Tag yourself, I’m lying in the corner laughing at, but not contributing to, the conversation.
Looked the address of that building up and it must have been knocked and replaced with a car park. Might go there and pour one out.
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It was around the Collapse era that Bob really started cranking out the records.
In the time either side of Collapse coming out, we had:
Waved Out (Jun 1998 - solo album)
Kid Marine (Feb 1999 - solo album)
Ask Them (May 1999 - Lexo & The Leapers EP)
In Shop We Build Electric Chairs (May 1999 - Nightwalker album)
Do The Collapse (Aug 1999 - GBV album)
Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (Nov 1999 - Doug collab album)
Plugs for the Program (Dec 1999 - GBV EP)
Hold On Hope (Mar 2000 - GBV EP)
Dayton, Ohio-19 Something and 5 (Apr 2000 - GBV EP)
Suitcase #1: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft (Oct 2000 - GBV outtakes)
The quality of his solo stuff at this point.
Well, I thoroughly enjoyed being reacquainted with Do The Collapse this week, an album absolutely overflowing with sugary power-pop goodness. Easy to understand why it wrongfooted a lot of GBV fans when it came out, however.
Updated personal leaderboard. I’m a fan of Bob’s poppy earworm stuff ahead of anything else, therefore Collapse narrowly squeezes in ahead of Vampire and Earwhig.
Not had much time to listen to this un unfortunately
time to get in your scores and picks for DO THE COLLAPSE
A decent album, some good tunes, could have made it big and it’s a shame it didn’t. But missing some of the charm of the last few albums so it’s a step down from Mag Earwhig for me.
onto the last (official) album of the year with ISOLATION DRILLS
This applies again to Isolation Drills
Fair Touching is right up there with their best album openers imho, the best jangle they ever put to tape
fewer highs but much more consistent imho
Skills Like This is a huge banger obviously
Lineup:
Not sure which tracks Tobin and Elliott Smith appear on
Oh, cool, didn’t know that.
Listened to this and Do The Collapse this morning, followed by Alien Lanes. Big mistake. Really threw into light how terrible these two records sound.
Looking forward to getting on to the next three as I remember them being a big return to form.
Finally listened to this at the weekend. Great record. ‘Tight Globes’ is wonderful.
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Ah I was just gonna say this one feels like them finally nailing the hifi sound! No weird vocal filters detracting from great singing like on DTC, no overly stark acoustic interludes like Mag, just a nice shiny punchy rock album where everything fits well together
I prefer the lo/midfi stuff for sure, but this one at least feels like them fully achieving what they were aiming for
Aside from the Breakfast, Devil, Sandbox run, Isolation Drills is the GBV studio album I probably know least well. For ages, I just thought I didn’t like it. But I did give it a spin relatively recently and remember thinking it had grown a bit in my estimation. Looking forward to giving it another go.
FYI plan is to make this the last full week until next year (probs Jan 8 week) due to Christmas ofc
will put up some extra listening in those middle weeks for the hardcore, or it’s time for people to catch up if they’ve been overwhelmed by the number of albums so far 
Some of it does sound like a rem album from ten years before it.
