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I fucking love the more accessible GBV stuff, but have never gotten into a whole album.  Bob Pollard has written some of the best power pop songs ever, though.

Isolation Drills. Pretty accessible start to finish.


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great article on GVB

https://blog.discmakers.com/2018/06/the-glorious-inspirational-mess-that-is-guided-by-voices/

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To recap the lessons we can learn from GBV:

01) Never give up. Your dream may be just around the corner.

02) Don’t over-think your next recording session. If the recording captures the song’s essence, don’t worry if Kevin messed up the bassline.

03) Got a song that doesn’t work, but there’s this one 15-second bit that kills? Keep that bit, get rid of the rest, and keep recording!

i love the bit about the recording glitches on "Hardcore UFOs". There something glorious and inspiring about how the guitar just cuts out and finds it's was back a few second later. They just left the fuck-up in.

@ 0:50 and again @ 1:20

 

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