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Guided by Voices: Half Smiles of the Decomposed

August 24, 2005

I like it! It's been a while since I've actually tapped my toe and/or bobbed the old head to a GBV song. And here you go. Sure, it's not Alien Lanes or anything...

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Guided by Voices: Earthquake Glue

August 20, 2003

This is oddly a bit of a return to form of sorts. Again, Pollard dials it back (to the future), and comes away with an album that sounds more complete and album...

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Guided by Voices: Universal Truths and Cycles

June 19, 2003

GBV has subtly moved back into a lo-fi groove. Granted, it's not all tape hiss and broken songs, but even this album's best song, "Cheyenne," has an echo effect...

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Guided by Voices: Do the Collapse

May 22, 2003

I must admit that I heard "Teenage FBI" on the radio about a week before this album came out and was waiting like a slobbering dog for it. Granted, I was like t...

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Guided by Voices: Isolation Drills

April 4, 2003

That's a little more like it. After the debacle that was Do the Collapse, Isolation Drills gets back to the big rock sound. See, this was what I was talking abo...

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Guided by Voices: Mag Earwhig!

February 13, 2003

For some reason the first song on this album reminds me of that terrible King Missile song, "Detachable Penis." I'm probably the only person who thinks that, an...

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Guided by Voices: Under the Bushes Under the Stars

December 23, 2002

Whoa there. Who is this? Apparently this is Kim Deal of the Pixies' idea of what GBV should sound like (as she produced the album). I may actually go back on my...

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Guided by Voices: Alien Lanes

September 26, 2002

There they go. They've taken a baby step towards sounding like professionals. Still sounding homemade, but coming to the realization that some folks want to act...

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Guided by Voices: Bee Thousand

April 28, 2002

Ah, here's the album that Propeller and Vampire on Titus promised to deliver! Granted, the horrible sound quality still drives me mad at times, but what the hel...

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Guided by Voices: Propeller

January 15, 2002

Sigh. This is going to be a pretty crazy undertaking, going through GBV's entire discography (or at least the one's I own). This debut starts it off with a blas...

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Guided by Voices: Vampire on Titus

February 26, 2001

They really dial up the lo-fi on this one. Some of the songs sound as if they were recorded in Robert Pollard's shower, and are mere snippets of songs. Reminisc...

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