♠ ♣ ♥ ♦FRIDAY INDIE ROQ JUBILEE♠ ♣ ♥ ♦ TAKING SIDES - SPIRAL STAIRS v. TOBIN SPROUT

Did you include THE RENTALS because they are both Friends of P. (Pavement and Pollard, respectively)???

Actually, don't answer that. It's pretty obvious you did.

your use of the word "chops" in the question is fascinating, steve.

it makes one think long and hard about whether the measure of "chops" is objective or based on personal taste (and thus subjective.)

It seems clear to me from my listening to select Guided by Voices releases of a certain vintage that Tobin's songs were always more open and immediate than Pollard's, as well as being more 'affecting.'

whereas malkmush seems to have dominated pavement in a more significant way--the stairs cuts are still band recordings are they not? rather than the piecemeal fashion in which gbv albums were created during their heyday.

would you like to have a beer and discus this sometime

tobin, and it aint even close

i mean i like "kennel district" well enough but nothing he did (in pavement at least, never bothered to listen to PSOI/the new album) touches like, "ester's day" or "awful bliss" or "a good flying bird". and those are just the obvious ones

cool poll idea tho

whoa i never really viewed tobin's shit through a raspberries lens, kinda intriguing now that i think of it

knee-jerk answer was Spiral but I realized I own two Tobin records and none by Preston School of Industry

AND WE'RE FINALLY HERE
AND SHIT YEAH IT'S COOL

that's a pollard lyric!

oops why did I think Echos Myron was a Tobin Sprout song. drunk

shit yeah

it's cool

and shouldn't it be

hey little whirl

tobin sprout had the best songs in gbv, pavement otoh was a better band than gbv. logic says i must vote rentals

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little whirl otm

i always dug small parade it reminds me of the bats

theres like maybe two posts itt that i understand what they mean

the two posted by system?