The Club Is (still) Open: all-encompassing GBV, Pollard et al. thread

This is the actual AI effort for the Styles cover. Think I prefer it tbh :laughing:

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I think itā€™s got some real strong tunes on it. Itā€™s not very cohesive on the whole, but thereā€™s a lot of quality. Bob mentioned Dance of Gurus becoming a bit of a hit or live favourite or something in that set from the other night. Then they opened the following gig with it too. Razor Bug, has become a bit of a latter day oddity/in-joke in the Fb group as well.

second nightā€™s up now!

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So I found out today that you can see all play counts on Spotify desktop. So being a boring person I thought this was really interesting news. First thing I checked was GBV plays of all current line up albums. 2 songs were quite far above any other. In the 500kā€™s where nothing else has hit 400k.

One I think it pretty easy but 2 may shock you! Guesses welcome!

Manā€¦ thatā€™s tough. I think it would be something relatively recent - Alex Bell?

Good guess but nope.

Iā€™m guessing Rally Boys and maybe Volcano?

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Was gonna guess Rally Boys as well. Not sure what else. Space Gun?

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Volcano! Ding ding ding! That was the unexpected one.

Space Gun was the other , but that one had a video and things , so expected that one.

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Really dig that tune.

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Ah Volcano, my first ever GBV song :star_struck:

I was vaguely aware of the band name, but had never paid them any attention whatsoever until a Stereogum article mentioned that Bob had recently released his 100th album (August By Cake, I think?), which piqued my curiosity. I played the recently-released Volcano kinda expecting it to be some half-baked rubbish, only to be properly blown away by what I heard. Such a fantastic, gorgeous song.

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Yeah so do I, quite unique for a GBV song, wish they do more with that kind of sound. Obviously worked 500 thousand people canā€™t be wrong!

Sounds like it could be on Trompe le Monde

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This came on after playing a GBV song on Spotify;

Great little chunky song

Edit - ā€œsoul manā€ by Tobin Sprout

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Didnā€™t realise heā€™d re-recorded that one for himself

New Circus Devils album incomingā€¦

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Would maybe be good for him to slightly scale back the GBV releases and channel some of the songs into some side projects again

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Twenty new Circus Devils songs, the same year as three new GBV releases and another one already being finalised for next year :laughing:

Bob never sleeps.

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Haha, yeah. I guess the Tobias bros are just beavering away on stuff all the time and they just chuck Bob stuff to spiel on now and then. Didnā€™t ever expect a new CD album though!