hardwood floor
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Here Comes a Regular
Unsatisfied
Skyway
Hold My Life
Left of the Dial
Valentine
Alex Chilton
Can't Hardly Wait
Achin' to Be
Answering Machine
Androgynous
Bastards of Young
Sadly Beautiful
Swingin' Party
Color Me Impressed
that's a freaking body of work right there
good lord
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i like a few styx records more than wilco's last record
i'd eliminate the doors
the worst band that ever existed
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What's interesting is that Uncle Tupelo comes up regularly on my Robert Pollard Pandora station.
not surprising ... two of the greatest bands ever
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i listen to guided by voices all the time and i wonder why i don't listen to them more
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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
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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 brianjeremy said, he was in a little bit of a rut from 2006-2008 and lost his way there (although even his bad records had some great tracks, like folded claws and no island and the blondes and circle saw boys club)... but the latest one - Zero to 99, from Boston Spaceships - is a real return to form. best record of 2009 to my ears and bob's best since FaCE in 2005
if you haven't spent some serious time with pollard and guided by voices, do it
just listen to motor away, i am a scientist, smothered in hugs, my impression now and christian animation torch carriers and you'll be hooked for life
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second-best band ever
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And yet, I can't be the only one asking themselves "who the hell is Robert Pollard?"
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
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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 & singles
2000 ... Hold on Hope EP
2000 ... Dayton, Ohio, 19-Something-and-5
2001 ... Daredevil Stamp Collector
2002 ... Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet
Robert Pollard Solo
2003 ... Motel of Fools
2004 ... Fiction Man
2005 ... From a Compound Eye
2005 ... Zoom EP
2005 ... Music for Bubble
2006 ... Normal Happiness
2007 ... Standard Gargoyle Decisions
2007 ... Coast to Coast Carpet of Love
2007 ... Silverfish Trivia
2008 ... Superman Was a Rocker
2008 ... Robert Pollard Is off to Business
2008 ... Weatherman and Skin Goddess
2009 ... The Crawling Distance
2009 ... Elephant Jokes
Side Projects
Boston Spaceships
2008 ... Brown Submarine
2008 ... Headache Revolution EP
2008 ... You Satisfy Me EP
2009 ... The Planets Are Blasted
2009 ... Zero to 99
2010 ... Our Cubehouse still Rocks
Circus Devils
2001 ... Ringworm Interiors
2002 ... The Harold Pig Memorial
2003 ... Pinball Mars
2005 ... Five
2007 ... Sgt. Disco
2008 ... Ataxia
2009 ... Gringo
2009 ... A Riot of Gold Teeth
2010 ... Mother Skinny
The Moping Swans
2005 ... Lightning Head to Coffee Pot
Acid Ranch
2002 ... Some of the Magic Syrup Was Preserved
2005 ... As Forever
2007 ... The Great Houdini Wasn't so Great
Airport 5 (with Tobin Sprout)
2001 ... Tower in the Fountain of Sparks
2002 ... And Life Starts Here
Carbon Whales
2008 ... South
Cosmos (with Richard Davies)
2009 ... Jar of Jam, Ton of Bricks
Go Back Snowball (with Mac McCaughan)
2002 ... Calling Zero
Hazzard Hot Rods
2000 ... Big Trouble
2005 ... Bigger Trouble
Howling Wolf Orchestra
2000 ... Speedtraps for the Bee Kingdom
Keene Brothers (with Tommy Keene)
2006 ... Blues and Boogie Shoes
Lifeguards (with Doug Gillard)
2003 ... Mist King Urth
Phantom Tollbooth
2003 ... Beard of Lightning
Psycho and the Birds
2006 ... All that Is Holy
2006 ... Check your Zoo (EP)
2008 ... We've Moved
Robert Pollard and his Soft Rock Renegades (with Jim Pollard, Greg Demos, Jim MacPherson)
2001 ... Choreographed Man of War
The Takeovers
2006 ... Turn to Red
2007 ... Bad Football
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haha ... look at that guy
what a fucking loser
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For inspiring sheer white hot hatred, I'm going with Sheryl Crow's "Soak Up The Sun".
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)
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Biggest disappointment: As usually Bruce Springsteen, July 3rd or so, Frankfurt. One of the truly worst nights of my entire life, I spent about 2 hours of it sobbing uncontrollably because everything and mostly Mr. Superstar sucked so badly.
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
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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 bigger mystery -- who's actually listening to excrement like this or how fucking sick do you have to be to create art this repulsive
music for people that hate music i guess
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Kevin Salem's solo from "In a Whisper" is my favorite
mind-blowing
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all-time top-5 guitarist for me
is also an astounding keyboard player and a hell of a drummeris
still his name? i'm not surebrilliant guy
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yeesh, don't take this shit so seriously
Sorry. I guess I should've been clearer. What you said wasn't douchy, it's your behavior that is douchy.
But you're right. You are not the first to make the wrongful assumption that fans of a musician are interested in your subjective dismissal of someone they like.
Yes, your contribution is just as valid as that of anyone else who has dismissed an at least moderately talented musician as "no-talent". You have now joined an elite club.
And, for the record, I don't care at all about Norah Jones.
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You're right. We should not be surprised when people say douchy things on a message board.
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
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It has very little to do with your opinion on Norah Jones. It's your opinion on "so many female singers" Maybe you aren't Norah's target audience?
Hardwood floor never had an extreme opinion that he didn't feel a need to spew.
stupid me, having opinions on a message board
that's never happened before
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christ
do you think there's anything remarkable or distinctive about Norah Jones?
there's not
she's awful
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I usually like Norah, but this is a very bland attempt at Jesus Etc.
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
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Shonna Tucker and Cat Power...No.
you're telling him what he likes is wrong?
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The Keene Brothers is a true "rock" record in every sense of the word. It's also one of the best things Pollard has ever done.
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
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Nice call, man!
God, I love that girl - when I listen to stuff like "Prologue" or "Ashes Are Burning" it gives me chills.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
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It's too bad he's not doing the whole tour. Instead, I get Sera Cahoone @ The Fillmore. Good to hear he's still as nice as ever.
oh god, she opened in philly
good luck trying to stay awake
generic and faceless strummy acoustic girlie three-chord americana folk-sludge
Best of Westerberg
in Someone Else's Song
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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