By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Alien Lanes In today’s post, we’ll take a look at tablature for “Blimps Go 90,” one of my favorites from Alien Lanes. This is one of the many songs that really made me appreciate Robert Pollard’s lyrics, especially the entire second chorus. As far as the guitar work, it’s […]
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Game Of Pricks
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Alien Lanes, Tigerbomb There’s an exciting moment in all live Guided By Voices shows where Robert Pollard brings the microphone to his lips and shouts, “PRICKS!” That’s the band’s cue to launch into the Alien Lanes classic, “Game Of Pricks.” Except they usually don’t play it the way it […]
Striped White Jets
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Alien Lanes Some of the earlier Guided By Voices recordings occasionally sound very “thrown-together,” don’t they? There are several songs on Alien Lanes, for instance, that make me wonder if the band ever actually rehearsed the song or if Robert Pollard just picked up a guitar, started recording, and then […]
My Valuable Hunting Knife
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Alien Lanes, Tigerbomb When I started this website, I originally had the intention of focusing on the newer works of Robert Pollard since so much of the catalog from 2004 and prior already had guitar tabs somewhere on the internet. Then I began to realize how dissatisfied I was […]
