Guided By Voices CD-80

Post your compilations here. Also, hot freaks, list your rationale for choosing the songs you did: Is this your absolute best-of? Did you try to represent all phases of their career? Did you require the songs to be listenable-to by non-fanatics?

1.Run Wild
2.Over The Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox
3.Watch Me Jumpstart
4.Liar's Tale
5.Man Called Aerodynamics
6.Game Of Pricks
7.The Official Ironman Rally Song
8.Old Battery
9.Teenage FBI
10.Sleep Over Jack
11.Underwater Explosions
12.Hey Aardvark
13.Bulldog Skin
14.Cut-Out Witch
15.Unbaited Vicar Of Scorched Earth
16.Scissors
17.Big School
18.Motor Away
19.Peep-Hole
20.Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)
21.The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
22.To Remake The Young Flyer
23.Ex-Supermodel
24.Echos Myron
25.Dayton, Ohio-19 Something And 5
26.Your Name Is Wild
27.Father Sgt. Christmas Card
28.Non-Absorbing
29.Sad If I Lost It
30.A Good Flying Bird
31.I Am A Scientist
32.Pendulum
33.Long Distance Man
34.King & Caroline
35.Exit Flagger

(79:55)

I only included proper Guided By Voices tracks, no Robert Pollard solo or side projects. I tried to make it a decent midpoint between "absolute best-of" and a balanced, career-spanning collection.

1. Postal Blowfish
2. Cut Out Witch
3. Quality of Armor
4. Motor Away
5. My Valuable Hunting Knife
6. As We Go Up, We Go Down
7. Queen of Cans and Jars
8. Echos Myron
9. Redmen and their Wives
10. Tractor Rape Chain
11. Crocker’s Favorite Song
12. My Son Cool
13. Game of Pricks
14. The Best of Jill Hives
15. Huffman Prairie Flying Field
16. Dodging Invisible Rays
17. The Official Ironman Rally Song
18. My Kind of Soldier
19. Gold Star for Robot Boy
20. Useless Inventions
21. A Salty Salute
22. Dayon Ohio, 19 Something and 5
23. Everybody Thinks I’m a Raincloud (When I’m Not Looking)
24. A Big Fan of the Pigpen
25. At the Farms
26. Acorns and Orioles
27. Shocker in Gloomtown
28. Girls of Wild Strawberries
29. Smothered in Hugs
30. Kicker of Elves
31. Blimps Go 90
32. 14 Cheerleader Coldfront
33. The Brides Have Hit the Glass
34. A Second Spurt of Growth
35. If We Wait
36. Secret Star

(80:10)

This is, with a few additions/deletions, the GBV greatest hits playlist that I keep on my itunes. I think it'd be pretty listenable to non-fanatics. Don't care about the career-spanning aspect - a lot of their career is crap.

no list is complete without WEEDKING

I never really enjoyed much guided by voices beyond the handful of tracks on Bee Thousand. Maybe I didn't give the other albums much effort.

But anyways the producer of GBV, John Shough, his album/band Ultra Vega is brilliant. A little repetitive at times, often very simplistic guitar lines, but lots of original harmonization. Some reviews compare Ultra Vega to The Beatles... but that is only half true. Half of it is way different then The Beatles. Also more poppy than GBV and lots of really great singing on this album. I would put this album in my top 10 albums of all time list.

http://www.bigbeef.com/shough/uvcd.htm
btw, their myspace doesnt give the album justice since only 2 songs from the album are on it. There really is quite a large handful of *great* songs on this album and the rest are fine, no complaints. Better than most bands, especially when you consider how great some of the songs are. "Truly In Pieces"...

i've tried doing this before, but I've found that a lot of my GBV enjoyment comes from the sequencing on the actual albums -- Pollard in the mid-90s was nailing it in terms of LP sides, mood changes, etc -- some of those albums are like perfect mix tapes. In fact, I would love to hear a Pollard mixtape!

I made a really great one a couple years ago. As soon as I can dig up the cd, I'll post the tracklist.

will have to check out the Ultra Vega stuff, though -- hadn't heard of that.

definitely do that

Joon Shough'a Ultra Vega is indeed a great record, that almost no GBV fans knows about, though everyone of them should!

it's more or less at the same style and quality as the best GBV albums only that Shough's vocals are more delicate than Pollard and the final result feels more gentle than GBV.

also, i think a new Shough record is on the way.
thats why the myspace site is full of new songs from that upcoming record.

Well I'm not sure if all those songs will be on the upcoming record because this first record came from a pool of over 100 songs.
Really John Shough deserves his own thread, at least after "Done in Taurus" comes out - because Ultra Vega different enough from GBV to be considered it's own thing. And for people like me, I prefer Ultra Vega to GBV. This song is going to be on the new record and it sounds considerably better than most those random songs on their myspace (imo)

you can hear all of 'done in taurus'

this is pretty good

yeah it sounds good