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[ragudave]

Someone did me a favour last year and did me a 2 CD compilation of G B Voices tracks and rarities. I gave it another listen over the weekend and was rather impressed.

As GBV are splitting up soon does anyone recommend any particular album by them ? Or I should save up and get one of their boxsets ?

FWIW I believe Robert Pollard is going to carry on doing solo material after they split. Who knows he might play solo in Scotland some day supporting The Kitchen Cynics...

Dave

[french_disko]

There's a couple of items in the news section of pitchforkmedia.com in recent weeks concering the new CD, the Lifeguards side project & (bizarrly) three dates in April supporting Cheap Trick -

http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/03-03/06.shtml

The news on the split is here -

http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/04-04/26.shtml

[ragudave]

Official GBV statement on splitting up

Yeh I dont get the Cheap Trick link either !

[Alan Cynic]

Originally posted by ragudave:


FWIW I believe Robert Pollard is going to carry on doing solo material after they split. Who knows he might play solo in Scotland some day supporting The Kitchen Cynics...

Dave

Thank you for that massive compliment, ragudave!!! Funnily enough my 2 vinyl albums were reissued on the same label as Guided By Voices (the label was called Get Happy!).

I like the early stuff, and kind of lost interest after Bee Thousand, but I've been told I should have stuck with them.

[ghost]

I've got Isolation Drills at the moment, it's quite good...

But I prefer the older CDs. They were getting too polished for my liking...

[ragudave]

I got Do the Collapse* initially after hearing GBV on Peel and a Matador sampler. But I sold DTC after a few months as it was overproduced / not to my liking.

I'll take some GBV out of the library, once I finish my next dub compilation...

Dave

* DTCollapse review