Never thought to check the GBV subreddit. Might post our results there once weāve finished the whole club
Is it an active place? I try and ignore the existence of Reddit because I already waste enough time on the internet (i.e. here).
Not especially tbh, if you really wanted to waste time weād be deep into the GBV forums - I spent a little time there and even I couldnāt hack it
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Fair, you should share some of our research/findings over there though, yeah! Itās important cultural study and shouldnāt be in a walled garden. 
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Updated personal leaderboard:
- Bee Thousand
- Under The Bushes Under The Stars
- Propeller
- Alien Lanes
- Isolation Drills
- The Bears for Lunch
- Class Clown Spots a UFO
- Universal Truths & Cycles
- Do The Collapse
- Vampire on Titus
- Mag Earwhig!
- Half Smiles of the Decomposed
- Earthquake Glue
- Self Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
- Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
- Devil Between My Toes
- English Little League
- Letās Go Eat The Factory
- Forever Since Breakfast
- Sandbox
Three or four strong singles doesnāt save ELL from ending up near the bottom of the table, unfortunately. Way too many skippers to merit being placed any higher.
First time listening to ELL, nowhere near as immediate as the previous two. I will give it another spin but overall it felt to me that there were far too many 3+ minute songs that should have been little sub 1 minute vignettes. Stretching them past the 50 second mark had me reaching for the skip button more than once. Although saying that a couple of the shorter ones I just basically disliked (eg. Reflections In A Metal Whistle).
Not heard any of the further albums until Space Gun so Iām hoping theyāll at least partially grab me a little more than this one has.
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Blazing Gentlemen is a banging album. Iām an English Little League apologist but youāre right that his solo stuff that year was a lot more consistent
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Yep, both Blazing Gentlemen and Honey Locust Honky Tonk were streets ahead of English Little League IMO.
Both your post and @XenoPariah 's got me excited about Blazing Gentlemen so I listened to a couple of tracks at random and they seemed great, really exciting like his first couple of solo albums!
then I put the whole album on andā¦ I much prefer ELL after all. Over an album I donāt like the guitar sound or the songwriting at all (feels really airless and uninspired a lot of the time)
I remember thinking Honey Locust Honky Tonk was pretty good though, so Iāll listen to that one next
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fallen off my own listening club, lol. Will give ELL another go today
scores for those whoāve been paying attention at home
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- Xeno Pariah
- Know Me As Heavy
- Islands (She Talks In Rainbows)
- Trashcan Full Of Nails
- Send To Celeste
- The Quiet Game
- Noble Insect
- Sir Garlic Breath
- Crybaby 4 Star Hotel
- Biographer Seahorse
- Flunky Minnows
- Birds
- The Sudden Death Of Epsteinās Ways
- Reflections In A Metal Whistle
- Taciturn Caves
- A Burning Glass
- W/ Glass In Foot
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Gave ELL a second go yesterday. Glad I did as I realised I enjoyed the first half of it more than I thought first time.
However I still maintain a lot of the tracks are too long (relatively for GBV) and Bobās voice on a couple is so bad it sounds like some terrible karaoke singer, Biographer Seahorse and Reflections in a Metal Whistle were the two worst culprits for that imo.
Ah well, onto the next one!
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i remember being glad Bob sounded a lot better live/on the albums around 2019 because yeah, he started having some pretty bad vocal takes on some post 2012 albums. Not sure why as he clearly still had/has the voice, maybe itās just the one take thing finally truly working against him
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Time to kick on with the next OG line-up album - MOTIVATIONAL JUMPSUIT
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might be boring to keep insisting on this kind of thing, but I genuinely like this song - not being a shitty contrarian, just my actual shitty opinion. Not even just to make other songs seem more accomplished by contrast (although it does that), I just like the sounds
Big fan of this track, really feels like a classic GBV trackā¦ some might say slightly too much even, but not me. Canāt remember any other songs on the album though
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yeah this just got played in a round of the GBV ML round and it stood out to me. Good timing to ease me into this album!
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genuinely not sure iāve ever listened to the next 3 albums
call yourself a fan
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Much like English Little League, this was one I listened to once or twice around release and didnāt go back to for a long time or have any strong feelings about initially, but it was in my local HMV for a fiver (CD) for ages and I eventually brought it home* and was more impressed by it than I remembered.
Itās not as good as the 2012 albums but thereās some pretty decent stuff on here, and probably a bit stronger than English Little League overall. The first few tracks link together in a really nice way thatās a bit like the way Bee Thousand flows.
*The day I was finally inspired to buy it was the day they announced their 2019 London shows, decided to go round and grab it after work and get into it to celebrate. I think they also had it on vinyl for quite cheap which I regret not grabbing now.
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Good video
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