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

So basically it would've been the number one if so many people hadn't forgotten to vote for it! I suspect that will happen with more songs in this poll :)

Great song, sorry to omit it! Always loved the Peel wersion of "Cut-Out Witch" with the "I can't tell you anything" refrain stuck in at the end.

I've never heard that version, or session. Was it officially released?

43. "Unleashed! The Large-Hearted Boy" (Propeller, 1992) [157 points, 8 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zM8JTHgOfRM

yaaaay "do the earth" and "U!TLHB"

I'm away for two hours and we're already at 43! Just wanted to mention that 'Everywhere with Helicopter' was the only song on my ballot that I hadn't heard before this poll and that I added thanks to the voting thread.

xxxp the bootleg called To Trigger A Synapse has these, suppose they weren't released officially?

"Unleashed" bassline intro reminds me heavily of a similar intro in JD's "Disorder"

LBI: only know it through less-than-legal downloads, but it's on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVz7RhAkiDE

Hey thanks!!

"Acorns and Orioles" always makes me think of R.E.M.

42. "Man Called Aerodynamics" (Under the Bushes Under the Stars, 1996) [159 points, 7 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PFlJ0hapXM

(see also, the BBC session youtube posted above...it's the second track.)

This song is a force of nature, btw.

"Unleashed" bassline intro reminds me heavily of a similar intro in JD's "Disorder"
― V79, Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:19 PM (14 minutes ago)

'Digital'?

xp the bassline also (kinda) resembles the Pachelbel canon, which is a popular chord movement after all. but I assure you, the moment I first heard "Unleashed" it made me think of "Disorder" :)

This song is a force of nature, btw

The way this song starts it sounds like you're in the middle of a tornado. No matter how many times I listen to it, it still takes me a second or two to get my bearings.

Brilliant record opener, and OTM about the tornado effect. Sounds like a few seconds were cut off on the master tape.

BTW: I always thought that instead of a 'book mobile' he was talking about this thing :)
http://images.wikia.com/mafiawars/images/c/ce/Popemobile_Real.jpg

don't know if he gets called out too much but kevin fennell can be a pretty impressive drummer -- the beat on aerodynamics is relentless.

The whole song, for me, is a frantic build-up to the moment Pollard sings the song's title and stretches out the "aeeeroooo-dy-namics".

I feel like I just won the lottery by the time he gets to it.

I suddenly realised what the bassline of 'Unleashed' reminded me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OArdM4Cb-ho

41. "Peep-Hole" (Bee Thousand, 1994) [164 points, 6 votes, 1 #1 vote]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUjzXV9bIGA

Gotta admit I don't get "Peep-Hole" being this high, much less getting a #1.

now that's a hell of a crazy tune.

^^^ well that's the GBV - even the strangests of cuts have their own charm, that few may find very appealing

i voted for peephole, just one of those gorgeous melodies that sounds effortless, but is actually pretty complex/strange.
christ it's a cluttered mess!

This song is fine but it just seems too slight to rank on a top 20 list.

I voted for "Cigarette Tricks", I can understand anything that happens in this poll

Man Called Aerodynamics is such a great song! Listen to the demo version first, and then the full version and it's like getting a blast of wind in the face. Head clearing!

Haha. xp

It and the Sprout song after it are like lagniappes. Nice, but not essential.

"It" being 'Peep-Hole' xpost

Yeah, it is an oddly underwhelming way to end the album.

there was a cracking electrified live version of peephole i had on mp3 from somewhere. maybe from gbv.com?

yes! http://gbv.com/sounds/peephole.mp3

actually a ton of cool live stuff here: http://gbv.com/music.html

40. "Your Name Is Wild" (Under the Bushes Under the Stars, 1996) [183 points, 8 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HKCwYjt5eY

I love this one even if no one else does.

I might name my firstborn "Wild".

i think i voted for it? great side two opener.
about his daughter, I think? did i make that up?

seven other people do! (including me, i voted for it)

'closer you are' is one of my favourite i'm-having-a-bad-day songs. "you try to be nice and look where it gets you aaaah aaaah"

"Stoned at the Alamo" tonight

Wild Strawberry Fever <-- nice name, kid

Guessing that the "Peep-Hole" naysayers are "I Am A Scientist" fans who think of it as the natural climax to the album? The appeal--Pollard drawing back the curtain at the end of the album with a fairly legible lyric--is pretty much the same. Though the lyric in "Scientist" is a lot more evolved, I always thought the melody of "Peep-Hole" worked better, and I love the inarticulate scatting at the end. (But then, I am the mentalist who voted it #1.)

I love this one even if no one else does.
that's how i feel about "Liquid Indian"
i just LOVE it for no apparent reason

xp hey, did you forget of "You're Not An Airplane"? no hard feelings, I can't really recall this one either tbh

39. "Subspace Biographies" (Waved Out, 1998) [184 points, 7 votes]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U5BWlCBNS0

xp
Nah, just that the album seems to resolve at "I Am A Scientist" (or "Peep-Hole," depending on your taste) and that what follows is for lagniappe, like righteousmaelstrom said.

xp yes!
some of my favorite pollard lyrics, so berzerk