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
WEED KING! I knew it would be top 20. Knew it! My #2.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
My fav EG song.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
long live rockathon
I had Weed King at #4
― dmr, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think the EG track that made my ballot was 'useless inventions'
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
'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 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm starting to give up hope for Old Battery or Indian Was An Angel
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
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 (1 year ago) Permalink
so nice to see "Quality Of Armor" place so well! my favourite from Propeller, love those harmonies at the beginning. It barely scratched my ballot, was my #21."Jill Hives" - a good song, but I don't really love it. "Teenage FBI" - I'm surprised it placed so high, I don't like that one.
― V79, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
xxxp Indian Was An Angel is one of my favs, just missed my ballot tho
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
not sure why there is so much hate for this song. produced but not overproduced, very catchy chorus, and it's not as if there aren't lots of tracks in the 'prime' GBV period that don't trail off into nothing...
― skip, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
love jill hives
― iatee, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
now is it better than, say, Cut-Out Witch...no...but I didn't vote so I can't really complain
― skip, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink