Jump to content

Bee Thousand is the greatest record ever


Recommended Posts

  • 4 months later...
  • 2 weeks later...

More Pollard overkill: Suitcase 3 due

 

gbccase452.jpg

 

Thursday, August 6

New Guided By Voices Suitcase Due

Because there's no such thing as too much GBV. (Apparently.) New Guided By Voices Suitcase Due

 

After 2000's Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft, 2005's Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow, Robert Pollard is once again digging into his bottomless fount of Guided by Voices demos, outtakes, and random jams.

 

Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now is due November 3 via Guided By Voices Inc. Like the previous two volumes, this one's a four-disc set featuring 100 songs, many of them given corresponding fictional band names like Major Cockamamie and Bird Shit Mosaic. The material spans from the mid-90s to the present, with the fourth disc filled with impromptu acoustic Guided By Voices jams recorded by Pollard, Tobin Sprout, and Greg Demos during the band's 1994-1995 peak.

 

Of course, this doesn't mean Pollard is simply kicking back and letting his (meticulously documented) scraps do all the work for him. In fact, we just reviewed his new LP, Elephant Jokes, today. His current group, Boston Spaceships, has a record due October 6 called Zero to 99. Where he finds the time/energy to take a piss is beyond me.

 

Click ahead for the full Suitcase 3 tracklist:

 

 

Suitcase 3: Up We Go Now

 

CD1:

 

01 Mr. Inspection Table: "Building a Castle"

02 Explosion Topic: "Tired of Knocking"

03 The Sobbers: "Together/Apart"

04 Remington Ash: "Away With Driver"

05 Demon Gods of Anger: "Trash Truck"

06 Manners of Flash: "Dropping the Bomb"

07 Remington Ash: "What's So Safe About You?"

08 Limited Transplitter: "Troppers in the Town"

09 The Stools: "Gas"

10 C. C. Rip: "Watchin' 'Em Diggin' Up the Road"

11 Fate 1 Mile: "Coastal Town"

12 Watts: "Escape From Kama Loka"

13 Ben Franklin Air Bath: "The Annex"

14 Major Cockamamie: "Green Ivory Cross"

15 The Beautiful Orange Lemonade: "Janet Wait"

16 C. C. Rip: "Independent Productions"

17 Jubilant Toy Soldiers: "Thee White Flower"

18 Pilthy May: "Juggernaut Vs. Monolith"

19 The Perfect Noise Club: "Feels Good"

20 Video Bearhunt: "Candy Machine"

21 Dream Reaper: "Air and Also a World"

22 Gel Clay: "Back to the Navy"

23 The Governors: "Speak Like Men"

24 Kelsey Boo Flip: "Hi, I'm Kelsey"

25 Star of Hungry: "No Trash Allowed"

 

CD2:

 

01 The Flattering Lights: "Raphael Muzak"

02 Service of a Bullet: "Tear the Ticket in Half"

03 Search: "I'm an Acting Student"

04 The Sums: "I'll Come (And When It Does It's Mine)"

05 East Dayton Rock Co.: "Psychlophobia"

06 East Dayton Rock Co.: "Take Me Back"

07 Bruce Smitty Smith: "Sonny the Monster"

08 Pilthy May: "I Share a Rhythm"

09 The Sobbers: "Before My Eyes"

10 Gavin Speaks: "Freedom Rings"

11 Hoof: "Cochise"

12 The Tallywackers: "When's the Last Time"

13 Remington Ash: "That's Good"

14 Pig Lucy: "You Gotta Lotta Nerve"

15 Mother's Day Haircut: "Vagabond Lover"

16 Fate 1 Mile: "Banners"

17 Looker: "100 Colors"

18 Autobahn Damen: "Old Engine Driver"

19 Gel Clay: "Joe"

20 Cubscout Bowling Pins: "Axtual Sectivity"

21 The Working Girls: "Call Me"

22 Demon Gods of Anger: "Believe It"

23 Royal Canadien Mustard: "Class Clown Spots a UFO"

24 Remington Ash: "You You You"

25 10 Second Coma: "Dibble"

 

CD3:

 

01 Bird Shit Mosaic: "Night Ears"

02 The Sobbers: "Amnesia"

03 Blaine Hazel: "Fly Away (Tommy Sez)"

04 Jubilant Toy Soldiers: "Peace and Persecution"

05 The Constant Rushing Forward: "There Are Other Worlds"

06 Knuckles and MacDougal: "It's the Song"

07 Erotic Zip Codes: "One Drop"

08 Angel and the Alley Oops: "Mainstay"

09 John Shough: "Sixland"

10 Ghetto Tree: "How Bridges Fall"

11 Basic Switches: "A Kind of Love"

12 Naymoan Regas: "Bad Whiskey"

13 Curtis E. Flush: "Naked Believer (I Am)"

14 Heartless Microscopes: "Out of the House"

15 Equal in Coma: "Grow"

16 Psyclops: "Rough Tracks"

17 Gel Clay: "Nothing So Hard"

18 Bumble Gub: "Piss Along You Bird"

19 Gene Autrey's Psychic: "300 Birds (Quota)"

20 The CD's: "Fireking Says No Cheating"

21 Hearthrob Johnson Firestone: "Poison Shop"

22 The Worst Santini: "Trader Vic"

23 History of Well Hung Men: "Smothered in Hugs" (4 Track version)

24 Aerial Poop Show: "Dibble 2"

25 Kid Biscuit: "Huffman Prairie Flying Field"

 

CD4 (all tracks by Guided by Voices):

 

01 Pluto Is Polluted

02 Aquarian Hovercraft

03 Brand New Star

04 Sea-mint Robots

05 South Rat Observatory

06 The Cinnamon Flavored Skull

07 Porpoise Mitten (Was a Real Good Kitten)

08 Mr. Spoon

09 Hey Mr. Soundman

10 Oh Pie

11 Kotex Moon

12 Bingo Pool Hall of Blood

13 There Goes the King Again

14 Evil Vandalia/Mojo Crow Zenith

15 Cuddling Bozo's Octopus

16 I Shot a Jezebel

17 After the Quake (Let's Bake a Cake)

18 P Melts Everything

19 My Dad Is a Motorboat

20 Ugly Ba Ba

21 Hairspray Lies

22 Sawhorse With Big Blue Ears

23 Tough Skin River

24 Cruise

25 Alright

 

Posted by Ryan Dombal on August 6, 2009 at 12:55 p.m.

Link to post
Share on other sites

More Pollard overkill: Suitcase 3 due

 

gbccase452.jpg

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 vintage GBV energy and life to it

Link to post
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

Loading...
×
×
  • Create New...