Tight Globes

Taken from "Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Department" 1999

"Blonde machine in yellow spacecar
zip your legs in smooth rubber
You pass me and harass me
#1 is on the run

I saw you outta my cave
you didn’t see me
you never see me

Ugliest affairs in print
jumbled societies’ children
where’d you pop in?

Blonde machine....

All the glands that you shoot through
tight globes
international she goes out
fresh from the sweat factory I’m in love tonight -
perhaps we’ll be best friends for a week"

Another GBV classic in both Recorded and Live format. A song full of invention, chord changes and tempo changes but manages to hang together perfectly. Good stuff indeed. "Tight Globes"? Is he referring to a lovely pair of breasts? lol. Classic.

Messiahs

Taken from "Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Department" 1999

"I like it in their it looks good
when I’m at home I love you good
when away even more
it’s good to care for
dreams like strings in cold trees
iceberg heads and alien flavors
this being a giftshop
an electronics tent sale
over here in seats folded warmly

I like it out there the timeclock kills
must be the iron wills
of future kings who ride their ships
through fast atmospheres"

After about a month away "A Pollard A Day" is back. I'm finally moved in and sorted and getting back to normality and ready to kick of the Pollard Blog of The Century. So here we go....

"Messiahs" has a repetitive but catchy start and is a very melodic track from Pollards stable. This is a strong track with good lyric (although the usual Bob Nonsense at times). The song changes key and builds up and is a great song from a really good album.

Same Things

Taken from "Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Department"

"I listen to your conventional message
same things allure me assure me
I’m not getting in or through
going nowhere faster than most

That’s the way the eyecrust crumbles
the everlasting holyman stumbles
a thread of resistance contains me
your unwanted assistance often restrains me"

An acoustic track with odd almost sickly backward vocal effects at the start. A good song is in there and I love the gentle acoustic bit toward the end that's rather sweet.

Pop Zeus

Taken from "Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Department" 1999

"He who shits out magic may shine
for the good of a customs and calling
call him Max
send him a fax
charge him no tax

Pop Zeus

He who gives love to angry children
kids on the skid with baggy trousers
call him zerman find him a helmet
He will come crashing

Pop Zeus

Electric Newspaper Boy!"

The Pop Zeus! Good name for a Song (and the name of a certain Guided By Voices/Pollard Web Blog too). "He Who Shits out Magic May Shine!", This song is a bit a minor classic with a pulsing melody and a guitar lick that could almost be an Irish jig. Who is Zerman? You can see some of Bobs humour is this song with the "Electric Newspaper Boy" chant! Make me laugh anyway.