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

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18. "Gold Star for Robot Boy" (Bee Thousand, 1994) [344 points, 14 votes, 1 #1 vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmO48lOXVe4

i ask bcz i'd never seen the lyrics to 'a salty salute' before -- actually at first i thought that song started 'dibs on the setlist' which i thought was a great opening line, tho' perhaps in retrospect a bit british -- and then i heard it as something about "dicks and the sexless" which i thought was awful, and which i couldn't make make sense with the rest of the song, so i gave up on the song, and the band, guided by voices, by extension

sorry, i should stop cluttering up this poll

Here's one that I voted for. One of the catchiest melodies on Bee Thousand and great lyrics too!

Really digging "The Brides Have Hit Glass". Staccato guitar strongly reminds me of something - prob some faceless late 90s band or death cab for cutie or something :/

Metropolitan Brewery did a beer called Gold Star for Robot Boy. Sad I was never able to obtain some

Hardcore UFO's was my first GBV song too, I think

"Hardcore UFOs" is not one of my favorites on its own, but it is a great opening track on Bee Thousand. I easily could have voted for it.

17. "Teenage FBI" (Wish in One Hand 7", 1997 / Do the Collapse, 1999) [345 points, 15 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM2ujKKN66k

Catchy, like ebola, but not in my Top 20

GBV at their best pure pop moment, I think.

Feel like the crux of the whole song really is the title line, which is just thrown away in the middle.

I like the Do The Collapse version more: the synths work very well.

I still like Liquid Indian better if we're choosing DTC songs -- right after "are we there yet?" at like 0:56 the skips and flips kick in and it's so good. You can kind of try to forget about "born again bootstomping witchhumper by the 2:00 mark.

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

Fun to wooeeewooweeeoooo.

is it too late for Surgical Focus? that's the best hi-fi GBV jam by far imo

My DTC song still hasn't placed. I'd be surprised if it does.

i also voted for Wormhole but that's not gonna make it i'm afraid

16. "Weed King" (Propeller, 1992) [358 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH9-MgouFs

hopefully not too late for Surgical Focus!

never really sat down and listened to the album version of Teenage FBI until now. Very cheesy but I like it.

Voted for "Surgical Focus" too

But, never mind that, yay "Weed King"!

weed king is indeed great

I like the Do The Collapse version more: the synths work very well.

― Euler, Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:47 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah me too. The version on the Greatest Hits is awful

Y'all are nuts. The DTC version is a nice experiments, but the essence of the song is captured on the Wish in One Hand lo-fi version.

15. "Quality of Armor" (Propeller, 1992) [365 points, 15 votes, 1 #1 vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ET1I2Dkhhw

yay! woo!

My #1

My #2. Too low.

Ok, so there's the last song I have from ID to show ('Brides'). Love that song. All of the others I didn't vote for, except Quality of Armor, but I knew they didn't need my vote. But this is the point in the poll where it starts to become the alternative GBV best of.

My #5 (much higher than "14 Cheerleader Coldfront", I was wrong on that above). Such a great pop/rock song

the worst offense is intelligence
the best defense is belligerence

QofA in my Top 10, but can't remember where

14. "The Best of Jill Hives" (Earthquake Glue, 2003) [370 points, 17 votes, 1 #1 vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl1965lkmTA

It's a good song but the way it just sort of dribbles away annoys me. I don't like that album at all.

wow didnt know that one was so highly rated. it is pretty though

... dribbles to a conclusion, I mean (xp)

WEED KING! I knew it would be top 20. Knew it! My #2.

My fav EG song.

More crazy talk. Earthquake Glue is second only to Half Smiles in my list of favorite post-UTBUTS albums. xps to Tom

long live rockathon

I had Weed King at #4

QoA was my #6. Another driving-around-nowhere classic.

I like EG but Jill Hives never really moved me. Maybe I will record myself singing Weed King again, stick some noise on it, call myself Jill Hives, and release a "best of" that contains just that one song.

i think the EG track that made my ballot was 'useless inventions'

'Jill Hives' is pretty but yeah, just kinda ends. From reading the other thread and this one, I do need to check out the last two albums.

I'm starting to give up hope for Old Battery or Indian Was An Angel

More crazy talk. Earthquake Glue is second only to Half Smiles in my list of favorite post-UTBUTS albums

Well, each to his own. It sounds sort of desperate and directionless to me, I don't hear (m)any hooks and the neither-one-thing-nor-the-other production is a complete failure.

The first moment I heard Jill Hives I thought THIS IS THE SONG I HAVEN'T HEARD THIS BAND DO IN YEARS. Don't see how it's unmoving in any way, but other people are crazy for things I don't care about at all. With such a broad catalog, there's enough for everyone.

so nice to see "Quality Of Armor" place so well! my favourite from Propeller, love those harmonies at the beginning. It barely scratched my ballot, was my #21.
"Jill Hives" - a good song, but I don't really love it. "Teenage FBI" - I'm surprised it placed so high, I don't like that one.

xxxp Indian Was An Angel is one of my favs, just missed my ballot tho