Guided By Voices is awesome. Found them a while back , but I never bothered to listen to any of their songs besides the one that the Breeders covered. Even though the only continuing member is Robert Pollard, (kinda in the vein of bands like Black Flag, Shonen Knife, and yes, Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses), he does write almost all of their songs, which is a LOT OF SONGS. If you look at how many albums they released, it's a crazy amount. Most of their songs are lo-fi sounding, and I'm pretty sure lots of them were recorded on 4-tracks, which give the songs a demoish quality. And that's good, although some of their later ones are pretty polished. I'm not exactly sure how do describe them... their songs are sorta melodic with a Replacements-esque feel. The one below is my favorite by GBV right now.
Very light, like Big Star or Teenage Fanclub. And there's this really cool one that's less than two minutes. With very neat lyrics.
If this isn't enough reason for you to listen to GBV, consider the fact that the Strokes covered one of their songs. I'm not of fan of the cover, but the original version is pretty good. And Kim Deal and Steve Albini produced one of their albums. Oh and Pollard kinda sounds like Gerald Love. Sorta. Almost.
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