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

ah you did! high five! that song is unreal.

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no one voted for "ester's day" :(

johnny did you post a full list?

Tbf, I wish I could have voted for a lot of things.

no one else voted 'heavy metal country'??

20 was a low number.

Hey who voted for "Demons Are Real"?

Again, full list link: http://home.earthlink.net/~pauletc/gbv.htm

It's mentioned before, but I'm really shocked that we seem to live in a world in which only four people, including myself, voted for 'Awful Bliss'.

^^ OTM. you people have no hearts!

I dunno man. It's like the 15th-best song on Bee Thousand. sorry.

no way

mine

Motor Away
"Wished I Was A Giant"
Smothered In Hugs
I Am A Tree
I Am A Scientist
Watch Me Jumpstart
Tractor Rape Chain
Don't Stop Now
Teenage FBI
Bulldog Skin
Jane Of The Waking Universe
A Salty Salute
As We Go Up, We Go Down
The Official Ironmen Rally Song
Game Of Pricks
The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
Chasing Heather Crazy
Hot Freaks
Sot
Queen Of Cans And Jars

WAY

Who else voted for We've Got Airplanes?

the idea that you can "get wet" on it is what intrigues/disturbs me most about it

― queen latifah approximately (donna rouge)

That Tractor Rape Chain lyric might have to do with crying. 'Paper Girl' has a lyric that goes "don't cry too much you'll get all wet"

mine (which in retrospect, largely makes little sense, but i kinda rushed it):

1. my valuable hunting knife (alien lanes version) (40)
2. gold star for robot boy (36)
3. heavy metal country (33)
4. my impression now (30)
5. do the earth (28)
6. exit flagger (26)
7. your name is wild (25)
8. shocker in gloomtown (24)
9. game of pricks (23)
10. dayton, ohio, 19 something and 5 (22)
11. drinker's peace (21)
12. quality of armor (20)
13. watch me jumpstart (19)
14. hardcore ufo's (18)
15. i am a scientist (17)
16. dusted (16)
17. postal blowfish (15)
18. choking tara (mag earwhig! version) (14)
19. perhaps now the vultures (13)
20. unleashed! the large hearted boy (12)

my highest not to chart was 'a big fan of the pigpen' i can see why it wouldn't be popular but it is a permanent ear worm for me. "to think on one's feet, defeat on one's brain/the popular mechanics are at it again". then later, "BABADABADABADABADA"

haha
i thought it was
"to feed on one's brain"

give me time to LIGHT a sentimentaltorchtonight

hmm, other places have it as "Oh, to speak on one's feet, To beat on one's brain". so.. who knows.

Honestly thought Goldheart Mountaintop (my #1) had a chance of coming in first. Guess I (slightly) overestimated the love for that song. Can't argue with this outcome though. Would've liked to see Pop Zeus place... Super glad to see I'm not the only one who voted for Tight Globes, Make Use, He's the Uncle. Thx Johnny!

I voted for Tight Globes. High 5.

Sorry I didn't vote in this, would have place Johnny Appleseed pretty high alongside Motor Away, Smothered in Hugs, Chicken Blows, Always Crush Me

I looooove Pop Zeus. Have long wondered if it's "electric noose, paper boy" or "electric newspaper boy" and I like it equally both ways.

Thanks, Johnny! And hats off to the fellow "Second Spurt Of Growth" voter--my favorite discovery from the past few weeks of GBV exploration.

comments and whinges: very happy to see brides have hit glass in there. my favourite song from my #3 GbV album, gets me every time

echos myron seems WAYYY too low imo. smothered too but i would say that as it was my #1 (hi captain)

where the heck is pendulum?!?

game of pricks and hunting knife the two most overrated tracks in their catalogue but maybe i just felt that way after years of overexposure to these tracks

where the heck is pendulum?!?
At the bottom of my ballot, but it was on there!

it was my #5, i've loved it since i first heard it on box abridged

my ballot fwiw

1 smothered in hugs
2 the brides have hit glass
3 echos myron
4 shocker in gloomtown
5 pendulum
6 my impression now
7 unleashed! the large hearted boy
8 gold star for robot boy
9 break even
10 tractor rape chain
11 exit flagger
12 gleemer (the deeds of fertile jim)
13 hardcore ufos
14 expecting brainchild
15 captain's dead
16 run wild
17 kicker of elves
18 the best of jill hives
19 dodging invisible rays
20 matter eater lad

oh! you're the one who voted for break even. good choice! i also love matter eater lad. they played that on the reunion tour i saw last year and i had never seen it live before. the crowd went nuts.

grand hour was the first GbV i heard, so shocker & break even hold a v special place for me

ubuts/melodic/melancholic heavy ballot:

1 Redmen and Their Wives
2 My Valuable Hunting Knife
3 Motor Away
4 Game of Pricks
5 Don't Stop Now
6 Chicken Blows
7 Cut-Out Witch
8 Always Crush Me
9 Now to War
10 Smothered In Hugs
11 Burning Flag Birthday Suit
12 The Key Losers
13 Acorns & Orioles
14 Mute Superstar
15 The Colossus Crawls West
16 Kiss Only the Important Ones
17 Office of Hearts
18 A Salty Salute
19 Sad If I Lost It
20 Look at Them

(YES I PUT CHICKEN BLOWS AT #6 AND ACORNS AND ORIOLES AT #13, IF I HAD MY TIME OVER ... )

game of pricks and hunting knife the two most overrated tracks in their catalogue

pricks yeah, hunting knife nah? idk, pricks *feels* overplayed but it's not like i hear either of them on the radio ever. i guess pricks was played over the end credits of that one episode of (uk sitcom) the it crowd. they're both great examples of how bob could write a totally solid pop song, hunting knife is a little more structurally complex, lyrically i think they're both some of his most concise & evocative efforts.

Abbreviated ballot from a major fan of a few songs, casual fan of the band itself:

1. "Motor Away" (40)
2. "Subspace Biographies," Robert Pollard (36)
3. "Gold Star for Robot Boy" (33)
4. "Little Whirl" (30)
5. "Tractor Rape Chain" (28)
6. "My Son Cool" (26)
7. "Hardcore UFOs" (25)

.. also the hi-fier versions of pricks & hunting knife (on the tigerbomb ep & doubtless other places inc. the hunting knife video upthread) >>>>>>>> the origiinal album versions.

that is true

"and then i will run and then i will, and then i will hide and then i will..." damn. it doesn't get any better than that. for real.

For all of the alien lanes love on here, I was the only one to pick striped white jets? It didn't even crack the top200?

no one has mentioned 'the who vs porky the pig'

1. Game of Pricks
2. A Salty Salute
3. Dusted
4. Redmen and Their Wives
5. Exit Flagger
6. Huffman Prairie Flying Field
7. Dayton, Ohio (19 Something and 5)
8. I Am a Scientist
9. Don't Stop Now
10. Chicken Blows
11. Long Distance Man
12. At the Farms
13. Motor Away
14. The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
15. Weedking
16. Hot Freaks
17. Closer You Are
18. The Best of Jill Hives
19. The Hard Way
20. As We Go Up, We Go Down

sprout's songs on B1000 got absolutely hosed, wow, wtf

they're kind of slight to warrant a vote when the vote is only 20 songs! at least that was my mentality. i love him as a person, at least.

I'm proud to be the only voter for "Cocksoldiers and Their Postwar Stubble". I am perplexed that "Peep-Hole" placed and "Awful Bliss" did not.

1. Motor Away
2. Over The Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
3. My Son Cool
4. The Official Ironman Rally Song
5. Tractor Rape Chain
6. My Impression Now
7. Blimps Go 90
8. Smothered In Hugs
9. Don't Stop Now
10. Indian Fables
11. It's Like Soul Man
12. Non-Absorbing
13. Cocksoldiers and Their Postwar Stubble
14. The Closets Of Henry
15. To Remake The Young Flyer
16. How's My Drinking
17. Donkey School
18. A Salty Salute
19. Exit Flagger
20. If We Wait

Even though I didn't vote for "Awful Bliss"

btw

it's totally "settlers"!

you people are nuts! srsly. undeniably an 'x' sound in there.

i always heard 'sexless' and 'neutron' as well

Dear ILX.

I never 'got' GBV before, in fact the only album I have and have hung onto was Do The Collapse, bought as a kid when 'Teenage FBI' was all over the radio. However I have been following this thread, and I think now, I 'get' it.

Thanks.