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

The highs on Mag Earwhig! are very high. "I Am A Tree"! "Bulldog Skin"! "Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane"!

love jane of the waking universe, maybe my fave thing on ME. isn't jane a "classic" lineup recording? at least tobin's on it...

& yeah, the hating tobin sprout's songs thing -- for real? that is crazy.

I don't know Sprout's songs from others---I tend to prefer the more Who-ish songs & generally skip the crackly or drony songs, which can make the albums tough going for me.

new album is oing to rock SO HARD.
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/304995_10150295839487951_9042192950_7984167_1616082927_n.jpg

Bob, would you and living praise choir lead us into God Be The Glory?

Has this been mentioned?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5BWlCBNS0

yeah that's a classic. one that ended up being a regular on GBV live setlists, right?
waved out has some other really good tunes too.

That's going to be in my Top 20. Best 1978 Wire song since uh Wire in 1978.

ehhh, that sounds like a less melodic rewrite of "Quality of Armor"

Well it's nothing like it but other than that...

Anyway, that's in my Top 20 too so I obviously like that sound!

lol, looks like there are 2 new GBV albums
May 22 - Guided By Voices "Class Clown Spots A UFO"

woah, where did you find this info? "Class Clown Spots a UFO" is a song on Suitcase 3 btw (no, I haven't heard it, just recognize the title)

I mentioned Subspace Biographies but it was a long time ago, like a whole week :)

The Sandbox album has not aged well.

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, September 21, 2011 11:13 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

I disagree! Maybe the production sounds like shit, but try to imagine someone else singing the songs -- they're still quality pop rock songs! I totally LOVE "Barricade" because it's epic and "be a clown, be a man, be all you can be" has always seemed like a good motto and "Common Rebels" starts off pretty bad, but totally soars at the end, vocally and musically.

There is a lot of Bob having fun with SINGING on Sandbox, and I like that a lot.

Your naked enthusiasm is full of win!

new album info is coming from pollard's facebook page. also says there's a new solo album in the spring as well.

TMI GBV: one time in college I listened to Propeller on headphones and sang into my portable cassette recorder so I would know what I sounded like singing Propeller.

Verdict: not good, but lots of heart

I sang at full blast, with maximum zeal

ha, do you still have the tape? rockathon records wants to put it out.

god no, but i can do it again anytime

I'm sure some talented ilxor could lay a wicked beat under that tape.

i wouldn't have brought it up, but it's weird how clear my memory of doing this remains after all this time. i was on summer break and staying in my parents' house. i remember screaming FREEDOM CAKE, QUICK TO BAKE and bonking my head on the gabled ceiling.

This is impossible. Been stuck on 22 for two hours. It was down to 21 but then rose to about 32.

Jeff was correct ^ 'Hit' had to be dropped early on

Wondering if I can sneak Theory of Broken Circles in there somewhere.

Ooh if I stopped taking ballots right now I think it would be an amazing top 50! But I guess if more people want to vote, I won't stand in the way.

I voted late this afternoon, so I hope I contribute to Johnny's amazing top 50.

Devil Between My Toes: 1
Sandbox: 1
Same Place The Fly Got Smashed: 1
Propeller: 2
King Shit & The Golden Boys: 1
Vampire On Titus: 1
Bee Thousand: 4
Fast Japanese Spin Cycle EP: 2
Alien Lanes: 3
Under The Bushes Under The Stars: 1
Tonics & Twisted Chasers: 1
Do The Collapse: 1
Isolation Drills: 1

Yours is the most recent ballot received and plugged into the spreadsheet.

Nice! I hope my #1 has a respectable showing.

I hope at least one more person voted for Secret Star. There are SO MANY GOOD LITTLE PARTS, and it starts off kinda boring, but does not end boring. The "man of energy" part reminds me of my dog, "know your conjurer" is yet another awesome Pollard collocation, the "wish for you to fall/burn/return" almost makes me cry.

LOVE this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZIi97N5sFM&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL6E19A342AF5F3048

OTM everything you said about "Secret Star", rest of the album leaves me cold however. I've decided to drop the idea of having Bob solo tracks in my top 20, which is looking really kinda boring and underwhelming, i hated my Beach Boys top 20 too!

I voted Underwater Explosions in my top 20. I meant to vote for Little Lines. But I got my midpaced big rock chuggers mixed up. Never mind. Mistakes and randomness are in the spirit of GBV.

Has Pollard/GBV ever covered this song? There is a part in the second verse at 1:23 that sounds identical to a GBV song but I can't quite figure out which one (all of them?). I know this is not a AC original, but I would like to hear Pollard sing it anyway why because it is awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_nyNy9oAVo

(btw that is hello hooray a la alice cooper)

Not according to the GBVDB, http://gbvdb.com/tracks.asp?x=1&artistpersonid=&artistpersonids=4&cover=true

Love that song

Wouldn't it be a great cover? Speaking of covers...
(pardon the xpost from facebook but it's awesome)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FqhOQLD3t0

xxp lol, and I have thought for like a week now that GBVDB was down for some reason. turns out that the whole time I've been trying to get to the site using http://www.gbvdb.com/ instead of http://gbvdb.com/

So I was sitting in a boring mtg yesterday when a friend fwded me the Pfork article about the new album and I so badly wanted to jump up and high-kick while shouting "FUCK YEAH".

I think that would've been an appropriate response. If your colleagues didn't understand it, fuck em.

My ballot is done, I'm just going to let it season for a couple days before I submit. My guess is that it will be fairly consensus but I'm actually not really sure what the consensus on GBV is.

Demons are Real will probably win.

And why not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5coiDE7_9Y

Feeling it.

Great chords in that song

Bowiesque

Such enthusiastic singing!

Ok up to this point I have avoided listening to Alien Lanes or Bee Thousand because they rile me up WAY TOO MUCH and I also like to save the big hits for when I need them, which is not right now. But unfortunately, I just listened to that song 3x.

The thing is, you haven't really seen me flip out itt yet. It gets worse. I am controlling myself a little bit still.

is it too close to a ban to ask for a fan-created rarity compilation? just found out about this one http://gbvdb.com/album.asp?albumid=2167 and damn, looks interesting. most of that stuff remains officially unreleased as of today. google doesn't seem to help me at all >:(