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takes me back to my college radio days ... yeah, you'd get little blurbs on the jacket about a handful of supposedly radio-friendly tracks btw, it's "skills like this," not "these" ... and don't think i'd call fair touching mellow! check out the lexo & the leapers version sometime, definitely more raw and nasty yeah, definitely their most accessible ... lot of hardcore classic era GBV fans see this as a negative, but i love isolation drills nothing better than the enemy live with tim & nate

wow! i did not know about this would love to hear some details this would be an all-timer for me

i think 1991 wins / loses because bad music in the 70s you could listen to and not be repulsed you could laugh at how bad it was while you were singing along in the car that stuff from 1991 ... i mean, nauseating

yeah, that's just ridiculous it's every bit as good as alien lanes, bee thousand and under the bushes i mean ... recovering. hope magnet does a best of the decade list, because it'll be well stocked with bob product

anybody notice last night on letterman ... when they went to break after he told the story about the extortion attempt on him, the band played shakedown street?

ok, so kanye west put out three records this decade better than anything robert pollard released suuuuuure

ya know, i started out trying to be concise, but it just got away from me the man's catalogue is astonishing. he literally has 500 songs that are better than virtually every band's best song. just random unknown B sides from obscure fanzine 45s and stuff. you check it out and it's freaking Titus & Strident Wet Nurse or something and it rules. it's just endless bob is the jesus of my religion there are days i think From a Compound Eye is the best thing he's ever done just a mighty mighty piece of work. i get overwhelmed just trying to comprehend how great it is.

nice to hear, thanks i haven't seen them or heard new stuff in eons but always dug 'em and planning to see the philly show next month

so you're saying that because so many lame bands have tried to sound like the strokes the record shouldn't be rated as high as it is?

sept. 20, 1970, acoustic set never fails to blow my mind fillmore east

that's a great start ... three absolute classics and one record that a lot of people are lukewarm on but i love (earthquake glue) if i were you, i'd move next to isolation drills, universal truths and cycles, half smiles of the decomposed by GBV, and then ask them (lexo and the leapers), choreographed man of war (robert pollard and his soft rock renegades [it AIN'T soft rock though, trust me]), not in my air force (bob solo), from a compound eye (bob solo) and zero to 99 (boston spaceships) after that, you can start exploring the early GBV records (sandbox, same place the fly got smashed,

john petkovic? wasn't there a story about bob firing the entire band in australia? i thought the story was that petkovic was doing a radio interview down there and was asked what his favorite GBV song was and he said i am a tree to piss off bob (since it's doug's) ... so bob fired the cobra verde lineup (minus gillard, thank god) and the do the collapse lineup was born! i believe these are the bob shows i've seen: Sept. 5, 1999, Showplace, Buffalo Jan. 13, 2000, Theater of the Living Arts, Philadelphia Feb. 16, 2001, Theater of the Living Arts, Philadelphia May 20, 2001, Trocadero, Philade

we have 8 of 10 the same on our top 10 lists ... and i could have easily included 0 to 99 but it's just a little too early. and i love speak kindly but it's not quite in my 10 top ... just a few duds on side 2 i thought (although seeing gbv do And My Unit Moved live was one of the stranger things i've ever experienced at a GBV or Bob show)

dig it never get tired of it they nailed it

sub pop 7-inch in january suitcase 3 (up we go now) coming in november and in December: Tug Of War At The Faithful Center (All the Happy Jock Rock Records, Butler Stands for All of us and Headache Revolution B-sides + about 10-15 other previously unreleased songs, according to Rich T) so pretty quiet next few months!

i don't really see any sort of comparison with alien lanes, which to me is on a completely different plane this is a terrific record full of great songs alien lanes and bee thousand are masterpieces, works of art that will be hailed in 100 years as absolute fucking genius on part with mozart and shakespeare alien lanes and bee thousand might be the two greatest records ever made it's too early, but this might eventually make my top 10 pollard releases, which right now would probably look like this: 1) Bee Thousand 2) Alien Lanes 3) Half Smiles of the Decomposed 4) From a Compound Ey

your own special way is the most boring song genesis ever wrote i know what i like is close

damn, this zero to 99 record is blowing me away i may soon have to elevate it above From a Compound Eye and declare it my favorite post-GBV Pollard release

great record ... really, his only decent solo record banks should be in the R&R hall of fame on the basis of his In the Cage solo alone

what's wrong with working with bon jovi?

not saying i like the phil-era stuff more ... although i do think wind & wuthering and trick of the tail are terrific (and i think lamb is a little overrated). to me, trespass / nursery cryme / foxtrot / selling england is genesis at the peak of its powers. but i just think that because of the way the band evolved and probably because of the way the technology evolved throughout the 1970s, the live shows were on another level musically on the late 1970s and early 1980s tours amazing body of work they have

I love the coastline

i haven't listened to seconds out in probably a decade, but i do have about 150 live genesis shows, and i couldn't agree more with this statement after gabriel left, cinema show really became a showpiece for the banks solo at the end, where on selling england, it's just kind of the quiet coda genesis was never a better live band than 1978 and banks seemed to enjoy that without gabriel's theatrics, his playing became much more of a showpiece in the band i didn't see genesis until 1974 and they were great, but the 1976 through 1980 tours were all just beyond what the band ever was before i

genesis should tell the "rock 'n' roll hall of fame" to go fuck itself what a fraud that thing is the red hot chili peppers? have they ever written a good song? and LL Cool J? seriously? he's got a bunch of songs better than Supper's Ready I'm sure...

i think it just blows away the first two spaceships records, but that's just me and, yeah, those shipping charges are definitely wrong ... will take a break from 0 to 99 and listen to mag earwhig on the way home from work tonight