secret star for one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZIi97N5sFM
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
yes i have posted that beforebut it is just that good
4. "My Valuable Hunting Knife" (Alien Lanes, 1995) [702 points, 26 votes, 3 #1 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A8LyAqtaa0
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Un-fuck-with-a-ble
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
My fandom didn't start till the DTC era, so I think that would certainly affect my voting. Even though my first albums were the ones from the 90s.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
iirc THIS was the first song of theirs I fell in love with. I heard a song from King Shit on a CMJ sampler and went out and bought Alien Lanes. This one slapped me around a little and then gave me a kiss.
Also? This marks the transition to where songs are on at least half or more of the ballots submitted.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
Hmmm, interesting. That song never really clicked with me.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
there seems to be a lot less consensus on the later stuff though
like i was pretty sure "Surgical Focus" would place if "Chasing Heather Crazy" and "My Kind of Soldier" did but maybe people just didn't spend time with Do the Collapse
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
there are good songs on the later albums but I don't consider much of it to be THEE GREATEST OF GBV. (many xposts)
― dmr, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
Surgical Focus hasn't placed yet, has it?
I don't know if I still want it to place, this high :-/
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
nah it's not gonna, there's 3 dead locks left
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
My DTC hopeful was Things I Will Keep
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
With this GBV poll I have absolutely no clue what dead locks are
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
I still have the 7" of Surgical Focus with the oogling eyes staring into my abyss though <3
clap clap
fond memories of sock hop dancing to "hunting knife" with my friend rebecca and being the only two people dancing and not caring
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
This was the first GBV song I ever heard. Still love it.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
final 3 ... game of pricks? tractor rape chain? motor away? those are my guesses.
― dmr, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
My guess is 'Awful Bliss' instead of 'Tractor Rape Chain'. There's not enough Tobin in the top 10.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
no way does awful bliss make it over tractor rape chain
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
Motor Away must be in there for sure. I'll guess Surgical Focus now, too. Mystery third left.
This is where I realize my number #2 and #1 aren't going to place ;_;
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
i still say #1 is Dragons Awake!
― ciderpress, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
"hunting knife" was my #1!
― queen latifah approximately (donna rouge), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
I, for one, am really shocked "Awful Bliss" didn't make the top 60. the final three is pretty much obvious now.
― V79, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
Surgical Focus?! Really?! No way. Game of PricksMotor AwayKing and Caroline? Did that one already place?
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
3. "Tractor Rape Chain" (Bee Thousand, 1994) [765 points, 28 votes, 4 #1 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ6yS71j-cw
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
I would like to hear a bluegrass take of this song
― ℓ٥ﻻ ﻉ√٥υ (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Awesome. I do wish Glenn Campbell had covered this instead of Hold On Hope.
― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Johnny, you should reveal #2 and #1 at the same time. Once #2 comes up it will be obvious which one will win it.
― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
Hunting Knife is a perfect track, almost too perfect - I prefer the messier ones. I imagine that TRC would be a lot less popular than it is if the lyrics were different, which of course isn't an argument that it's overrated but IMO it's a less anthemic track than people give it credit for.
― skip, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
YES! <3
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
that said TRC is Chumbawumba-level catchy.
― skip, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
it's a less anthemic track than people give it credit for
the way it crescendoes on "PARALLEL lines ... BETTER yet" is pretty anthemic
― dmr, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to a long bluegrass cover of Witchita Lineman last night. I'll have to share the link with yall if you're interested
― ℓ٥ﻻ ﻉ√٥υ (CaptainLorax), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
By the way, what is a tractor rape chain?
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
You don't want to know.
― Jeff, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
I have no idea.
oh, you know
― queen latifah approximately (donna rouge), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
the acoustic intro of TRC is so classic, it shouldn't work as a lead-in to the song but it does! that's genius right there.
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, great guitars all the way through.
― skip, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Which is to say that I also have no idea.
speed up slow down go all around yeah <-- kind of stupid, but sounds good with that melody because it's only such a tune that will carry a song called "tractor rape chain" into the hearts of the people
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
the idea that you can "get wet" on it is what intrigues/disturbs me most about it
― queen latifah approximately (donna rouge), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
in the first place it's probably just paranoia
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
I had heard it was inspired by some news of the weird article about a farmer who tried to do autoerotic asphyxiation by tying something to his tractor wheel. Maybe that's BS, I dunno.
― dmr, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
Ohio's motto is "the heart of it all"It's a thing I know, it's a thing I believe in.
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
always thought of it as a chain of tractor's raping the earth or something? i dunno about the rest of it
― bluelips, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:29 (twelve years ago) link
"Big School" isn't going to be appearing now :(
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:30 (twelve years ago) link
dmr, that story is too great not to be true; it's a thing I believe in.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link
game of pricksmotor awaymotoraway
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 29 September 2011 19:31 (twelve years ago) link