What's the Greatest Guided By Voices song?

[hardwood floor]

I haven't heard the studio version of Headache Rev. but if it's anything like the shows it gonna be great.

I was looking through my Pollard solo stuff and forgot how amazing 7th Level Shutdown is from Choreographed Man of War. That and Slick as Snails from Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Dept. Those two are on repeat.

the ascended masters did 7th level shutdown on the first tour in 2006, was phenomenal. really great record. edison's memos is all-time top-20 pollard for me. saw it live a couple times with the farley/gillard/tobias/jimmy mac lineup and it destroyed

slick as snails ... maybe my favorite gillard solo ... sadly, was never performed live

[Blimps Go 90]

I haven't heard the studio version of Headache Rev. but if it's anything like the shows it gonna be great.

I was looking through my Pollard solo stuff and forgot how amazing 7th Level Shutdown is from Choreographed Man of War. That and Slick as Snails from Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Dept. Those two are on repeat.

[hardwood floor]

A nearly impossible feat as it changes on nearly a daily basis but here goes......a few favs from my amassed catalog.


Game Of Pricks
Blimps Go 90
Closer You Are
My Son Cool
(Actually should not pick apart Alien Lanes)

All of Bee Thousand!!!! An essential classic!


Kiss Only The Important Ones
Dodging Invisable Rays
June Salutes You
Delayed Reaction Brats
He's The Uncle
The Key Losers
Systems Crash
My Thoughts Are A Gas
Running Off With The Fun City Girls
Choking Tara (Creamy Version)

Old Battery
Hey, Hey Spaceman

The Other Place
Sometimes I cry
She Wants To Know

Dusted (Fast Japanese Spin Cycle Version)

Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud
Huffman Prairie Flying Field
Girl Of Wild Strawberries
Tour Guide At The Winston Churchill Memorial

Harbouring Exiles
Still Worth Nothing

A Crick Uphill
Avalance Aminos
Fly Into Ashes

I Am A Scientist (IAAS E.P. Version)

Fair Touching
Brides Have Hit Glass
Privately

We Have Airplanes
Crutch Came Slinking
Scissors

Sad If I Lost It
Not Behind The Fighter Jet
I Am A Tree
Mute Superstar
Little Lines
Bomb In The Beehive

Why Did You Land?

Picture Me Big Time
An Unmarketed Product
Thing I will Keep
Surgical Focus

Usless Inventions
Dirty Water
Apology In Advance
Secret Star
The Main Street Wizards

Visit This Place
Request For Pharmacuticals
Beg For A Wheelbarrow
Dig Through My Window

Over The Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
Red Gas Circle
Quality Of Armor
On The Tundra

The Hard Way
Drinkers Peace
Club Molluska
Pendulum
When She Turns 50
How Loft Am I

Long Distance Man
Trap Door Soul

The Great Blake Street Canoe Race
Navigating Flood Regions
Short On Posters
Liars Tale

Big School

Pantherz
Where I Come From
Bunco Men
I Can See It In Your Eyes
Blue Gil
Long Way To Run
United

Stingy Queens (so lo-fi.....but magically brilliant and gorgeous)
Headache Revolution
Heavy Crown
Somewhere Somtimes

A Contest Featuring Human Beings
If We Wait

Dayton Ohio 19 Something And 5
Haha Man
Unbaited Vicar Of Scorched Earth
At The Farms
Optional Bases Opposed
158 Years Of Beatuful Sex

Everything Off Under The Bushes Under The Stars Also Classic!!

Christian Animation Torch Carriers
Cheyenne
Pretty Bombs
Eureka Signs

Wished I Was A Giant
Expecting Brainchild
Jar Of Cardinals
Gleemer
Wondering Boy Poet

Real
Now I'm Crying




Holy shit that's just GBV now on to Pollard solo and side project stuff!!!

great list!

of the ones you listed, the only ones i don't really care for are systems crash and beg for a wheelbarrow (which should have been replaced by visit this place during the 2003 live shows)

somewhere sometimes, wow, that's old school. hell of a great song. suitcase 2 i think?

have you heard the new version of headache revolution from the second boston spaceships record?

right now i think my favorite bob song is The Blondes from off to business

top 5 gbv today is smothered in hugs, huffman, if we wait, liar's tale and redmen and their lives

[Blimps Go 90]

A nearly impossible feat as it changes on nearly a daily basis but here goes......a few favs from my amassed catalog.


Game Of Pricks
Blimps Go 90
Closer You Are
My Son Cool
(Actually should not pick apart Alien Lanes)

All of Bee Thousand!!!! An essential classic!


Kiss Only The Important Ones
Dodging Invisable Rays
June Salutes You
Delayed Reaction Brats
He's The Uncle
The Key Losers
Systems Crash
My Thoughts Are A Gas
Running Off With The Fun City Girls
Choking Tara (Creamy Version)

Old Battery
Hey, Hey Spaceman

The Other Place
Sometimes I cry
She Wants To Know

Dusted (Fast Japanese Spin Cycle Version)

Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud
Huffman Prairie Flying Field
Girl Of Wild Strawberries
Tour Guide At The Winston Churchill Memorial

Harbouring Exiles
Still Worth Nothing

A Crick Uphill
Avalance Aminos
Fly Into Ashes

I Am A Scientist (IAAS E.P. Version)

Fair Touching
Brides Have Hit Glass
Privately

We Have Airplanes
Crutch Came Slinking
Scissors

Sad If I Lost It
Not Behind The Fighter Jet
I Am A Tree
Mute Superstar
Little Lines
Bomb In The Beehive

Why Did You Land?

Picture Me Big Time
An Unmarketed Product
Thing I will Keep
Surgical Focus

Usless Inventions
Dirty Water
Apology In Advance
Secret Star
The Main Street Wizards

Visit This Place
Request For Pharmacuticals
Beg For A Wheelbarrow
Dig Through My Window

Over The Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
Red Gas Circle
Quality Of Armor
On The Tundra

The Hard Way
Drinkers Peace
Club Molluska
Pendulum
When She Turns 50
How Loft Am I

Long Distance Man
Trap Door Soul

The Great Blake Street Canoe Race
Navigating Flood Regions
Short On Posters
Liars Tale

Big School

Pantherz
Where I Come From
Bunco Men
I Can See It In Your Eyes
Blue Gil
Long Way To Run
United

Stingy Queens (so lo-fi.....but magically brilliant and gorgeous)
Headache Revolution
Heavy Crown
Somewhere Somtimes

A Contest Featuring Human Beings
If We Wait

Dayton Ohio 19 Something And 5
Haha Man
Unbaited Vicar Of Scorched Earth
At The Farms
Optional Bases Opposed
158 Years Of Beatuful Sex

Everything Off Under The Bushes Under The Stars Also Classic!!

Christian Animation Torch Carriers
Cheyenne
Pretty Bombs
Eureka Signs

Wished I Was A Giant
Expecting Brainchild
Jar Of Cardinals
Gleemer
Wondering Boy Poet

Real
Now I'm Crying




Holy shit that's just GBV now on to Pollard solo and side project stuff!!!

[megaballs1]

iso drills, never heard, i'm in.

[hardwood floor]

Amen Brother. Pollard is by far the most prolific songwriter going. Its a full time job just keeping up but soooo worth the effort. It's a shame so many gave up on him after the Electrifying Conclusion.....

for me, he lost his way after FaCE and didn't really get it back until the crawling distance (is that even out yet?). i think all his recent records had two or three great songs but failed beyond that.

Pollard in his many forms is putting out some of the/his best work as we speak!....and Boston Spaceship show I saw in Chicago proved he is fronting the best band he has ever stood in front of....hands down!

although i would put the tobias / gillard / farley / mcpherson / pollard gbv lineup ahead of this one just because of the pure propulsive energy they generated and the pure joy they got out of playing together, i really loved the spaceships show i saw. was hoping for a gbv rarity or two (back to saturn x maybe? sometimes i cry? stumbling blocks to stepping stones? time fucking machines?) but the spaceships were tremendous. tommy keene IS rock

here's my top 20 pollard post-gbv songs, in no particular order


Miles Under The Skin, Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (Robert Pollard)
There Will Be no Island, The Crawling Distance (Robert Pollard)
Death of the Party, Blues and Boogie Shoes (Keene Brothers)
The Blondes, Robert Pollard Is off to Business (Robert Pollard)
Fresh Threats, Salad Shooters, Zip Guns, From a Compound Eye (Robert Pollard)
Circle Saw Boys Club, Silverfish Trivia (Robert Pollard)
The Butler Stands for All of Us, The Crawling Distance (Robert Pollard)
Serious Bird Woman (You Turn me On), Normal Happiness, (Robert Pollard)
U.S. Mustard Company, From a Compound Eye (Robert Pollard)
Zoom (It Happens under the World), Zoom (Robert Pollard)
Light Show, From a Compound Eye (Robert Pollard)
Folded Claws, Standard Gargoyle Decisions (Robert Pollard)
Shadow Port, Standard Gargoyle Decisions (Robert Pollard)
Beauty of the Draft, Blues and Boogie Shoes (Keene Brothers)
Catherine From Mid-October, Zoom (Robert Pollard)
Jesus the Clockwork, All that is Holy (Psycho and the Birds)
Pattern Girl, Sgt. Disco (Circus Devils)
Dancing Girls And Dancing Men, From a Compound Eye (Robert Pollard)
Winston's Atomic Bird, Brown Submarine (Boston Spaceships)
Our Gaze, Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (Robert Pollard)

I understand what you are saying. I really do think that the build from Coast to Coast, Off to Buisness and Brown Submarine has been very fulfilling. I know that lots of the material he puts out is hit and miss but those three albums have produced more great song than most artists have put out in their careers. And hell, even his misses are better than most stuff going around today. I will say I would love to hear another Keene Brothers album. That one to me was pure gold. And you are right about that GBV lineup. Mac was steller on the drums....still the best version of Tractor Rape Chain I have ever heard came fro that era. I feel Pollard has really found the beauty of substance and quality over the last couple of albums. They are shorter and more concise and yet there is still plenty of outlets for the "other stuff". I am very excited to hear the new solo and Boston Spaceships albums. What show did you see this last go round? If Time Machines would have made the cut I would have given birth!!!!!! But we did ge Crutch Came Slinking, Headache Revolution, Blue Gill, Dorthy Was a Planet from King Shit and the Suitcase seies....not to mention that Encore of Pricks,Salty Salute,Cut Out Witch, Tractor Rape Chain,Motor Away!!!!!!!!!!!

i still think coast to coast is really really uneven, although miles under the skin is ridiculously great. off to business and brown submarine i like a lot more than the other post-FaCE solo stuff but still find myself skipping songs.

i saw the spaceships at johnny brenda's in philly. my 20th or 21st pollard show i think. i was in chicago for new year's eve in 2004, one of the greatest nights of my life, and then in athens for the first solo show early in 2006. saw a few shows on the FaCE tour - i loved them but nobody else did. i also saw the last show with the ascended masters, also in philly, before bob's alleged injury. that was really sad. like 50 people in the place. lots of odd set list selections (life of a wife live? dolphins of color? etc.) you could see bob's girlfriend crying backstage when he went on and on about what a pathetic old drunk piece of shit he was. sad stuff. the spaceship show was a complete reversal - band full of life, great set list, packed house, tons of energy. fantastic to see. i honestly never thought i'd see a packed house again and a ton of kids who knew all the words to winston's atomic bird

[hardwood floor]

I've always liked "Game of Pricks" myself. It's a great song to listen to loud when you've just gotten your heart broken, which happens to me about every weekend.

some of the most amazing chord changes ever

i play it on the piano as a ballad and it works because the changes are so mighty

live it was just ferocious

[Rarefied Farrar]

I've always liked "Game of Pricks" myself. It's a great song to listen to loud when you've just gotten your heart broken, which happens to me about every weekend.

[Bound to Get Burned]

I like: The Best of Jill Hives

Kenny

[hardwood floor]

Over the Neptune / Mesh Gear Fox

Dont know if it is his greatest, but it is definitely my favorite.

it is phenomenal

was never played live until new year's eve, 2004, chicago, the final gbv show

where they opened with it

astonishing

It`s on the live disc in the Hardcore UFO`s box set so they did play it live before but not often.Cool song I agree.

you are right

i stand corrected

hadn't been played since the under the bushes tour in 1996

the song that had never been played live that they did that night was heavy metal country

i hate when i get gbv shit wrong

ok, carry on

[barclocksays3am]

Over the Neptune / Mesh Gear Fox

Dont know if it is his greatest, but it is definitely my favorite.

it is phenomenal

was never played live until new year's eve, 2004, chicago, the final gbv show

where they opened with it

astonishing

It`s on the live disc in the Hardcore UFO`s box set so they did play it live before but not often.Cool song I agree.

[hardwood floor]

Over the Neptune / Mesh Gear Fox

Dont know if it is his greatest, but it is definitely my favorite.

it is phenomenal

was never played live until new year's eve, 2004, chicago, the final gbv show

where they opened with it

astonishing

[head tone harmony]

Over the Neptune / Mesh Gear Fox

Dont know if it is his greatest, but it is definitely my favorite.

[hardwood floor]

pollard top 5 today

jane of the waking universe
time machines
flat beauty
the blondes
miles under the skin

[hardwood floor]

insanely great pollard show with boston spaceships in philly tonight @ johnny brenda's

almost three hours of just unstoppable volcanic rock. phenomenal set list with no gbv in the main set (other than an obscure b-side called Headache Revolution) and no songs pollard has ever performed before this tour. then encore with motor away, game of pricks, tractor rape chain and cut-out witch

incredible band - tommy keene on guitar, chris slusarenko on guitar, jason narduccy on bass, john moen on drums

great venue, overflow packed house and even son volt on the PA system before the set

god fucking bless robert pollard. jesus christ, was a show