By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Not In My Airforce When it’s just Robert Pollard and an acoustic guitar, the beauty of his songwriting really shines through. Listen to some of the early Guided By Voices recordings, some of the material on the Suitcase box sets, or demo recordings such as those on Edison’s Demos. On these bare-bones […]
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Amusement Park Is Over
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake For whatever reason, I’m often tricked into thinking “Amusement Park Is Over” is the last track on August By Cake. It seems to have that kind of melancholy, bittersweet tone to it that makes for a good album closer, but maybe it’s just the word “over” in […]
Time Trapper
By: Circus Devils Appears on: Laughs Last On my first listen of the 2017 Circus Devils album Laughs Last, “Time Trapper” was a track that immediately caught my attention. That melancholy acoustic guitar, playing those desolate arpeggios over a bleak synth, set to Robert Pollard’s haunting vocal melody…I knew I wanted to learn how to play […]
Steppenwolf Mausoleum
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven What is this murky, abysmal sound enveloping your soul? Oh, it’s just “Steppenwolf Mausoleum,” one of the highlights of the 2017 Guided By Voices album, How Do You Spell Heaven. Fear not: the gloom will soon give way to crunchy guitar tone, blasting power chords […]
My Valuable Hunting Knife
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Alien Lanes, Tigerbomb When I started this website, I originally had the intention of focusing on the newer works of Robert Pollard since so much of the catalog from 2004 and prior already had guitar tabs somewhere on the internet. Then I began to realize how dissatisfied I was […]
Map And Key
By: Ricked Wicky Appears on: King Heavy Metal Nick Mitchell brought some tasty guitar work to Robert Pollard’s table throughout their collaborations on Pollard’s solo album Of Course You Are, the three Ricked Wicky albums, and the 2016 Guided By Voices tour. One of the finest guitar solos he contributed, in my opinion, was on […]
Office Of Hearts
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Under The Bushes Under The Stars Here’s a simple, wonderful tune from the 1996 Guided By Voices album Under the Bushes Under the Stars, an album that gave us nothing but hit after monster hit. This one is “Office of Hearts,” and it’s nothing but verse, chorus, wordless verse, […]
Question Girl All Right
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Zero to 99 Boston effing Spaceships. What more needs to be said? Robert Pollard devoted some of his finest material to this side project, so it’s no surprise that he also decided to add some of their songs to the Guided By Voices live set lists. They played “Question Girl […]
Please Be Honest
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Please Be Honest When Robert Pollard dropped Please Be Honest on us in 2016, some felt that it could just as easily have been released as a solo album instead of under the Guided By Voices moniker. Of course, Pollard did play all the instruments on the album by himself, […]
Make Use
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Waved Out For “Make Use,” the opening track on his 1998 solo album, Waved Out, Robert Pollard crafts an entire song with basically just one chord shape. It’s a perfect example of how much can be accomplished with the “floating chord shape” guitar technique that he uses in many of his […]
