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

At least one other person voted for Learning to Hunt, my number #!

Interest Position

Oooh, that's a good call

1. Watch Me Jumpstart
2. Shocker in Gloomtown
3. Hot Freaks
4. Weed King
5. Tractor Rape Chain
6. My Impression Now
7. Postal Blowfish
8. Exit Flagger
9. I Am a Scientist
10. Motor Away
11. The Closer You Are, The Quicker It Hits You
12. Quality of Armor
13. Smothered in Hugs
14. If We Wait
15. A Salty Salute
16. Indian Was an Angel
17. Glad Girls
18. Game of Pricks
19. Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
20. Echos Myron

Albums
1. Alien Lanes
2. Bee Thousand
3. Propeller
4. King Shit & the Golden Boys
5. Under the Bushes, Under the Stars

Echoing everyone else's thanks for doing this, Johnny. That was quite an undertaking. Here's my ballot.

1 Exit Flagger
2 Glad Girls
3 Motor Away
4 A Salty Salute
5 The Brides Have Hit Glass
6 My Valuable Hunting Knife
7 Hot Freaks
8 14 Cheerleader Coldfront
9 Game of Pricks
10 Watch Me Jumpstart
11 It's Like Soul, Man
12 Bulldog Skin
13 Tractor Rape Chain
14 Lethargy
15 Wished I Was A Giant
16 Echos Myron
17 The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
18 Little Whirl
19 Your Name is Wild
20 Quality of Armor

Four votes for The Hard Way!

can we do a song titles poll next

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am i the only one who voted for "drag days"?

11 It's Like Soul, Man

I voted for this too. Sad it didn't make the countdown.

Also, very sad my #1 didn't make the countdown (only one of two that didn't). Gonna play it again for y'all in the event I didn't evangelize hard enough about it the first time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=254k6ThzW0E

I voted for Drag Days!

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

72 Drag Days 5 84

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.