Author Topic: Where to start with GBV?  (Read 30955 times)

snogrog

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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #15 on: December 18, 2008, 12:34:51 AM »

As for solo stuff, I have always been partial to KID MARINE, which is like Bob's version of a Who album in relative miniature, or FROM A COMPOUND EYE, which is a lot to digest at once. Maybe go with NOT IN MY AIRFORCE, which is kinda up the middle of the two poles.


From a Compound Eye was my first solo album I bought of Bob Pollard and I loved it. Plus it's an amazing value. 26 tracks! Definitely recommended.
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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #16 on: December 18, 2008, 03:15:40 AM »
I'd say start with any one of their first 265 albums, and once you make it through those, begin working your way through the 312 albums they recorded after that ...

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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #17 on: December 18, 2008, 04:25:35 PM »
Not that its been explicitly recommended, but I'd say to veer far away from Vampire On Titus at the early going. Pollard has said as much himself.

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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #18 on: December 18, 2008, 11:37:00 PM »
I could make you a mix CD. I've got a pretty good 30-track one worked out that has plenty of hits and lesser-known/liked stuff. Here's the tracklist:

1. Over The Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
2. Chasing Heather Crazy
3. Expecting Brainchild
4. Now To War
5. From A Voice Plantation
6. Useless Inventions
7. The Official Ironmen Rally Song
8. Drinker's Peace
9. Hey Hey, Spaceman
10. Postal Blowfish (King Shit & The Golden Boys Version)
11. My Impression Now
12. Tractor Rape Chain
13. The Best Of Jill Hives
14. Wrecking Now
15. As We Go Up, We Go Down
16. Sing For Your Meat
17. The Brides Have Hit Glass
18. Dusted (Fast Japanese Spin Cycle Version)
19. Non-Absorbing
20. Quality Of Armor
21. Surgical Focus
22. My Valuable Hunting Knife
23. Canteen Plums
24. Look, It's Baseball
25. Smothered In Hugs
26. Sad If I Lost It
27. Twilight Campfighter
28. Christian Animation Torch Carriers
29. Choking Tara (Creamy Version)
30. A Salty Salute

Album-wise, if you want more lo-fi stuff you should get Bee Thousand or Vampire On Titus (which isn't nearly as inaccessible as a lot of people think, in my opinion). If you want more professional-sounding stuff, get Isolation Drills or Mag Earwhig. I'd save Do the Collapse and Under the Bushes Under the Stars for last.
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John Junk 2.0

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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #19 on: December 19, 2008, 02:50:45 AM »
Expecting Brainchild is such a good song, it's crazy.  With that lady going "Bob, would you lead us into God Be the Glory" or whatever and then those sick, dirty power chords kicking the wall in.

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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #20 on: December 19, 2008, 10:08:23 AM »
Before work last night I purchased Bee Thousand, and when the final work mope had left I cranked it up through my laptop, and let her rip. I wasn't really following any advice; it was the only one my parents' small town's only record store had.

Holy moly this is a record. I think I'm going to sing 'Gold Star For Robot Boy' in my head forever. 'Echos Myron', 'A Big Fan Of The Pigpen', 'Goldheart...'. = off the top my head wow tracks (ie. I was over the other side of the office and walked over to my screen to find out what it was). This is it. I'm on board.

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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #21 on: December 19, 2008, 01:37:55 PM »
Alien Lanes was the hook for me.
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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #22 on: December 22, 2008, 09:47:05 AM »
For me, the best cheap sounding rock gems are on
Tonics and Twisted Chasers and King Shit and the Golden Boys.

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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #23 on: December 22, 2008, 04:34:11 PM »
Another vote for King Shit
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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #24 on: December 22, 2008, 07:56:35 PM »
related, maybe?

how about COVERS of GBV songs? is it possible to compile such an album?

i can think of two covers that are stellar: gaunt, covering "quality of armor," and the (profoundly underappreciated) fastbacks, who covered "teenage fbi."


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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #25 on: December 22, 2008, 08:28:49 PM »
My housemate has Earthquake Glue. I just did the dishes to it. Top notch.
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John Junk 2.0

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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #26 on: December 23, 2008, 01:00:48 AM »
related, maybe?

how about COVERS of GBV songs? is it possible to compile such an album?

i can think of two covers that are stellar: gaunt, covering "quality of armor," and the (profoundly underappreciated) fastbacks, who covered "teenage fbi."



There's a You're Gonna Know About Us From All The Dead People cover of "Gold Heart MOuntaintop Queen Directory" that I've never heard.  Breeders covered Shocker in Gloomtown.

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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #27 on: December 23, 2008, 12:55:05 PM »
thanks, john junk.

now i got material for a 4-song EP. not a bad start.

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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #28 on: December 23, 2008, 01:35:05 PM »
thanks, john junk.

now i got material for a 4-song EP. not a bad start.

There was a GBV covers comp that came out in 1997 called Blatant Doom Trip. It's got Portastatic doing "Echos Myron" and Thurston Moore doing "Stabbing a Star".

Can't say I've heard it, though.

EDIT: Also, Jimmy Eat World covered "Game of Pricks".
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Re: Where to start with GBV?
« Reply #29 on: December 23, 2008, 03:50:47 PM »
Trail of Dead did a fairly schmaltzy super hi-fi version of 'Goldheart...' on one of their albums.
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