Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 23 July 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Is there a reason why BIG BORING WEDDING is not a choice?
― calstars, Saturday, 24 July 2010 00:04 (fourteen years ago) link
pass the word: the chicks are back etc.
― calstars, Saturday, 24 July 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
pass the word: it's on 'under the bushes under the stars'
― no, you're dead right, it's a macaroon (ledge), Saturday, 24 July 2010 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
sooo nice that "Motor Away" came 1st (tied, but still), I totally didn't see that coming
I hope that this lone vote fot "Cigarette Tricks" wasn't a joke or sth, I honestly love this "song" (probably more like a "hook")
― V79, Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
"Motor Away"/"Game of Pricks" tie = poll justice.
― CompuPost, Sunday, 25 July 2010 16:40 (fourteen years ago) link
If I'm a fanatic about this album, is the deluxe reissue thing worth getting? Like, are there extensive, 33 1/3 style liner notes and shit?
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
is there a deluxe version of this record?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:07 (thirteen years ago) link
wasn't there a double vinyl version, with the songs in a weird sequence, all mixed up, or something? Did I dream this? Maybe it was that Bee Tousand that got that treatment...
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Bee THousand, I mean
oh yeah that was the bee thousand directors cut.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:10 (thirteen years ago) link
that's worth it! it's pretty cool.
kind of surprising that matador isn't doing some kind of expanded alien lanes reissue to coincide w/ the reunion tho.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, they really should. I'd buy that. As I gushed upthread, this is probably one of my most-played albums of all time.
thanks tyler - I'll check out the BT director's cut!
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
good a place as any to mention that they've launched a digital store w/ some oop stuff, some live shows, etc: https://www.gbvdigital.com
― tylerw, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome, thanks tyler
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
!!! thanks !!!!trying to mete out my excitement about next week's show in chicago
a little excitement every day so i don't go nuts
― The Great Jumanji, (La Lechera), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
20 years old
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 April 2015 23:15 (nine years ago) link
That revelation is shocking in some cases, but Alien Lanes feels exactly as old as it is.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 3 April 2015 23:16 (nine years ago) link
I would've voted "Game of Pricks," I'm pretty sure. Album still slays.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 3 April 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
the club is open
― mookieproof, Friday, 3 April 2015 23:50 (nine years ago) link
"King and Caroline" was robbed. But tie for first place and the next finisher otm.
― Is It Because I'm Blecch (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 April 2015 00:04 (nine years ago) link
"Game of Pricks" is the best song GBV ever did, but "Motor Away" is the best song on Alien Lanes. (O paradox)
― hardcore dilettante, Saturday, 4 April 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
i suspect i voted for 'little whirl'
i was otm
― mookieproof, Saturday, 4 April 2015 01:38 (nine years ago) link
things are new in brilliant blueand striped white jets come speeding through ah!sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh-and we must not forgetthe sudden pain of perfect greedand what's expected of this super-breed . . . for those who dream to touch the sunand those who run will always run . . .
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 October 2018 00:43 (five years ago) link
"post punk x-man parked his forkliftlike a billion stars flickering from the grinders wheel"
― brimstead, Friday, 12 October 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
Blimps go 90On with the show
― ArchCarrier, Friday, 12 October 2018 08:47 (five years ago) link
I’m not here to drink all the beerIn the housein the fridge
― calstars, Friday, 12 October 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
So I write music for soundtracks nowI write music for soundtracks now(That's what I wanted to do anyhow)
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Friday, 12 October 2018 10:15 (five years ago) link
Oh, this is not to sayWe were not the worst we've ever been
― weatheringdaleson, Friday, 12 October 2018 10:36 (five years ago) link
Introducing the amazing rocket head!you know what the deal is, dude
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 12 October 2018 11:11 (five years ago) link
"Chicken Blows" robbed here btw
Anyone reading the new Pollard bio? I'm finding it slow going so far
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 12 October 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
For me this is one of the Tobin Sprout tracks!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 12 October 2018 13:27 (five years ago) link
i was walking home one time through a quiet out of the way neighborhood at like 1am and passed a guy on the street with earbuds in who was drunkenly singing along to Motor Away
― ciderpress, Friday, 12 October 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
i knew we've met before
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 12 October 2018 15:11 (five years ago) link
The hellfire is dying around you, my love
― a film with a little more emotional balls (zchyrs), Friday, 12 October 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
longform (7000-word) oral history in anticipation of 25th yr anni on Monday:
https://uproxx.com/indie/guided-by-voices-alien-lanes-oral-history-25th-anniversary/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 May 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
Sprout: I can remember we were practicing for Propeller and Bob, after the practice, goes, “Okay, this is it. This is my final album, I’m done. I can’t do this anymore.” So the next morning, I get a call from him about 7:30, eight o’clock. He goes, “I got another song, I got to come over.” So he was there in 15 minutes and we went in the basement and we hooked the 4-track up. Bob sat down and showed me the guitar parts and then he played the drums and I set it up so we could do guitars and drums at the same time. So we recorded that and then he threw the vocal on and threw the lead guitar on. It was “Exit Flagger.” It came together in a matter of 20 minutes.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 May 2020 15:51 (four years ago) link
I also liked the parts about Matt Sweeney talking about how he first learned about the band.
...and later on their first NYC show (after a 6 year live show hiatus!) which blew Gerard & Chris away despite the band being incredibly nervous... some of the band had never been to NYC.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 May 2020 16:00 (four years ago) link
And then the Jon Stewart footage, which begins with perhaps the best 2-minute 1-chord rock song ever broadcast on live TV?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 May 2020 16:14 (four years ago) link
okay last snip:
Sprout: Somebody at Matador called and said, “Look, we’re going to have your album mastered tomorrow. Do you want to talk to Bob Ludwig about it?” And I said, “Sure, why not?” So he called or I called him, and I go, “So have you ever done a master from a cassette?” And he said, “Yeah.” Because he did Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen. So it was like, “Oh geez, all right. I guess you can handle it.”
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 1 May 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link
I love the story of Bee Thousand how the Scat guy called Bob up for another album and bobs all “uh the band broke up.. but wait! I can throw something together”
― brimstead, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:33 (four years ago) link
Good stuff, thanks.
― Together Again Or (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:36 (four years ago) link
Yeah thanks for linking, that's a great article. Liked the story behind the album title!
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
Exit Flagger!
― calstars, Friday, 1 May 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
is Little Whirl too traditional to do well in this poll? not what people come to GBV for?
― lukas, Friday, 1 May 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
i guess Motor Away says that's not the case.
― lukas, Friday, 1 May 2020 23:46 (four years ago) link
lol i loved this
Matt Sweeney (singer/guitarist for Chavez, hard-core GBV fan, future GBV member): I went to my weed dealer’s house, who was a serious record collector. I went over to buy some weed, and the music that he was playing was so fucking good, and also not like the kind of music that he usually played, because he was definitely over rock music. He was into free jazz and shit like that. Generally, the routine was that I would buy some weed from him, and then we’d hang out and listen to records. We called it the Monday night pot party. He lent me the record, and me and my friend just lost our minds. The record was Propeller.They sounded like a legit ’60s band. And Mitch Mitchell is on the record? Mitch Mitchell was Jimi Hendrix’s drummer! All of it was so weird. The names didn’t seem like they were real. Tobin Sprout doesn’t seem like a real name.
They sounded like a legit ’60s band. And Mitch Mitchell is on the record? Mitch Mitchell was Jimi Hendrix’s drummer! All of it was so weird. The names didn’t seem like they were real. Tobin Sprout doesn’t seem like a real name.
― budo jeru, Saturday, 2 May 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
i speak in monotone
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 May 2020 01:10 (four years ago) link