hardwood floor

i have a bunch of great mats shows i can post one here at some point if anybody's interested, although i probably won't have a chance for a week or two

that's a freaking body of work right there good lord

i like a few styx records more than wilco's last record i'd eliminate the doors the worst band that ever existed

not surprising ... two of the greatest bands ever

i listen to guided by voices all the time and i wonder why i don't listen to them more

agree with the suggestions for a robert pollard / GBV starting point isolation drills (GBV's most accessible full-length) universal truths and cycles (GBV's best post-tobin era record) from a compound eye (kind of dense - you'll need to listen 50 times before you realize you love it) zero to 99 (his most GBV-esque post-GBV record) maybe mag earwhig? combines the early lo-fi asthetic with some polished accessible flat-out rockers i'd say that of my 100 favorite records of all-time, 30 are robert pollard records

capstan shafts are pretty great ... i think euridice proudhon is his best ... some great little lo-fi stuff ... and he gives most of it away on archive.org but guided by voices / pollard are another world if you haven't heard bee thousand / alien lanes / under the bushes under the stars, you're missing out on what is probably the greatest three-record run by any band in history but from a compound eye, universal truths and cycles and half smiles of the decomposed are all brilliant and every record bob has put out includes at least three flat-out masterpieces. some have more. like bria

second-best band ever

wow ... you've never heard bee thousand? alien lanes? under the bushes under the stars? there are five bands that matter kinks beatles the who beatles guided by voices

you might want to consider Robert Pollard looks like 59 releases of original material plus three box sets, each with 100 previously unreleased GBV tracks greatest songwriter who ever lived Guided By Voices full-lengths 2000 ... Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircrafts 2001 ... Isolation Drills 2002 ... Universal Truths and Cycles 2003 ... Earthquake Glue 2003 ... Hardcore UFOs - Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere 2004 ... Half Smiles of the Decomposed 2005 ... Suitcase 2 American Superdream Wow 2009 ... Suitcase 3 Guided By Voices EPs &

haha ... look at that guy what a fucking loser

crow is indeed wretched complete suck what's her worst song ... "soak up the sun" indeed sucks but "every day is a winding road" and "if it makes you happy" might be just as bad supposedly, she's recorded a cover of "sweet child o' mine" that is insanely bad but i haven't heard it (thank god)

you cried for two hours because a concert sucked? by a guy who "usually" sucks? if he usually sucks ... why did you go back? what am i missing here

that shit ... james blunt ... jason mraz ... john mayer ... it blows my mind not only how numbingly awful this kind of stuff is and how popular it is but just like how does it happen that anybody can conjure up anything as repulsive as "you're beautiful" or that "i'm yours" song dehumanizing it sucks the fucking life right out of you when i was a kid, music that sucked ... ya know, you could laugh at it and make fun of it -- "billy don't be a hero? are you kidding me?" ... but it wasn't offensive and it didn't make me hate humanity this shit ... it's lethal i don't know what's a bigg

Kevin Salem's solo from "In a Whisper" is my favorite mind-blowing

all-time top-5 guitarist for me is also an astounding keyboard player and a hell of a drummer is still his name? i'm not sure brilliant guy

yeesh, don't take this shit so seriously

calling norah jones a boring no-talent hack is "douchy?" what world do you live in? if she weren't hot, nobody would pay attention to her

stupid me, having opinions on a message board that's never happened before

do you think there's anything remarkable or distinctive about Norah Jones? there's not she's awful

gee, there's a shock i mean, seriously, if she weren't hot there'd be nothing there like so many popular female artists incredible bland and incredibly hot taylor swift? there's nothing there. pretty voice, no talent, incredibly hot. same thing goes for so many female singers ... terrible

you're telling him what he likes is wrong?

agree a lot of hard-core pollard purists complain that it's too "down the middle" and not experimental enough but jesus crap, great songs, awesome playing, superb big sound, some of bob's best vocals i can't listen to the circus devils, other than a track or two here and there, but the hard-core bob apologists love it because it's so out there give me keene brothers or zero to 99 and let it rock

yeah, i love renaissance up through song for all seasons they were tremendous live they just played around the corner from me with annie and one other original member but at $75 or whatever ... nah. not for two original members i did see an annie solo show about two years ago and although the material was dreadful (only one renaissance track) her voice still gives you chills

oh god, she opened in philly good luck trying to stay awake generic and faceless strummy acoustic girlie three-chord americana folk-sludge