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

oh shii

Yikes.

103 lurker ballots by morning

G!B!V!

G!B!V!

G!B!V!

― some lady (La Lechera), Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:51 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark

Oh man. Okay, if you're an ilxor voting from this point forward, please be sure to include your username somewhere in your ballot email so I know you're not just wandering in from some dark corner of the internets.

:: runs to check pending registrations ::

voted.

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/7958/gbve.jpg

lol

I mentioned this on Postal Blowfish, the original GBV fan list that's still going... maybe I shouldn't have done that? Anyway, this is my first post since having to re register, ugh, and I sent in my vote yesterday.

may I also offer this, the first GBV song I fell in love with all these years ago and still one of my favourites:

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probably not a big deal. only one comment thus far: "I hope "Hey Aardvark" places somewhere in there."
maybe!

The idea of a bunch of Pollard zealots descending en masse on the board is scary

Guys, I need to again reiterate how hard this is for me. I will be voting, but I doubt I'll get my ballot in before the weekend.

the def. used to drink rolling rock when I first started seeing them. now budweiser and tequila.

I will vote in this but it will take me awhile!

In all the GBV shows I've been to, I've been impressed by the drinking. Impressed by how many times I'd have to take a bathroom break if I drank that much on stage. They were good at holding it.

otm

Particularly considering their age, eh?

Adult diapers.

Those mic twirls are to distact you from the peeing.

'Hit' will definitely be in there for me.
It's shorter, slower and more tuneful than DRI's 'Slit My wrists' for example

A 25 sec song will make your list??

I'm not surprised at all, I seriously consider "Cigarette Tricks", I just happen to love this briefest of the brief cuts

My #1 has been locked in since before this poll even started. Its the song that introduced me to GbV via a CMJ sampler way back in the day.

Ha! I think "Squirmish Frontal Room" was the first GBV track I ever heard because of that cd too (assuming that's the track you're talking about...1995?)

Nope, not that one. CMJ New Music Monthly - Volume 33, May 1996 actually.

If you want my #1 vote spoilered you can google that.

Ah, fair enough. That's likewise a very good song.

Yeah, its probably not the greatest GbV song ever, but it holds such a special place in my heart.

If this is the topic we're on, the first GBV song I ever heard was "My Valuable Hunting Knife". Actually, not sure I remember how.

I think "Squirmish Frontal Room" was on the May 1995 sampler because of the GBV Box on Scat, but I liked it and went out and got Alien Lanes. I was a goner (and mad collector) at that point.

I think mine was the 1st track off bee thousand.

mine too. i did not know what to think. can't really remember why i bought that record now -- maybe a review in spin or something? but i really did not know what to expect.

My first was 'Matter Eater Lad'. Think I bought the 'Clown Prince' ep cos I was too stingy to buy an album without hearing them first. Thought it was a bit shit tbh, so I didn't bother buy anything else of their's for ages after that.

My first was song 1 on Bee Thousand as well. Seemingly a common experience. Good song, though I wasn't hooked until later in the album, like song 3 ...

"Teenage FBI" for me, on the radio. Bought Do the Collapse and enjoyed it, then bought Bee Thousand and fell in love.

Teenage FBI is a good song. Under appreciated.

^^^ OTM

I can't help but view people with skepticism when they dismiss the TVT era as completley worthless.

I think mine was the 1st track off bee thousand.

― Jeff, Tuesday, September 20, 2011 3:13 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark

Mine too. A girl upstairs in the dorm loaned it to me and I was sold immediately and permanently, for better or worse. My friend and I drove to a record store 2 hours away to get the Scat box set when it came out. (He got something else, I was going for that) I remember making a last minute decision at the counter to get vinyl and I have cherished the crap out of that thing ever since. I even sold my record player at one point, but I never sold that.

I'm 50/50 on the TVT era. Isolation Drills is a great record; Do the Collapse far less great (though it does have the big studio version of Teenage FBI).

Yeah its definitely a mixed bag, but I remember how I used to run into people who were all, "all the TVT stuff sucks because it isn't lo-fi" and I just wanted to rmde. There's some great songs in that period. I like the Hold on Hope EP.

i thought the quality went a bit downhill around mag earwig -- still some great songs, just not at the same level of inspiration as 93-96. production on do the collapse has always bugged me. then again, after that run of records, there wasn't anywhere to go but down. i think it was "speak kindly" that brought me around again.

I really like Liquid Indian, Surgical Focus (aka Searching for Vultures), and Unmarketed Product. DTC is underappreciated for sheer poppitude, I think. Isolation Drills I never liked that much, but I was going through a country phase at the time and it sounded too slick for me. I might like it better now. Hold on Hope EP is great!!

This song is one of the classic "wait the whole song for one beautiful moment" GBV songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IUYZjr2pMM

for me

I also have STRONG positive memories of DTC because that was the show I attended with an extremely appealing/attractive/smart young gbv fan who is now Mr Lechera. <3 <3 <3
If it weren't for that show, I might not have demanded that he give me his number.

ballot submitted. 16 from "classic" era gbv albums, two from classic era eps, one from guided by verde era, one from pollard solo.

my near-misses, songs #21-27, in no particular order: teenage fbi, hey aardvark, love is stronger than witchcraft, big school, crutch came slinking, matter eater lad, vibrations in the woods. a couple of 'em, namely teenage fbi and big school, are songs i love marred by recordings that are a bit of a mess. though if i had remembered the "wish in one hand" version of teenage fbi before this very second, that probably would have made my top 20. definitely would've, in fact. dear johnny fever, can you please make teenage fbi (wish in one hand version) my #20 song, and drop my current #20 song off the list? pretty please? thanks!

i submitted two most-hated tracks, and they're both from my favorite album, which is perhaps why i hate them all the more.

This thread has inspired me to listen more closely to post-GBV Bob for some reason. The Boston Spaceships albums really are great though I still haven't heard the latest one. Digging Mars Classroom as well...

can you please make teenage fbi (wish in one hand version) my #20 song, and drop my current #20 song off the list? pretty please? thanks!

Can and will.

depends - what was #20?

thanks johnny! the former #20 was "a good flying bird," which remains pretty damn great.

NO! reverse decision plz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9l8nv90N4o

By the way, the o.g. 7" version of Teenage FBI is the version I'll be posting for its placing in the countdown (assuming it places, that is...(of course it will)).