šŸ”„ Hot Freaks: the Guided By Voices Listening Club (Final results time! 40 album ranking list! Freedom! - post 2160)

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741

Reckon my order so far is:

  1. Alien Lanes
  2. Bee Thousand
  3. Propeller
  4. Same Place
  5. UTBUTS
  6. Mag Earwhig
  7. VoT
  8. Self-Inflicted
  9. Forever Since Breakfast
  10. Devil
  11. Sandbox
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742

Wow, I hadnā€™t realised you loved Same Place quite that much! Cool list :+1:

743

3-5 are pretty interchangeable for me but i think all that top 5 are essential.

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744

now to POLLS for Mag Earwhig

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4 tracks

  • Canā€™t Hear the Revolution
  • Sad If I Lost It
  • I Am A Tree
  • The Old Grunt
  • Bulldog Skin
  • Are You Faster?
  • I Am Produced
  • Knock ā€˜Em Flyinā€™
  • Not Behind The Fighter Jet
  • Choking Tara
  • Hollow Cheek
  • Portable Menā€™s Society
  • Little Lines
  • Learning To Hunt
  • The Finest Joke Is Upon Us
  • Mag Earwhig!
  • Now To War
  • Jane Of The Waking Universe
  • The Colossus Crawls West
  • Mute Superstar
  • Bomb In The Bee-Hive
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745

Iā€™ve really fallen behind on these. I liked Under the Bushes but felt I didnā€™t spend much time with it. Think I needed a break - so many new songs each week lol. Will catch up soon.

Only started listening to GBV when this thread began and theyā€™re my 11th or 12th most listened to artist for the year. Can see them cracking the top 10 before itā€™s over.

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746

yeah its pretty relentless! thereā€™ll be a Christmas break and a break between the original album run and the reunion albums (with supplementary listens available, but no core studio albums)

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747

now itā€™s time to hit the pop big leagues, and DO THE COLLAPSE

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748

Of all the albums weā€™ve covered so far this is maybe the one Iā€™m least familiar with. I know a handful of tracks very very well, but Iā€™ve only ever heard the full album once or twice.

749

Little Lines and I Am Produced only very narrowly missing out for me here

750

Getting in on the Hold On Hope chat early - itā€™s an utterly fantastic song

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751

Iā€™ve really come round to it (and the album) in the past few years.

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752

Another one where the fact it stands out from bobs usual style works totally in its favour

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753

Iā€™m not a massive fan of Teenage FBI mind

754

Any version or just the studio? Definitely prefer this one

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755

I wasnā€™t, then when I found out it was about being discovered picking your nose I found it strangely charming again

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756

Only heard the studio version, will give this a go

757

I think the fucking shit keyboard sound on the studio version really hurts it but itā€™s an incredible song.

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758

Yeah they didnā€™t even use the studio version on the greatest hits album!

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759

Dougā€™s lead lines are fantastic all over this thing

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aka the one where most of the best songs were inexplicably left off the album by Ric Ocasek, who Bob left the song selection to.