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i think Why Did you Land goes back earlier than 1996, right? was just marveling last night at what a powerhouse that is the guitar sound is just massive i know it's an original Power of Suck track, and I think that's early 1990s? but i'm gonna add it to my 1996 mix anyway

i'm gonna burn this tonight Robert Pollard/Tobin Sprout 1996 Mix CD Jabberstroker Official Ironmen Rally Song If we Wait Maggie Turns to Flies Bright Paper Werewolves Your Name is Wild Redmen and their Wives Get under It Hermit Stew Girl Named Captain Lord of Overstock It's Like Soul Man Underwater Explosions Atom Eyes Release the Sunbird Man Called Aerodynamics Acorns and Orioles Psychic Pilot Clocks Out Flat Beauty Drag Days Gas Daddy Gas Cocksoldiers and their Postwar Stubble Quicksilver Heavy Metal Country Don't Stop Now

yeah, up through 5 I bought all the Circus Devils stuff, just because it was Bob and I kept waiting to "get it" but I finally bailed out I can't imagine he's selling copies of this stuff to anybody other than the hardest hardcore bob apologists who would snap up a three-CD box set of Pollard, Nate Farley and Chris Slusarenko belching, then get drunk by themselves and sign onto Disarm the Settlers and brag about how brilliant it is and how drunk they are yeah, not for me

i've tried many times but just don't dig circus devils at all a few good tracks here and there (bull spears, pattern girl) and i give bob credit for pushing the envelope, but ... it ain't for me

have always loved this band & great live the post-Bob Wiseman (keyboards) stuff has never struck me quite luck Casino and Lost Together but maybe i should check out some of their newer stuff Rain Down on Me has the simplest hammond solo ever but one of my favorites 'Til I Am Myself Again is a perfect pop song

I love the coastline!

just came across this blog post, no clue who it's by, but it kind of approaches putting into words what makes pollard special http://grubtunes.blogspot.com/2010/03/superman-is-rocker-and-his-name-is.html (by the way, superman is a rocker is the name of pollard's worst record ever) Superman Is A Rocker And His Name Is Robert Pollard Last year I fell in love with the music of Robert Pollard. I’ve known about Guided By Voices for a long time. At least since I was 15 or something and asked my guitar teacher to bring me some of their albums after seeing the name online. I liked Aliens Lanes

the 1999 tour GBV played like seven or eight songs from Speak Kindly. those were amazing shows with a ton of Fading Captain Series stuff in the set list when they did And my Unit Moved totally straight with no sense or irony is what downright creepy

hey people are leaving -- i think we only have six or seven tracks in common on our lists, which just shows how varied his post-GBV output is ... although inconsistent, some really great stuff in there

hey matt! speak kindly is incredible! it is very highly regarded by GBV obsessives. as close to a GBV record as you'll ever get outside GBV (except maybe the equally incredible Choreographed Man of War) tight globes ... pop zeus ... slick as snails (maybe my favorite gillard solo ever) ... frequent weaver who burns ... soul train college policeman ... all classics ok, this beats working, so basically post-GBV minus FaCE? top 40 post-FaCE would look something like this: 1. Miles under the Skin (Coast to Coast Carpet of Love) 2. Death of the Party (Keene Brothers) 3. How Wrong you A

this made me LOL yeah, the first disc was cringeworthy i won't bother with this one i mean, yeah, she's smokin' hot, but whatever

hey bob from bob ... thanks for sharing that what a nice piece great to hear tommy keene was involved. i don't know if anybody's music more closely captures the spirit, melodic sense and guitar crunch of big star tommy is a god

what makes me think he's the best ever? his songs? believe me, i love dylan and neil young, and they're both in my all-time top-20 artists, but nobody has ever written as many incredible songs in such a staggering variety of styles over such a long period of time as pollard it's not even close anybody who can put out something like "question girl all right" on his 140th release is in a world of his own dylan, his recent stuff has been passable, he hasn't blown me away probably since Time out of Mind - and that's gotta be 15 years ago? and most of his stuff actually since Slow Train h

no, you're right ... Disarm the Settlers is an odd little place. some really cool people individually, but if you don't follow the precise set of accepted opinions agreed upon by the few dozen main posters - namely that everything pollard releases is better than the last thing he released and he's never put out a bad song and garbage like Superman Was a Rocker is way better than Alien Lanes - you're a fucking asshole. criticism is not allowed. if you don't like something, you're simply not welcome. and make sure you mention how drunk you are, that's big over there. "I just drank two six-pack

I saw Alex once in the late 1980s & he was bizarre, strange and totally wonderful. He ignored all the calls for "The Letter" or "September Gurls" and just played only his own bizarre, quirky solo stuff. Amazing artist and musician & guitar player, singer, writer. I played about five Chilton songs & "Alex Chilton" by the 'mats on my (non-music) radio show tonight & made me feel better and sadder too

here's watcher of the skies really pretty damn great performance i could do without the fucking crowd shots every 5 seconds

nah, i can't watch this too sad i'm sitting here watching the Celtics-Pistons game and listening to London 1973 this isn't how I want to remember Genesis now, when Guided by Voice gets in the H-of-F, that I'll watch

wow, faith hill & maroon 5 performing yeah, that makes perfect sense they really embody what is great about rock 'n' roll bunch of fucking fuckheads

i saw DS back in the late 1980s and they were just fantastic was an outdoor shed show on a beautiful summer night amazing show

making movies is an all-time top-20 record for me

Hiatt's been writing great songs and releasing great records and putting on great live shows for 30+ years just saw him on Letterman & he's as good as ever god, he sounded great underrated as fuck songwriter love john hiatt

always thought talking heads were a good band with an uneven catalogue ... a tad overrated maybe never liked byrne

that's an odd little comment not sure i've ever heard anybody say that it's cool, you dig old stuff, but i've never heard it articulated that way anyway, the few tracks i've heard from the gabriel sound pretty good. i just think the guy is too good to be doing this. and he should get his ass to the freaking R&R hall of fame and sing carpet crawlers with tony, steve and mike

marc ribot is an absolute beast i went to see the felice brothers a few months ago & marianne faithful was also playing a set & ribot was playing guitar with her faithful was pretty dull, but ribot was masterful all-time top-10 guitar player for me ok, carry on

always loved 'em