By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Welshpool Frillies I often tend to think that “Don’t Blow Your Dream Job” is longer than it actually is; at just over three and a half minutes, it’s the third longest on Welshpool Frillies, beaten out by “Rust Belt Boogie” and (just barely) by album opener “Meet The Star.” […]
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White Flag
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: The Bears For Lunch Even as short as it is, the majority of “White Flag” is instrumental, with vocals taking up only about thirty seconds’ worth of the song’s total running time of two minutes and fifteen seconds. Robert Pollard’s rolling guitar arpeggios and Greg Demos’ high-register bass guitar […]
Black And White Eyes In A Prism
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: It’s Not Them. It Couldn’t Be Them. It Is Them! With all the albums the current (as of this writing) lineup of Guided By Voices has been releasing, it can sometimes be easy to overlook stand-out tracks such as “Black And White Eyes In A Prism.” If you’ve forgotten […]
Knock ‘Em Flyin’
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Mag Earwhig!, Tonics & Twisted Chasers “Knock ‘Em Flyin’” was one of the Mag Earwhig! tunes that was recorded prior to the Cobra Verde lineup joining forces with Guided By Voices (and also previously recorded for the Tonics & Twisted Chasers album). In fact, Robert Pollard is credited as […]
Males Of Wormwood Mars
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Cool Planet “Males Of Wormwood Mars” incorporates a “quiet verse/loud chorus” dynamic (although I’m not sure if the loud part is technically the “chorus”) with a very Robert Pollard riff in the verses. There are some other sections that I’m also not sure how to label…multiple bridges, maybe? You […]
Dusted
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Vampire On Titus, Fast Japanese Spin Cycle “Dusted” is played using a few simple guitar chord shapes that contain fretted notes on the lowest three strings, but the addition of the open third and second strings make for some unique chord voicings. This transcription is for the version heard […]
Dayton, Ohio-19 Something And 5
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Tonics & Twisted Chasers As with many of the songs on Tonics & Twisted Chasers, the songwriting for “Dayton, Ohio-19 Something And 5” is credited to both Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout. In this case, it sounds to me like a Sprout musical composition that Pollard added lyrics and […]
Warm Up To Religion
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: August By Cake “Warm Up To Religion” features a terrific arpeggio riff in the classic Robert Pollard style: a fretted note on one string that changes to carry the melody while the two strings higher than it are played as open notes. You need to be logged in to […]
Romeo Surgeon
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Welshpool Frillies Floating chord shapes is the preferred guitar technique Robert Pollard used in composing “Romeo Surgeon,” with the open position D and E chord shapes being played in various positions on the fretboard. Other than that, there are just a few power chords, so it’s pretty easy and […]
Chain Dance
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Welshpool Frillies It’s always fun when Guided By Voices includes a couple of Robert Pollard’s boombox demos alongside the more polished tracks on an album. On Welshpool Frillies, we get “Chain Dance” and “Mother Mirth,” the former of which we’ll look at in this post. You need to be […]
