Guided By Voices: Classic or Dud?

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I can't find this anywhere. I'd like to know what people think of post-Under The Bushes... stuff especially. Fire away.

― Tim Stewart, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

anyone?

― Tim Stewart, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think it's inconsistent, which is what they've always been. Just taking the good tracks off Under the Bushes and all their stuff afterward, though, you can make a wicked good mix Cd! So there are plenty of good tracks. Plenty of bad tracks too. The new one hasn't grown at all on me yet, the vocals sound waay too upfront to me. But I may get used to it.

― Matt Riedl (veal), Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Simply the best live rock band today (with Fugazi a close second). Pollard is a one man fab four. Mag Earwhig has some duds but also has "I am A Tree," "Jane of the Waking Universe," "Bulldog Skin," etc...Do the Collapse is great in terms of songwriting, but overproduced...Isolation Drills is perhaps his most personal (at least in terms of lyrics) sad and yet cohesive work, Universal Truths and Cycles is sort of a hybrid of their lofi and major label styles and techniques...it can't touch Bee Thousand or Alien Lanes, but there are still some standout tracks.

For some there is an ethical dilemma in purchasing and supporting further GBV endeavors; that is, will you continue to contribute to the behavior that both enlivens (his creative life) and destroys (his personal life)? Would it still be rock and roll without the cigarettes, booze, and groupies? I have mixed feelings about this, but then again there are worse things than being a martyr for rock and roll.

Ballsy and ALIVE, GBV is "CLASSIC" rock.

― Ryan McKay, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

more threads that might interest you...

― Ron, Monday, 24 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

fifteen years pass...

ts: emily dickinson vs. robert pollard

― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 25 April 2018 14:14 (five years ago) link

two years pass...

I played drums in a band that played “motor away” and I was the only one who understood the rhythm. Sigh

― calstars, Sunday, 11 April 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link

Wow

― It Is Dangerous to Meme Inside (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 April 2021 22:14 (three years ago) link

two years pass...

“I’ll never know…”

― calstars, Saturday, 14 October 2023 02:00 (six months ago) link

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