Guided By Voices - August By Cake (April 7th,2017) Album

celebrating their 100th (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) album with a double album
As for August By Cake, the album has an all-new Guided By Voices lineup (or at least half-new), with Pollard joined by newbies Bobby Bare Jr. and Mark Shue, as well as returning GBV members Kevin March and Doug Gillard



00 Bob Intro
01 5º on the Inside
02 Generox — Gray
03 When We All Hold Hands
04 Goodbye Note
05 We Liken the Sun.
06 Fever Pitch
07 Absent the Man
08 Packing the Dead Zone
09 What Begins on New Years Day
10 Overloaded
11 Keep Me Down
12 West Coast Company Man
13 Warm Up to Religion
14 High 5 Hall of Famers
15 Hiking Skin
16 Sudden Fiction
17 Its Food
18 Cheap Buttons
19 Substitute 11
20 Chew the Sand
21. Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean
22 The Laughing Closet
23 Deflect Project
24 Upon the Circus Bus
25 Try It Out Its Nothing
26 Sentimental Wars
27 Circus Day Holdout
28 Whole Tomatoes
29 Amusement Park Is Over
30 Golden Doors
31 The Possible Edge
32 Escape to Phoenix

Guided By Voices announce first-ever double album, share new song “Hiking Skin” — listen

 

haha holy shit, stoked for this

 

what the fuck does this dude ever not write like a million songs
i'm looking forward to it

 

I think this might be the best thing Bob has put out in a long time. This is sticking with me in a way that none of the post-reunion albums did. The hooks are massive and the are riffs rockin'.

 

Oh man I gotta find the time to listen to this

 

it's so worth it. also, each band member has ~2 songs (which are all pretty great) & help break up the Bob stuff.

 

I've been listening to this album and the follow-up How Do You Spell Heaven a lot in this month

I think they're the best records Pollard's done since maybe Isolation Drills

August By Cake is a particularly strong double LP where GBV really sound like a BAND rather than Pollard and a bunch of hired guns

I think it helps that he let the other dudes write/sing a few songs on the LP

 

i want to listen to this still but it's extremely daunting to listen to all their material beyond the big names

this probably tops the list though given the praise i've heard some people give it

 

it's p gr8 imo

It took me a few days to listen to the whole thing ha but that's mostly cuz I intermittently put it on at work

now I listen to it straight through

 

it stresses me out to not listen to things straight through for a first listen haha. couldn't tell you why

the size of their discography also stresses me out but i'll definitely give this one a listen this week. have you ever seen them live btw? i always wonder how a setlist of theirs would work given that they have to play like double what most bands would play

 

GBV is one of those bands I've always heard about but have never listened to... 100 albums!?! Lol

What are the must-hear songs in their back catalogue?

 

hahaha that's fair I'm usually the same but for whatever reason I didn't mind with this one, maybe because I didn't expect it to be so great?

I've never seen them live! I've heard they play upwards of 50 songs every show though lol

From what I can tell they're always pretty raucous drunken affairs and I think they cover "Baba O'Riley" every show too

 

Alien Lanes was my entry point to them and still probably my favorite

in terms of one off songs from that one I'd go with "Game of Pricks," "Motor Away," and "A Good Flying Bird"

 

Listen to Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes to see if you're interested

if you only want songs, i'd say echoes myron, tractor rape chain, i am a scientist, game of pricks, and a salty salute. a little harder to boil down alien lanes bc most of the songs flow into each other

 

holy shit 50 songs...i assume they must play the same setlist every night? otherwise that's incredible

 

I'm combing through setlist.fm at the sets from this most recent tour and it looks like they change it up a decent amount each night lol

 

omg they're doing too much...though im sure some songs must be muscle memory at this point, too. i would love to see this band live but i would recognize maaaaybe a third of the songs lol. for my money i really don't think there's many people out there in indie rock who have a better grasp of pop and songwriting in general than pollard

 

I do love the image of a 60-year-old former school teacher out there doing all of these songs

he's supposed to be releasing a country album this year? could be entertaining lol

 

i have no metric for country at all so im interested in what that's like

 

this might be ridiculous even for this band

 

the last double album was their best in a good while

still haven't listened to Space Gun tho

 

this is incredible. I love this band haha

 

cool