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

[XenoPariah]

Your Mum is into GBV???

[JaguarPirate]

Some yeah, loves Drinker’s Peace and Girls of Wild Strawberries and we’ve listened to enough of their albums on long car rides before

[XenoPariah]

Wow, that’s cool.

My Mum heard a brief blast of “My Kind of Soldier” a couple of years ago and absolutely hated it

[XenoPariah]

Too soon for a leaderboard?

1. Devil Between My Toes
2. Forever Since Breakfast

Pretty uncontroversial at this early stage, Devil is clearly the more interesting/adventurous of the two releases to these ears.

[woweezowee]

WE’RE
WATCHIN HANK’S
(WATCHIN HANK’S)
WATCHIN HANK’S
(WATCHIN HANK’S)
LITTLE FINGERRRRRRRRRRRRRRS…

[woweezowee]

I haven’t been able to get She Wants To Know from the first album out of my head all week. The lyrics are nothing special, but paired with that melody I think it’s surprisingly moving.

[JaguarPirate]

Woke up today singing Let’s Ride myself

[myyada]

Yeah, it’s a real earworm that. Pops in my head all the time.

SHE WANTS TO KNOW!
WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOW-OHS!

Has a very quintessential 60s pop hook vibe.

[JaguarPirate]

Mum takes:

Just listened to Forever since breakfast, just fab, love She wants to know

[myyada]

i need to see what my mum thinks of GBV

[woweezowee]

Love this

[JaguarPirate]

Said she head The Byrds and Gram Parsons influence in there too

But not REM. Idiot!

[myyada]

Has your mum been reading my posts on drownedinsound dot com?

[woweezowee]

Have you even heard Chronic Town mum??? God, you’re so embarrassing

[otto]

Right from the first second of Old Battery I knew I’d like this a lot more. Too many nothingy instrumentals but I quite like the vibe of the whole thing. Creepier moments good, melodic moments good - I dig it!

Probably going to make a GBV playlist of my fav stuff as we go. Old Battery, Wallace Chambers, Cyclops, and Captain’s Dead are making the cut right now.

[JaguarPirate]

I’ll be doing a playlist of the top voted tracks like people suggested as we go also, but obvs that may not match up with your own favs

[JaguarPirate]

Devil Between My Toes poll time

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• 8
• 9
• 10

Best tracks (up to 3)

• Old Battery
• Discussing Wallace Chambers
• Cyclops
• Crux
• A Portrait Destroyed By Fire
• 3 Year Old Man
• Dog’s Out
• A Proud And Booming Industry
• Hank’s Little Fingers
• Artboat
• Hey Hey, Spaceman
• The Tumblers
• Bread Alone
• Captain’s Dead

[XenoPariah]

I gave this a six in the end. Loved the high points, but probably a few too many nothingy songs to lift it up to a seven.

[Icarus-Smicarus]

[XenoPariah]

We’re already up to 159 posts in here and we’re only partway through 1987