Author Topic: Top 50 Guided by Voices songs (Read 11518 times)

bestcellar · « **on:** June 05, 2014, 10:01:35 am »

Hi all, I'm Matt. I'm new here. I met Steve at Funspot 15 last year, reconnected with him at Funspot 16 this year, and he generously pointed me in the direction of this forum. I live in Chicago. I love music. Based on our mutual love of GbV, I figured this was the single best place on the internet to post this...

(DISCLAIMER - I have not really heard much from 2011-2014, so this only covers the 14 original run GbV albums, King Shit and the Golden Boys, the first Suitcase compilation, and all the EPs from the 1987-2004 era). Also #1-4 never change but the rest move around quite a bit.

1) Pendulum (Same Place the Fly Got Smashed)
2) Game of Pricks (Alien Lanes)
3) Smothered In Hugs (Bee Thousand)
4) Dusted (Fast Japanese Spin Cycle version)
5) Over the Neptune / Mesh Gear Fox (Propeller)
6) Wondering Boy Poet (Suitcase 1 version)
7) If We Wait (Sunfish Holy Breakfast)
8. Buzzards and Dreadful Crows (Bee Thousand)
9) Hank's Little Fingers (Devil Between My Toes)
10) Everyday (Sandbox)
11) An Earful o' Wax (Self Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia)
12) Dodging Invisible Rays (Tigerbomb)
13) Striped White Jets (Alien Lanes)
14) Quality of Armor (Propeller)
15) Peep Hole (Bee Thousand)
16) Glad Girls (Isolation Drills)
17) Postal Blowfish (King Shit and the Golden Boys)
18) Don't Stop Now (Under the Bushes Under the Stars)
19) Bunco Men (Suitcase 1)
20) Weed King (Propeller)
21) Tractor Rape Chain (Bee Thousand)
22) My Son Cool (Alien Lanes)
23) Jar of Cardinals (Vampire on Titus)
24) Metal Mothers (Propeller)
25) The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory (Bee Thousand)
26) The Deeds of Fertile Jim (Vampire on Titus)
27) Twilight Campfighter (Isolation Drills)
28) Universal Truths and Cycles (Universal Truths and Cycles)
29) I Am a Scientist (Bee Thousand)
30) Hey Hey Spaceman (Devil Between My Toes)
31) Can't Stop (Sandbox)
32) Optional Bases Opposed (Tonics and Twisted Chasers)
33) Fair Touching (Isolation Drills)
34) Jar of Cardinals (Vampire on Titus)
35) Motor Away (Alien Lanes)
36) Echoes Myron (Bee Thousand)
37) Skills Like This (Isolation Drills)
38) The Hard Way (Same Place the Fly Got Smashed)
39) The Brides Have Hit Glass (Isolation Drills)
40) As We Go Up We Go Down (Alien Lanes)
41) Hardcore UFOs (Bee Thousand)
42) A Visit from the Creep Doctor (Sandbox)
43) Awful Bliss (Bee Thousand)
44) Unleashed! The Large Hearted Boy (Propeller)
45) Short on Posters (Self Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia)
46) Dog's Out (Devil Between My Toes)
47) A Good Flying Bird (Alien Lanes)
48) Cut Out Witch (Under the Bushes, Under the Stars)
49) The King and Caroline (Alien Lanes)
50) Exit Flagger (Propeller)

for the uninitiated and unconverted, here's a few youtubes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHwVnNBQaIg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLINRoC4f1k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cImvoCL_Sbs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM3tZIagviE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSd-80X-GEo

fruitygayspaghetti · « **Reply #1 on:** June 05, 2014, 11:20:05 am »

1) Game of Pricks (Alien Lanes)
2) Dayton Ohio 19-Something and Five (Tonics and Twisted Chasers)
3) Motor Away (Alien Lanes)
4) Tractor Rape Chain (Bee Thousand)
5) Wished I Was a Giant (Vampire on Titus)
6) Exit Flagger (Propeller)
7) Squirmish Frontal Room (King Shit and the Golden Boys)

Don't Stop Now (Under the Bushes, Under the Stars)
9) Stabbing a Star (Sunfish Holy Breakfast)
10) Hey Aardvark (Static Airplane Jive)
11) Ester's Day (Bee Thousand)
12) #2 In the Home Model Series (Vampire on Titus)
13) If We Wait (Sunfish Holy Breakfast)
14) Buzzards and Dreadful Crows (Bee Thousand)
15) Unleashed! The Large Hearted Boy (Propeller)
16) Weed King (Propeller)
17) Gleemer (Vampire on Titus)
18) Pendulum (Same Place the Fly Got Smashed)
19) The Quiet Game (English Little League)
20) Dusted (Vampire on Titus)
21) Liar's Tale (Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia)
22) Teenage FBI (Wish in One Hand version)
23) Dodging Invisible Rays (Tigerbomb)
24) My Impression Now (Fast Japanese Spin Cycle)
25) Cruise (Suitcase 1)
26) A Good Flying Bird (Alien Lanes)
27) Non-Absorbing (Vampire on Titus)
28) Pantherz (The Power of Suck? I forget. dat riff, tho.)
29) The Goldheart Moontop Festering Directory (I also forget, it's on a boot. it rules.)
30) Indian Was an Angel (King Shit and the Golden Boys)
31) Trap Soul Door (Sandbox)
32) Drinker's Peace (Same Place the Fly Got Smashed)
33) Matter Eater Lad (Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer)
34) Chicken Blows (Alien Lanes)
35) Choking Tara (Creamy version) (one of the Suitcases)
36) Mincer Ray (Bee Thousand)
37) Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox (Propeller)
38) Shocker in Gloomtown (The Grand Hour)
39) I Am A Scientist (Bee Thousand)
40) Do the Earth (I Am a Scientist EP)
41) Surgical Focus (Under the Bushes, Under the Stars bonus)
42) Scissors (King Shit and the Golden Boys)
43) Islands (She Talks in Rainbows) (single)
44) Watch Me Jumpstart (Alien Lanes)
45) Echoes Myron (Bee Thousand)
46) The Official Ironmen Rally (Under the Bushes Under the Stars)
47) Pimple Zoo (Alien Lanes)
48) Quality of Armor (Propeller)
49) Postal Blowfish (The Power of Suck)
50) Radio Show (Trust the Wizard) (Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia)

my top 5-10 don't fluctuate much.

TheSunshineFund · « **Reply #2 on:** June 06, 2014, 05:50:17 am »

I'll just add a few of my favorites that I didn't see on either list:

1. Long Distance Man
2. Drag Days
3. Finks
4. Underwater Explosions
5. Tropical Robots

I was pleased to see Chicken Blows on Fruity's list, very underrated song and one of my Top 10 probably.