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

Aside from Bulldog Skin, never understood the love for this album.

― righteousmaelstrom, Monday, September 26, 2011 5:29 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

This is the opposite for me! I don't like Bulldog Skin (anymore ~ it's like Nada Surf's 'Popular', for a lot of people "that one song by that one band that had a cool video"), but man are there some gems on ME. 'Learning to Hunt', 'Not Behind the Fighter Jet', 'Choking Tara', 'I Am A Tree'...

Well, I think I voted for songs from ME the most, didn't keep count.

Yeah, I definitely like a lot of songs on ME!, but Bulldog Skin isn't one of them.

so many lovely ballady things on ME.

^^ yeah I'm a sucker for those introspective GBV moments. At least more than all GBV aficionados I know. Lol melancholy soul.

I'm a right sucker for GBV's moments of spleen

http://i.imgur.com/GM1pm.jpg

4. UNDER THE BUSHES UNDER THE STARS / 1996 (39 points)

ahaaa, here's one i voted for. classic through and through (including the amazing bonus ep)

my #1; not the first i heard (that was alien lanes), but the first i bought and imo a perfect sweet spot between the early period chaos and late period fm radio friendliness.

Sometimes I'm pretty sure this is my favorite.

the record that linked between gbv lo to hi fi

Had I got my ballot in, UTBUTS would have been my #1

It's a really warm record, both in recording techniques and in the songwriting. I wear it like a blanket.

would love an expanded version of this record --seems like there are a bunch of tracks from the albini sessions floating around? at least those few that greer has posted.

Just fwiw, #3 only beat #4 by a single point and #1 only beat #2 by a single point...so some real tight races. #3 coming up...

http://i.imgur.com/qG1B1.jpg

3. PROPELLER / 1992 (40 points)

Sorry if I've not been paying attention, but are the "most hated tracks" calculated in the countdown song list?

I didn't vote for "hated" tracks tbh

There wasn't enough consensus of any kind to even bother with a hated tracks countdown. The (optional) exercise was all for naught.

Thanks.

i wonder what the top 2 will be ;)

hmmm

Universal Truths and Sandbox, of course. oops! Spoiler!

still holding out for Do The Collapse here

but yeah, propellor! i remember getting that one after bee thousand, alien lanes, various EPs, and just thinking before listening, this one can't be that good, how could one band be so good! of course, propellor is just like one peak after the next. it's ridiculous.

We all know the top two. Should I post them together and then let them both be discussed at once, or do them one at a time?

just roll em both out

xp Propeller is probably their most idea-heavy record and the first time which the big ideas were successfully translated into listenable recordings. I love the crap out of that record.

Like the Vampire On Titus/Propeller CD, put them together. My introduction to GBV was a friend putting one on one side of cassette and the other on side B.

http://i.imgur.com/5TgQT.jpg

2. BEE THOUSAND / 1994 (88 points)

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1. ALIEN LANES / 1995 (89 points)

haha, almost a tie!

haha I flipped Bee Thousand from #1 to #2 and put Alien Lanes #1 right before I sent my ballot in o_0

I forgot about voting in the albums, just got too focused on the tracks and it slipped my mind. Would have voted Alien Lanes at #1 though so all is well.

wow! genuinely shocked that B1000 came in second!

At one point behind, it's not that shocking.

i like bee thousand a bit more but yeah it really doesn't matter either way

I think the right album won. I've always like AL slightly more than B1000.

I didn't submit my own albums ballot, but it probs would've been UTBUTS/Propeller/Alien Lanes/B1000 and then something else in 5th place (Half Smiles? Earthquake Glue?).

alien lanes is better because its longer

here's my claim to GBV semi (not really) fame. i'm in the crowd here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnyEJ36rmDc
pumping my fist wildly.

used to be no way I would ever consider putting anything above Bee Thousand but Alien Lanes crept up kinda the same way Crooked Rain is my favorite Pavement now over Slanted

I voted for King Shit & the Golden Boys in fifth

Alien Lanes 	89
Bee Thousand 	88
Propeller 	40
Under the Bushes, Under the Stars 	39
Mag Earwhig! 	13
Vampire on Titus 	12
Isolation Drills 	10
Same Place the Fly Got Smashed 	7
Tonics and Twisted Chasers 	5
Fast Japanese Spin Cycle EP 	4
Do the Collapse 	3
Earthquake Glue 	3
Universal Truths and Cycles 	3
Crying Your Knife Away 	2
Half Smiles of the Decomposed 	2
King Shit & The Golden Boys 	2
Live at the Wheelchair Races 	1
Not in My Airforce 	1
Sandbox 	1
Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 	1
Suitcase 	1
Sunfish Holy Breakfast EP 	1
Waved Out 	1

wow, splendid. Alien Lanes would obv be my no. 1 too, had I submitted an album ballot. but honestly speaking, they're both sides of the same coin to me - B1000 is the weird indie rock one, while AL is straight up powerpop, a shameless hookfest, almost a medley of 28 hooks.

Damn, I really need to listen to Propeller. I got into GBV with Bee Thousand, and never listened to the earlier albums until Box came out. But VoT and Propeller weren't included in that box set, so I never got around to those two albums. Putting them on my iPod right NOW.

Propeller's really dope, "Quality of Armor" was #21 on my ballot, a close shave

Propeller is awesome. It is on the vinyl version of Box but not the CD version (I guess because Scat had put that double-CD out by then).

GBV! GBV! GBV!

Cool, the top 5 albums was my top 5 - except I had Propeller and Under The Bushes... swapped over. Propeller has gone up in my estimation after revisiting it for voting purposes, definitely feels to me like a massive jump in quality from the earlier records.

who else voted for crying your knife away!!?
high 5, homie

Never even heard of that one!

crying your knife away is so good. that's actually where i heard a lot of those songs first -- i think i bought it pretty soon after i got bee thousand (pre Alien Lanes!), didn't even know it was a bootleg. was crazy to hear the beautiful, real version of if we wait after the insane singalong on CYKA.