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Song of the moment

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:51:55 -0700

Guided By Voices

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New GBV live album: "Live From Austin, TX"

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Thu, 17 May 2007 16:55:02 -0700

Guided By Voices recorded live in Austin, TX at the Austin City Limits Festival on their farewell Electrifying Conclusion tour. Here are some stand-out tracks:

Live from Austin Texas

Guided by Voices

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Vox Hunt: It's Like You're There

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:31:42 -0700

Audio: Share your favorite track from a live album.
Submitted by -Lisa.

Of course, I couldn't properly answer this QotD without some choice live cuts by the greatest live band of all time, the mighty mighty Guided By Voices (my previous answer was just for practice.) First off, here are the first four or five songs of their farewell show 12/31/04, including "Over the Neptune/Gear Mesh Fox", "Watch Me Jumpstart" and "Fair Touching,"

Main Set Part I

Guided By Voices

Then some choice cuts from their earlier live album "Jellyfish Reflector" which I just picked up at Amoeba about a month ago. For some reason I hadn't really hard that much about it, which is surprising, because it's actually quite awesome.

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"My kind of soldier you can ride on my shoulders when we've won"

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:21:51 -0700

This is a pretty epic video. Good thing to watch on a Friday shipday.

Guided By Voices - My Kind of Soldier

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Robert Pollard future releases news

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:45:46 -0800

On djchall.com:

http://djchall.com/2007/01/robet_pollard_future_releases.html

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I have a reached a new low (high?) in GBV fandom

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:42:18 -0800

I just ordered the just-released second volume of Robert Pollard stage banter, "Asshole 2: Meet the King." Who wouldn't want to listen to it, though, after reading this description:

Meet the King: Asshole 2. It's the second comedy (read: stage banter) album from Robert Pollard. It's available now on Yuk Yuk Motherfucker Records. Meet the King is the follow up to 2005's Relaxation of the Asshole. Recorded mostly during the final Guided By Voices tour, you get to hear Bob's routines on family ("Fuck you Dad!"), offer advice to the youngsters ("we got any college kids out there looking for jobs? Get wasted when you do your interview!"), take on modern music ("Three years ago I thought Alien Ant Farm was the worst it could get. Now I look back nostalgically on Alien Ant Farm") and even examine his own career ("I'm Burt Bacharach in reverse").

Good thing I have the turntable set up, since it's vinyl only.

Meet The King Front

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QotD: Send For Help! Or Not...

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:24:53 -0800

You're trapped in a (temporarily) out of order elevator - who would you like to be trapped with?
Submitted by tbtissimus.

The following people, so we could have a round table discussion on the meaning of life (and possibly even a jam sesion):

Robert Pollard
Kevin Smith
Jesus
Neil Peart
Dalai Lama
Josh Homme
Lindsay Lohan
Jane Austen

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Let's get this group going: GBV DID

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:22:44 -0800

How about this? Name your Guided By Voices desert island discs. If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have five GBV albums to listen to, which ones would they be?

Here's mine, in order of release:

1. Propeller
2. Bee Thousand
3. Isolation Drills
4. Universal Truths and Cycles
5. Earthquake Glue

It was really hard leaving Do the Collapse off the list. Not to mention Half Smiles. But such is the nature of a desert island list.

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"This is the same place the fly got smashed"

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 21:07:29 -0800

Very early Guided By Voices, circa 1990. I've been sort of obsessed with "Local Mix--up/Murder Charge" lately. The second part of that musical diad gave us the title "The Electrifying Conclusion" and was the song GBV concluded their main sets with on the farewell tour of the same name.

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QotD: In Heavy Rotation

nobody@vox.com(djchall) — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 14:23:20 -0700

What albums are in heavy rotation for you right now?

The playlist I'm currently listening to contains the following:

QotD Heavy Rotation

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