By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard “The Ballad Of Bad Whiskey” from the final Boston Spaceships album Let It Beard sounds like The Beatles’ “Sexy Sadie” stumbled across an old saloon and stayed for too long, getting boozed up and slurred. This, according to Boston Spaceships member Christopher Slurarenko, was exactly the intention. He […]
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A Second Spurt Of Growth
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Half Smiles of the Decomposed For all its rocking moments, Half Smiles Of The Decomposed is not without its soft spots. “A Second Spurt Of Growth” adds a gentle touch of finger-plucked acoustic guitars to break up the album’s second side, beautifully accompanied by the signature “noises & atmospheres” sounds […]
A Trophy Mule In Particular
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue Part of the mission of the GBV Guitar website is to fill in the gaps. For Robert Pollard’s work 2004 and prior, there are already some guitar tabs floating around on the internet, and a lot of them are pretty accurate, or at least close enough to […]
Gonna Never Have To Die
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Half Smiles of the Decomposed When trying to learn how to play Robert Pollard’s songs on guitar, I’ve had the most success when I have access to either live footage of the band playing (actually seeing them live is better, of course) or a stripped-down recording of the song, such […]
You Satisfy Me
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Brown Submarine If you’re a member of the GUIDED BY VOICES Facebook fan group, you may have heard of the synchronized listening sessions that someone organized. Basically, it’s a bunch of people listening to an album at the same time and commenting about it in real time to a Facebook […]
Piss Face
By: Ricked Wicky Appears on: I Sell the Circus Hey, did you know that Ricked Wicky was the first of many fake band names that Robert Pollard ever conceived? Although he credited this band name to the song “Messenger” on Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft, it wasn’t until Pollard joined up with Nick Mitchell, […]
Asphyxiated Circle
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Half Smiles of the Decomposed According to the invaluable resource of all things Robert Pollard, GBVDB – Guided By Voices Database, “Asphyxiated Circle” from 2004’s Half Smiles Of The Decomposed was only ever played lived by the band a total of 13 times. This, in my opinion, is not […]
Tenth Century
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven “Tenth Century” from How Do You Spell Heaven is one of those great “cool-down” numbers that Robert Pollard likes to throw onto his albums, just to take a break from the near-constant rocking. Although it stays pretty light for the most part, with acoustic guitars […]
We Liken The Sun
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake “We Liken The Sun” from August By Cake is a track that I didn’t give enough attention when the album first came out. I guess that’s somewhat acceptable, as there were plenty of new songs vying for attention all at once. I’ve really come to appreciate this […]
I Am A Scientist
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Bee Thousand It pretty much goes without saying that every song on Bee Thousand is a classic, but “I Am A Scientist” surely must hold a special place for being a classic classic. Since its release in 1994, there probably hasn’t been a single Guided By Voices show that didn’t include […]
