don't stop now!
― Euler, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
does robert pollard have AA experience
― thomp, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
18. "Gold Star for Robot Boy" (Bee Thousand, 1994) [344 points, 14 votes, 1 #1 vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmO48lOXVe4
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:16 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Hardcore UFO's was my first GBV song too, I think
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
"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 (twelve years ago) link
17. "Teenage FBI" (Wish in One Hand 7", 1997 / Do the Collapse, 1999) [345 points, 15 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2ujKKN66k
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Catchy, like ebola, but not in my Top 20
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
GBV at their best pure pop moment, I think.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
I like the Do The Collapse version more: the synths work very well.
― Euler, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IUYZjr2pMM
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
Fun to wooeeewooweeeoooo.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 14:51 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
My DTC song still hasn't placed. I'd be surprised if it does.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
i also voted for Wormhole but that's not gonna make it i'm afraid
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
16. "Weed King" (Propeller, 1992) [358 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH9-MgouFs
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
hopefully not too late for Surgical Focus!
― skip, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Voted for "Surgical Focus" too
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
But, never mind that, yay "Weed King"!
weed king is indeed great
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
― 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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
15. "Quality of Armor" (Propeller, 1992) [365 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ET1I2Dkhhw
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
yay! woo!
― nerve_pylon, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
My #1
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
My #2. Too low.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
the worst offense is intelligencethe best defense is belligerence
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
QofA in my Top 10, but can't remember where
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
14. "The Best of Jill Hives" (Earthquake Glue, 2003) [370 points, 17 votes, 1 #1 vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl1965lkmTA
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
wow didnt know that one was so highly rated. it is pretty though
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
... dribbles to a conclusion, I mean (xp)
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
WEED KING! I knew it would be top 20. Knew it! My #2.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
My fav EG song.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
More crazy talk. Earthquake Glue is second only to Half Smiles in my list of favorite post-UTBUTS albums. xps to Tom
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
long live rockathon
I had Weed King at #4
― dmr, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
QoA was my #6. Another driving-around-nowhere classic.
I like EG but Jill Hives never really moved me. Maybe I will record myself singing Weed King again, stick some noise on it, call myself Jill Hives, and release a "best of" that contains just that one song.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
i think the EG track that made my ballot was 'useless inventions'
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
'Jill Hives' is pretty but yeah, just kinda ends. From reading the other thread and this one, I do need to check out the last two albums.
― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
I'm starting to give up hope for Old Battery or Indian Was An Angel
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
More crazy talk. Earthquake Glue is second only to Half Smiles in my list of favorite post-UTBUTS albums
Well, each to his own. It sounds sort of desperate and directionless to me, I don't hear (m)any hooks and the neither-one-thing-nor-the-other production is a complete failure.
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
The first moment I heard Jill Hives I thought THIS IS THE SONG I HAVEN'T HEARD THIS BAND DO IN YEARS. Don't see how it's unmoving in any way, but other people are crazy for things I don't care about at all. With such a broad catalog, there's enough for everyone.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:52 (twelve years ago) link