Haha, repped. I'm going to quote this IRL.

That's awesome, dude. Did you talk to Bob? He's really cool with his fans. Always drunk, too. Most of their live shows is just him stumbling around singing.

and i'm 7, so shut the fuck up

Every GBV fan has to own their "Electrifying Conclusion" DVD. Their last show, 4 hours, I just wish it was longer...

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Every few Bob solo/sideproject albums that come out nowadays, I buy one in the hopes that "this is the one. This is the return to form."

SUPERMAN WAS A ROCKER came really close for me. Probably because the instrumentals were old GBV leftovers, but...

have you heard boston spaceships?

nope. I heard good things. But the album was never available on eMusic. And I'm really not excited enough by new Pollard albums to go out and look for them.

http://www.myspace.com/bostonspaceships, from his post-gbv stuff that i've heard it's the best, i think he needs a proper band to play with rather than just collaborating with his producer or random musicians.

I think he needs Tobin Sprout.

Brown Submarine is my favorite record from 2008 ! I love it.

generally yeah, but some of the gbv stuff without tobin sprout was still very good

yes. My favorites are pretty cliche'd:

Bee Thousand
Alien Lanes
Under The Bushes, Under The Stars

but I definitely went thru a several-year obsession with them back in the day. I had pretty much all the Fading Captain Series until I don't know #20 or so? There's tons and tons of great material in his discograpy if yr not afraid to get down and dirty and dig for the gems.

which reminds me, why don't we start using this thread to post OOP Guided by Voices sideprojects etc?

New Suitcase box set announced !

Like the two previous ones, it's going to be 4 CD's of 25 songs each ! According to the tracklist, there's going to be a version of "Huffman Prairie Flying Field", a 4-track version of "Smothered in Hugs" and maybe another version of "Alright" !

Update: I now own both the Boston Spaceships albums, and they are both awesome. You'll dig em if you're into Pollard in any way. Catchy, and fun as all hell! Pollard just put out yet another solo record too. I think it's called Elelphant Jokes, or something like that. This guy is fucking impossible to keep up with, but I love him.

Shit! How many fucking songs did they have!?!?!? Awesome news though.

fucking awesome. I only had Suitcase 1. But glad to know he'll never run out of old tapes. haha.

Yes ! What I like about the Suitcases is that some of the songs on those compilations later become Boston Spaceships songs, you can find lo-fi versions of "Dorothy's a Planet", "Headache Revolution", "Soggy Beavers", etc. on those ! :D

where's those OOP links already??

I was actually going to start a GBV album thread since our good friend Mark Prindle is reviewing their massive catalog, but most people here are already stating their favorites.

Mine is Under The Bushes, Under The Stars as well. The record is perfect. I LOVE the way it sounds, some of my favorite production ever. Definitely top ten, maybe even top five.

My favorite EP from them (Of which there are several) is Sunfish Holy Breakfast. I bought it new in a record store a while back for a couple bucks and its long out of print. It was a great early birthday present.

~Jeremy~