GBV OCD

[sashwap]

some awesome people on the GBV message board compiled a nicely organized comprehensive pollard discography. i don't know what more to say, it's a thing of great beauty...

001 - 1986.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Forever Since Breakfast EP (I Wanna 605058X)
002 - 1987.02.15 - Guided by Voices - Devil Between My Toes (Schwa GVB0001)
003 - 1987.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Sandbox (Halo 1)
004 - 1989.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia (Halo 2)
005 - 1990.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Same Place the Fly Got Smashed (Rocket#9 OX846)
006 - 1992.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Propeller (Rockathon Records 001)
007 - 1993.00.00 - Guided by Voices - The Grand Hour EP (Scat 28)
008 - 1993.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Vampire on Titus (Scat #31-1)
009 - 1993.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Static Airplane Jive [EP] (City Slang 04939-7)
010 - 1994.00.00 - Robert Pollard - Love & a .45 soundtrack (Immortal/Epic Soundtrax EK 66632) - Love Hurts
011 - 1994.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Guided by Voices/Grifters split (Now Sound NOW #3)
012 - 1994.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Get Out of My Stations [EP] (Siltbreeze SB 028)
013 - 1994.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Fast Japanese Spin Cycle [EP] (Engine VROOM-07)
014 - 1994.02.18 - Freedom Cruise/Nightwalker split (Simple Solution SS-002)
015 - 1994.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer [EP] (Domino RUG 11)
016 - 1994.06.21 - Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand (Scat 35-1)
017 - 1994.10.15 - Guided by Voices - I Am a Scientist [EP] (Scat 38)
018 - 1995.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Guided by Voices/New Radient Storm King split (Chunk CH4520)
019 - 1995.02.28 - Guided by Voices - King Shit and the Golden Boys (Scat 40-1)
020 - 1995.04.04 - Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes (City Slang 04956-08) (Matador OLE 123-1)
021 - 1995.06.06 - Guided by Voices - Motor Away single (Matador OLE 148-7)
022 - 1995.09.22 - Freedom Cruise - Red Hot & Bothered: The Indie Rock Guide To Dating (Kinetic Records 9 45983-1) - Sensational Gravity Boy
023 - 1995.09.26 - Guided by Voices - Volume 14 - Reading '95 Special (Volume 14VCD14) - Snuff Movie (She's Gone)
024 - 1995.11.13 - Guided by Voices - Tigerbomb [EP] (Matador OLE 168-7)
025 - 1996.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Superchunk/Guided by Voices split (Fellaheen JACK 046-2)
026 - 1996.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Magnet Magazine (Darla Records DRL-019-MAG-001) Tractor Rape Chain (Clean It Up)
027 - 1996.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Brain Candy sountrack (Matador OLE 183-2) - Postal Blowfish [New Version]
028 - 1996.02.17 - Guided by Voices - Jellyfish Reflector Bootleg [bonus tracks] - Bughouse, Pantherz, I'll Buy You a Bird
029 - 1996.02.27 - Guided by Voices - The Official Ironmen Rally Song single (Matador OLE 184-2)
030 - 1996.03.26 - Guided by Voices - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars (Matador OLE 161-1)
031 - 1996.04.30 - Guided by Voices - The Lounge Ax Defense & Relocation Compact Disc (Touch & Go TG130CD) - Beneath a Festering Moon
032 - 1996.09.10 - Robert Pollard - Not In My Airforce (Matador OLE 215-1)
033 - 1996.11.19 - Guided by Voices - Sunfish Holy Breakfast [EP] (Matador OLE 185-1)
034 - 1996.11.19 - Guided by Voices - Plantations of Pale Pink [EP] (Matador OLE 208-7)
035 - 1996.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Tonics and Twisted Chasers (Rockathon Records 002)
036 - 1997.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Ptolemic Terrascope Magazine #24 7inch - Scorpion Lounge Shutdown
037 - 1997.00.00 - Guided by Voices - God Save The Clean (Flying Nun FNCD409) - Draw(In)g To A (W)hole
038 - 1997.00.00 - Nightwalker - Firehouse Mounain 7"
039 - 1997.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Wish in One Hand [EP] (Jass Records J001)
040 - 1997.03.10 - Guided by Voices - Guided By Voices/Cobra Verde split (Wabana ORE 10) - Aim Correctly / Orange Jacket
041 - 1997.05.06 - Guided by Voices - Bulldog Skin single (Matador OLE 217-2)
042 - 1997.05.20 - Guided by Voices - Mag Earwhig! (Matador OLE 241-1)
043 - 1997.07.29 - Guided by Voices - I Am a Tree single (Matador OLE 264-2)
044 - 1997.08.26 - Guided by Voices - What's Up Matador? compilation (Matador OLE 163-1) - My Thoughts Are a Gas
045 - 1998.04.21 - Guided by Voices - Mag Earwhig! [Bonus Tracks] (Bandai/Matador APCY-8426) - Running Off With the Fun City Girls, None of Them Any Good
046 - 1998.06.23 - Robert Pollard - Waved Out (Matador OLE 316-1)
047 - 1998.00.00 - Nightwalker - One Track Record (Sponic Magazine #3)
048 - 1998.12.16 - Guided by Voices - Under The Bushes Under The Stars [Bonus Tracks] (P-Vine/Blues Interactions PCD-24005) - Finks, The Finest Joke is Upon Us
049 - 1999.00.00 - Guided by Voices - TVT2K (Gratuitous Millennial Tie-In) [Promo] (TVT 1014-2P) - Hold On Hope [Ric Ocasek radio mix]
050 - 1999.00.00 - Guided by Voices - Care For Kosovo (emusic.com) - Surgical Focus (demo)
051 - 1999.02.02 - Robert Pollard - Kid Marine - (Fading Captain Series #1)
052 - 1999.05.25 - Lexo and the Leapers - Ask Them (Fading Captain Series #2)
053 - 1999.05.25 - Nightwalker - In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music by Nightwalker 1984-1993 (Fading Captain Series #3)
054 - 1999.08.03 - Guided by Voices - Do The Collapse (TVT-1980-1)
055 - 1999.09.14 - Guided by Voices - Everything is Nice: Matador Records 10th Anniversary compilation (Matador OLE-400-2) - Choking Tara (Creamy Version)
056 - 1999.11.05 - Robert Pollard with Doug Gillard - Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (Fading Captain Series #4)
057 - 1999.12.03 - Guided by Voices - Plugs for the Program EP (TVT 1983-2)
058 - 2000.00.00 - Kuda Labranche - Tractor Tunes, Volume 1 (Fresh Cow Pie TTV1) - My Big Day
059 - 2000.03.07 - Guided by Voices - Hold on Hope EP (TVT 1985-2)
060 - 2000.04.02 - Guided by Voices - Dayton, Ohio-19 Something and 5 (Fading Captain Series #5)
061 - 2000.10.17 - Guided by Voices - Suitcase: Failed Experiments And Trashed Aircraft (Fading Captain Series #6)
062 - 2000.00.00 - Hazzard Hotrods - Big Trouble (Fading Captain Series #8)
063 - 2000.12.05 - Howling Wolf Orchestra - Speedtraps for the Bee Kingdom (Fading Captain Series #9)
064 - 2001.00.00 - Robert Pollard - Matter Dominates Spirit - Jim Shepard Tribute (Meta Records) - Bristol Girl
065 - 2001.03.20 - Guided by Voices - Colonel Jeffrey Pumpernickel (Off Records 1000) - Titus And Strident Wet Nurse (Creating Jeffrey), Reprise (Destroying Jeffrey)
066 - 2001.03.30 - Guided by Voices - Daredevil Stamp Collector: Do The Collapse B-sides (Fading Captain Series #10) - Hold on Hope (demo), Perfect This Time
067 - 2001.04.10 - Guided by Voices - Isolation Drills (TVT 2160-2)
068 - 2001.07.09 - Guided by Voices - Glad Girls single (TVT/Festival Mushroom 020412) - North American Vampires, On With the Show, Isolation Drills
069 - 2001.07.24 - Robert Pollard and his Soft Rock Renegades - Choreographed Man Of War (Fading Captain Series #14)
070 - 2001.08.21 - Airport 5 - Tower In The Fountain Of Sparks (Fading Captain Series #13)
071 - 2001.10.31 - Circus Devils - Ringworm Interiors (Fading Captain Series #15)
072 - 2001.12.10 - Airport 5 - Guided By Voices & Airport 5 - Selective Service [Split, Bonus Tracks] (Fading Captain Series #16) - Airport 5 tracks only
073 - 2002.00.00 - Robert Pollard - Single Wish (Luna65) - In The States (That I Go Through)
074 - 2002.02.05 - Airport 5 - Life Starts Here (Fading Captain Series #18)
075 - 2002.02.26 - Go Back Snowball - Calling Zero (Fading Captain Series #17)
076 - 2002.04.02 - Acid Ranch - Some Of The Magic Syrup Was Preserved (Fading Captain Series #19)
077 - 2002.06.04 - Antler - The Completed Soundtrack For The Tropic Of Nipples (Off 998) [Antler tracks only]
078 - 2002.06.18 - Guided by Voices - Universal Truths and Cycles (Matador OLE 547-1)
079 - 2002.09.17 - Guided by Voices - The Pipe Dreams Of Instant Prince Whippet (Fading Captain Series #24)
080 - 2002.10.31 - Circus Devils - The Harold Pig Memorial (Fading Captain Series #25)
081 - 2003.01.14 - Robert Pollard - Motel of Fools (Fading Captain Series #26)
082 - 2003.03.25 - Lifeguards - Mist King Urth (Fading Captain Series #27)
083 - 2003.05.20 - Phantom Tollbooth - Beard of Lightning (Off Records OFF 995)
084 - 2003.07.29 - Guided by Voices - My Kind of Soldier single (Fading Captain Series #28) - Broken Brothers
085 - 2003.08.19 - Guided by Voices - Earthquake Glue (Matador OLE 574-1)
086 - 2003.09.23 - Guided by Voices - The Best of Jill Hives single (Matador OLE 598-2) - Free of This World, Downed
087 - 2003.10.31 - Circus Devils - Pinball Mars (Fading Captain Series #29)
088 - 2003.11.04 - Guided by Voices - Hardcore UFOs: Delicious Pie & Thank You For Calling: Previously Unreleased Songs and Recordings (Matador OLE 550)
089 - 2004.05.10 - Robert Pollard - Fiction Man (Fading Captain Series #30)
090 - 2004.08.24 - Guided by Voices - Half Smiles of the Decomposed (Matador OLE 612-2)
091 - 2005.02.28 - Robert Pollard - Zoom 7" EP (Fading Captain Series #31)
092 - 2005.05.16 - The Moping Swans - Lightninghead To Coffee Pot EP (Fading Captain Series #33)
093 - 2005.05.16 - Circus Devils - Five (Fading Captain Series #34)
094 - 2005.07.19 - Hazzard Hotrods - Bigger Trouble [Bonus Tracks] (Fading Captain Series #35)
095 - 2005.09.27 - Robert Pollard - Music for "Bubble" 7" EP (Fading Captain Series #36)
096 - 2005.10.04 - Guided by Voices - Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow (Fading Captain Series #37)
097 - 2005.10.04 - Guided by Voices - Briefcase 2 (Suitcase 2 Abridged - The Return Of Milko Waif) [Bonus Tracks Only] (Fading Captain Series #38)
098 - 2005-12.07 - Acid Ranch As Forever: A Manifesto Of Fractured Imagination And Wreckless Living (Rockathon Records ROCK-04)
099 - 2005.12.12 - Robert Pollard - I'm a Strong Lion single (Must Destroy Music) - Breadcrumbs for the Whales
100 - 2006.01.24 - Robert Pollard - From a Compound Eye (Merge Records MRG272)
101 - 2006.05.02 - The Takeovers - Turn to Red (Fading Captain Series #40)
102 - 2006.05.02 - Psycho and the Birds - All That is Holy (Fading Captain Series #41)
103 - 2006.05.02 - Keene Brothers - Blues and Boogie Shoes (Fading Captain Series #42)
104 - 2006.07.21 - Psycho and the Birds - Check Your Zoo 7" EP (Fading Captain Series #43)
105 - 2006.10.10 - Robert Pollard - Normal Happiness (Merge Records MRG282)
106 - 2007.02.12 - Acid Ranch - The Great Houdini Wasn't So Great (Record Company Records RCR001)
107 - 2007.04.17 - Robert Pollard - Silverfish Trivia EP (Prom Is Coming PIC1)
108 - 2007.05.29 - Crickets: Best Of The Fading Captain Series 1999-2007 [Bonus Tracks] (Fading Captain Series #44)
109 - 2007.06.01 - The Takeovers - Bad Football (Off Records OFF 1001)
110 - 2007.08.07 - Circus Devils - Sgt. Disco (Happy Jack Rock Records HJRR-13)
111 - 2007.10.09 - Robert Pollard - Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (Merge Records MRG307)
112 - 2007.10.09 - Robert Pollard - Standard Gargoyle Decisions (Merge Records MRG317)
113 - 2008.01.29 - Robert Pollard - Superman Was a Rocker (Happy Jack Rock Records HJRR-15)
114 - 2008.02.12 - The Takeovers - Little Green Onion Man EP (Happy Jack Rock Records HJRR-14 (OFF 992)
115 - 2008.02.26 - Psycho and the Birds - We've Moved (Happy Jack Rock Records HJRR-16)
116 - 2008.04.15 - Robert Pollard - Weatherman and Skin Goddess EP (Guided By Voices Inc. GBVI-1)
117 - 2008.05.02 - Robert Pollard - Happy Jack Rock Records Single Series B-Sides (Happy Jack Rock Records HJRR-1-12)
118 - 2008.06.03 - Robert Pollard - Robert Pollard is Off to Business (Guided By Voices Inc. GBVI-2)
119 - 2008.07.15 - Carbon Whales - South (Happy Jock Rock Records HJRR-17)
120 - 2008.08.05 - Boston Spaceships - You Satisfy Me 7" (Happy Jack Rock Records HJRR-18)
121 - 2008.09.09 - Boston Spaceships - Brown Submarine (Guided By Voices Inc. GBVI-3)
122 - 2008.10.31 - Circus Devils - Ataxia (Happy Jack Rock Records HJRR-19)
123 - 2008.11.04 - Robert Pollard - The Butler Stands for All of Us 7" (Happy Jack Rock Records HJRR-20)
124 - 2008.12.30 - Boston Spaceships - Headache Revolution 7" (Happy Jack Rock Records HJRR-21)
125 - 2009.01.20 - Robert Pollard - The Crawling Distance (Guided By Voices Inc. GBVI-4)
126 - 2009.02.17 - Boston Spaceships - The Planets Are Blasted (Guided By Voices Inc. GBVI-5)
127 - 2009.04.14 - Circus Devils - Gringo (Happy Jack Rock Records HJRR-22)
128 - 2009.06.09 - Cosmos - Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks (Happy Jack Rock Records HJRR-23)
129 - 2009.08.11 - Robert Pollard - Elephant Jokes (Guided By Voices Inc. GBVI-6)
130 - 2009.10.06 - Boston Spaceships - Zero to 99 (Guided By Voices Inc. GBVI-7)
131 - 2009.11.02 - Guided by Voices - Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now (Guided By Voices Inc. GBVI-8)

[sashwap]

my streamable suitcase 3 best-of: http://drop.io/droppingthebomb

(i disabled downloading so i feel okay with sharing. i really wanted to share.)

[auto-da-fey]

my first impression of this new one (We All Got Out of the Army) is pretty favorable--best thing Pollard has put out in his own name since Normal Happiness, probably (sashwap, didn't one of the 2007 Merge albums rank highly in your decade list? I was surprised by that--found them both disappointing myself).

I like how the recent albums have been sonic concept albums of sorts--Crawling Distance as "soft-rock Bob," Off to Business as retro-power-pop, the Boston Spaceships albums as "carryin' that GBV torch," and this one as idiosyncratic new-wave rocking.

[sashwap]

my first impression of this new one (We All Got Out of the Army) is pretty favorable--best thing Pollard has put out in his own name since Normal Happiness, probably (sashwap, didn't one of the 2007 Merge albums rank highly in your decade list? I was surprised by that--found them both disappointing myself).

I like how the recent albums have been sonic concept albums of sorts--Crawling Distance as "soft-rock Bob," Off to Business as retro-power-pop, the Boston Spaceships albums as "carryin' that GBV torch," and this one as idiosyncratic new-wave rocking.

we all got out of the army fuckin' RULES. i'm a fan, anyway. "how many stations!" "wild girl!" "POET BUMS!" the best song ever, though, is the b-side "rare hazel japan." sweet merciful crap, does it rule. oh boy. best album since elephant jokes!

and yeah...of the 2007 merge albums, i really like coast to coast carpet of love. its companion album, standard gargoyle decisions, is my LEAST favorite pollard album ever, so that's weird. but coast to coast is just such a great autumn album for me. if pressed, though, i'd probably rank the post-merge stuff a bit higher, though.

[auto-da-fey]

now I feel like a deflated postal blowfish, because in the absence of a functional record player, I have not been keeping up with the singles. will rectify--I've already been considering upgrading from instant coffee to the real deal, so maybe that and the record player can be my preemptive new-job gifts to myself. next thing you know I'll be looking into a Roth IRA.

best album since elephant jokes!

elicited a literal LOL here.

[edison]

Listening to We All Got Out Of The Army now - good stuff indeed! "How Many Stations" just came on - probably one of the catchiest song I've heard from the guy in a long time (granted, I haven't bothered with most of his recent records)

[auto-da-fey]

new Boston Spaceships EP (Camera Found the Ray Gun) just arrived--I'd forgotten even ordering it, so a nice surprise.* pretty damn minor contribution to the catalog, but "The Way Out" holds down the fort.

the fine folks at Jackpot threw in a random copy of Phantom Tollbooth's Beard of Lightning, which was nice if unnecessary.


* though I was kind of disappointed upon opening it, because I really had completely forgotten this, so when I saw a package from Jackpot my first thought was "huh, was there a new Takeovers thing?"

[sashwap]

new Boston Spaceships EP (Camera Found the Ray Gun) just arrived--I'd forgotten even ordering it, so a nice surprise.* pretty damn minor contribution to the catalog, but "The Way Out" holds down the fort.

the fine folks at Jackpot threw in a random copy of Phantom Tollbooth's Beard of Lightning, which was nice if unnecessary.

lucky! i got this. phantom tollbooth would've been cooler. EP is good, gonna play it a bunch tomorrow while i make breakfast

[edison]

I'm afraid my recent Fall obsession might take up a lot of my listening time this year, but I'm looking forward to one day, perhaps when I retire or something, check out a lot of the stuff discussed here that I don't know yet. In the meantime, I'm downloading Airport 5's Tower In The Fountain Of Sparks, on the strength of the excellent "Stifled Man Casino", which Stewart Lee used in the ending credits to his 41st Best Stand-Up Ever. Such a nice surprise to hear an unfamiliar and awesome Pollard song in that context! Although I'm definitely not surprised that Mr Lee would have such good taste.

Also of note: though I haven't really taken the time to make inroads into the new album as a whole, Pollard's "How Many Stations" is one of my most-listened to songs of 2010.

[sashwap]

Also of note: though I haven't really taken the time to make inroads into the new album as a whole, Pollard's "How Many Stations" is one of my most-listened to songs of 2010.

amazing song! i really really like that album.

tower in the fountain of sparks is very good, but there's not a lot in the same vein as "stifled man casino." still, "feathering clueless" and "war & wedding" are such perfect little nuggets, among others.

i actually just came on LPTJ to post this in the 2010 album art thread, but i may as well put it here:



yes, this is the cover to his next album. i love it so so much.

"moses on a snail!" 

apparently, bob wanted it to look like an album you'd buy off TV.

[auto-da-fey]

I love that man, so very much. actually it is quite possible that I was purchasing the new Circus Devils album at the precise moment you posted that--the flow of albums is truly ceaseless, you get the new one just in time to learn about the next one. anyway, haven't played Mother Skinny yet, but will report back.

tower in the fountain of sparks is very good, but there's not a lot in the same vein as "stifled man casino." still, "feathering clueless" and "war & wedding" are such perfect little nuggets, among others.

"Total Exposure" too, that's my vote for the gem on that album.

[auto-da-fey]

oh, and

the fine folks at Jackpot threw in a random copy of Phantom Tollbooth's Beard of Lightning, which was nice if unnecessary.

lucky! i got this. phantom tollbooth would've been cooler. EP is good, gonna play it a bunch tomorrow while i make breakfast

if you want to trade, I'd be game. even if you don't, I'm happy to send you the Phantom Tollbooth album--while slightly interesting in its own anomalous way, it is not the sort of thing I need two of.

[auto-da-fey]

so, liking the new Circus Devils--no Gringo, but probably their second-best. the early tracks have this perversely charming downtuned Alice in Chains chugging going on, the aimless prog stuff maintains relative brevity, and there's even a song apparently based on a Jess Franco film ("8 Legs to Love You," though I can't fathom Bob actually sitting through the film so much as coming across its title).

I won't rue the day that Pollard stops giving us things like "A Living Necklace of Warts," but it's an outlier here, not the norm as it would have been five Circus Devils albums ago.

I'm not sure why he keeps returning to this group instead of the Takeovers or Moping Swans or even Lifeguards, but as long as he's gonna keep doing it, at least he's doing it well.

[auto-da-fey]

just came across Rafter Tag, the 1987 album by Greg Demos' band The New Creatures, with Pollard showing up for a few backing vocals. Willfully Obscure, the music blog where I found it, calls them "amateurish riff brokers, with occasional acid and psych inclinations," which is true but fails to capture the charm of that second-(third-?)tier mid-80s indie rock sound, and there are a few kickin' tracks here. overall, I guess it inhabit the same place in the GBV universe that, say, a recent Killah Priest album does in the Wu-Tang galaxy, but that's not a bad thing, just an undistinguished one. 

[davy]

amateurish riff brokers

is quite a phrase.

[sashwap]

just came across Rafter Tag, the 1987 album by Greg Demos' band The New Creatures, with Pollard showing up for a few backing vocals. Willfully Obscure, the music blog where I found it, calls them "amateurish riff brokers, with occasional acid and psych inclinations," which is true but fails to capture the charm of that second-(third-?)tier mid-80s indie rock sound, and there are a few kickin' tracks here. overall, I guess it inhabit the same place in the GBV universe that, say, a recent Killah Priest album does in the Wu-Tang galaxy, but that's not a bad thing, just an undistinguished one. 

thanks for the tip! sadly, i can't stand demos' voice.

and thanks for the phantom tollbooth trade offer! someone on the GBV board already offered theirs so i jumped on it, and have been trying to wrap my head around the album for a week or so. some parts are quite excellent and some rather unappealing, mostly within the same song. i love the concept more than anything. if only the band were a bit less wanky. my dream is that peter buck decides to give pollard an album's worth of unused r.e.m. instrumentals.

i used some birthday money last month to buy all the cheap circus devils CDs from pollard's site. pretty cool to have 'em all now (except ataxia and the new one). other than gringo, my favorite is ringworm interiors -- it's so strange! it seems like the circus devils aesthetic isn't quite in place yet, so it's a bit more alien and less self-consciously strange than later efforts. their catalog has more hooks and melody than i was expecting.

[auto-da-fey]

NEW TOBIN SPROUT!!!!!
The Bluebirds of Happiness Tried to Land on My Shoulder

Okay, it's exactly like every solo Sprout album that preceded it: mellow, midtempo, middle-aged bedroom pop. This guy is the anti-Pollard in his unflappable consistency (and unprolific nature), and I think everything from the mid-80s Fig. 4 stuff through Eyesinweasel and the various solo albums has been almost uniform in quality (with a special bonus point for the first solo album because I remember how excited I was about that at the time). This is no different--which also means it's no less necessary.

Just finished my first listen, and it seems bookended by the two best tracks, but fully expecting further gems to reveal themselves gradually, as is the post-GBV Sprout way.

[davy]

I remembering digging some stuff from the Tobin Sprout album that had "moon" in the title.

[davy]

That's a nice sleeve, too.

[narlus]

so who is amped about the news about tour dates?  w/ Tobin and Mitch?



this guy.

[sashwap]

i entered a contest to win an unreleased GBV song. you can help me win by viewing this video and leaving a positive comment about my band fewn on this blog entry!

the contest was held by james greer (former GBV bass player, current author) and was a challenge to bring into existence a song written by a character in one of his novels. he provided the chord progressions and lyrics.

[sashwap]

so who is amped about the news about tour dates?  w/ Tobin and Mitch?



this guy.

this guy too. hope i can make it to one of the shows! i'm certainly going to do everything in my power to do so.

[MincerJay]

@waynecoyne : Spent the morning recording some singing for Guided By Voices tribute record..Smothered and Hugs...

Wait, what?

http://yfrog.com/jw33uz

Hmmm...

[auto-da-fey]

I know this will go straight to the sashwap/MincerJay echo chamber, but: I never got much into Moses on a Snail, despite extensive effort; it basically reminds me of that 2004ish Fading Captain low point, though I don't think it's quite as dire as that. Some decent stuff, but it pales in comparison to recent Pollard outpt.

this new Boston Spaceships though, holy shit! people who long for a return to mid-90s GBV hooks should seek this out, pronto. it cheered me up like nothing else could when I woke up tired and hungry in Newark today with no good food or coffee in miles. "The British and the French" cracks me the hell up, and I'm not even sure it's supposed to be funny.

[edison]

Your description of this Boston Spaceships record did the job - I downloaded it and am now listening and have been really enjoying it so far! "The British and the French" is indeed pretty hilarious.