Another good old one that will never make it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FNIzF7mFkY
If I had ever had a radio show, it would have been called "trust the wizard".
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:34 (twelve years ago) link
35. "Wished I Was a Giant" (Vampire on Titus, 1993) [203 points, 9 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdhNN3WrtkI
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
I used to have that scooter promo picture up on my wall in lolcollege.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
A guy here in Charlottesville, Virginia, had a great radio show called "Trust the Wizard"! WTJU!!!
― grandavis, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
i figured there were a bunch of them -- it seemed cliche at the time, but now no one would know wtf i'm referring to
btw i know this is asking a lot, but juanito could you drag this out as long as possible? please? i have class til 12:15 and shameful though it is, i've been looking forward to this. i thought the countdown was going to be yesterday!
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
I just realized yesterday that I am actually gonna be offline tomorrow through Monday, so I am gonna miss the top 20 countdown. It will of course still be fun to read the thread, but sad to miss the event itself.
I certainly didn't know what "Trust the Wizard" referred to, so probably only a cliche to big GBV fans. Pretty easy to love the obviously-lovable aspects of GBV though, as in every college station should have a radio show called "Trust the Wizard", it would be fucking cooler of they did.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
My college radio show was not called "Trust the Wizard". What a missed opportunity.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
By the way, should this be ""Wished I Was a Giant""?
"Wished I Was A Giant" is one of my very favorites
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
34. "A Good Flying Bird" (Alien Lanes, 1995) [207 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkltkwCsyPk
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
at last, a song I voted for! whoever you are, who placed it as his #1, I salute you.
― V79, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
As memory serves, I had this one in my top 10. One of the most energetic and catchiest songs in their catalogue.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:34 (twelve years ago) link
33. "Glad Girls" (Isolation Drills, 2001) [211 points, 10 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQa1_PAPbks
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 14:55 (twelve years ago) link
that's hell of a trippy video
― V79, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
so catchy
― skip, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
"Glad Girls" wore thin on me after listening to it beaucoup times upon release. it opens great! but the "they're all right" repetition is brutal. & the song could stand to be an old-style quickie, 2 minutes & out.
also I dunno why but I found the album's backstory about the dissolution of his marriage sad & found the album (& this song) a bit too personal to enjoy the pumped up kicks. it's less abstract to me & kind of a downer. still love "Chasing Heather Crazy" though
― Euler, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
here's glad girls as an old style quickie from 93https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl4c_85kgOQ
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
It's got a Moment, though - "the light that passes through me". Love the combination of chords and words at that point.
― Viva Brother Beyond (ithappens), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
32. "Buzzards and Dreadful Crows" (Bee Thousand, 1994) [220 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGZT82PrbKs
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
also I dunno why but I found the album's backstory about the dissolution of his marriage sad & found the album (& this song) a bit too personal to enjoy the pumped up kicks. it's less abstract to me & kind of a downer. still love "Chasing Heather Crazy" though― Euler, Wednesday, September 28, 2011 11:08 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark
Euler, or anyone else, is there a good bio or book about GBV? Thanks in advance...made a playlist of the countdown songs so far last night and it is soooooo f-in' amazing. This is one of the best poll ideas yet as it really distills down the greatest of the great
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:26 (twelve years ago) link
Well, my #1 didn't make the top 50 (or 60), so it's not as great as it could be. ;)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
spotify link is also being updated: http://open.spotify.com/user/sp10000/playlist/5QWljGgTEhj3DPiXtmkYU7
― skip, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
xp Jim Greer's "Hunting Accidents" comes first to mind, and people have been saying good things about it upthread.
― V79, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
My son was about 2 around the time of Isolation Drills. We'd be listening to the album in the car and he'd be in the back seat singing along to 'Glad Girls'. But we had to be careful playing that song around other people since he would sing "Hey, Hey, glad girls!/I only want to get you high!"
― righteousmaelstrom, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
That's another way of saying "too low."
― righteousmaelstrom, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
xp it's a weird book, lot of cool stuff, but a lot of inside baseball stuff that isn't of too much interest. inside baseball almost literally -- there's kind of an interminable amount of space devoted to the pollard bros' high school sports career.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Man love "Buzzards and Dreadful Crows", it's just a continuous hook.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Just listened to it 3 times in a row.
― grandavis, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Glad Girls one of my least favorites :(
Love Buzzards
― Art Arfons (La Lechera), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:45 (twelve years ago) link
31. "My Son Cool" (Alien Lanes, 1995) [235 points, 10 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdY-sjG8-vk
(Volume is really low on the clip, but I remember watching the show when they appeared!)
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
The problem with "Glad Girls" is that it goes on too long, which should never happen in a GBV song.
This has been a bad day for me, only one song I voted for and none of the other songs that made it are really anywhere close to my favorites.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
there's something really haunting about "My Son Cool" (esp. about the coda) and I can't put my finger on it. those three closing songs AL stand out from the rest of the album in a way I can't really explain
― V79, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i love my son cool -- decide now!!!!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 15:59 (twelve years ago) link
30. "My Impression Now" (Fast Japanese Spin Cycle, 1994) [241 points, 9 votes, 1 #1 vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4_2rjFkPcI
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
yay
― dmr, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
It's another good one... but not better than "My Son Cool"
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:04 (twelve years ago) link
The first time I heard Glad Girls was at a show in Athens, GA. They were playing through the entirety of ID and after Glad Girls, they decided to play it again! I'm sure that would annoy some people but it was awesome at the time.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
... maybe they ran out of songs
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
^ GBV fan's joke
― Juice Should Be Sterliized (Tom D.), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
in those rare events, when GBV run out of songs onstage, they just take a 5 minute break and come back with premiere material
― V79, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
29. "Redmen and Their Wives" (Under the Bushes Under the Stars, 1996) [247 points, 10 votes, 1 #1 vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__q87LmkD8Y
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
Unlike Glad Girls which goes on way too long, I'd be fine with Redmen and Their Wives going on another 3 or 4 minutes.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that one's got some nice catharsis
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:30 (twelve years ago) link
28. "Chasing Heather Crazy" (Isolation Drills, 2001) [248 points, 11 votes]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7KiLRCxt58
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Hooray!
― Jeff, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
I like this track a lot more now than I did at the time the album was new. It's a remarkably slow burn for such an uptempo GBV song.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
isolation drills really came at a low point of my GBV fandom, but i couldn't deny this song.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
27. "Blimps Go 90" (Alien Lanes, 1995) [249 points, 12 votes, 1 #1 vote]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU4NJnK1pvk
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
Great song.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
The rusty violin is a nice touch. Also, Mary Lou Lord had a nice cover of this on one of her albums (can't remember which).
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link