By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue Part of the mission of the GBV Guitar website is to fill in the gaps. For Robert Pollard’s work 2004 and prior, there are already some guitar tabs floating around on the internet, and a lot of them are pretty accurate, or at least close enough to […]
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Gonna Never Have To Die
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Half Smiles of the Decomposed When trying to learn how to play Robert Pollard’s songs on guitar, I’ve had the most success when I have access to either live footage of the band playing (actually seeing them live is better, of course) or a stripped-down recording of the song, such […]
You Satisfy Me
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Brown Submarine If you’re a member of the GUIDED BY VOICES Facebook fan group, you may have heard of the synchronized listening sessions that someone organized. Basically, it’s a bunch of people listening to an album at the same time and commenting about it in real time to a Facebook […]
Piss Face
By: Ricked Wicky Appears on: I Sell the Circus Hey, did you know that Ricked Wicky was the first of many fake band names that Robert Pollard ever conceived? Although he credited this band name to the song “Messenger” on Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft, it wasn’t until Pollard joined up with Nick Mitchell, […]
Asphyxiated Circle
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Half Smiles of the Decomposed According to the invaluable resource of all things Robert Pollard, GBVDB – Guided By Voices Database, “Asphyxiated Circle” from 2004’s Half Smiles Of The Decomposed was only ever played lived by the band a total of 13 times. This, in my opinion, is not […]
Tenth Century
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: How Do You Spell Heaven “Tenth Century” from How Do You Spell Heaven is one of those great “cool-down” numbers that Robert Pollard likes to throw onto his albums, just to take a break from the near-constant rocking. Although it stays pretty light for the most part, with acoustic guitars […]
We Liken The Sun
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake “We Liken The Sun” from August By Cake is a track that I didn’t give enough attention when the album first came out. I guess that’s somewhat acceptable, as there were plenty of new songs vying for attention all at once. I’ve really come to appreciate this […]
I Am A Scientist
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Bee Thousand It pretty much goes without saying that every song on Bee Thousand is a classic, but “I Am A Scientist” surely must hold a special place for being a classic classic. Since its release in 1994, there probably hasn’t been a single Guided By Voices show that didn’t include […]
Royal Cyclopean
By: ESP Ohio Appears on: Starting Point Of The Royal Cyclopean “Royal Cyclopean” gave us our first preview of the ESP Ohio project, consisting of Robert Pollard on vocals, Doug Gillard on guitar, Mark Shue on bass, and Travis Harrison on drums and as producer. On first listen, I wasn’t sure quite what to make […]
Sport Component National
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Space Gun Just as Robert Pollard uses a collage as the artwork on many of his album covers, so also does he write some of his songs in the same fashion. In “Sport Component National” from Space Gun, he combines snippets of seemingly unrelated melodies and music into a cohesive […]
