I can’t listen to anything post Under the Bushes
― calstars, Friday, 30 April 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
I am sorta the same. I like space gun though.
― brimstead, Friday, 30 April 2021 19:03 (two years ago) link
I kind of liked some of the ones around when Ric Ocasek produced that one but otherwise just can’t keep up sorry
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 April 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
For whatever reason I was really into Earthquake Glue, but otherwise the only post Under the Bushes album that is special to me is Mag Earwhig! I guess cause it's so close to the golden era, still has a good amount of weirdo charm. Not that I don't enjoy any of the rest of the post 96 stuff at all but my brain categorizes it as a different band entirely. Tobin Sprout element is pretty critical to me.
― Evan, Friday, 30 April 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
Isolation Drills was the last great one for me. I am kind of enjoying this new one.
― bookmarkflaglink (Darin), Thursday, 6 May 2021 00:14 (two years ago) link
Isolation Drills was my favorite after the early run. Still haven't listened to this new one yet.
― A Stop at Quilloughby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 6 May 2021 03:47 (two years ago) link
Any Cub Scout Bowling Pins fans here? Fun new bubblegum/psych band that happens to have the exact same members as Guided by Voices? New album doesn't start off strong but it's pretty solid after the first four tracks or so.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TLP9_n1_fA
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 9 July 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
Still waiting for the full-length to get here, but I loved the EP. Really fun stuff and one of my favorite new Pollard side projects.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 9 July 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
Yeah tbh I think I like it as much as or more than all but a few of the post-reunion GBV albums
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 9 July 2021 20:18 (two years ago) link
A new gbv album you say? Thought I’d never see the day
― calstars, Friday, 9 July 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
someone blasting 'game of pricks' just drove by
― mookieproof, Saturday, 2 October 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
👍🏽
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 2 October 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
Cool. In the running for their best song.
― He POLLS So Much About These Zings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 October 2021 23:28 (two years ago) link
Lot of competition of course.
― He POLLS So Much About These Zings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 October 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
Both in the sense of good songs and sheer amount of songs too numerous for most sane people to ever evaluate.
― He POLLS So Much About These Zings (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 2 October 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
GoP overrated. The lazy choice.
― calstars, Saturday, 2 October 2021 23:55 (two years ago) link
Salty Salute ftw
― calstars, Saturday, 2 October 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link
At the moment for me, it's "Twilight Campfighter."
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Sunday, 3 October 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
that changes every week or so, tho
I'd nominate "Redmen and Their Wives" from Under the Bushes, Under the Stars as their best song. It seems typically perverse GBV procedure that they'd bury their best song as track 23 of 24, and then conclude with the only throwaway on the whole record.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 3 October 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
Gold Star for Robot Boy
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 3 October 2021 18:07 (two years ago) link
Everybody Thinks I'm a Raincloud
― jmm, Sunday, 3 October 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
Geez, I didn't even get the title right.
*Everyone
― jmm, Sunday, 3 October 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
Wait, no, I was right, Youtube had it wrong.
I'm so stressed.
― jmm, Sunday, 3 October 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
Big boring weeding
― calstars, Sunday, 3 October 2021 18:46 (two years ago) link
Oh wow, the artist poll was 10 years ago! I wonder how many of the several hundred new songs that have been released in the meantime would place today...
― cwkiii, Monday, 4 October 2021 13:24 (two years ago) link
All these answers are correct
― badg, Monday, 4 October 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
Today it's "Hot Freaks"
― I'm a sovereign jazz citizen (the table is the table), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
right now: "To Remake the Young Flyer"
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 5 October 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
This version of "Dusted":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trmmuFv1CyI
― Evan, Tuesday, 5 October 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
― calstars, Wednesday, 6 October 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
New one’s pretty good. My heart stopped a little when I saw only ten tracks on it. Ten enjoyable tracks though.
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 19 June 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
only ten tracks on it
so it's a 7-inch single then?
― fact checking cuz, Monday, 20 June 2022 02:57 (one year ago) link
this is coming in October, collecting some of the songs from the 93-94 EPs:https://www.discogs.com/release/24437195-Guided-By-Voices-Scalping-the-Guru-The-1-Off-7s-1993-1994
― brimstead, Thursday, 15 September 2022 00:40 (one year ago) link
Sorry, here’s the copy from the rockathon site:Scalping The Guru is an archival GBV release envisioned and sequenced by Robert Pollard as a cohesive album, featuring select tracks from four Guided By Voices EPs released in 1993-1994 by Domino, City Slang, Siltbreeze and Engine Records. These hard to find records are essential for fans of Vampire On Titus and Bee Thousand, with GBV classics including "My Impression Now", "Matter Eater Lad" and “Big School".
― brimstead, Thursday, 15 September 2022 00:41 (one year ago) link
My Impression Now is such a wonderful song, though the bassline is bonkers
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Thursday, 15 September 2022 08:44 (one year ago) link
"Big School" is a total banger
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 September 2022 09:08 (one year ago) link
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Thursday, September 15, 2022 4:44 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
So is the drumming. The way the drum fills keep happening at seemingly random times and how the bassist is walking around aimlessly until the hook shows up, I'm convinced that they're both winging it on the recording by following Pollard's vocal and trying to figure out the melody as they go. Then the hook comes and they can recalibrate a bit.
― Evan, Thursday, 15 September 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
I was thrilled to come across a very reasonably priced copy of the first Suitcase a few weeks ago, the original was the only one I hadn't had.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 15 September 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
Discussion on Pitchfork thread re: 90s list sent me back into my first GBV binge in at least 15 years. I'm going back into all the EP's that accompanied their 93-96 run - so many great songs relegated to singles, B-Sides, etc. Somehow I never heard the Tigerbomb EP back in the day. Those versions of My Valuable Hunting Knife and Game of Pricks are really nice. It might be my favorite "good" GBV production.
But my real discovery is Dodging Invisible Rays, the Tobin Sprout song that closes the EP. It's like the Byrds via REM power pop band I've always wanted. Or something. I've played it 3 times tonight and I never do that.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Friday, 7 October 2022 22:12 (one year ago) link
Yeah that's a great track, my favourite Sprout song.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 7 October 2022 22:28 (one year ago) link
They played that one a lot during the “classic line up” tour iirc
― Evan, Friday, 7 October 2022 23:21 (one year ago) link
The title sounds familiar. There are a ton of old tracks they regularly played live that weren't on an album. Matter Eater Lad, Dayton 19 Something and 5, etc.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Saturday, 8 October 2022 00:33 (one year ago) link
Hell yeah, "Dodging Invisible Rays" was on an imagined follow-up I made to the GBV greatest hits CD that came out right before their hiatus. In fact, just for the hell of it, here's that tracklist...
Over the Neptune...As We Go Up We Go DownBuzzards and Dreadful CrowsSkills Like ThisGirls of Wild StrawberriesGoldheart Mountaintop...Wished I Was a GiantQuality of ArmorGleemerGold Star for Robot BoyLethargyPimple ZooDo the EarthMy Valuable Hunting Knife (Tigerbomb EP version)Dig Through My WindowIf We WaitBrides Have Hit GlassUnleashed! The Large-Hearted BoyJane of the Waking UniverseFair TouchingEureka SignsDon't Stop NowCloser You AreSmothered in HugsDodging Invisible RaysPostal BlowfishMy Impression NowSad If I Lost ItHuffman Prairie Flying FieldRedmen and Their WivesDayton, Ohio - 19 Something and 5
― Chris L, Saturday, 8 October 2022 01:16 (one year ago) link
"Shocker in Gloomtown" was always one of my deep cut favorites. I knew what he was talking about in the lyrics as I had seen the cover band PS Dump Your Boyfriend before - as they were a midwest staple of that era. The lead singer of that band wore chaps and would kinda do a Jim Dandy/David Lee Roth thing where he would do karate kicks on stage busting balloons.
― earlnash, Saturday, 8 October 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
Big Fan of Propeller (sounds like a title itself)… lethargy, exit flagger, circus world
― calstars, Saturday, 8 October 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link
Throw the switch / it’s rock and roll time
― calstars, Saturday, 8 October 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
on the tundra, some drilling implied, weed king, quality of armor…. So good
― brimstead, Saturday, 8 October 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
Yesss and how could I forget Unleashed! The large hearted boi
― calstars, Sunday, 9 October 2022 00:03 (one year ago) link
I listened to nothing but GBV since Friday, including about 4 hours of the drive to and from my parents, all from the 92-96 period. It brought such a hit of nostalgia, partially because my friend who went all 8 or so of the GBV shows I saw died in 2018. I wanted to text him about my reunion with this band, but alas. While listening to Under the Bushes, Under the Stars (great driving album), all these songs just came rushing back to me and I looked down and the song was over in under 2:30. Crazy. A song like Underwater Explosions, pure pop bliss - it's over in 2:02, with just two quick verses and then two run throughs of a two part chorus - sandwiched by The Perfect Life and Atom Eyes, it all starts feeling like a mutant Genesis suite.
Heightening this effect, while listening to all the EPs/singles/albums from this period, was how much Pollard re-used and reappropriated songs/medleys (Kisses to the Crying Cooks > Over the Neptune!, The Candyland Riots > Once in a While, The Flying Party > The Beekeeper Seeks Ruth, etc.). I knew because I had the first Suitcase, but it really seems like he was moving fragments around his compositions and a chorus could end up in another song quite easily. Damn if Pollard didn't write a million great ditties during this period.
― sometimes you have to drink to kill the paranoia (PBKR), Monday, 10 October 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link