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
I was one of those 4. surely it ended up w/ the highest per vote average?
― iatee, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
if we wait was my numero uno
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
12. "Echos Myron" (Bee Thousand, 1994) [395 points, 17 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QetZC5TIISI
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
We're finally here, or something like that.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
Hold up:
Disarm the settlersThe new drunk driversHave hoisted the flagWe are with you in your anger
"Settlers"? or "Sexless"?
― fear itself (Ówen P.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
definitely sexless
― ledge, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
I always thought it was "Setlist" until I read the lyrics.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
thought "gold star..." would be higher for some reason? (it was my #2)
xp it's totally "settlers"!
― queen latifah approximately (donna rouge), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
"Disarm The Sexless" was a often-used teenage username of mine iirc, uh oh, really? "Settlers"?
― fear itself (Ówen P.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:37 (twelve years ago) link
(no ribbing pls)
feels heretical to say but I'm not all that into Echos Myron.
― skip, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Well I always heard it as settlers, but don't have it from an "official source"
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
i had at least two GBV-related screen names: AlwaysCrushMe and uh something else
― queen latifah approximately (donna rouge), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
i also once had my AOL account suspended because i put the lyrics of "hit" in my profile ("faggots" and "shit" were both violations of terms of service)
― queen latifah approximately (donna rouge), Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
11. "Don't Stop Now" (Under the Bushes Under the Stars, 1996) [418 points, 17 votes, 2 #1 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u30i19DhXxc
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
It is 100% disarm the settlers.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link