10 posts tagged “robert pollard”
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:
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,"
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.
djchall's favorites: Feb. 2007
1. Heart of Hearts (!!!, Myth Takes)
2. White & Nerdy (Parody of "Ridin'" By Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone) ("Weird Al" Yankovic, Straight Outta Lynwood)
3. Intervention (Arcade Fire, Intervention - Single)
5. Song For Clay (Disappear Here) (Bloc Party, A Weekend In The City)
6. The Prayer (Bloc Party, A Weekend In The City)
7. Underwater (You and Me) (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Some Loud Thunder)
8. Wamp Wamp (What It Do) (Clipse featuring Slim Thug, Hell Hath No Fury)
9. Hang Me Up to Dry (Cold War Kids, Robbers & Cowards)
10. Ballad of Human Kindness (The Dears, Gang of Losers)
11. Back and Forth (Earl Greyhound, Soft Targets)
12. Ghost Is Back (edit) (Ghostface Killah, Ghost Is Back (single))
13. Outta Town Shit (Ghostface Killah, More Fish)
14. You Know I'm No Good (Ghostface Killah, More Fish)
15. All This Time (Heartless Bastards, All This Time)
16. Chips Ahoy (The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls In America)
17. Do U Wanna Ride (Jay-Z, Kingdom Come)
18. Anything (Jay-Z, Kingdom Come)
19. Mr. Jones (Mike Jones, Mr. Jones - Single)
20. Dashboard (Modest Mouse, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank)
21. Gronlandic Edit (Of Montreal, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)
22. Supernatural Car Lover (Robert Pollard, Normal Happiness)
23. Full Sun (Dig the Slowness) (Robert Pollard, Normal Happiness)
24. Don't Feel Right (The Roots, Game Theory)
25. Sea Legs (The Shins, Wincing the Night Away)
26. Insistor (Tapes 'n Tapes, The Loon)
27. Miss Sarajevo (2005 Live from Milan) (U2, Live In Milan 2005)
28. The Room Got Heavy (Yo La Tengo, I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass)
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.
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
Audio: Share a great love song.
Guided By Voices aren't known as a romantic band, but when the mood strikes him, Robert Pollard can crooon with the best of them.
What are your top 5 CDs/albums of 2006?
Submitted by eliz. s.
1. Built To Spill "You In Reverse"
2. Yo La Tengo "I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass"
3. Robert Pollard "From a Compound Eye"
4. My Morning Jacket "Okonokos"
5. Pearl Jam "Bill Graham Civic 7/15/06"
Vox should support structured data so we could aggregate these lists in interesting ways.
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.
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) Inspired by Stephanie.
Which one? I bring both my ipod nano and 60gb ipod w/ video to work every day. Well, what the hell-I'll do both. I am "dj" chall after all.
First my ipod nano, which contains mostly recently released and acquired music:
1. "Take to the Sky" – Guided By Voices "Under the Bushes Under the Stars" under the tables, under the bars. Not my most favorite song from this album. Possibly my least favorite, actually. Ah well... such is life when you shuffle all.
2. "Fire Eye'd Boy" – Broken Social Scene "Broken Social Scene" This upbeat raver could be my anthem, and it one of my favorite songs on one of the best albums of 2005. Really bummed I missed seeing these guys live last fall-went to U2 at the Oakland Arena instead. This song and "Large-Hearted Boy" by GBV would make a good double-shot were there any radio station cool enough to do it.
3. "The Numbered Head" - Robert Pollard "From a Compound Eye" This menacing number is a virtual epic by Bob Pollard standards, clocking in at five minutes, ten seconds. From the first of five solo releases from Bob this year, the last of which "Normal Happiness" is due on Merge Records in a matter of weeks. I wouldn't call "From a Compund Eye" the second coming of "Bee Thousand" or "Isolation Drills" but it still one of the best indie rock records I've heard this year. Pollard still puts on a hell of a life show, too.
4. "Translation" – Songs: Ohia "My Morning Jacket/Songs: Ohia Split EP" This is the only Songs: Ohia song I own. I do however, own much more of Jason Molina's more recent project "Magnolia Electric Co." which I like a lot. This song is slow and moody, and sounds like Magnola Electric Co. minus the Neil Young-isms, which I suppose is the point. I can't claim I really like this as much as Magnolia, but it definitely has atmosphere. It just feels a bit aimless and unformed, lacking the classic rock/blues-isms which provide a context for the extended jams on MEC's live album.
5. "Field Jacket Blues" – Robert Pollard "From a Compound Eye" Back to Bob. This song is energetic and catchy, and is a much more usual length for a Bob Pollard composition, coming in at just under two minutes.
6. "World of Hurt" – Drive By Truckers "A Blessing and a Curse" Patterson Hood's affecting half-spoken/half-sung ode to acceptance and maturity. I really want to hear this song live. "To love is to feel pain." As is usual with the Truckers, only Patterson Hood's utter conviction and sincerity save this song from descending into schmaltz or worse, regional affectation. There's some beautiful guitar work, both electric and lap steel, on the fade-out.
7. "It's All Gonna Break" – Broken Social Scene "Broken Social Scene" Another song I bet would be epic live. It makes me a bit nervous that this song showed up on my musical horoscope what with it's lyrics about being f-ed up the ass.
8. "Evenflow" - Pearl Jam "Bill Graham Civic 7/16/06" Pearl Jam always tear it up with this song, which when played live provides Mike McCready and Stone Gossard to show off their considerable chops, creativity and chemistry. Actually the whole band shreds on this song, beause the rhythm section really lays down an awesome groove underneath the soloing. Hilariously, on the version of Evenflow Pearl Jam played the night after this one, Matt Cameron actually played a drum solo, which I had never seen at a PJ show. Complewtely unironically, too-he went at it with all of the gusto of a teenager in his parent's garage having just listened to Exit... Stage Left. I saw this show in person last July, along with many other Voxers, including Krissy, Rachel and even Runt. I wouldn't really classify Pearl Jam as a "jam band" but listening to all of the different amazing versions of Evenflow I've heard over the years, both in person and on the copious live bootlegs I've obtained, makes me understand why PJ have a substansial coterie of fans who follow them from show to show. I like the fact that Eddie Vedder gives props to the SF audience for being cool and taking care of each other-since this show is one of the few PJ have played in the last few years with an open floor.
9. "The Perfect Life" – Guided By Voices "Under the Bushes Under the Stars" Another throwaway track from this album.
10. "She Saw the Shadow" – Robert Pollard "Choreographed Men of War" Uh, did I mention I like Guided By Voices and Robert Pollard? I don't know this song that well, actually. It's okay... nothing that special.
So there you go. I'm not sure what it says about my future. Things will flow evenly? I will be hurt, but learn to accept it? I'm going to be spending a lot of time under bushes? (So what else is new?) You tell me.
Later I will do my 60gb ipod-that will be much more eclectic and random mix of music. First, though, must write more test cases.
