Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
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Artist: Guided by VoicesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1994-06-20
Music Label: Scat Records
Soundtracks:
- Hardcore Ufos
- Buzzards and Dreadful Crows
- Tractor Rape Chain
- The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
- Hot Freaks
- Smothered in Hugs
- Yours to Keep
- Echos Myron
- Gold Star for Robot Boy
- Awful Bliss
- Mincer Ray
- A Big Fan of the Pigpen
- Queen of Cans and Jars
- Her Psychology Today
- Kicker of Elves
- Ester's Day
- Demons Are Real
- I Am a Scientist
- Peep-Hole
- You're Not an Airplane
Free Music Notes for Bee Thousand
Free Music Review: One of the best albums of the 1990s; possibly the best.
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been familier with GBV since the mid 1990s. Back then it was impossible to come across a review or critique of this band without the word, 'lo-fi', being mentioned in the same sentence. But merely making a virtue of 'lo-fi' as being part of some kind of 'sonic revolutiion' is entirely missing the point. The fact is Guided By Voices (fronted by Robert Pollard - a genius musician/artist) made these types of albums - with that sound - because the only equipment they had was an old 4-track recorder. But it was their attitiude behind the making of this album that makes it such a classic, which iss basically this: "Whatever. Just press record. No one buys our music anyway. Let's have the best fun amongst ourselves."
Most of these songs are no more than a minute long. Some even shorter. But when listened too as a whole album, it makes for one brilliant, ground breaking piece of art. That, my fellow readers, is the essence of this classic album: Don't worry about what others are going to think. Or worry if they're going to 'get it'. It doesn't matter. Just play and record.
No plush recording studios here. No pro-tools, no digital consoles. This is the sound of the American Midwest suburbs (GBV were from Dayton, Ohio), plugging in and playing their hearts out. I mean, the entire album was recorded onto a cassette tape, for crying out loud! It's not that GBV didn't care about their music. They did, passionately. Rather it was that they just wanted/needed to get this music out there . . . using whatever they had. In this case a Tascam Portastudio 4-track . . . onto a cassette tape!
So, to all you aspiring musicians and songwriters out there reading this: Buy this record. Listen. Enjoy . . . and keep writing and recording your songs. Use whatever you have at your disposal. And don't worry about whether your music is 'fashionable' or 'chic'. Otherwise your art will be lesser for it. We can all learn a lot from this album.
I still am. Enjoy.
Bee Thousand Poster
Midwestern obscure-rock archivists and curators Guided by Voices are back before you could consider them gone with another fun-filled, hook-happy hodge podge of songs, half-songs, ideas, and vaguely pleasing sounds to get you through summer. How many influences can you find in this picture? A Beatles harmony and a Syd Barrett musing here and there are easy to spot, but how about the pack of no-name psychedelicists and prepunk garage dwellers that only Guided by voices have ever heard of? Could be thousands. GBV are so good at integrating references, in fact, their records sound like nothing more than well-groomed and quirky modern rock. Call them post-postmodernists--what else to brand a group that sings a song named "The Golden Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory" without even a smirk and doesn't come off disgustingly pretentious? Sincere? Timeless? We get the joke while they swear they never made one. --Roni SarigThe holy grail. It still stands as their best (or at least among them), 20+ albums later.
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