GUIDED BY VOICES vs STONE TEMPLE PILOTS

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calstars, Friday, 3 January 2020 18:13 (four years ago) link

Is there a thread for things that you didn't know but probably could've guessed?

Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link

I’ve gone thru the Thank You and Human Amusements... comps over the past few days (via this thread); these are prime examples of bands whose songs I can “appreciate” but just can’t into on a personal-taste level. I’ll give the nod to STP, they were quite a singles band, and something about GBV’s sound really doesn’t mesh with me.

Into the Bro-known: One Dude’s ‘Frozen’ Podcast (morrisp), Friday, 3 January 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link

I'll take Thank You over most of GBV's output tbh, even though the latter are the better overall band.

pomenitul, Friday, 3 January 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link

Do the Challops

Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link

I cannot fathom making a judgment on the music of GBV on the basis of an album-length best-of. You gotta do the full 45,816-song plunge.

Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link

Re: curation of their respective retrospectives, STP is only helped by the exclusion of off-putting frivolities like 'Wet My Bed' while GBV is ill-served by every 'Chicken Blows' that gets dropped.

Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link

Sure but that would entail listening to nearly an hour of music! Who has the time?

xp

Evan, Friday, 3 January 2020 20:08 (four years ago) link

one of my things with stp is i absolutely hate core, singles included

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:15 (four years ago) link

i wanna drank from your naked fountain

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:18 (four years ago) link

i guess "creep" walked so "big empty" could run but i still don't like "creep" at all

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:19 (four years ago) link

Bob devalued the catalogue as a whole when he decided to carry on post breakup

calstars, Friday, 3 January 2020 20:20 (four years ago) link

xpost Yeah, say what you will about them otherwise but it's hard to argue that Purple wasn't a freakin' quantum leap from STP's debut.

Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:21 (four years ago) link

I don't know that I've heard a second of post-breakup GBV.

Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link

even if it was, it was a quantum leap into a place i had no interest in visiting

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link

like sub-sub-zero interest

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:22 (four years ago) link

The best of is shit, just listen to bee thousand ffs. If you don’t like it IT’S OK we don’t need to hear about it

brimstead, Friday, 3 January 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link

stone temple pilots are dumb and bad

listening to the first Tobin Sprout solo album, pretty good stuff never checked his solo stuff out

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:28 (four years ago) link

Okay, now I need to check the tracklisting for the GBV greatest hits now and see just how wrong they got it.

Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link

xp yeah the first solo album is great, also the eyesinweasel double lp of demos.

brimstead, Friday, 3 January 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link

human amusements has a great tracklist imo

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link

like, freakin "exit flagger" is on it thank god

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link

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calstars, Friday, 3 January 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link

Don’t forget, It’s like soul, man

calstars, Friday, 3 January 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link

it is missing "quality of armor" tho

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link

Doesn’t it have the shitty Tigerbomb re-recordings of Hunting Knife and Motor Away tho? Blech

brimstead, Friday, 3 January 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link

Re: Hourly Amusements...Hmmm, okay, they included most of the obvious 'hits', way too much focus on later years, surprisingly includes a couple cuts off the early albums, some weird inclusions. I approve of kicking it off with the intro to Alien Lanes. Yeah, it could be worse but you're missing a helluva lot of nuance if you're basing your opinion of the band on this relatively random collection of songs.

Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:33 (four years ago) link

i actually love the tigerbomb versions

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link

And too much post-alien lanes stuff but that’s just my taste

brimstead, Friday, 3 January 2020 20:34 (four years ago) link

"hunting knife" is the alien lanes version btw

american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link

calstars at 2:31 3 Jan 20

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Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:36 (four years ago) link

They should've done a couple comps, best-ofs from the various eras. You could easily slap together a tremendous collection just from stuff on the first handful of albums/EPs/7-inches, for instance.

Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:37 (four years ago) link

'Paper Girl'! 'Long Distance Man'! That solo at the end of 'Earful o' Wax' (one of the best in rock imo)!

Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link

there is enough creative energy in the ancient box set of pre-Bee GBV albums to fuel a zillion more albums
STP's creative energy sounds like the barely audible beep of a battery running out of juice by comparison

weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link

listening to the first Tobin Sprout solo album, pretty good stuff never checked his solo stuff out

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 3, 2020 3:28 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Most of his solo stuff is great!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l66BzacTSkY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUgBa4ewzcg

Evan, Friday, 3 January 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link

GBV is one of those “You’re just not listening to the right stuff...” bands. :P

I’ve been there! Like, tell me you don’t like The Fall — “well, what have you heard?” etc.

Into the Bro-known: One Dude’s ‘Frozen’ Podcast (morrisp), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link

one of my things with stp is i absolutely hate core, singles included

― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, January 3, 2020 1:15 PM (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

dead and bloated is tons o fun imo. could leave the rest on core tho.

purple is a personal classic. i like every song on it. still remains is my fav tho.

championship winning vibration (Spottie), Friday, 3 January 2020 20:54 (four years ago) link

listening to the first Tobin Sprout solo album, pretty good stuff never checked his solo stuff out

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 3, 2020 3:28 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I will vouch for the first two albums, especially Maid to Order and 100% Delay off Let's Welcome the Circus People and the title track, Beast of Souls, and Angels Hang Their Socks on the Moon off Moonflower Plastic.

An Oral History of Deez Nutz (PBKR), Friday, 3 January 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link


I cannot fathom making a judgment on the music of GBV on the basis of an album-length best-of. You gotta do the full 45,816-song plunge.

The Fall vs GBV

Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Friday, 3 January 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link

^that would get me to vote for GBV

EZ Snappin, Friday, 3 January 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link

The Fall and GBV are my two favorite bands and if nothing else have frontman monomania in common

but I can't for the life of me understand how both are “You’re just not listening to the right stuff...” bands

If you don't dig The Fall you probably don't like that brand of repetition and MES' delivery, whether they're doing dance, rockabilly, krautrock whatever

But not liking *any* GBV is just weird...Bob doesn't have any one thing he does. He sings and writes in a range of styles and makes records in every conceivable production mode. He's a great singer. Unless there are ppl who just don't like hooks? Is that a type? But even if you don't like hooks...do you like Acid folk? Classic rock? Prog? Noise? Punk?

OR DO YOU REALLY LIKE ROCK AND ROLL?

Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 3 January 2020 21:18 (four years ago) link

Into the Bro-known: One Dude’s ‘Frozen’ Podcast (morrisp) at 2:53 3 Jan 20

GBV is one of those “You’re just not listening to the right stuff...” bands. :P

I’ve been there! Like, tell me you don’t like The Fall — “well, what have you heard?” etc.

honestly, if you listen to Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes and don't like em yr probably good on not going farther

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 January 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link

I'm listening to Purple right now, most likely for the first time in 20+ years. I had it on cassette, this must have been one of the last cassettes I bought, I switched to CD somewhere in 94-95 and mostly left my cassette collection behind. This isn't bad, I actually remember all of these songs so far. Actually enjoying this way more than when I revisited Soundgarden due to that other thread.

This is the only album by either of these bands that I've ever owned. What I've heard of Guided By Voices here and there has never really pushed me to seek out their stuff.

silverfish, Friday, 3 January 2020 21:21 (four years ago) link

Defending gbv feels so 20 years ago

calstars, Friday, 3 January 2020 21:25 (four years ago) link

They released like 5 albums last year! (and at least one was good)

bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 3 January 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link

honestly, if you listen to Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes and don't like em yr probably good on not going farther
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 3, 2020 4:21 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Nah these two are too similar, if you don't like B000 OR Vampire On Titus OR Mag Earwhig OR Isolation Drills...then I don't know, maybe there's some kind of corrective surgery

Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 3 January 2020 21:30 (four years ago) link

no hes right

brimstead, Friday, 3 January 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link

Defending gbv feels so 20 years ago

― calstars, Friday, January 3, 2020 1:25 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

srsly its like defending the vu... some things just arent for everyone

brimstead, Friday, 3 January 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link

honestly, if you listen to Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes and don't like em yr probably good on not going farther

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 3, 2020 4:21 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I can see someone loving Earthquake Glue and then checking out those two albums and not really being down with the lo-fi, low-attention-span weirdness despite the tunes.

Evan, Friday, 3 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link

exactly

xp not if you're turned off by the production on those two albums

Suggest Banshee (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 3 January 2020 21:37 (four years ago) link


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