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HolyMoly wrote:

More twisted and turned on than a Flower Kings album. 10.9 / 10

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The Truth wrote:

Steve, Can't Stop is like my favorite Pollard song right now.

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Actually the first 7 or so songs of that album are all heavy favorites of mine (Lips of Steel thru The Drinking Jim Crow). Then there's a couple of so-so tracks, but then it ends strong with 2 great songs again.

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HolyMoly wrote:

More twists and turns than a Flower Kings album. 9.3 / 10

what is flower kings?

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The Truth wrote:

HolyMoly wrote:

The Truth wrote:

Steve, Can't Stop is like my favorite Pollard song right now.

MAKE UP YOUR MIND BABY
STRAIGHT ON THE LINE BABY

Actually the first 7 or so songs of that album are all heavy favorites of mine (Lips of Steel thru The Drinking Jim Crow). Then there's a couple of so-so tracks, but then it ends strong with 2 great songs again.

ture, I'm glad the first four records are your favorite because I would be much more later-GBV/Pollard oriented otherwise and miss out on these gems. Embarrassed

Don't you be doing that Embarrassed

face. If anything I should be doing the Embarrassed

face. I've been pathetic at keeping up with all their stuff, and then all the Pollard stuff on top of that, Circus Devils, Boston Spaceships, Plastic Nosejobs, Frosty Pimplenuts, IT CAN DRIVE A MAN MAD. Wacko

Seriously though, I just remembered that my first ever GBV purchase was "Fast Japanese Spin Cycle", which turns out to be a pretty obscure EP that I never seem to hear about and I almost forget it's there. I think it dates from the Bee Thousand period or just prior. I'd read about them in SPIN magazine and when I went to the store, that EP was what they had, so I bought it. It didn't really take me by storm, but a couple of years later I got Under the Bushes Under the Stars as a new release, after hearing the song "Look at Them" on my local "alternative" radio station. That seemed to get me more interested, and then Mag Earwig kind of sealed the deal. From there, I went backwards and that's when I got into the real early stuff which remains my favorite.

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*bah-dum-tish* LOL

HolyMoly wrote:

The Truth wrote:

HolyMoly wrote:

The Truth wrote:

Steve, Can't Stop is like my favorite Pollard song right now.

MAKE UP YOUR MIND BABY
STRAIGHT ON THE LINE BABY

Actually the first 7 or so songs of that album are all heavy favorites of mine (Lips of Steel thru The Drinking Jim Crow). Then there's a couple of so-so tracks, but then it ends strong with 2 great songs again.

ture, I'm glad the first four records are your favorite because I would be much more later-GBV/Pollard oriented otherwise and miss out on these gems. Embarrassed

Don't you be doing that Embarrassed

face. If anything I should be doing the Embarrassed

face. I've been pathetic at keeping up with all their stuff, and then all the Pollard stuff on top of that, Circus Devils, Boston Spaceships, Plastic Nosejobs, Frosty Pimplenuts, IT CAN DRIVE A MAN MAD. Wacko

Seriously though, I just remembered that my first ever GBV purchase was "Fast Japanese Spin Cycle", which turns out to be a pretty obscure EP that I never seem to hear about and I almost forget it's there. I think it dates from the Bee Thousand period or just prior. I'd read about them in SPIN magazine and when I went to the store, that EP was what they had, so I bought it. It didn't really take me by storm, but a couple of years later I got Under the Bushes Under the Stars as a new release, after hearing the song "Look at Them" on my local "alternative" radio station. That seemed to get me more interested, and then Mag Earwig kind of sealed the deal. From there, I went backwards and that's when I got into the real early stuff which remains my favorite.

Can confirm: Is maddening. LOL

But now that I am more or less caught up (I think?) I can hype up the next two scheduled releases. Tongue

But I find it consistently awesome how people were introduced to them, your story is a great one. And there is a reason you like the early stuff, it's great. Tongue

I don't even listen to that EP very often and it actually has some gems on there! LOL

It always makes me incredibly happy to hear how people delve into them. I, for instance, was introduced to them when they were on the soundtrack (Teenage FBI) of the PS2 game NCAA Football '06 and it was a decades-long progression towards trying to find literally everything Pollard released. Crazy stuff. LOL

HolyMoly wrote:

The Truth wrote:

I, for instance, was introduced to them when they were on the soundtrack (Teenage FBI) of the PS2 game NCAA Football '06 and it was a decades-long progression towards trying to find literally everything Pollard released. Crazy stuff. LOL

Now that is a pretty wild story in itself. I think if Teenage FBI were the first song I'd heard by them, I would probably have gone into a buying frenzy too. Had no idea it was used in a video game.

There is no reason, I guess.

;D

Edited by The Truth - March 03 2015 at 14:06

My experience with them is weird too.

Some crazed fanatic just tossed words and youtube links at me like a mad man!

I almost broke down in tears from the distortion, the loud drums, but then.... he sang.

That crazed fanatic was named Tan tan.

Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.