Devil Between My Toes
Released: 1987
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Released: 1987
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This first full-length album shows that if the sparkling consistency of Pollard's mid-'90s masterpieces was not yet present, the madcap songwriting sensibility and pop instinct of those albums...
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Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
Released: 1989
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Released: 1989
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Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia is the first Guided by Voices album to sound like a Guided by Voices album. For the first time, the band can be heard using low-fi production to their advantage,...
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Same Place the Fly Got Smashed
Released: 1990
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Released: 1990
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Likely their darkest album, Same Place the Fly Got Smashed is another solid effort that takes the form of a tragic rock opera about a doomed, midwestern alcoholic. While the joylessness of this...
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An Earful o' Wax
Released: 1993
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Released: 1993
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The first five Guided by Voices releases (their debut EP, Forever Since Breakfast (1986), plus full-length albums, Devil Between My Toes (1987), Sandbox (1987), Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia...
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Static Airplane Jive - EP
Released: 1993
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Released: 1993
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For a man who's no doubt written at least three new songs in the time it will take you to read this review of six old ones, Bob Pollard is nevertheless best enjoyed in small doses -- though...
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Crying Your Knife Away
Released: 1995
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Released: 1995
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The double-live LP, vinyl only (thus hard to find, but very worthy) live document -- which is not a bootleg, but a well-distributed, band-winked at semi-official release-finds these suddenly...
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Hey, Mr. Soundman
Released: 1994
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Released: 1994
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This is a split single, with the Grifters, but this time one gets four unreleased GBV songs for one's $4, anyway you look at it, a much better buy. Except that none of these songs are as...
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Always Crush Me
Released: 1994
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Released: 1994
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Only the completist will need "Always Crush Me," since this wonderfully diverting, off-center track is one of the happiest moments of Alien Lanes. Note, this is a split single; Belreve have the...
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