Never understood people qualifying them geniuses. Boring, trivial songs, chords and riffs heard ten thousand times before, and a lo-fi aesthetic which basically does nothing to serve the songs (don't get me wrong, I love lo-fi bands, but in the case of GBV I feel like it does not bring anything interesting to the songs, just a draft feeling to the songs. And while I can love some things which have a draft feeling, well, I feel like it just does not work for them). I've tried many times to get into them, and yeah, some songs are okay, I even quite like Bee Thousand, but overall a massively overrated band in my opinion.
(i dedicate this post to my buddy foxben 
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