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Guided By Voices "Empties Crushed and Fired Away"
This is a compilation of Guided By Voices songs — well, some are technically credited to Robert Pollard or some other “side project” name — and it is intended for newer fans. It does not contain any music from Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes, Under The Bushes Under The Stars, or the greatest hits record, in part because it was originally intended for a person who has heard most of that music. You could take this disc as a next step after those entry-level albums, or just let it be an introductory thing, because it’s full of really great, accessible tunes that sell the band about as well as the actual hits collection does. That’s kinda the thing with Pollard/GBV — you can fill up one cd with killer songs, but then you just have several other discs worth of great leftovers. Pollard’s cup runneth over, and over, and over, and over.
The songs:
Everybody Thinks I’m A Rain Cloud (When I’m Not Looking) / Subspace Biographies / Choking Tara (Creamy Version) / Get Under It / Alone, Stinking, and Unafraid / Psychic Pilot Clocks Out / Pop Zeus / A Crick Uphill / Frequent Weaver Who Burns / Now To War / Universal Truths & Cycles / The Brides Have Hit Glass / Edison’s Memos / Caught Waves Again / Sleepover Jack / Beg For A Wheelbarrow / Skills Like This / Girl Named Captain / Do The Earth / Big School / If We Wait / Whiskey Ships / And I Don’t (So Now I Do) / Stifled Man Casino / Radical Girl / Postal Blowfish / Sad If I Lost It / Submarine Teams
