C or D : Guided By Voices.

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

xp electric sound of jim's playlist of worthy reunited GBV was this as of 2013, i.e. two dozen albums ago

Guided by Voices - Flunky Minnows (2:11)
Guided by Voices - Class Clown Spots a UFO (3:17)
Guided by Voices - Everywhere is Miles From Everywhere (3:05)
Guided by Voices - Keep It in Motion (2:06)
Guided by Voices - The Challenge is Much More (1:48)
Guided by Voices - You Can Fly Anything Right (1:54)
Guided by Voices - King Arthur the Red (2:14)
Guided by Voices - Finger Gang (1:50)
Guided by Voices - The Unsinkable Fats Domino (1:53)
Guided by Voices - Be Impeccable (2:56)
Guided by Voices - Waving at Airplanes (3:13)
Guided by Voices - Jon the Croc (2:32)
Guided by Voices - Roll of the Dice, Kick in the Head (0:46)
Guided by Voices - W/ Glass in Foot (2:20)
Guided by Voices - Skin to Skin Combat (3:42)
Guided by Voices - No Transmission (2:18)
Guided by Voices - Billy Wire (2:03)
Guided by Voices - Hangover Child (2:57)
Guided by Voices - White Flag (2:14)
Guided by Voices - Trash Can Full of Nails (3:30)
Guided by Voices - Xeno Pariah (2:03)
Guided by Voices - Smoggy Boy (0:34)
Guided by Voices - Chain to the Moon (0:59)
Guided by Voices - Have a Jug (1:09)
Guided by Voices - Chocolate Boy (1:31)
Guided by Voices - Islands (She Talks in Rainbows) (2:16)
Guided by Voices - Imperial Racehorsing (2:54)
Guided by Voices - Waking Up the Stars (2:13)

Isolation Drills is mostly quite good, but, yes, a notch below Do the Collapse; my standout pick would be "Fine to See You".

isolation drills is one of my favs

grotesque and arrogant
perfect for the experts

I think the complaints of "overproduction" on those two TVT records were over-emphasized, it's not as the songs themselves were crying out for out-of-tune guitars or hissy overdubs.

"Isolation Drills" is miles better than "Do the Collapse". Too much Gillard on the latter.

"brides have hit glass" is a top 10 GBV tune for me

Count me in the Isolation Drills>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Do the Collapse camp. Isolation Drills is probably top 5 GbV for me.

Although, I saw them on the pre-Isolation Drills tour where they opened the set with a good chunk of the yet-to-be-released record, and the first song they played was "Run Wild", and I will never forgive them for not making that the opening track of the record.

I saw them on the Universal Truths tour, my first time seeing them (I was 17), and they were still performing a lot from Isolation Drills. It was my first GBV record, I think, so I have some deep affection for it.

Love Isolation Drills, but I'm a sucker for an album where an artist's "real" life bleeds legibly into their art

I saw them in 2000 where they played "Glad Girls" twice, Pollard saying, "this is the song that'll make us as big as Radiohead!"
One of the things I like about Do the Collapse is the production filigrees help it stand out in a catalogue where a lot of songs sound a lot like a lot of other songs.

Also, bonus points to Elliot Smith for the most superfluous guest appearance of all time.

It's a nice organ part!

Mitchell > Gillard