POLLSTAL BLOWFISH - ILM Artist Poll #8 - Guided By Voices - ReSuLtS!!!

15. "Quality of Armor" (Propeller, 1992) [365 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ET1I2Dkhhw

yay! woo!

My #1

My #2. Too low.

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.

My #5 (much higher than "14 Cheerleader Coldfront", I was wrong on that above). Such a great pop/rock song

the worst offense is intelligence
the best defense is belligerence

QofA in my Top 10, but can't remember where

14. "The Best of Jill Hives" (Earthquake Glue, 2003) [370 points, 17 votes, 1 #1 vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl1965lkmTA

It's a good song but the way it just sort of dribbles away annoys me. I don't like that album at all.

wow didnt know that one was so highly rated. it is pretty though

... dribbles to a conclusion, I mean (xp)

WEED KING! I knew it would be top 20. Knew it! My #2.

My fav EG song.

More crazy talk. Earthquake Glue is second only to Half Smiles in my list of favorite post-UTBUTS albums. xps to Tom

long live rockathon

I had Weed King at #4

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.

i think the EG track that made my ballot was 'useless inventions'

'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.

I'm starting to give up hope for Old Battery or Indian Was An Angel

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.

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.

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.

xxxp Indian Was An Angel is one of my favs, just missed my ballot tho

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...

love jill hives

now is it better than, say, Cut-Out Witch...no...but I didn't vote so I can't really complain

Jill Hives to me always seemed like the godchild of Official Ironmen.

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!

Oh no, are you calling me crazy?! I'm listening to it again.

13. "If We Wait" (Sunfish Holy Breakfast, 1996) [375 points, 14 votes, 4 #1 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu2RqqIRCuc

omg that is not #1?!

I forgot to vote for it :-(

I like it but not that much

I was hoping that "Jill Hives" would make the top 10. Oh well. (It was my #3)

It danced with the top 10 for a long time until the last couple days worth of ballots came in.

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.

I was one of those 4. surely it ended up w/ the highest per vote average?

Ok, so I think Jill Hives is more restrained than I want it to be. That's all.

If We Wait, however, really grabs the stars melodically and lyrically, for me at least.

if we wait was my numero uno

12. "Echos Myron" (Bee Thousand, 1994) [395 points, 17 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QetZC5TIISI

OK this is too low. My favorite by far on Bee Thousand. Really surprised it had no #1's, I was deliberating between this and what I ended up putting at #1 til the last minute.

We're finally here, or something like that.

Hold up:

Disarm the settlers
The new drunk drivers
Have hoisted the flag
We are with you in your anger

"Settlers"? or "Sexless"?

Echos Myron is a song I used to really like at the height of my GBV obsession in the 90s, but consider to be really middle-of-the-pack now.

definitely sexless

I always thought it was "Setlist" until I read the lyrics.

thought "gold star..." would be higher for some reason? (it was my #2)

xp it's totally "settlers"!

"Disarm The Sexless" was a often-used teenage username of mine iirc, uh oh, really? "Settlers"?

(no ribbing pls)