Guided by Voices - Half Smiles of the Decomposed
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Artist: Guided by VoicesEdition: Music CD
Published: 2004
CD Release Date: 2004-08-24
Music Label: Matador Records
Soundtracks:
- Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)
- Sleep Over Jack
- Girls Of Wild Strawberries
- Gonna Never Have To Die
- Window Of My World
- The Closets Of Henry
- Tour Guide At The Winston Churchill Memorial
- Asia Minor
- Sons Of Apollo
- Sing For Your Meat
- Asphyxiated Circle
- A Second Spurt Of Growth
- (S)Mothering And Coaching
- Huffman Prairie Flying Field
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Free Music Review: Full Smiles for the Undecomposed
Hit: 5 Stars
Nothing wrong at all with this. I hope history is kind to Guided By Voices. Because this album is nothing short of amazing. I think the only thing that kept Guided By Voices from superstardom (or Semisuperstardom) was A--lack of proper promotion (wheres the damn billboard? You know what, I wouldnt mind hearing some GBV hocking some Target store bulls99t) People need to hear this!....and B. artistic integrity. How can you market Pollards lyrics? You Cant! "please refer to the wedding cake" and all of the lyrics to all the other GBV songs. They are too emotionally invested in something--no one has quite figured it out. But they strike some kind of chord....at least for me and alot of other people--
Guided By Voices was The Who and The Beatles for me (I love both bands but they didnt exist in the current moment--no way to anticipate the release of WHOS NEXT if you werent born yet!). This album, no matter how melancholy and far removed from the original incarnation of Guided By Voices it is--is awesome. Any naysayers need not submit for they not know not what they are saying and I feel bad for em.
Half Smiles of the Decomposed Poster
After twenty-odd years and twenty-odd releases, this is the final album by Ohio's famed geniuses. It's their most serious and mature record in years, more akin to those recorded in the mid-90s than the most recent releases. At the same time, it's influenced by both American and British mid-60s chime-pop, pointing out the intricate interweaving guitar lines, the stunning wordplay, the vastly melancholic and somehow still uplifting tone, the impeccably tossed-off phrasing, and the stately, plump rhythm section. Elegiac and remorseful; a jewel of a farewell.Alternative Rock Music CDs
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