Well when the best tracks are the power pop ones and you donāt like the power pop ones ā¦
haha - I love GBV but ya gotta be real about some of their stuff.
Personal leaderboard updated. Itās about time I started hiding this bad boy behind the hidden dropdown thingy:
Summary
- Bee Thousand
- Under The Bushes Under The Stars
- Propeller
- Alien Lanes
- Isolation Drills
- The Bears for Lunch
- Class Clown Spots a UFO
- Surrender Your Poppy Field
- Space Gun
- Warp & Woof
- How Do You Spell Heaven?
- Universal Truths & Cycles
- Do The Collapse
- Vampire on Titus
- Mag Earwhig!
- August By Cake
- Please Be Honest
- Motivational Jumpsuit
- Half Smiles of the Decomposed
- Earthquake Glue
- Sweating The Plague
- Self Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
- Cool Planet
- Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
- Devil Between My Toes
- Mirrored Aztec
- Zeppelin Over China
- English Little League
- Letās Go Eat The Factory
- Forever Since Breakfast
- Sandbox
Although Iām quite lukewarm toward Earth Man Blues, Iām pretty confident that none of the remaining albums will dip below Mirrored Aztec/Zeppelin Over China on that list.
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Hereās my take on the records up to here, while Iām joining in. Scores out of ten.
Summary
Devil Between My Toes 6
Sandbox 5.5
Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia 6.5
Same Place the Fly Got Smashed 6.5
Propeller 8.5
Vampire on Titus 4
Bee Thousand 9.5
Alien Lanes 10
Under the Bushes 7
Mag Earwhig! 7.5
Do the Collapse 8
Isolation Drills 7.5
Universal Truths and Cycles 8.5
Earthquake Glue 6
Half Smiles of the Decomposed 7
Letās Go Eat the Factory 5
Class Clown Spots a UFO 6
The Bears for Lunch 4
English Little League 7
Motivational Jumpsuit 7
Cool Planet 3
Please Be Honest 2
August by Cake 5
How Do You Spell Heaven 6.5
Space Gun 7
Zeppelin Over China 5.5
Warp and Woof 7.5
Sweating the Plague 4
Surrender Your Poppy Field 3
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Sunday polls! Get em while theyāre hot!
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- I Think I Had It. I Think I Have It Again
- Bunco Men
- Citizensā Blitz
- To Keep An Area
- Easier Not Charming
- Please Donāt Be Honest
- Show Of Hands
- Lip Curlers
- Math Rock
- Transfusion
- Bikerās Nest
- A Whale Is Top Notch
- I Touch Down
- Haircut Sphinx
- Screaming The Night Away
- Thank You Jane
- The Best Foot Forwards
- Party Rages On
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letās get stylinā with STYLES WE PAID FOR
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from here out itās possible that Iāve listened to ā¦ half the remaining albums once each? interesting times
also - STG being the compilation of 90s EPs that came out a few years ago
- do Scalping the Guru in the main album list (after Tremblers)
- do it at the end with King Shit, T&TC etc
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Ooof, that is one brutal rating for Mirrored Aztec. I gave it a slightly over-generous 6/10, reckon it would be below 4.00 if not for that 
after the way you wrote about it yeah a 6 is a big score!
despite the fact theyāre my fav band ever I think Iām more critical than some here, hadnāt @Icarus-Smicarus not gone below a 6 yet lol? Iāve had multiple 3s!
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only been half listening while working - thought Styles opened really poorly but had some cool sounding stuff in the last third or so. Good restrained closer too
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Weāre right at the point now where I lost interest in giving anything a second listen on release so we might see some lower scores
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as i said for Mirrored Aztec, a success at this stage for me is 3-5 fun songs I want to come back to. Theyāve got over 20 albums I love to listen to in full by now, donāt need any more! (though would love a surprise masterpiece ā¦ )
My memory of Styles was that it was a decent album, not a classic but much more enjoyable than Aztec. Wild to think it came out only about three or four months later.
Iāll give it a listen later & will report back 
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To Keep An Area is still completely stuck in my head
realise it also has a bit of Girls of Wild Strawberries to it
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I remember being pleasantly surprised when this first came out, Iām hoping not necessarily in the context of losing faith after MA. Anyway Iāll revisit this afternoon and also report back.
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Styles We Paid For - first listen: seems somehow pretty decent (especially in comparison with Mirrored Aztec), despite not being especially memorable or even particularly energetic. Some of the lyrics stood out to me as being quite amusing as I was listening - lyrics arenāt normally the first thing that strikes me in-, although Iād have to relisten to say which songs they were on. Probably wonāt end up thinking of this as a classic overall, but actually think I might be into the tracks straddling the line between ominous and lethargic. Especially stuff like Slaughterhouse, where it seems intentional.
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