By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Sweating The Plague There’s certainly no shortage of riff-heavy rockers on Sweating The Plague; and while “Ego Central High” lands precisely into that category, it also has an anthemic quality both in music and lyrics. When Robert Pollard sings, “Here’s a fight song for everyone,” I just imagine a […]
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Street Party
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Sweating The Plague “Street Party” was one of the original working titles of the album Sweating The Plague, so it’s kind of nice to be able to hear the song that inspired that idea. The song “Street Party” opens with an acoustic guitar strumming an A major chord, but […]
Strictly Comedy
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Kid Marine According to its entry on GBVDB, “Strictly Comedy” from Kid Marine was only ever played live four times. Fortunately for us, there’s video footage of the band rehearsing for one of those performances on the excellent The Who Went Home And Cried documentary (which is available in its […]
Jam Warsong
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Zeppelin Over China “Jam Warsong” is a fairly simple song to play. For most of the song, you’ll play a “boogie woogie” style blues guitar lick in the key of G. You may have noticed some similarities between this song and “Come Together” by The Beatles—both feature that style […]
Boxing About
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Normal Happiness I’ve mentioned before on this site that it’s always easier for me to learn Robert Pollard’s songs when I can listen to either a recording of him playing it alone, usually either as a Suitcase track or a demo, or a live version. In attempting to transcribe “Boxing […]
Avalanche Aminos
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Hold On Hope Though for the most part I prefer to focus my transcribing efforts for this website on Robert Pollard compositions, I occasionally allow for exceptions. For example, I couldn’t pass up the chance to post guitar tablature for Circus Devils tune “Time Trapper,” especially considering that its composer, […]
John The Dwarf Wants To Become An Angel
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Our Cubehouse Still Rocks On Boston Spaceships track “John The Dwarf Wants To Become An Angel,” Robert Pollard is once again using a guitar arpeggio—with a fretted note on the sixth string along with the open fifth, fourth, and third strings—to great effect. He combines this with a few chords, including […]
Recovering
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: From A Compound Eye “Recovering” provides Robert Pollard’s From A Compound Eye with a stellar closing track. It starts off with a gentle acoustic finger-plucked verse riff, then blasts into heavy chords for the chorus, using Pollard’s signature two-note chords: a fretted note on the sixth string played along with the […]
Striped White Jets
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Alien Lanes Some of the earlier Guided By Voices recordings occasionally sound very “thrown-together,” don’t they? There are several songs on Alien Lanes, for instance, that make me wonder if the band ever actually rehearsed the song or if Robert Pollard just picked up a guitar, started recording, and then […]
Dead Liquor Store
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Warp And Woof “Dead Liquor Store” features two main guitar parts throughout most of the song: a rhythm guitar to strum the chords and a lead guitar to play the open string drone riffs. These riffs involve a fretted note on the second string with the open first string ringing […]
