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Author: Michael Toland
Date: 12-19-11 10:46
I know for most fans it's an integral part of what makes GBV their favorite band, but the description I saw this morning that says the band is deliberately returning to the collage effect of their early records discourages me from checking this out. The fragments and detritus littering their work is what turned me off in the first place.
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Author: nosepail
Date: 12-19-11 11:01
Cant do the stream. Need to wait for the actual package. I am betting that "deliberately returning to the collage effect of their early records " is an overstatement, and simply means there is one or two snippets connecting a couple actual, well-produced tunes.
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Author: breno
Date: 12-19-11 11:36
Pollard's brain has got to be an incredible place. It churns out massive amounts of indelible hooks that most bands would kill for, but there are so many that he's been able to say to literally hundreds of them "Eh, you're okay I guess but you're really only good for a 31-second snippet. I'm not going to bother building an entire song around you."
On a single album the man discards a greater quantity of amazing melodies on tossed-off fragments than most bands come up with in their entire careers.
I'm with Toland in the fact that that irritates the hell out of me. But I'm with Nosepail in loving the hell out of GBV anyway, no matter how often they break my heart by throwing the best song I've ever heard at me and then ending it after 18 seconds.
You know, it would be pretty funny if there were a band called "Guided by Guided by Voices" or something that built their entire career around rescuing the fragments off of GBV albums and expanding them to full songs. What the heck, it would be a tribute band with a novel twist, anyway.
Post Edited (12-19-11 11:41)
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Author: erikalbany
Date: 12-19-11 12:10
"Laundry and Lasers" is already sounding like top-shelf GBV to me.
And it's great to see Tobin back in the fold. . .
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Author: rhettlawrence
Date: 12-19-11 12:37
Pollard had that great line in the GBV documentary that was something to the effect of "I can write 5 songs while I'm taking a shit. And 3 of 'em will be good!"
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