C or D : Guided By Voices.

That's brilliant

New album is just ok

very glad I clicked through to the youtube page - Heidecker's impersonation turned into a track
https://soundcloud.com/calmcnamara/the-universe-of-crayon-man

New album is cool, even better than the other album out earlier this year, though Bunco Men is the best track by some distance, and is obviously a vintage Pollard composition

whoa yeah Bunco Men was on the first suitcase

it's a bit sad that he's probably better off revamping old barely-heard outtakes than writing new stuff

the rest of the album is strong too. I'm guessing Bob just got a whim to bring it to a larger audience, or someone in his current band felt they should have a crack at it. Though I kind of think trying to second-guess the reasons behind Bob's creative decisions is a fool's game.

that keith cross and peter ross albums the guy recommends at the end is great

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

Seems like Bob's been allowing himself at most one reworked Suitcase track per album the last few years. Sweating the Plague had "Your Cricket Is Rather Unique," Space Gun had "That's Good," and August by Cake had "Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean" (formerly "Something For Susan In The Shadows").

Mirrored Aztec is really great! Best one* since Motivational Jumpsuit

*that I've heard, there's probably at least 10 now I haven't heard

I didn't know Bunco Men but it didn't really stick out to me as the best song or anything

Swimming river flow
Rifle, bullet, arrow & bow
Plaster, paint & tile
Lepus, canine, cat & reptile

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Monday, August 1, 2016 7:00 PM (four years ago)

As expected, this verse randomly pops up in my brane on occasion... but what does it mean?

shopping list

don't patronize the mountain men

where do taco, buffalo, birddog and jesus fit it?

Mr. Child

https://www.gbvdb.com/images/guided_by_voices_styles_we_paid_for_large.jpg

Styles We Paid For, out 12/11

jesus man. the pace of these albums is exhausting.

Maybe it's just because I've long been a Pollard follower, but it doesn't feel any more exhausting than usual. It's just all centered around GbV instead of also being spread out among solo albums and side projects. I mean, it was 3 GbV records in 2020 and 3 in 2019. In, say, 2015 he released 3 Ricked Wicky records, a solo record and a Circus Devils record.

Just checked out Legendary Pink Dots/Edward Ka-Spel and Acid Mothers Temple's recent discography. Some things never change, they'll still be making 5 albums a year after everyone is dead.

With AMT it's really who they collaborate with that points toward whether a record will be good or not. The Acid Guru Pond album they did with Bardo Pond a few years back is pretty nice...some of their other stuff, well y'know.

really, really digging the new one

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=electronic+windows+to+nowhere

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hAgD3NsP04

^a better Ocasek sound than most of Do The Collapse

Somewhat Ashamed to say that these days I get more pleasure from reading the track titles than hearing the music

"somewhat ashamed" and "these days i get more" both decent gbv track titles. also, i assume this is exactly how pollard comes up with his.

Pollard comes up

there is a song on this new album called "Crash at Lake Placebo" that immediately makes me think of

http://i.imgur.com/l0Dskcl.jpg

"Crash at Lake Placenta" more like! made the wrong connection there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=595V9k5DczQ

Pollard comes up

lol

tobin sprout :(

https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=tobin+sprout&two_year_transaction_period=2020&min_date=01%2F01%2F2019&max_date=12%2F31%2F2020

yup

it's like he has no soul, man

always seemed to be chatter that he was right wing, but I guess the best I hoped for was some kinda weirdo old guy libertarianism

Thought he'd died there for a minute... good as though.

drrrr

jfc

It was not chatter - it was verified! He has been like this for a long time. Tragic really!!

https://news.avclub.com/just-tim-allen-waxing-poetic-about-his-collection-of-p-1827499171

His paintings are indeed awesome though. I have a really tiny painting of his of a television set (not in the photorealistic style though).

Easy for me to separate art from artist here tbh... as disappointing as it is not surprised given his facebook activity in the Obama days. He has since cleaned up that public profile.

i do think his art rises above the "this is by a guy in a band i like" gimmicky aspect

Yeah and it also generally rises above rich-suburb-art-walk type of stuff too imo. He has great taste as applied to art but it's too bad he has poor taste otherwise. He was also very nice the few times I've corresponded with him. For people with discrepancies like this especially I feel like they're victims of a cult and have been poisoned.

was this the thread where someone was putting together a playlist of the good songs from the post-reunion albums?
if so, would you mind sharing?
if not, would someone remind me what thread that was on?

I made this but that was just the first reunion of the og lineup, obv there have been 200 albums since then

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6pNdtcAVo6SVin1hcF594M?si=cRkl_HFZQDS02DupjKzfBw&utm_source=copy-link

hopefully someone else made a more updated one but I don't remember

ok thank you -- still on the search!

hey LL I did this but it's not a playlist, proper mp3 mix with edits, dm me if you'd like

https://i.imgur.com/FkPt1Cz.jpg

2017-2020 (1:37)

I made this one last year (two albums ago now):

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1idxGsnYtzSHZY2ipxQSdP

The idea was to make kind of a Human Amusements vol. 2, so there are a few songs from Half Smiles of the Decomposed on here since that album wasn't covered on Human Amusements.

Awesome! Thanks y’all.

ISOLATION DRILLS came out 20 years ago this month

might prefer DO THE COLLAPSE for GBV Is Produced but 'the enemy' and 'pivotal film' (among others) are undeniable