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i hate key changes 99 percent of the time but the key change in afterglow is brilliant banks is a god

live afterglow ... jesus christ, what a mighty thing when they go to the coda and phil jumps behind the kit and joins chester ... holy crap i guess it's a love song in a way ... from somebody who has died to somebody who hasn't? Like the dust that settles all around me, I must find a new home. The ways and holes that used to give me shelter, Are all as one to me now. But I, I would search everywhere Just to hear your call, And walk upon stranger roads than this one In a world I used to know before. I miss you more. Than the sun reflecting off my pillow, Bringing the warmth of n

wild frank is a wise man small steps ... check out trick of the tail & wind and wuthering - first two non-PG records, both fantastic - and only then move back to the classics i don't listen to a ton of genesis these days but once in a while, it's perfect had a long drive yesterday and plopped on a 1978 live show (chicago i think) with the --> in the cage > cinema show > slipperman > afterglow, and this is just genesis at the height of its live game mind-blowing

do not pass go please proceed immediately to: cinema show musical box supper's ready the knife in the cage dancing with the moonlit knight firth of fifth and toss that i can't dance stuff in the garbage!!!

that would be mark spencer, a long-time farrar collaborator and current son volt member (formerly of the blood oranges) very talented cat

i have everything pollard has ever released and most of the shit he hasn't released holla if you still need this

i tried to listen to this band, but it wasn't happening for me the new record is really awful

whoa i saw chris lopez's later band, Tenement Halls, open for Robert Pollard in Athens in january of 2006 they were pretty cool never heard rockateens though ... i should check them out

yep fantastic

the closing segments of musical box and supper's ready are as moving as any pop music i've ever heard banks was all about dynamics in those early years i need to get the box set

i wonder if this was a yeah yeah yeahs street teamer ... ya know, quote the shitty review to get a bunch of people posting how much they dig the band who knows

i don't care for the yeah yeah yeahs, but nothing clever or humerous or remotely "hysterical" about that blog post which is 2 1/2 years old -- http://jonnobrittain.blogspot.com/2007/04/yeah-yeah-yeahs-yeah-they-suck.html what i find really funny is that in one of your two other posts on this message board, you wrote about how great jason mraz is that's funnier than that blog entry

doug's new record is incredible - call from restricted his last one is great too - salamander the lyrics to i am a tree (which was originally a cobra verde track) are bad, but the guitar solo is the shit! and live it ruled

other than bulldog skin

or not

brian -- i agree with a lot of what you're saying. i'll never listen to anything after FaCE and before 0 to 99 again (although crawling distance did have no island, which is great) ... i think bob's thing is that there's a certain group of a couple thousand hard-core fans who will buy anything, no matter how unlistenable or inconsistent or thrown together, so the more stuff he releases, the more money he makes. i listen to pinball mars and hear shit, but if he puts out 10 records a year and the same few thousand people buy 'em all, i guess it's a good year for him and you know he'll never ed

a couple MP3s up on pollard's site from the new suitcase & they're fucking incredible janet wait and 100 colors http://robertpollard.net/music.html

his batting average wasn't great after FaCE and before Zero to 99, but you could still put together an amazing few records just from the best tracks on all those records but his batting average from sandbox through FaCE was like, what, .987? i don't think there's any question he's the greatest songwriter who's ever lived. why isn't he more popular ... he does weird things -- broke up GBV at the height of its popularity, didn't tour for a couple years, puts some of his best songs on obscure EPs and vinyl b-sides, opened for pearl jam a couple nights and other than game of pricks only played

you're not going to find a band in history that had a more astounding run than guided by voices in the 1990s 1990 Same Place the Fly Got Smashed 1992 Propeller 1993 Vampire on Titus 1994 Bee Thousand 1995 Alien Lanes 1996 Under the Bushes Under the Stars 1996 Tonics & Twisted Chasers 1997 Mag Earwhig! 1999 Do the Collapse not to mention the EPs: 1993 The Grand Hour 1993 Static Airplane Jive 1994 Get out of my Stations 1994 Fast Japanese Spin Cycle 1994 Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer 1995 I Am a Scientist 1995 Tigerbomb 1996 Sunfish Holy Breakfast 1996 Plantations of Pale Pink 199

i saw donovan open for Yes at madison square garden circa i think the going for the one tour he was received courteously but it was an odd fit, obviously. i believe they did the entire tour together

they just played casino queen between innings of the cards-dodgers playoff game on WTBS but i think it may have been a near-perfect note-for-note re-recording

i got a leak and listened to it 4,000 times and then went out to my friendly neighborhood record store on tuesday morning and got a copy but yeah, factory of raw essentials (circular beast exhibit) is very cool too if you don't totally dig question girl and how wrong you are ... i dunno, to me - along with radical amazement (and meddle and trashed aircraft and good circuitry soldier) two of the finest things bob has done since FaCE the bridge in question girl ... then the second bridge, adding the drums and another layer of guitar ... jesus, almost a GBV-esque moment mighty stuff

0 to 99 Boston Spaceships easily the best thing i've heard this year

i love do the collapse! liquid fucking INDIAN! for me isolation drills is #3 of the five late-period releases, behind Universal Truths & Cycles and Half Smiles

great great great band, ain't they? had never heard of 'em & saw 'em in a tiny club in philly mid-1990s and they blew me away bloom todayyyyy