Kyle Motor wrote:

Bob Pollard wrote:Yeah, Let It Be. Pretty good record, but it’s sloppy. It’s pretty directionless, you know.

Robert Pollard calling a Beatles album "sloppy" and "directionless". Ok there, Bob.


GBV, Not Crap with the biggest waffles imaginable.

The Beatles are my favorite band and I'd rather listen to Do The Collapse than Let It Be

mattw wrote:GBV
You know your career is over when a greatest hits pkg comes out

GBV greatest hits pckg pwns you and everyone on this board

GBV = godly

absolutely not crap

cervixFORaHEart wrote:1. you think poison was a good band...in whatever format.
2. you think guns and roses were a great band...in whatever format.
3. how are blur and gbv comparable bands at all? they are pretty much polar opposites in the rock world.

ROFL @ Blur, calling them a "band" is a bit generous. Thats like calling Oasis musicians

Guys, Blur have some excellent songs, despite of their thoroughly patchy albums and public school boy front man.

As for the GBV best of, it's a pretty good selection but I listen to the Matador EP/later bsides disc way more. The single version I Am A Scientist is weird.

big_dave wrote:Guys, Blur have some excellent songs, despite of their thoroughly patchy albums and public school boy front man.

As for the GBV best of, it's a pretty good selection but I listen to the Matador EP/later bsides disc way more. The single version I Am A Scientist is weird.

are we talking about the same blur? I'm talking about those douchebags that had that radio song a few years ago

"wooo hooo, when I feel heavy metal" and sound like an even shittier version of oasis

big_dave wrote:

Bob Pollard wrote:Yeah, Let It Be. Pretty good record, but it’s sloppy. It’s pretty directionless, you know.

Robert Pollard calling a Beatles album "sloppy" and "directionless". Ok there, Bob.


GBV, Not Crap with the biggest waffles imaginable.

Pollard has said many times that his all-time favorite band is The Beatles and his favorite record is the White Album - so he's not exactly hating on them. He was just following the interviewer's point about working with sympathetic producers and such.

The Beatles themselves would have told you that Let It Be was sloppy and directionless.

Hexpane wrote:

big_dave wrote:Guys, Blur have some excellent songs, despite of their thoroughly patchy albums and public school boy front man.

As for the GBV best of, it's a pretty good selection but I listen to the Matador EP/later bsides disc way more. The single version I Am A Scientist is weird.

are we talking about the same blur? I'm talking about those douchebags that had that radio song a few years ago

"wooo hooo, when I feel heavy metal" and sound like an even shittier version of oasis

That song was a regrettable low point in an overall excellent body of work. You could say it was their "Hold On Hope" moment.

Sid Hartha wrote:

Kyle Motor wrote:

Bob Pollard wrote:Yeah, Let It Be. Pretty good record, but it’s sloppy. It’s pretty directionless, you know.

Robert Pollard calling a Beatles album "sloppy" and "directionless". Ok there, Bob.


GBV, Not Crap with the biggest waffles imaginable.

Pollard has said many times that his all-time favorite band is The Beatles and his favorite record is the White Album - so he's not exactly hating on them. He was just following the interviewer's point about working with sympathetic producers and such.

The Beatles themselves would have told you that Let It Be was sloppy and directionless.

I know, I just thought it was a weird "pot calling the kettle black" quote.

I like some GBV, but I really think there's too much filler (that is an understatement). It bugs me when they've got a string of cool catchy songs on an album and they interrupt it with hissy, out of tune nonsensical rambly atonal acoustic shenanigans with Bob all drunk and hollering over it. The sheer number of releases makes many of them more "collectables" than music. I think Pollard/GBV has a very keen eye for marketing to completist collectors....once they get a taste of something and there's a bit of a "legend" about it, they HAVE to get it all.

Although if I could record every single musical idea I ever have (bad or good), release them, and have people actually buy them, I'd probably do it too.

Hexpane wrote:

big_dave wrote:Guys, Blur have some excellent songs, despite of their thoroughly patchy albums and public school boy front man.

As for the GBV best of, it's a pretty good selection but I listen to the Matador EP/later bsides disc way more. The single version I Am A Scientist is weird.

are we talking about the same blur? I'm talking about those douchebags that had that radio song a few years ago

"wooo hooo, when I feel heavy metal" and sound like an even shittier version of oasis

That record has a lot of great stuff on it.

Kyle Motor wrote:

Sid Hartha wrote:

Kyle Motor wrote:

Bob Pollard wrote:Yeah, Let It Be. Pretty good record, but it’s sloppy. It’s pretty directionless, you know.

Robert Pollard calling a Beatles album "sloppy" and "directionless". Ok there, Bob.


GBV, Not Crap with the biggest waffles imaginable.

Pollard has said many times that his all-time favorite band is The Beatles and his favorite record is the White Album - so he's not exactly hating on them. He was just following the interviewer's point about working with sympathetic producers and such.

The Beatles themselves would have told you that Let It Be was sloppy and directionless.

I know, I just thought it was a weird "pot calling the kettle black" quote.

I like some GBV, but I really think there's too much filler (that is an understatement). It bugs me when they've got a string of cool catchy songs on an album and they interrupt it with hissy, out of tune nonsensical rambly atonal acoustic shenanigans with Bob all drunk and hollering over it. The sheer number of releases makes many of them more "collectables" than music. I think Pollard/GBV has a very keen eye for marketing to completist collectors....once they get a taste of something and there's a bit of a "legend" about it, they HAVE to get it all.

Although if I could record every single musical idea I ever have (bad or good), release them, and have people actually buy them, I'd probably do it too.

Without a doubt GBV pulls a Ani Defranco/[insert any big name rapper] and puts in tons of filler on albums.

but their poor editing can't detract from the great songs. You just have to chalk it up to the inability to self edit and not trusting someone else to cut songs for them. Its probably what holds back 50% of all bands out there, they fall in love w/ their own songs, regardless of how well they work as a collection/set list.

My friend's band that broke up last year after toiling the local scene for a while had the same deal. They had some really strong guitar work but the lead singer was in love w/ his faux suicidal tendencies homage talking/ranting song. it was a really bad song and was one of their older ones. They played it every fucking show, regardless of the venue or anything... and it was a laborious 5-8 minutes or something absurd.

IMO it would ruin the memory of the show. But that "artsy" singer would insist on it, and it made their demos and EPs cuts as well. No matter how much you suggested songs to the band, even when they asked for suggestions the no eye contact used to be homeless artsie singer refused to shitcan his shitty ass song that everyone except his kiddie bullshit punker friends liked because they could faux slam dance w/ him when he ran around making eye contact w/ the ground while ranting/talking that bogus juvenile piece of shit.

in retrospect I guess its a good thing that band broke up , the guitarist and drummer were too good for some bullshit 1989 esque pre-emo singer