šŸ”„ Hot Freaks: the Guided By Voices Listening Club ( šŸ’„ Do the Collapse šŸ’„ - post 747)

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quite like this

on first listen itā€™s actually more immediately likeable than the first few REM albums?

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Amazing!

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Never really gave this album more than one or two spins and genuinely couldnā€™t remember any of the tracks. She Wants To Know is a pretty good song now I give it a proper listen.

I owned most of their output (band and solo stuff) up to Universal Truths - used to it order from Rockathon and then get stung for the customs duty when it hit my doorstep - sold some of it over time but still have a stupid amount of their stuff. Saw them a ton of times too. Little thereafter really clicked with me but Iā€™ve been a regular attendee at the annual Euroheedfest or GBV day in London for the last ten years and keep telling myself I need to give the 200 albums since 2001 a proper listen at some point. Will be fun keeping an eye on this thread.

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Half Smiles (the original ā€œfinalā€ album) is in their top 5 ever imho

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Letā€™s Ride is really lovely - feel like almost every track is a minute too long but some great moments. Not that familiar with GBV beyond Alien Lanes and the best of so looking forward to joining in on this!

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Please give la la land a go if you have time. For me itā€™s the best and most distilled in essence of all the reformation lps. If you enjoy that thereā€™s bits to enjoy in all the others. If you donā€™t enjoy it, weā€™llā€¦youā€™ve probably saved yourself some time

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rounding up - Forever Since Breakfast

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just one top track this time since itā€™s so short

  • Land of Danger
  • Letā€™s Ride
  • Like I Do
  • Sometimes I Cry
  • She Wants to Know
  • Fountain of Youth
  • The Other Place
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Am I correct in saying that ā€œDevil Between My Toesā€ is up next? For some reason RYM lists Sandbox as the earlier release, not sure why.

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Yep youā€™re right, not sure why that quirk has developed - I think Spotify shows it too

Already looking forward to Devil!

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I think itā€™s because the actual release date for Sandbox is unknown, so itā€™s just entered as ā€˜1987ā€™ on RYM which the system probably defaults to 01/01/87 so it gets placed before Devil (which came out in February apparently)

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I thought Iā€™d heard a decent amount of GBV albums, but although thirteen albums would be many bandā€™s entire output, even one that has been around as long as them, it is of course not even a third of their discography of just studio albums! So Iā€™m going to try and keep up with this thread to flesh out that number. Past experience of these sorts of threads tends to make this unlikely but Iā€™ll try!

Iā€™ve always wanted to fall in love with GBV and I always enjoy their albums, some more than others, but in the past nothing has really got its hooks in me and made me want to go back. Iā€™ve only returned to a handful of albums for repeat listens (Universal Truths, Last Smiles being two examples). Maybe going through them methodically will ignite more of a spark, but even if it doesnā€™t it would be good to say Iā€™ve heard all (or at least most) of their albums.

Iā€™d never heard Forever Since Breakfast, in fact Iā€™d never even heard of it, and blimey you lot werenā€™t lying, it sounds a lot like REM!

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finally got this on, great artefact! still canā€™t get over Bob-with-guitar and no air kicks

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Moving swiftly onto the first real album in the catalogue - Devil Between My Toes!

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Will give this a spin in a little bit. As Iā€™ve said elsewhere, Iā€™ve not spent a huge amount of time on the pre-Propeller stuff, so itā€™ll be an interesting exercise for me. I seem to remember liking Devil more than Sandbox, weā€™ll see.

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Devil is my fav until Propeller

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Itā€™s so good. First thing I ever heard of theirs when my friend put it on my iPod nano :sweat_smile:

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thatā€™s a bold entry point!

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Yeah I donā€™t think thereā€™s many people who would have heard that first. Iā€™m freaking out now realising that happened 15 years agoā€¦

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Hereā€™s my general approach. You might find it helpful:

Day 1 - Excitement at seeing new listening club album up
Day 2 - Attempt to clear existing backlog to make time for that weekā€™s listening club album
Days 3-7 - Forget listening club exists
Day 8 - Feel excited to see that thread title has been updated with the next album. Panic listen to previous weekā€™s album to get it out of the way.

Repeat.

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Ahhh itā€™s like Iā€™m back in the Sonic Youth thread all over again