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myyada [Edit] [Delete] 44 replies 22:41 January 22nd, 2013

Last year's records were great. I guess it took me a while to digest it all. And now I'm thinking Class Clown Spots a UFO is one of the best records of 2012 and this one of the coolest singles/videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs6aJ4tc_DQ

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Weird! I was playing them so much today (after not listening to em for ages)

that I ended up doing a google search for old GBV threads on DiS.

Immediate favourite songs that come to mind:

Chasing Heather Crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7KiLRCxt58

and

My Kind Of Soldier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BndAytmV9_g

Actually My Kind Of Soldier might be one of my fave songs full stop, don't know why it gets me so hard, it just does. Great, great, great band.

drakepress | 22 Jan '13, 22:48 | X | ^ This | Reply

myyada this'd this
- tidy choices
  
  think this will always be my favourite: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcUG_rXHeRM
  
  but totally digging on this demo atm: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_MS4ghZcxI
  
  yeeeeeeeeh
  
  myyada @drakepress | 22 Jan '13, 23:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Goldheart!
    
    Hadn't heard Class Clown before but it's kinda beautiful.
    
    drakepress @myyada | 22 Jan '13, 23:48 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - the single's good too...
      
      but i found the brass a little off-putting at first
      
      myyada @drakepress | 22 Jan '13, 23:51 | X | ^ This | Reply
      
      JaguarPirate this'd this
theres a new one out in april

Jordan_229_2 | 22 Jan '13, 22:52 | X | ^ This | Reply

myyada this'd this
- excellent news
  
  prolific blighters
  
  myyada @Jordan_229_2 | 22 Jan '13, 23:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - GUIDED BY VOICES
    Announce new album!
    English Little League
    Fire Records - 29 April
    
    English Little League—the fourth album from the reunited "classic" line-up of Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Greg Demos, Mitch Mitchell and Kevin Fennell—hums like angry birds along the full spectrum of rock's highways and byways (especially the byways), from rock to roll and back again. Pollard's rebus system of songwriting (sounds made visible, abstract concepts symbolized) strung like fairy lights from the opening song "Xeno Pariah" to the galvanic closer "With Glass In Foot," kettles along at full steam throughout, punctuated by the airier constructs of Tobin Sprout ("The Sudden Death of Epstein's Ways," with it's sweet/creepy emphatic refrain of "Jesus," is a particular standout). Deeper and less immediately accessible than last year's Class Clown Spots a UFO (for instance), but no less richly striated with layers of musical goo, this album is as much the work of a guild of master craftsmen as of a singular visionary genius. ELL (fookin' 'ell!) travels from hieroglyphic to hieratic smoother than a pharaoh's cartouche, and if the quadratic equation that runs through the middle of the record from "Crybaby Four Star Hotel" to "Birds" doesn't solve every problem in your life then you've got actual problems.
    
    The Guided By Voices project, as any fan knows, both requires and rewards effortful listening, and lazybones who dismiss the volume of Pollard's output as (basically) impossible misunderstand the care with which he assembles his dreamscapes. Whiny types will thus be dismayed to learn that Pollard has recently installed a studio in his house (first fruits can be found on "A Burning Glass," among others here), the better to transform his oneiric musings to immediate art, but converts to the clubhouse will be overcome—some will in fact faint—at the news. The plan at present is to release three Guided By Voices albums per year until the end of time, but in the world according to Robert Pollard, "plans" does not mean what it means to you and me. "Plans" to him are moving ideas caught momentarily in stasis, and subject as often to revision as to fruition. Which is to say only that you never know what the future will bring, only what the past has brought, and the past has now brought you the fourth Guided By Voices album in little more than a year. You should probably buy someone a drink to celebrate. You should definitely celebrate. Life is short. Guided By Voices is long.
    
    Guided by Voices - English Little League
    
    Side 1: English Little League
    1. Xeno Pariah
    2. Know Me As Heavy
    3. Island (She Talks In Rainbows)
    4. Trash Can Full Of Nails
    5. Send To Celeste (And The Cosmic Athletes)
    6. Quiet Game
    7. Noble Insect
    8. Sir Garlic Breath
    
    Side 2: Department Of Dust
    1. Crybaby 4-Star Hotel
    2. Biopgrapher Seahorse
    3. Flunky Minnows
    4. Birds
    5. The Sudden Death Of Epstein's Ways
    6. Reflections In A Metal Whistle
    7. Taciturn Caves
    8. A Burning Glass
    9. W/ Glass In Foot
    
    Jordan_229_2 @myyada | 22 Jan '13, 23:04 | X | ^ This | Reply
    
    myyada this'd this
- New EP just released, 5 7"'s due, starting Feb
  
  Poprivet @Jordan_229_2 | 23 Jan '13, 12:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - The EP arrived in the post yesterday...
    
    tidy little disc.
    
    Also got the Keep it in Motion single on pink wax.
    
    Looking forward to hearing the new stuff.
    
    myyada @Poprivet | 21 Feb '13, 12:47 | X | ^ This | Reply
everyone; best of guided by voices (1 cd)

Jordan_229_2 | 22 Jan '13, 22:53 | X | ^ This | Reply

JaguarPirate this'd this
- Can't be done
  
  Poprivet @Jordan_229_2 | 23 Jan '13, 12:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
- game of pricks x20
  
  Severed799 @Jordan_229_2 | 23 Jan '13, 12:46 | X | ^ This | Reply
- took me ages to decide on this lot
  
  1. Over The Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
  2. Unleashed! The Large Hearted Boy
  3. Girls Of Wild Strawberries
  4. Hey Hey, Spaceman
  5. It's Like Soul Man
  6. Indian Was An Angel
  7. Tractor Rape Chain
  8. A Salty Salute
  9. Peep-Hole
  10. Fair Touching
  11. I Am A Scientist
  12. Waves
  13. My Valuable Hunting Knife
  14. Man Called Aerodynamics
  15. Big Boring Wedding
  16. Secret star
  17. Gold Star For Robot Boy
  18. Drinker's Peace
  19. Your Name Is Wild
  20. Gleemer
  21. Beekeeper Seeks Ruth
  22. Mincer Ray
  23. Dayton, Ohio - 19 Something And 5
  24. Huffman Prairie Flying Field
  
  Good balance between the hi-fi and lo-fi, tried to include a variety of albums (though bee Thousand and UTB,UTS dominate of course) and a handful of Tobin numbers
  
  JaguarPirate @Jordan_229_2 | 23 Jan '13, 14:14 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - oh, and Spotify link for anyone who wants to listen
    
    http://open.spotify.com/user/star_slight/playlist/48GflgmKNv6HnwJ7qiqpn8
    
    JaguarPirate @JaguarPirate | 23 Jan '13, 14:15 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - you beautiful little thing you
      
      Jordan_229_2 @JaguarPirate | 23 Jan '13, 19:53 | X | ^ This | Reply
      
      JaguarPirate this'd this
Let's Go Eat The Factory was my favourite of their 2012 albums.

I think Laundry & Lasers might be my favourite GBV song.

Icarus-Smicarus | 23 Jan '13, 00:27 | X | ^ This | Reply

JaguarPirate this'd this
- Waves was my most played song of last year
  
  Tobin was on fire on Factory
  
  JaguarPirate @Icarus-Smicarus | 23 Jan '13, 14:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - Oh yeah Spiderfighter and God Loves Us were great as well
    
    Icarus-Smicarus @JaguarPirate | 23 Jan '13, 20:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - seen the fan video for GLU?
      
      Old school cool
      
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6_YAtr0x48
      
      JaguarPirate @Icarus-Smicarus | 23 Jan '13, 20:25 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - The work of the guy who does the art for the events Dan mentions below
        
        Poprivet @JaguarPirate | 24 Jan '13, 12:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
One-disc best-of, eh?

unordered, because choosing the songs was hard enough already!

1. Motor Away
2. Big School
3. Smothered In Hugs
4. A Salty Salute
5. Atom Eyes
6. Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
7. Don't Stop Now
8. If We Wait
9. Game of Pricks
10. Stifled Man Casino (Airport 5 side project, I know, but it kicks ass)
11. Chicken Blows
12. Peep-Hole
13. Echos Myron
14. Drinker's Peace
15. Tractor Rape Chain
16. The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
17. Mammoth Cave
18. Hang Up and Try Again
19. Class Clown Spots a UFO
20. Song of Below (wonderful rarity)
21. Surgical Focus
22. Little Whirl

orangejuice | 23 Jan '13, 19:49 | X | ^ This | Reply

JaguarPirate this'd this
- Oh fuck forgot I am a Scientist
  
  and A Contest Featuring Human Beings. and Fly Into Ashes. and everything off Propeller. and a million others. No band makes it more difficult to compile a best-of!!
  
  orangejuice @orangejuice | 23 Jan '13, 19:52 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I used to dislike Big School for some reason
    
    must be because I never listened to it properly because it is such a tune!
    
    Also you just reminded me how stupid I was to leave out Smothered In Hugs, and nice to see someone else who ranks Peep-Hole as highly as I do
    
    "I'm looking inside your brain
    and christ, it's a cluttered mess
    I love you, I must confess"
    
    JaguarPirate @orangejuice | 23 Jan '13, 19:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
    - Big School is just so full of joy :)
      
      I totally agree on Peep-Hole, I think those lyrics you quoted are Pollard's finest. But it actually took me ages to come round to it. Some of my favourite GBV songs are ones I really didn't like for a while, but that's the way it goes I guess
      
      orangejuice @JaguarPirate | 23 Jan '13, 20:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
      - aside from the obvious ones like I Am A Scientist
        
        I think my favourite lyrics are 19 Something and 5:
        
        Man, you needn't travel far
        To feel completely alive
        On strawberry Philadelphia Drive
        On a hazy day in 19 something and 5
        
        and The Brides Have Hit Glass:
        
        One day I will know
        That's it's a waste of time
        And there's a better road ahead of me
        I just don't know how to make it there
        So I'll just hang around and take my chance
        Once again I'll roll the dice
        And try to hang on to my shrinking paradise
        
        JaguarPirate @orangejuice | 23 Jan '13, 20:24 | X | ^ This | Reply
- If you're a newcomer, these are my absolute faves
  
  Smothered In Hugs
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fn1U_n0J-I8
  
  Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSd-80X-GEo
  
  If We Wait
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu2RqqIRCuc
  
  orangejuice @orangejuice | 23 Jan '13, 20:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
- You cheated with an Airport 5 track too lol
  
  Different track though.
  
  FromANewWorld @orangejuice | 23 Jan '13, 21:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
Love this thread

1 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Exit Flagger.mp3
2 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Jar of Cardinals.mp3
3 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Echos Myro.mp3
4 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Back to the Lake.mp3
5 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - 14 Cheerleader Coldfront.mp3
6 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Non-Absorbing.mp3
7 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Surgical Focus.mp3
8 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Choking Tara.mp3
9 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Smothered in Hugs.mp3
10 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Game of Pricks.mp3
11 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Acorns & Orioles.mp3
12 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - The Finest Joke Is Upon Us.mp3
13 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - My Valuable Hunting Knife.mp3
14 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Father Sgt. Christmas Card.mp3
15 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Window of My World.mp3
16 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - The Best of Jill Hives.mp3
17 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Ester's Day.mp3
18 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Over the Neptune _ Mesh Gear Fox.mp3
19 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Atom Eyes.mp3
20 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Dragons Awake.mp3
21 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - I Am a Scientist.mp3
22 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Tour Guide at the Winston Churchil...
23 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Your Name Is Wild.mp3
24 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Learning to Hunt.mp3
25 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Motor Awa.mp3
26 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Everywhere With Helicopter.mp3
27 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Tractor Rape Chain.mp3
28 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Total Exposure.mp3
29 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - A Good Flying Bird.mp3
30 - Trifle In A Crystal Bowl 1992-2004 - Jane of the Waking Universe.mp3

FromANewWorld | 23 Jan '13, 20:56 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Total Exposure is cheating, but it's such a good song
  
  I let myself off.
  
  FromANewWorld @FromANewWorld | 23 Jan '13, 20:57 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - I think its missing 'Unleashed! The Large Hearted Boy' actually
    
    etc... etc..
    
    FromANewWorld @FromANewWorld | 23 Jan '13, 21:02 | X | ^ This | Reply
Would this be a good place to mention the gig on April 20th where there's gonna be over 125 GBV songs played live?

I think it would!

www.facebook.com/events/471806186197623/

Got GBV fans coming from the US and all over Europe for this. This is the third one we've done. Tobin Sprout and Kevin Fennel have both sent personal testimonies at how much they enjoyed watching the footage of us playing last year, where 109 songs were played. This year there will be at least 125, probably nearer 150 songs played.

I know it isn't actual GBV, but its as close as we're ever going to get in the UK, and its only £6, and you get a free meal.

Oh, an we have a special guest vocalist for a set of 16 songs - multi award winning actor and director (and massive GBV fan) Paddy Considine. I'm quite excited about this.

Gonna be awesome!

dan_thw | 23 Jan '13, 21:19 | X | ^ This | Reply

myyada this'd this
- woah woah
  
  Paddy C is quite a catch, good on you! Also anything personal from Tobin would just be like the best thing possible. If only it wasn't in London :(
  
  JaguarPirate @dan_thw | 24 Jan '13, 03:28 | X | ^ This | Reply
- thats incredible work
  
  really wanna come
  
  Jordan_229_2 @dan_thw | 24 Jan '13, 12:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
Having just spent about three weeks trying to cut down the entire GBV back catalogue to 120ish songs...

...making an 80 minute compilation is virtually impossible.

However, if it must be done...

If I was to pick personal favourites (will be leaving out quite a few 'hits' here that would otherwise definitely be on a 'best of') here the tracklisting of what I'd go for...

1 - Wondering Boy Poet
2 - Jabberstroker
3 - My Impression Now
4 - Man Called Aerodynamics
5 - Motor Away
6 - Captain's Dead
7 - Everywhere With Helicopter
8 - Navigating Flood Regions
9 - Drinkers Peace
10 - Wished I Was A Giant
11 - Big Boring Wedding
12 - Tractor Rape Chain
13 - I Am A Scientist
14 - My Kind Of Soldier
15 - Things I Will Keep
16 - Twilight Campfighter
17 - Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)
18 - Teenage FBI (EP version)
19 - Echos Myron
20 - Gold Star For Robot Boy
21 - Big School
22 - Pendulum
23 - Quality Of Armor
24 - Unleashed! The Large Hearted Boy
25 - Watch Me Jumpstart
26 - The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
27 - Non-Absorbing
28 - Dayton, Ohio (19 Something And 5)
29 - Peep Hole
30 - Game Of Pricks
31 - Some Drilling Implied
32 - Murder Charge
33 - Smothered In Hugs
34 - Liar's Tale
35 - Heavy Metal Country

Amazingly, with a bit of editing (cut the crowd noise off the start of Jabberstroker for instance), that fits on an 80 minute CD.

Massive grimace at some of the stuff I had to leave out. Could easily make two, possibly three further compilations that would be the virtual equal of this one. AND then there's still well over a hundred amazing songs I'd have to leave off them too.

Fucking GBV man. Awesome.

dan_thw | 23 Jan '13, 23:08 | X | ^ This | Reply
- Can't believe I couldn't fit a single song from Mag Earwhig on here
  
  an album with at least 10-12 absolute belters on it that is better than most other bands' best album. Crazy.
  
  dan_thw @dan_thw | 24 Jan '13, 18:11 | X | ^ This | Reply
Non-Absorbing yeah yeah

Find myself singing that to myself every now and then, something so warm and comforting and melancholy about it

"Do you see me do do do do do do do do like i see you do do do do do do do do
Do you see me?"

Also Rainclouds has to be one of their best opening tracks ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pETIFwrlRg

So triumphant, absolutely sure that if I'd seen that before i became a fan it would have instantly converted me to the GBV creed

JaguarPirate | 24 Jan '13, 03:26 | X | ^ This | Reply
- this is cracking
  
  ...love that record.
  
  Also, 'final TV appearance ever'... yeh right
  
  myyada @JaguarPirate | 24 Jan '13, 19:20 | X | ^ This | Reply
  
  JaguarPirate this'd this
they're so good

alternately wonderful & crappy. just the best. I'd like to play cards with them.

theintl | 24 Jan '13, 07:19 | X | ^ This | Reply
Here's a place

to hear 'Copy Zero' from the new EP what Poprivet mentioned about upstream: http://consequenceofsound.net/2013/01/new-music-guided-by-voices-copy-zero/

myyada | 24 Jan '13, 12:00 | X | ^ This | Reply
(At least) 125 GBV songs performed live in London on April 20th

by me, the rest of Band of Pricks, supremo actor/director Paddy Considine and some other awesome fellows.

I know I mentioned it above but now we got tickets on sale and everything confirmed.

£6 advance tickets - yes that's over 125 GBV songs performed live plus a free meal that you'd pay more than £6 for anywhere else in London.

From the venue website: http://tinyurl.com/b9azbfy
From the wegottickets lot: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/206245

http://www.euroheedfest.com

dan_thw | 25 Jan '13, 15:27 | X | ^ This | Reply
- answer my question on it!
  
  Jordan_229_2 @dan_thw | 25 Jan '13, 15:31 | X | ^ This | Reply
  - question answered!
    
    sorry, slipped through the net there.
    
    dan_thw @Jordan_229_2 | 25 Jan '13, 16:07 | X | ^ This | Reply
I want a go at this.

1. Alright
2. Everyday
3. Class Clown Spots a UFO
4. Game of Pricks
5. Quality of Armor
6. Eureka Signs
7. My Name is Wild
8. Fountain of Youth
9. Gold Star For Robot Boy
10. Unspirited
11. Beat Your Wings
12. Dusted
13. Damn Good Mr Jam
14. Sweeping Bones
15. Jar of Cardinals
16. Everybody Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)
17. Don't Stop Now
18. 158 Years of Beautiful Sex
19. I Am a Tree
20. A Contest Featuring Other Human Beings
21. Scissors
22. Finks
23. Everywhere is Miles From Everywhere

One for every day of the year? I think so.

skoldpumpkins | 25 Jan '13, 20:37 | X | ^ This | Reply
this is now news;

http://www.contactmusic.com/news/members-of-4-or-5-magicians-paddy-considine-and-friends-celebrate-the-legacy-of-guided-by-voices_3472721

Jordan_229_2 | 28 Jan '13, 19:04 | X | ^ This | Reply

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