Why in the name of all that is holy do people like Guided by Voices?

I guess Matador considers Sunfish Holy Breakfast a mini-album. I guess they want to keep that record in print - the songs on the collected ep/b-sides disc are all from releases which were either compilations or have since been deleted.

about "if we wait" - i'm not sure what the ownership situation is with that one, but it wasn't originally released on matador. long before "sunfish holy breakfast" it was released on an anyway records 7-inch. so that may be why it's not on the box. or maybe it's because pollard, as i've long suspected, considers it one of his "pussy" songs, kind of like "hold on hope."

and about pollard's drinking - oy! the man is not a pretty sight when drunk, on or off stage. it's cute for the first few beers, but then it just gets ugly.

Gygax, how is the cd of unreleased material? You know, the one with "Back To Saturn X" on it.

Also agreed about the drinking. I've walked out in the middle of two Bee Thousand/Alien Lanes-era GBV concerts because the beers just made Pollard frenetically non-involved with the audience; he just danced and high-kicked around, seemingly oblivious to the fact that, you know, there were other people in the room watching him. It was downright creepy and weird. (Maybe in spite of all appearances, he's got terrible stage-fright, and he uses the alcohol to anesthetize the fear?)

Plus, the motherfucker threw several FULL beer bottles far into a crowd full of not just rockarolla teens but families with strollers and old people when I saw them play for free at Central Park Summerstage circa Mag Earwig!

i didn't bring it with me, i just brought the best of/EP-comp 2xCD pack to work today... but my CD player is jacked so it's gonna have to wait until tonight/tomorrow.

Either way, Sunfish is easily available on CD. The EPs disc is largely devoted to the previously vinyl-only or Euro/Japanese-only.

man, there are so many gbv EPs from 1993-1994 that should have been on this boxset that i thought i was getting. i guess i have to wait for another box set.

at their current pace, another box set is due in, oh, december.

K. I just bought the Watch Me Jumpstart DVD. It made me do the twist, like HARDCORE (UFOs). Yes, I got teary-eyed, I laughed, I farted, the kit. Even the mosquito now stuck on my screen was fluttering with delight, in ecstasy before an early demise. It was righteous, it was glorious. Yes, I am a disgustingly earnest GBV fan. Yes, we need more "lo-fi Bizzeatles", unfulfilling orgies, doublespeak, or whatever the shit gets you going raw like a mutherfock. GUIDED BY VOICES buys you all lunch AND dinner, fokkerz!!!

G-B-V! G-B-V! G-B-V! G-B-V! G-B-V! G-B-V!
ad infinitum and such

PS- I've only watched the music vids so far.

"You can't lie to yourself that it's the chance of a lifetime
You can be anyone they told you to
You can belittle every little voice that told you so"

it's another busy day for the cut out witch MOST OF US ARE QUITE PLEASED WITH THE SAME OLD SONG didididididid KICKER OF ELVES! I've got BULLLLLDOOOOGG SKIIIIIN I am Tree yeaahhh *guitar riff* alright look out! *more guitar riff* which I search and choose to abuse so just UNLOCK MY MIND yeah just UNLOCK MY MIND Little whirl nahanahnnahhhnahnah SOMETIMES I GET THE FEELING THAT YOU DON'T WANT ME AROUUUUNNND it's like SOUUUULLLL MMAAANNN could this be a braaaand new loowww OH YEAH I'M GOING TO DRIVE MY CAR OH YEAH I'M GOING TO GO REAL FAR stand on the edge of the ledge! jump off cuz nobody cares! glaaaad girls! always wanna get you higgghh SOMEONE TELL ME WHY SOMEONE TELL ME WHY with surgical focus (yeah yeah) with surgical focus THE MAN CALLED AEEEERRROODYNAMICS! promise to leave you promise to lead you PROMISE TO LEAVE YOU ...with a simple hello...I will be eternally hateful HOT FREAKS! HOOOOOTTT FREEAKS! Jane of the waking universe! Until you injure me again WITH MYYYY VALUABLE HUNTING KNIFE! Pass the word the chicks are back the chick ARE back yeah the chicks are back! THE CHANDELIER IS SPIIIINNNING SHAKING! Blimps go 90 you can't find me....crying my life away CHASING HEATHER CRAZY!!!!

Whew. that was fun. If anybody needs a singer for a GBV cover band let me know.

There's the aforementioned EP on Siltbreeze which was just reissued last summer (with some live bonus tracks). 'Fast Japanese Spin Cycle' was reissued earlier this year.

'Static Airplane Jive' and 'Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer' were put on CD about 4 years ago on the Recordhead label (run by Luna Records, a big GbV-boosting record store owned by a longtime friend of the band).

Their cover of "The Opposing Engineer (Sleeps Alone)" is actually better than the original by New Radiant Storm King...and come to think of it, Small Factory's NRSK cover ("Happy for the First Time in Weeks") is loads better than the original, too. WTF?

Saw the boys in Asheville last night (11/7)...
* I think I was the only sober person in the audience.
* A lot of sports enthusiasts in the audience, it seems.
* Forgot about the "beer flinging" aspect of a GBV show.
* Wanted to punch about half a dozen audience members.
* Had to avoid walking through two puddles of vomit on the way to my car.

A bunch of the albums I have are spotty (except Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes)...BUT...the band seems to know which of their songs are the very best ones, since those are the ones they play live. Why not be that discriminating for their albums, then? For example, the last three songs they played were "Tractor Rape Chain," "Echos Myron," and "I Am a Scientist"...which were tremendous. I may be being unfair...actually, the new songs they played sounded pretty good (haven't heard the new album).

sounds like an ILX vacation to me.

Isn't that enough? I also like that their songs are gesturing towards pop music, but in a really sickened, frustrated, lazy kind of way - which is exactly how I feel about pop music. Like it's not my place to be into classical music, and there's nothing for me but pop - but so much about pop sickens me that I can only regurgitate it with pain.

I was at that show too, and just for the record, they were beer cans, not bottles.