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
I like the Do The Collapse version more: the synths work very well.
― 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
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 (twelve years ago) link
xxxp Indian Was An Angel is one of my favs, just missed my ballot tho
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
love jill hives
― iatee, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
Jill Hives to me always seemed like the godchild of Official Ironmen.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
Jill Hives is a good later period one, sort of a unique sound for GBV, dig the reverb-y vocals. but i didn't vote for it. too many good songs!
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
Oh no, are you calling me crazy?! I'm listening to it again.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
13. "If We Wait" (Sunfish Holy Breakfast, 1996) [375 points, 14 votes, 4 #1 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu2RqqIRCuc
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
omg that is not #1?!
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
I forgot to vote for it :-(
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
I like it but not that much
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
I was hoping that "Jill Hives" would make the top 10. Oh well. (It was my #3)
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
It danced with the top 10 for a long time until the last couple days worth of ballots came in.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
Same with If We Wait. Its 4 #1 votes came in early and I thought for sure it would be top 10. It only dropped to 13 late.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:11 (twelve years ago) link