving aimlessly through the countryside by myself in my white escort, smoking ciggies and wondering what's going to happen to me
"build a playground in your head" -- words i have always really taken to heart
maybe i'm just sleep deprived but i feel like a weepy sap this morning!
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
don't stop now!
― Euler, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Already 2 songs that out of all the guesses so far were not guessed. Great fun!
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
does robert pollard have AA experience
― thomp, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
18. "Gold Star for Robot Boy" (Bee Thousand, 1994) [344 points, 14 votes, 1 #1 vote]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
i ask bcz i'd never seen the lyrics to 'a salty salute' before -- actually at first i thought that song started 'dibs on the setlist' which i thought was a great opening line, tho' perhaps in retrospect a bit british -- and then i heard it as something about "dicks and the sexless" which i thought was awful, and which i couldn't make make sense with the rest of the song, so i gave up on the song, and the band, guided by voices, by extension
sorry, i should stop cluttering up this poll
― thomp, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Here's one that I voted for. One of the catchiest melodies on Bee Thousand and great lyrics too!
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Really digging "The Brides Have Hit Glass". Staccato guitar strongly reminds me of something - prob some faceless late 90s band or death cab for cutie or something :/
― ledge, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Metropolitan Brewery did a beer called Gold Star for Robot Boy. Sad I was never able to obtain some
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hardcore UFO's was my first GBV song too, I think
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Hardcore UFOs" is not one of my favorites on its own, but it is a great opening track on Bee Thousand. I easily could have voted for it.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
17. "Teenage FBI" (Wish in One Hand 7", 1997 / Do the Collapse, 1999) [345 points, 15 votes]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Catchy, like ebola, but not in my Top 20
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
GBV at their best pure pop moment, I think.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Feel like the crux of the whole song really is the title line, which is just thrown away in the middle.
― ledge, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like the Do The Collapse version more: the synths work very well.
― Euler, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I still like Liquid Indian better if we're choosing DTC songs -- right after "are we there yet?" at like 0:56 the skips and flips kick in and it's so good. You can kind of try to forget about "born again bootstomping witchhumper by the 2:00 mark.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Fun to wooeeewooweeeoooo.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
is it too late for Surgical Focus? that's the best hi-fi GBV jam by far imo
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
My DTC song still hasn't placed. I'd be surprised if it does.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
i also voted for Wormhole but that's not gonna make it i'm afraid
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
16. "Weed King" (Propeller, 1992) [358 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 vote]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
hopefully not too late for Surgical Focus!
― skip, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
never really sat down and listened to the album version of Teenage FBI until now. Very cheesy but I like it.
― skip, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Voted for "Surgical Focus" too
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
But, never mind that, yay "Weed King"!
weed king is indeed great
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Euler, Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:47 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark
Yeah me too. The version on the Greatest Hits is awful
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Y'all are nuts. The DTC version is a nice experiments, but the essence of the song is captured on the Wish in One Hand lo-fi version.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
15. "Quality of Armor" (Propeller, 1992) [365 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 vote]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
yay! woo!
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
My #1
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
My #2. Too low.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ok, so there's the last song I have from ID to show ('Brides'). Love that song. All of the others I didn't vote for, except Quality of Armor, but I knew they didn't need my vote. But this is the point in the poll where it starts to become the alternative GBV best of.
― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
My #5 (much higher than "14 Cheerleader Coldfront", I was wrong on that above). Such a great pop/rock song
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
the worst offense is intelligencethe best defense is belligerence
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
QofA in my Top 10, but can't remember where
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
14. "The Best of Jill Hives" (Earthquake Glue, 2003) [370 points, 17 votes, 1 #1 vote]
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's a good song but the way it just sort of dribbles away annoys me. I don't like that album at all.
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow didnt know that one was so highly rated. it is pretty though
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
... dribbles to a conclusion, I mean (xp)
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink