Yesterday, Billboard reported that perpetual work-horse Robert Pollard is taking an indefinite hiatus from touring so that he can, yup, release more songs! He explained:
This is not to say I’ll never play another show again, but this touring thing is too much. It’s too hard to psychologically re-energize yourself each night. With Guided By Voices, it didn’t matter what day it was. What I’m doing now, in my opinion, is not only the same thing, I think it’s a step up, even. But you get tired of beating your head against the wall.
But fans of Pollard the prolific have nothing to worry about in ’07 (take a deep breath before you go on): Robert’s releasing Silverfish Trivia (on Merge); a double-disc (with collaborator Todd Tobias) as Circus Devils, called Sgt. Disco; a record as Takeovers (with GBV bassist Chris Slusarenko) entitled Bad Football; a 50-track retrospective on the concluding Fading Captain Series, entitled Crickets; a vinyl-only, second-volume of “Pollard’s drunken on-stage ramblings” called Meet The King: A**hole 2; and a third volume of pre-GBV stuff called The Great Houdini Wasn’t So Great.
You feel lazy. Here, this can make you feel productive: head here for a ton of live and rare GBV MP3s. Now you won’t feel so bad.
So with so fucking much to chose from already — and before there’s anymore — we’re wondering: What’s your favorite Pollard tune? Being hopelessly devoted to Bee Thousand, we’re going with “Gold Star For Robot Boy.” We think Julian Casablancs would vote “Smothered In Hugs.”
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Game of Pricks!
“I’ll never ask for the truth but you owe that to me.”
Ah….
Gonna have to do a top 5 on this one:
1. Game of Pricks
2. Sheet Kickers
3. My Valuable Hunting Knife
4. Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory
5. Acorns & Orioles
Honorable mention: I Am a Scientist, Smothered in Hugs, A Salty Salute, To Remake the Young Flyer, Shocker in Gloomtown, Wrecking Now
My favorite album is probably Under the Bushes Under the Stars.
Postal Blowfish and Gold Star for Robot Boy
1. My Valuable Hunting Knife
2. Wrecking Now
3. The Official Ironman Rally Song
Blimps go 90!
A second vote for Blimps Go 90…
also:
Yours to Keep/Echoes Myron
Johnny Appleseed
Matter Eater Lad
Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
A second vote for Blimps Go 90…
also:
Yours to Keep/Echoes Myron
Johnny Appleseed
Matter Eater Lad
Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
Drag fucking Days
followed by No fucking Sky, Things I Will Keep, Peephole, pop zeus and a seven hundred other top 10s
Drag fucking Days
followed by No fucking Sky, Things I Will Keep, Peephole, pop zeus and a seven hundred other top 10s
Subspace Biographies
Everybody Thinks I’m A Raincloud (When I’m Not Looking)
or
Shocker In Gloomtown
drag fucking days. followed by subspace biographies.
GAME OF PRICKS
ECHOES MYRON
GLAD GIRLS
Stereogum you rock! Gold Star For Robot Boy is definitely the best Pollard song. That verse melody rules!
My Valuable Hunting Knife.
Chasing Heather Crazy, I Am A Scientist, and Echos Myron very close.
Smothered in Hugs
Get Under It
Wrinkled Ghost
Here are my top 25 for Pollards 2006 releases…
1. I?m A Widow
2. Death of the Party
3. Accidental Texas Who
4. Gold
5. Recovering
6. Boxing About
7. Beauty of the Draft
8. The Right Thing
9. Pegasus Glue Factory
10. Conquerer Of The Moon
11. Full Sun (Dig The Slowness)
12. Dancing Girls And Dancing Men
13. Towers And Landslides
14. Evil Vs. Evil
15. Tomorrow Will Not Be Another Day
16. Island of Lost Lucys
17. Light Show
18. Get a Faceful
19. Lost Upon Us
20. Supernatural Car Lover
21. This Time Do You Feel It?
22. Rhoda Rhoda
23. U.S. Mustard Company
24. I Surround You Naked
25. The Numbered Head
Echoes Myron
Game Of Pricks (Tigerbomb EP version)!
hey-hey glad girls!
Official Ironmen Rally Song
Without question the greatest songwritter of this generation….
I haven’t listened to GBV for at about 10 years but Kicker Of Elves is still stuck in my head.
game of pricks, too. i never asked for the truth but you owe that to me–at the bowery show, those were the only lyrics he managed to sing, but hey they’re the important ones.
1. game of pricks
2. gold star for robot boy
3. redmen and their wives
Ha Ha Man. The best 42 second song ever written.
The Official Ironman Rally Song
Jane of the Waking Universe
A Crick Uphill
Quality of Armour
TEN GREAT GBV SONGS
1) hot freaks
tractor rape chain
2) as we go up, we go down
3) don’t stop now
4) gold heart mountaintop queen directory
5) chief beer belly
6) drag days
7) motor away
9) 14 cheerleader coldfront
10) awful bliss
MY PERSONAL FAVES
1) weedking
ester’s day
2) top chick silver chord
3) adverse wind
4) liars tale
5) gleemer (the deeds of fertile jim)
6) lips of steel
7) the brides have hit glass
9) land of danger
10) key losers
wow, i can’t believe no one yet has given props to “motor away”!!!!
oh, my mistake. but still, it deserves individual mention.
1. Glad Girls
2. Motor Away
3. Game Of Pricks
4. My Impression Now
5. Get Under It
1. Glad Girls
2. Motor Away
3. Game Of Pricks
4. My Impression Now
5. Get Under It
“Chicken Blows”… I suppose.
I vote for “Dodging Invisible Rays” with “Everywhere with Helicopter” and “A Crick Uphill” being honorable mentions.