GUIDED BY VOICES - DOGFISH HEAD / BEER THOUSAND

A Thousand Dogfish Beerheads
by Rayehks

Hey, it's awesomely thousand.  Beers have been made out of this.  A thousand at least I can tell perhaps.  And I can't still find that beer.  "Hey beer sneer, wheeere are you now...?  Oh dear... B B B B Baby Thousand ampersand babies...no no no .. It's a thousand beess... No No, no no no.. it's Beer Thousand// A thousand beers,, Beer Thousand and, . . Dogpeace.. no, Dogfish Head...Dogfish Head. Yeah, it is Dogfish Head and Beer Thousand.. Oh dear, beer... Must be something that's been thought out to share something awesome once again. B b Bb BBob,, Bob your head into thiss live recprding. Yes it is a collection of Guided By Voices' live performance that features songs from the album Bee Thousand... Yeah! .. and they do sound great as always... GBV! GBV GBV! ...

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GUIDED BY VOICES - COOL PLANET

Planet Cool
By RC

This an edited review.  And there's always this thought of having to look for other sources other than the usual record store out from where I reside. Vinyl records seem not to arrive down here anymore. Unless you are one heck of a music collector.   And turntables are hard to find these days.  If only I have saved the classic gadgets before.  But Guided By Voices continues to alarm me.  How do they do it? Look at them. United as one.

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GUIDED BY VOICES - MOTIVATIONAL JUMPSUIT

Company Saved
by SNDTRPR

Bob and the gang will keep you preoccupied.  They're practically a non-precarious act to follow.  Robert Pollard has kept Guided By Voices the kind of band that persists on a scene where others would hesitate  This attitude has produced a lot of records, daring and magical in substance, a level unsurpassed by previous and the current generation.  With Toby on the side, GBV has made the appreciation of rock music a daily routine.

NEW Guided By Voices record Motivational Jumpsuit
Album is available for pre-order and will be released February 18th.

GUIDED BY VOICES - THE BEARS FOR LUNCH

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The Voices For Breakfast
by Ry X Av

I grabbed this just so recently and It's not surprising that it's now everywhere.  This is officially released the 13th of November.  The singles from this LP are way so good that it all comes down to this.  Guided By Voices with the classic lineup  is on it's third release this year.  Excluding Robert Pollard's own release, I'd say his followers are all left uptight and glad.  Keeping them on their feet, like never letting go.  I figured from first round play that I'd be left with no more better songs than those released as singles. Like "Hangover Child", "White Flag", and "Everywhere Is Miles From Everywhere". Again, GBV (short for Guided By Voices) won't give me a chance to give a negative review. This is officially their 19th album release gone from far away beginnings 1987's "Devil Between My Toes".  Sprout's presence here is relentless.  Pollard's squeals with uncompromising words screeching with guitars I could happily tolerate with amusement .  "King Arthur The Red" led the bunch of tracks, with Sprout's "The Corners Are Golden", pure magic.   Back to Bob on "Have A Jug" reached a point of bliss and where the lovely guitar on "Dome Rust" are found.  The "Finger Gang" points to put the finger on you. Much more impossible to ignore challenge, flying as Sprout is "Waving At Airplanes".  Shot to the ground with "Smoggy Boy".  The endearing piano piece on The "Military School Dance Dismissal" waves in doubling voices "never had a bullet for the dance"... "Skin To Skin Combat" is purely Tobin soaring over, light distortion and drums, I'd say a lo-fi royalty.  The tunes I crave for are complete with any GBV record and this pretty much has made my breakfast.  I can expect them to appear on live cable TV soon. Power rhythm section's bassist Greg Demos,  Mitch Mitchell and drummer Kevin Fennell indeed is the classic lineup charged on to wave out. Humor me. Top notch, f*ckin' A.  An early Christmas treat.

GUIDED BY VOICES - CLASS CLOWN SPOTS A UFO

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Identified
by R.C. Kola

So many songs, so little time. Guided By Voices is back and it hates to waste your time. The Class Clown is festive, he spots a UFO.

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GUIDED BY VOICES - JON THE CROC

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The Clown Spot
by R.C. Avellanosa

It's always good to hear new songs from Guided By Voices. Glimpses, this apparently the second single "Jon the Croc" from the upcoming release Class Clown Spots A UFO. The release review at Rockathon says "We don't know who Jon is, but we wouldn't want to be him. + catchy as hell Tobin Sprout non-lp b-side". No need to describe further. I am saving it for the actual release. Now where could that class clown have spotted a UFO?

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THE SOUNDTRIPPER - COMPILATION VOLUME XVII

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Lightning At Your Door
by R.C. Avellanosa

A mix of recently posted records. Some were just released recently. Guided By Voices' "Keep It In Motion" and Pollard's "Science Magazine" are the freshest treat. This is clearly compiled as my present playlist. At least it is this time, the compilation I am playing at the moment. Starts with The Drums' "Money" from Portamento followed by New Order's Bernard Albrecht and his side band "Bad Lieutenant". The Ocean Blue's "Mercury" will lift your hearts up. From the Radio One Evening Sessions, The Railway Children's anthemic "In The Meantime" is a different version. The fifth track is from the obscure "The Dentists" with Apple Beast reminds me of The Stone Roses,, such a surprise. Lee Ranaldo's 2012 release "Between The Times And The Tides" produced the radio-friendly single "Off The Wall". Dinosaur Jr.'s Take A Run At The Sun will brighten up your day. Another underrated band composed of Filipino-American artists from New York "Versus" is simply awesome. The volume is leaving you with the stellar Sonic Youth with "Stalker". It's worth at least a week of airplay. This is F*#king A!

Tracks:
01. Money - The Drums
02. Twist of Fate - Bad Lieutenant
03. Mercury - The Ocean Blue
04. In The Meantime (Radio One) - The Railway Children
05. Apple Beast - The Dentists
06. Keep It In Motion - Guided By Voices
07. Off The Wall - Lee Ranaldo
08. Science Magazine - Robert Pollard
09. Take A Run At The Sun - Dinosaur Jr.
10. Blade Of Grass - Versus
11. Stalker - Sonic Youth

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GUIDED BY VOICES - KEEP IT IN MOTION

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Keep It In Line
by R.C. Avellanosa

Just this morning, Lost Transmission 9 traded something delightful. As promised, "Keep It In Motion" was delivered by power pop express mail. On "Keep It In Motion", first single off “Clown Spots A UFO”, I hear Sprout singing with Pollard, so wonderful I had to smile. "White World" is piece of awesome bliss, Pixies-ish. For a moment I thought I was playing "Debaser". "Pink Wings" was like a static lullaby. I played each track three times with a pause to savour the moment. I think that's how singles should be played. It's one of those releases you'd hate to miss. I'm so grateful that a transmission was lost in my area. This is the reunited classic '93-'96 line-up of Guided By Voices (R. Pollard, Sprout, Mitchell, Fennell and Demos). This is a single off their full-length "Class Clown Spots A UFO" coming up around May. And a feature somewhere says it is now complete waiting for that month to come. I can expect Guided By Voices to churn up more albums forward. Indie bands and followers everywhere will be up to their heels for the next Guided By Voices obsession. GBV Tunes shall be heard across continents, fate of which is dictated by discarded boomboxes, beer bottles, butts and ashes of pleasure.

Robert was way off the mark when he announced once that "Half Smiles of The Decomposed" would be their last album. Saying "This is it!” but hey, look! Three to four albums for the year at least is possible with the pace their going. One album each quarter would be neat; I'd sport a heartfelt grin the whole year. The resurrection has given the GBV crowd all over the world yet another reason to jump high, fly like superman across the room and to the pit. It is a running statement proving that old Indie Rock is not dead.

Notes on KEEP IT IN MOTION on NME

"Sweetly touching brain pop... playground psychedelia at its most brilliant and uplifting." **** 4 Stars – Mojo // "A kaleidoscopic burst of ideas and passion and absurdity." 4 Stars - The Guardian // "Re-formed underground legends return at full pelt." **** 4 Stars - Q Magazine // "A glorious, frayed-at-the-edges patchwork of bristling garage pop, stadium rock racketeering, saloon-bar tenderness, and nightmarishly ramshackle dirges." 8/10

 

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GUIDED BY VOICES - THE GRAND HOUR

 The Noise Guide
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This is a lo-fi material. It is garage music, like a band playing on the adjoining room. Park your car outside, zoom up the volume, it’s Guided By Voices. ‘Bobby P’ on the groove with grinning guitars and heart wrenching drums drenched with acoustic and static overtones. Hints of punk rock and The Who revival, The Grand Hour is a solution to a situational hazard. “Shocker in Gloomtown”, of which a live version is found on Jellyfish Reflector, was covered by The Breeders. For which a music video showed them playing it while Pollard and the crew was out peeking right in. Playful and rough, some track titles here ended up being album titles. And I was wondering if it was intentional for the song "Off The floor" to have started with a glimpse of "Hot Freaks", it’s unmistakable. It ended with the most playful song, the wobbly "Bee Thousand".

It’s a grand experience your parents can handle. They can throw it, so put it on your shelves, on your drawers, beside the lamp or on your desk, chances are you’d find yourself fixated. Don’t be alarmed, the five year old drummer from “Bee Thousand” might pick this one up from the trash, you’ll get over it.

“As Fast Japanese Spin Cycle is not available here, The Grand Hour is a fine alternative. It's 6 songs overflow with fine music and it features at least 2 classic GBV tunes. "Shocker in Gloomtown", "Off The Floor" and "Break Even" are great songs. "Alien Lanes" and "Bee Thousand" supply missing title songs to their two finest albums and "I'll Get Over It" is a decent song as well. This is a must have for any GBV fan and a nice snapshot of the band as it was just reaching it's peak. Get it....this will only make you cooler.”

GUIDED BY VOICES - STATIC AIRPLANE JIVE

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The Short Stop
by R.C. Avellanosa 

It's "Big School" at the homefront. Never realized the beauty of this record until I replayed and pondered it this time. Robert's young voice resonates along with brother Jim's guitars, Mitch's scratches and Kevin's drums. You'd think for a moment that it was Sprout singing. It is simply pop, punk and rock. That's the best way to put it. The shortest "Rubber Man" confirms it. You know cause you know cause you know, like a Nirvana bonus track. And "Hey Aardvark" reminds me a little like the shortest Beatles song. Lo-fi royalty at it's finest, Guided By Voices, made this around the days when alternative rock was commercialized, the hey days of modern rock bands. And for a 4-Track recording, I should say this is how it is. This is how it should sound and for sure Tobin would agree. And I think I got to have that gelatin, ice cream, plum.

Song Feature: RUBBER MAN

Line-up:
Tobin Sprout
Robert Pollard
Jim Pollard
Mitch Mitchell
Kevin Fennell

Recording Location
Tobin Sprout's 4-Track

Words:
You bounce back
You're so bad
You know where you're going you know
You leave now
You come back
You know cause you know cause you know
Back
You know cause you know cause you know

Notes on STATIC AIRPLANE JIVE by Andrew Stecz

"...are more sonic ramblings of the street philosopher, you follow, listen carefully, and wait for that brilliant moment that will make all the waiting and listening worth it…."

 

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GUIDED BY VOICES - GLAD GIRLS

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Get You High
by R.C. Avellanosa 

You can't leave out "Glad Girls". It's one of their best songs. Stand and roll around the floor, shake your brains or jump and do the Superman pose. It's Guided By Voices ladies and gentleman and it's good the girls are glad. At some point, somewhere somehow, clouds form smiles. Buses and trucks roll in, as birds dance, flew over the sun on cities powdered by industries. Men on coffee shops and offices, dressed with forlorn, walking passing through sexy, jumping, dancing figures wondering what the hell they're doing here.

This should be the Australian release. I'd say the "Glad Girls" version here is quite the same as what's found on Isolation Drills. One true GBV fan could point out if I'm mistaken. This is neat and brilliant for a GBV follower. This should be around in one of your collection. "On With The Show", lines appeared on "Blimps Go 90", is the third longer track. "North American Vampires" lasted almost only a minute, with words about sensitive Einsteins and a crusty New Waver. River of statistics, shitheads and growing bank accounts, Pollard says "on with the show!"

Song Feature: GLAD GIRLS



Publisher
Needmore Songs

Songwriter
Robert Pollard

Line-up
Robert Pollard
Doug Gillard
Nate Farley
Tim Tobias
Jim Macpherson

Words:
Hey, glad girls only want to get you high
And they're alright

There will be no coronation
There will be no flowers flowing
In the light that passes though me

Hey, glad girls only want to get you high
And they're alright

There will be no graduation
There will be no trumpets blowing
In the light that passes through me

With the sinking of the sun
I've come to greet you
Clean your hands and go to sleep
Confess the dreams
Of good and bad men all around
Some are lost
And some have found
The light that passes though me

Notes on GLAD GIRLS by Gawdam Adam

"The dumbing down of America has been avoided, because the words “hip” and “hop” have not been put together.  Mouseketeers end up working at McDonalds after their run is up with Mickey. The phrase “the next step in reality television” has never, nor ever will be muttered. Movies about football players starring ex-teen stars directed by washed up sitcom stars are outlawed. EVERYTHING smells and tastes like the beautiful flower of an untouched goddess.  And Glad Girls is the anthem of a generation. Oh, and I’m the supreme ruler of all and people bow to my every need and desire. That about does it."

 

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GUIDED BY VOICES - HOLD ON HOPE (PROMO)

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Out Mysteriously
by R.C. Avellanosa

And one would ask yet again, "what's the difference between these two records?"  This promotional edition had only three tracks compared with the EP which had nine. And it's a single.  There's even another format, a promotional release from "Do The Collapse" which had Ric Ocasek's radio mix, a Joseph-Puig radio mix and the "call out hook", which I yet have to find. There's even a Re-Pressing release too.  Guided By Voices releases get confusing sometimes. I guess the formats differ from when it's produced from another country or label. This Promo version is from UK under the label Creation.

But "Hold On Hope" is lovely as ever. It's like an anthem for a life falling out of purpose.  This has to be the one made up for the TV Comedy "Scrubs".  The Hold On Hope edit version is slightly different from the other.  It is a bit cleaner and clearer. Can't almost tell them apart, if they were recorded at different times or not. But it is an edit, so it's the same recording just edited or remastered. The second track "Perfect This Time" is just perfect and refreshing, apt to follow holding on hope.  "Teenage FBI"'s demo version sounds raw but just the same it's classic GBV. One would think it's a live, lo-fi version apart from studio version which can be found on "Do The Collapse".

Song Feature: PERFECT THIS TIME

Publisher:
Needmore Songs

Line-up:
Robert Pollard
Doug Gillard
Jim Macpherson
Greg Demos

Production Engineers
Ric Ocasek
Brian Sperber

Mixing
Doug Gillard

Studio Mixing Location
Suma Studio



 

Words:

Oh, to lift me over lines I shall not cross
You can't mean that
If it causes pain at any cost
You can't mean that
There is a guy
Who comes around and counts you
Knows your name
Assigns a descriptive sign
But it's so hard to analyze that sign
Were you perfect this time?

 

Oh, to lift me over lines I shall not cross
You can't mean that
If it cause pain at any cost
You can't mean that
There is a guy
Who comes around and counts you
Knows your name
Assigns a descriptive sign
But it's so hard to analyze that sign
Were you perfect this time?
Perfect this time?
Perfect this time

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GUIDED BY VOICES - PLUGS FOR THE PROGRAM

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Program Profound
by R.C. Avellanosa 

One can't say the accurate number of records the Guided By Voices have. One can only try to listen and pass it on. You'd be amazed on how prolific Robert Pollard is as a songwriter and a performer. Sprout, Gillard and almost each of them have played with other bands with obscure names and records. They circle in and out of the band. Past, side and solo projects flooded through. There's Circus Devils, Cosmos, Gem and Boston Spaceships to name a few. But let us go back to the program.

Plugs For The Program is a special EP exclusively for Newberry comics and TVT, whatever that is. Another one of those GBV's limited editions, were apparently sold for $2.99 on some locations. There are three tracks on this EP. One of them which is Track one, "a non LP version", is my favorite "Surgical Focus" which is wonderfully remixed. It starts with a killer guitar intro. It is one of those four versions of this song. Backed up with "Sucker of Pistol City" and a demo version of "Picture of Big Time". And I, The Soundtripper, end this up by singing "I will deliver to yooooo hooo, yeah!"

Highlight
SURGICAL FOCUS (remix)

Line-up:
Robert Pollard
Doug Gillard
Jim Macpherson
Greg Demos

Production:
Mixing - Lou Giordano
Producer - Ric Ocasek

Words:
With surgical focus
She stared at me and said
I'm willing to reach out
Get in to your head
And I will keep you
and cleanse you
She glared at me and wept
A change is not going to hurt you
Not this time

And I've been waiting in line for this
Now that it's taken forever
I insist

 

Until I get it, I can't breathe
Climbing high upon the rocky cliffs
We fly
With surgical focus

Notes on SURGICAL FOCUS by thezestofyore & zazeify

"This song is so good it hurts. The true mark of a versatile song. You could play most of Bob's stuff, underwater, backwards and they would still rock."

 

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GUIDED BY VOICES - LET'S GO EAT THE FACTORY

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Twenty One Tracks

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GUIDED BY VOICES - LIVE IN DAYTRON

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Forty Three Tracks

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THE SOUNDTRIPPER - COMPILATION VOLUME VII

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Tracks:
01. Last Romantic Day - The Rentals
02. I Think I Need A New Heart - The Magnetic Fields
03. Entire - The Spinanes
04. If I Can't Change Your Mind (Solo Mix) - Sugar
05. Listening For The Weather - Bic Runga
06. That's Just What You Are - Aimee Mann
07. All Used Up - Tobin Sprout
08. Cold As Ice - Sebadoh
09. You've Got A Friend - The Housemartins
10. Choking Tara - Guided By Voices
11. Somebody Is Waiting For Me - Juliana Hatfield

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GUIDED BY VOICES & AIRPORT 5 - SELECTIVE SERVICE

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Tracks:
01. Dayton, Ohio - 19 Something And 5
02. Travels
03. No Welcome Wagons
04. Selective Service
05. Total Exposure
06. Cold War Water Sports
07. The Wheel Hits The Path (Quite Soon)
08. Stifled Man Casino
09. Peroxide
10. Eskimo Clockwork
11. In The Brain

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EVERYTHING IS NICE - THE MATADOR RECORDS 10TH ANNIVERSARY ANTHOLOGY (DISC 2)

Tracks:
01. Xmas Steps - Mogwai
02. Sugarcube - Yo La Tengo
03. The Official Ironmen Rally Song - Guided By Voices
04. Banned From The End Of The World - Sleater Kinney
05. One Louder Solex - Solex
06. The Banjo's Categorical Gut - Matmos
07. Here We Go - Arab Strap
08. Booker To Hooker - Khan
09. Image Of You - Red Snapper
10. Blaze - Arsonists
11. Roygbiv - Boards Of Canada
12. Do Thr Strand - Burger Ink
13. Tanzen - Pole
14. X-Factor - Void

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GUIDED BY GUIDED BY VOICES - TRIBUTE TO GUIDED BY VOICES

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Tracks:
01. Intro - GBGBVOLYWA
02. Non Absorbing - Invisible Hand
03. Tractor Rape Chain - Chromium Bitch
04. Wondering Boy Poet/Game of Pricks - No Demons Here
05. Kicker of Elves/As We Go Up We Go Down - Martin Courtney IV
06. A Good Flying Bird - Andrew Cedermark
07. Back To The Lake - Air Waves
08. A Big Fan of The Pigpen - Big Troubles
09. Motor Away - Alex Bleeker & Evan Brody
10. A Salty Salute - Eternal Summers
11. My Valuable Hunting Knife - Pill Wonder
12. Chicken Blows - Hallelujah The Hills
13. I Am A Scientist - FZ
14. Awful Bliss - Harpoon Forever
15. They're Not Witches - Citymouth & Chromium Bitch
16. Club Molluska - Fluffy Lumbers
17. 14 Cheerleader Coldfront - Dana Jewell

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SING FOR YOUR MEAT- TRIBUTE TO GUIDED BY VOICES

Tracks:
01. Scalding Creek - Kelley Deal And Buffalo Killers
02. Stabbing A Star - Thurston Moore
03. Man Called Aerodynamics - Elf Power
04. A Salty Salute - Superdrag
05. My Valuable Hunting Knife - Western Civ
06. Tractor Rape Chain - Crooked Fingers
07. Game Of Pricks - Lou Barlow

08. Echos Myron - Sorry About Dresden
09. Buzzards And Dreadful Crows - James Husband
10. Smothered In Hugs - Flaming Lips
11. Watch Me Jumpstart - La Sera
12. I Am Produced - I Was Totally Destroying It
13. How Loft Am I - David Kilgour
14. Gleemer - Cymbals Eat Guitars
15. Everywhere With Helicopter - Jason Isbell And 400 Unit
16. I Am A Tree - The Pneurotics
17. Hot Freaks - Blitzen Trapper

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An excellent display of interrelated fusion of songs in honor and all attributed to Guided By Voices.

This album is a testament to just how intensely Guided By Voices has moved, influenced and filled our lives with the sounds of dirty bars, dusty roads and drunken hearts. Through the lo-fi aesthetic and high brow lyrical magic we have all been taken on a journey through the lives of the men who created these songs. Faces rocked and fingers bleeding, now we all get to share in the passion and chaos that is the music of Guided By Voices. Each giving our own interpretation or simply trying to do the songs justice, we have created what we feel to be a collection of bad=ass rock songs and raw serenades.