Guided by Voices - The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
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Artist: Guided by VoicesEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-11-04
Music Label: Matador Records
Soundtracks:
- A Salty Salute
- Things I Will Keep (courtesy of TVT Records)
- Everywhere With Helicopter
- I Am A Tree
- My Kind Of Soldier
- 14 Cheerleader Coldfront (courtesy of Scat Records)
- Twilight Campfighter (courtesy of TVT Records)
- Echos Myron (courtesy of Scat Records)
- Learning To Hunt
- Bulldog Skin
- Captain's Dead (courtesy of Scat Records)
- Tractor Rape Chain (courtesy of Scat Records)
- Game Of Pricks - Single Version
- To Remake The Young Flyer
- Hit
- Glad Girls (courtesy of TVT Records)
- Drinker's Peace (courtesy of Scat Records)
- Surgical Focus (courtesy of TVT Records)
- Cut-Out Witch
- The Best Of Jill Hives
- Hot Freaks (courtesy of Scat Records)
- Shocker In Gloomtown (courtesy of Scat Records)
- Chasing Heather Crazy (courtesy of TVT Records)
- My Valuable Hunting Knife - Album Version
- The Official Ironmen Rally Song
- Non-Absorbing (courtesy of Scat Records)
- Motor Away - Single Version
- Teenage FBI - Demo Version
- Watch Me Jumpstart
- Exit Flagger (courtesy of Scat Records)
- Back To The Lake
- I Am A Scientist - Album Version (courtesy of Scat Records)
Free Music Notes for The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates
Free Music Review: I'm with everyone - This is a perfect GBV mixer
Hit: 5 Stars
There's a book about Guided by Voices - 'Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll'. The Filmaker Richard Linklater says 'my list of favorite GBV songs runs to about 150 songs'. This collection 'The Best of Guided by Voices' comes in with about 30. Its a very good start.
If you are GBV collector maniacs, you will already have everything on this cd (in box sets, and twice on vinyl). If you are new to GBV you can either start here, and see if you can stop, or just jump to the box set Hardcore UFO's (where this disc is included).
What am I talking about? I'm talking about G.B.V.: the song delivery mechanism for songwriting junkie Robert Pollard that functioned in absolute obscurity for at least a decade, before exciting non-Ohio native music fans with a fully formed catalog of hundreds of songs during the 1990's. These guys were making rock and roll so long ago that the vogue was to sing with a fake british accent - I'm not sure but I think Pollard even pre-dates REO speedwagon in this. If you are getting the impression that GBV had their heyday back when Chicago had their third album out, you might be missing the point. GBV's last four or five albums are as good as any of their formers, and all five are represented in Human Amusements at Hourly Rates. If rock reviews were more succinct, it wouldn't influence anyone's buying decisions anyway, but sometimes a group is so good, you just have to do the wrong thing, and talk about them a lot, instead of listening to their music. GBV is just such a group, and if you are new to their rather massive catalog, I envy you. Try 'Human Amusements', if you like it, there's plenty more where that came from (A small town somewhere near Dayton Ohio).
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