Taken from "Kid Marine" 2000
"There is a place
Always in the undertow
Begging at best
Hollow culture
When you exist
Are you observable?
When you resist
Are you approachable?
When you pretend
Are you unreadable?
The unspeakable must settle
On your spy frame mind
The reason you came here
Is the reason you flee
Always to the same place"
Bobs voice starts this song with echoes and backwards fades and a guitar comes onto the horizon. Then the song kicks in with the classic fuzzed up guitar, bass and drum sound of classic Pollard. We even have time for a small Solo. Good song.
Thursday, 12 July 2007
Our Value Of Luxury
Taken from "Suitcase 1" 2003
"These men came down from heaven
Come here to tell you something
You stomped on rotting floorboards
Your world's an inaccurate graphic
Our value of luxury
Allows us to believe we are free
Our value of luxury
Allows us to believe we are free
That's OK we've got airplanes
Silos in mirrored highways
Your earmarked for collision
With frozen opposition"
For a Suitcase offcut this song sounds very produced and formed. It has a ethereal sounding vocal and a proper chorus that burst to life. Its not up there with Pollard classics but as I say has the sound of a proper song.
"These men came down from heaven
Come here to tell you something
You stomped on rotting floorboards
Your world's an inaccurate graphic
Our value of luxury
Allows us to believe we are free
Our value of luxury
Allows us to believe we are free
That's OK we've got airplanes
Silos in mirrored highways
Your earmarked for collision
With frozen opposition"
For a Suitcase offcut this song sounds very produced and formed. It has a ethereal sounding vocal and a proper chorus that burst to life. Its not up there with Pollard classics but as I say has the sound of a proper song.
Tuesday, 10 July 2007
Society Dome
Taken from "Mist King Urth" 2003
"I'm going home
To the common section
To the place that we call home
To the list of viruses
With the lap dancers
And the pad rammers
And the human shots
I'm going home
Focus on a dream
Try to find a way out
Society dome
Stay in
Keep it on
Basic attractions
It's all over you
And I am"
I quite like the Lifeguards stuff and this song some reason reminds me of Simon & Garfunkel (Scarborough Fair anyone). The guitar plucking is very Mark Kozelek too. The song builds from a simple acoustic start with a drum coming in and then changes to a sweet melody and chorus. This is a great song from a good offshoot album.
"I'm going home
To the common section
To the place that we call home
To the list of viruses
With the lap dancers
And the pad rammers
And the human shots
I'm going home
Focus on a dream
Try to find a way out
Society dome
Stay in
Keep it on
Basic attractions
It's all over you
And I am"
I quite like the Lifeguards stuff and this song some reason reminds me of Simon & Garfunkel (Scarborough Fair anyone). The guitar plucking is very Mark Kozelek too. The song builds from a simple acoustic start with a drum coming in and then changes to a sweet melody and chorus. This is a great song from a good offshoot album.
Alone In Time
Taken from "Suitcase 2" 2005
Lyrics Unknown
Some lovely 70s sounding strumming and quiet soft vocal from Bob. Another nice little sketch of a song. Wish it would have lasted a bit longer and developed into something grander but you can have everything.
Lyrics Unknown
Some lovely 70s sounding strumming and quiet soft vocal from Bob. Another nice little sketch of a song. Wish it would have lasted a bit longer and developed into something grander but you can have everything.
Sunday, 8 July 2007
Shit Midas
Taken from "Suitcase 1" 2003
"Say shit Midas
This world's looking funny to you
World's looking funny to you
Shit Midas
Everything you touch
Everything you touch
Is turning to as much
Is turning to as much
As such
As you would have it
Shit Midas"
More Suitcase fun in this little song. Very delicately played and sung by Bob. Sometimes I feel like a Shit Midas. Everything you touch turns to crap. lol. Nice little ditty.
"Say shit Midas
This world's looking funny to you
World's looking funny to you
Shit Midas
Everything you touch
Everything you touch
Is turning to as much
Is turning to as much
As such
As you would have it
Shit Midas"
More Suitcase fun in this little song. Very delicately played and sung by Bob. Sometimes I feel like a Shit Midas. Everything you touch turns to crap. lol. Nice little ditty.
Saturday, 7 July 2007
Island of Lost Lucys
Taken from "Blues and Boogie Shoes" 2006
Lyrics Unknown.
Wow. A wonderful song from the Keene Brothers. This song is just one of the most beautiful and heart felt songs Bob has written in many years from the simply fantastic "Blues and Boogie Shoes" album. The simple structure but soaring lyrics and keyboards elevate this to a thing of beauty. If there was any justice in the world this would be the number one song. Wonderful.
Lyrics Unknown.
Wow. A wonderful song from the Keene Brothers. This song is just one of the most beautiful and heart felt songs Bob has written in many years from the simply fantastic "Blues and Boogie Shoes" album. The simple structure but soaring lyrics and keyboards elevate this to a thing of beauty. If there was any justice in the world this would be the number one song. Wonderful.
Postal Blowfish
Taken from "Demons & Painkillers" 2003
"Noticing the change
We are taking time
Everybody knows
Everybody's fine
And we'll figure out
Purpose in the end
Unless we have to jump
Unless we have to win
Chorus: Hold your tongue
Brace yourself
Give me a kiss
Show me what I missed
Can I find a phone
Can I drop a dime
Can I get a loan
Running out of time
And I'll have a toast
To what it's all about
Unless they move us on
Unless they move us out
Chorus
Seven doglegs hung to dry
It works that way
Postal blowfish make me cry
It works that way
Begging on the nail don't fail
To clue me in
??Cluster frogs and crabs begin??"
This song crops up in many different recorded versions on various releases. This is probably the cleanest and most produced version. A great chugga-chugga guitar and a memorable chorus section that I'm sure the Breeders loved so much they based most of their career around. What is a Postal Blowfish? You decided.
"Noticing the change
We are taking time
Everybody knows
Everybody's fine
And we'll figure out
Purpose in the end
Unless we have to jump
Unless we have to win
Chorus: Hold your tongue
Brace yourself
Give me a kiss
Show me what I missed
Can I find a phone
Can I drop a dime
Can I get a loan
Running out of time
And I'll have a toast
To what it's all about
Unless they move us on
Unless they move us out
Chorus
Seven doglegs hung to dry
It works that way
Postal blowfish make me cry
It works that way
Begging on the nail don't fail
To clue me in
??Cluster frogs and crabs begin??"
This song crops up in many different recorded versions on various releases. This is probably the cleanest and most produced version. A great chugga-chugga guitar and a memorable chorus section that I'm sure the Breeders loved so much they based most of their career around. What is a Postal Blowfish? You decided.
Mr. Media
Taken from "Suitcase 1" 2003
"Oh Mr. Media
Will you capture our heads
Mr. Media
Lives are breaking down
They will be ??? you
They will be calling you
Oh what would you be without your perfect world
Without your telescope under eiderdown
Hey give me the dope
Mr. Media
Well c'mon and ???
We told you everybodys's ??? now
About to break it down, break it down now
Mr. Media
Oh Mr. Media
Oh Mr. Media"
A simple strummed song with a very muffled vocal so its hard to pick out the lyrics. The song sounds new and both derivative at the same time. I cant put my finger on what old song this sounds like. Anyone?
"Oh Mr. Media
Will you capture our heads
Mr. Media
Lives are breaking down
They will be ??? you
They will be calling you
Oh what would you be without your perfect world
Without your telescope under eiderdown
Hey give me the dope
Mr. Media
Well c'mon and ???
We told you everybodys's ??? now
About to break it down, break it down now
Mr. Media
Oh Mr. Media
Oh Mr. Media"
A simple strummed song with a very muffled vocal so its hard to pick out the lyrics. The song sounds new and both derivative at the same time. I cant put my finger on what old song this sounds like. Anyone?
Just Touch Them
Taken from "Five" 2005
"JUST TOUCH THEM
SUNFED GIRLS AND BOYS
DO TOO
AT THE CLUB AGE
JUST TOUCH
JUST TOUCH
SENSATION
TOUCH THEM"
Crash. Fuzz. Warble. Crash. Bang. Twitter. We are back in Circus Five territory. A mix of odd crunches and sounds before an acoustic guitar comes in and Bob joins in with some odd lyrics and them some more odd sounds. Just Touch Them? Sunfed Boys and Girls? Sounds a bit seedy to me.
"JUST TOUCH THEM
SUNFED GIRLS AND BOYS
DO TOO
AT THE CLUB AGE
JUST TOUCH
JUST TOUCH
SENSATION
TOUCH THEM"
Crash. Fuzz. Warble. Crash. Bang. Twitter. We are back in Circus Five territory. A mix of odd crunches and sounds before an acoustic guitar comes in and Bob joins in with some odd lyrics and them some more odd sounds. Just Touch Them? Sunfed Boys and Girls? Sounds a bit seedy to me.
Mascara Snakes
Taken from "Beard of Lightening" 2003
"THE CRITICAL STAGE IS RAINING DOWN
LOST EMOTIONS BEING FOUND
ORIGINS OF CROWED HOUSE
MAKE A SHORT LINE SHORTER
HIT PAUSE ON LOST
PRONOUNCING DEAD ON RED
GET THE FEEL ON ME
COPS ON THE NIGHT OF THE NO-SHOW
WEAK THE ATTACK
ON WHAT NEW MOVES
STRADDLE THE HOUR GLASS
WITH STRANGE LADIES
BUT THIS IS MINE AND I WILL TAKE IT BACK
CONCENTRATION ON MY FREE MAN’S BLUES
COME SEE THE OCEAN UP ON THE HIGHWAY
COME SEE THE STRONGMEN AND MASCARA SNAKES
THEY WANNA HIT YOU AND RELIEVE YOU
NO DOORS ARE OPENING OR CLOSE BY
THAT’S WHY I’M FOCUSING
I AM GOD’S BROTHER, HIS SOULMATE AND TEAMMATE
HE PASSES ME INFO-MATION
AND I RECIPROCATE"
Starts off with some fantastic riffing before changing pace to the more random jazz structure of Phantom Tollbooth noodlings. The format of the lyrics almost class against the structure of the music. This song has its moments and skips along at a fair old pace. Probably a highlights from one of my least favourite Pollard offshoot albums.
"THE CRITICAL STAGE IS RAINING DOWN
LOST EMOTIONS BEING FOUND
ORIGINS OF CROWED HOUSE
MAKE A SHORT LINE SHORTER
HIT PAUSE ON LOST
PRONOUNCING DEAD ON RED
GET THE FEEL ON ME
COPS ON THE NIGHT OF THE NO-SHOW
WEAK THE ATTACK
ON WHAT NEW MOVES
STRADDLE THE HOUR GLASS
WITH STRANGE LADIES
BUT THIS IS MINE AND I WILL TAKE IT BACK
CONCENTRATION ON MY FREE MAN’S BLUES
COME SEE THE OCEAN UP ON THE HIGHWAY
COME SEE THE STRONGMEN AND MASCARA SNAKES
THEY WANNA HIT YOU AND RELIEVE YOU
NO DOORS ARE OPENING OR CLOSE BY
THAT’S WHY I’M FOCUSING
I AM GOD’S BROTHER, HIS SOULMATE AND TEAMMATE
HE PASSES ME INFO-MATION
AND I RECIPROCATE"
Starts off with some fantastic riffing before changing pace to the more random jazz structure of Phantom Tollbooth noodlings. The format of the lyrics almost class against the structure of the music. This song has its moments and skips along at a fair old pace. Probably a highlights from one of my least favourite Pollard offshoot albums.
Monday, 2 July 2007
Sweet Jelly
Taken from "Turn To Red" 2006
Lyrics Unknown
An odd track from "Turn to Red" that starts with a bustle of crowd then a lone acoustic guitar plucks in and Bob delivers some very odd warbly vocals in an almost deep south accent. Its certainly an odd filler track from the album.
Lyrics Unknown
An odd track from "Turn to Red" that starts with a bustle of crowd then a lone acoustic guitar plucks in and Bob delivers some very odd warbly vocals in an almost deep south accent. Its certainly an odd filler track from the 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.
"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.
Lord Of Overstock
Taken from "Under The Bushes Under The Stars" 1996
"straight to the lord of overstock
who spoke for the millionth turn
said "don't be late for the superdeal
we'll save you a lot
and take every cent you earn "
following tips, his overfed rats
said "trust in the king of overstock
invest in his wisdom and learn
there's less to go around if everyone counts,
but if you've got the money to burn,
then you will be in always good faith
for what you are worth
in heaven on earth!" "
A classic song from classic period Guided By Voices. A massive song with larger than life lyrics. A song without a proper chorus but feels like it has one. Its crazy how many songs Bob write that don't have proper Choruses but feel like they do. Genius.
"straight to the lord of overstock
who spoke for the millionth turn
said "don't be late for the superdeal
we'll save you a lot
and take every cent you earn "
following tips, his overfed rats
said "trust in the king of overstock
invest in his wisdom and learn
there's less to go around if everyone counts,
but if you've got the money to burn,
then you will be in always good faith
for what you are worth
in heaven on earth!" "
A classic song from classic period Guided By Voices. A massive song with larger than life lyrics. A song without a proper chorus but feels like it has one. Its crazy how many songs Bob write that don't have proper Choruses but feel like they do. Genius.
Harboring Exiles
Taken from "Delicious Pie And Thank You For Calling" 2003
"What it was
What it wasn't, what was true
And what I see
What it is not for you
And in all the world
There is no finer place
As such the dream up here is falling
I'll keep it close until the pattern breaks
When it breaks the dream is over
The kind of thing that makes me sing
And here it goes
Quite apparent but not so
The time to live
And pull out stitches as we go
In all the world
There is no finer place
As such the dream up here is falling
I'll keep it close until the pattern breaks
And when it breaks the dream is over
The kind of thing that makes me sing
As such the dream up here is falling
I'll keep it close until the pattern breaks
And when it breaks the dream is over
The kind of thing that makes me sing
Yah!"
Had to have a bit of a few days to contend with flooding and insurance claims but I am back with a clutch of songs. Harboring Exiles has great little guitar bit and a very jaunty vocal with some strange stuttering parts. I like it. Very REMish at times but very early GBV mostly.
"What it was
What it wasn't, what was true
And what I see
What it is not for you
And in all the world
There is no finer place
As such the dream up here is falling
I'll keep it close until the pattern breaks
When it breaks the dream is over
The kind of thing that makes me sing
And here it goes
Quite apparent but not so
The time to live
And pull out stitches as we go
In all the world
There is no finer place
As such the dream up here is falling
I'll keep it close until the pattern breaks
And when it breaks the dream is over
The kind of thing that makes me sing
As such the dream up here is falling
I'll keep it close until the pattern breaks
And when it breaks the dream is over
The kind of thing that makes me sing
Yah!"
Had to have a bit of a few days to contend with flooding and insurance claims but I am back with a clutch of songs. Harboring Exiles has great little guitar bit and a very jaunty vocal with some strange stuttering parts. I like it. Very REMish at times but very early GBV mostly.
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