By: Guided By Voices
Appears on: Mirrored Aztec, Suitcase – Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft
I used to write songs. After a while, it started to feel pointless. Robert Pollard was writing songs like “Bunco Men” and then not even releasing them on albums; we didn’t get to hear most of them until the first Suitcase box set came out. This song is amazing, and he didn’t feel like it was worthy of being included on an album? (Update: this song was released in 2020 on the album Mirrored Aztec, so I guess Pollard was just saving it for the right time.) Just crazy. I can’t compete with that. So I quit writing songs (there were other reasons, of course—life, for example).
