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good stuff, jason! brian is an awesome guy & awesome musician & B-Rox have been getting it done for years ... new record is as good as anything they've done and live they smoke uncle tupelo reunion will happen someday but with no original members ... like how there's 11 versions of like the Grass Roots traveling around the country at the same time Chickamauga / Midnight Confessions medley

great track ... most of bob's best recent tracks are mid-tempo (the blondes, butler stands for all of us, miles under the skin, no island, circle saw boys club, etc.) doesn't this one start with the exact same chord as miles under the skin? good stuff

sitting in starbucks doing some work before going into work & ripple just came on most god-damned beautiful song i've ever heard

yeah, that video has been around for quite a while ... bob loves it, apparently

best band from Asia - Asia best band from Africa - Toto best band from South America - Argent(ina)

ya know, i don't remember, but check your PM

My 250 Favorite Robert Pollard Songs 1. Bright Paper Werewolves, GBV (Under the Bushes, Under the Stars) 2. Liar’s Tale, GBV (Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia) 3. Death of the Party, Keene Brothers (Blues and Boogie Shoes) 4. Carnival at the Morningstar School, GBV (30 Songs) 5. Edison’s Memos, Robert Pollard and his Soft Rock Renegades (Choreographed Man of War) 6. I Am a Scientist, GBV (I Am a Scientiest EP) 7. Huffman Prairie Flying Fields, GBV (Half Smiles) 8. Release the Sunbird, Robert Pollard (Not in my Air Force) 9. Motor Away, GBV (Alien Lanes) 10. Smothered in Hugs, GBV (Bee Thousand)

I just listened to Go for the Exit on the headphones at work to check it out ... it's actually a fine track that I probably underestimated. Moss -- Keene Brothers is definitely worth checking out. very poppy and heavy on guitars. best of all, it is untouched by Todd Tobias's production (other than bob's vox) so it has a real deep rich thick guitar crunch to it, which none of the recent solo records have had. also make sure you check out tommy's solo stuff, which is uniformly great

nice list ... you're quite the Keene Brothers fan it looks like ... great record ... had a nice chat with tommy about that record when he played in philly a couple months ago i'm not a fan of winston's atomic bird, go for the exit or you satisfy me & the fiction man tracks i would pick are different than yours (probably run son run, trial of affliction & light sleeping, every word in the world and children come on), but other than that, everything you listed would be somewhere in my top 150 or so ... still working on my list ... it ain't easy

and Trespass and Nursery Cryme and Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering! for me, title track, Carpet Crawlers, Lillywhite Lillith, In the Cage, counting out time, cuckoo cocoon, slipperman, maybe riding the scree and it are standout tracks on Lamb ... a few other decent tracks but mostly filler and Trespass and Nursery Cryme and Trick of the Tail and Wind & Wuthering! for me, title track, Carpet Crawlers, Lillywhite Lillith, In the Cage, counting out time, cuckoo cocoon, slipperman, maybe riding the scree and it are standout tracks on Lamb ... a few other decent tracks but m

to me, everything from forever since breakfast through FaCE was absolutely brilliant, and everything since has been bad to average. it's that simple. i'm just tired of pollard and his drunken band of asshole kool-aid drinkers claiming every mediocre solo record that comes out every few weeks "is the best thing he's ever done." it's just sad. i don't think anybody really believes it. everybody knows he just puts out 15 records a year because he knows there's a group of people who will buy everything, no matter how bad it is, and the more he puts out, the more money he makes. remember when it wa

the dayton mafia says that about every record bob puts out. and then it turns out to be crap. "off to business" was supposed to be as good as anything he'd ever done. and wasn't "elephant jokes" supposed to be "the next alien lanes?" give me a break, gys. comparing any of these completely disposable records to alien lanes is an insult to gbv. i keep buying them, but i will be stunned if bob ever puts out another record that's half as good as FaCE. sad to see a guy i consider the greatest songwriter ever tarnishing his legacy like this. Be it not for the serpentine rain dodger is actua

funny, i was just talking to a friend about this ... i think Lamb is a bit overrated and has a lot of filler, especially on side two ... i do think Lolita Nation by Game Theory is a double album that works perfectly as a double

i love all these beauty of the draft is the shit i think weatherman & skin goddess might be the most overrated song in the pollard canon. can't stand it.

i can't even place go for the exit but will check it out tonight when i get out of work. ya know, there are some great songs here and there from the last few years. i really dig shadow port. circle saw boys club. the blondes. no island. miles under the skin is fantastic. folded claws. but i don't think he's put out a good record since FaCE, which i love. my wife and i play a game on road trips called, "Did you miss the exit? Did we go too far? Do we need to get gas? You're drifting into the center lane! Isn't the speed limit 55 here? You're going 59! Watch out for that truck!" i'll p

BJ -- I agree that the Spaceships records sound better than the solo stuff, mainly because they're a departure from the tired formula of Pollard scribbling down some words and Todd Tobias rushing into the studio to match up some faceless music to go with 'em. they do sound good. and the live shows rocked. but i just don't think the songs are anything special. headache revolution is 1,000 times better when it's just bob and his guitar. and the spaceships version of catherine of mid-october, same deal -- the original is wayyyy better. i mean, the guy set the bar so high -- when you write motor a

like every Pollard post-GBV record with the exception of the phenomenal From a Compound Eye & outstanding Keene Brothers, it has two or three great songs and a ton of filler Pollard's post-GBV career has been a massive disappointment, although the spaceships live shows were great C- Normal Happiness C- Standard Gargoyle Decisions C- Coast to Coast Carpet of Love F Superman is a Rocker C- Off to Business C The Crawling Distance C- Elephant Jokes D Brown Submarine D Planets are Blasted ? Zero to 99 (haven't heard it yet) D- Sgt. Disco D- Ataxia D- Gringo

yeah, no doubt ... would be in my stones all-time top 20 somewhere around 15 or so?

interesting post, littlesavage ... good stuff i guess i'm the exact opposite ... i find that the lack of musical inventiveness on the wilco record overshadows some pretty good lyrics

sure, if you feel like it

if that house recorded still feel gone & anodyne, then, yeah, i'm in

i don't see why people get so bent out of shape about the son volt / wilco comparisons two great bands led by two guys who grew up together and were in an amazing band together whose new records came out a few days apart whether or not their new records sound similar or not, it's going to happen and that's natural

son volt & it's not close

the first two suitcases are brilliant ... suitcase 2 in particular ... side 7 specifically is as good as any record anybody will release this year there are some tracks on Suitcase 3 that have been floating around fan comps for years ... speak like men is phenomenal ... there are other worlds, sixland, piss along you bird are all great ... wonder what version of huffman this is ... pollard's recent stuff is so disappointing - instantly disposable, faceless and limp ... one or two good songs per record if you're lucky will be nice to get some new/old pollard material with some real vintag

nice seeing driver 8 so high but everybody hurts? jesus, that's total shit and no sitting still or harborcoat? that's fucking daft