By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: The Planets Are Blasted Having been a huge fan of this song since hearing it on Suitcase: Failed Experiments And Trashed Aircraft in 2000, I was beyond excited when Robert Pollard re-recorded “Dorothy’s A Planet” with Boston Spaceships. Needless to say, the final product well exceeded my expectations. I had […]
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Headache Revolution
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: The Planets Are Blasted One of the great aspects of the Boston Spaceships project was that it gave us so many excellent re-workings of songs we already knew from Suitcase. The subject of today’s post, “Headache Revolution,” was first heard as a Robert Pollard demo on Suitcase 2: American Superdream […]
Canned Food Demon
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: The Planets Are Blasted Whenever I sit down to transcribe a Boston Spaceships song, I like to check Chris Slusarenko’s notes that he wrote for the listening parties that were held in the GUIDED BY VOICES Facebook group way back in the summer of 2018. These notes offer some very […]
Queen Of Stormy Weather
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: The Planets Are Blasted If I could offer just one nugget of instruction for playing “Queen Of Stormy Weather” on guitar, it would be this: Strum furiously. All you’re doing in this song is strumming chords, and they just don’t have the same effect when played gently. You need to […]
The Town That’s After Me
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: The Planets Are Blasted “The Town That’s After Me” is a fairly short song even by Robert Pollard’s standards, but it has a catchy melody, a fantastic ending hook, and it’s just a lot of fun to play on guitar. We’ll just be using some basic chords for this one, […]
