10 Favorite GBV Songs

Guided By Voices might be the most prolific band of the 90's/00's.  They've released what seems like hundreds of albums and everything they do is controlled by GBV alone.  A band to really admire who also have some great tunes.

I Am A Scientist

My Kind Of Soldier

Everywhere With Helicopter

Glad Girls

My Valuable Hunting Knife

Game Of Pricks

Things I Will Keep

Teenage FBI

Surgical Focus

Echos Myron

Matt Berry and Steve Agee interview Queens of the Stone Age

Funny mockumentary featuring The Queens interviewed by Matt Berry and Steve Agee for their upcoming album

18 Essential Heavy Soul and Maximum R&B Tracks

The Gants- Crackin' Up

The Rationals- I Gotta Go Now

The Sonics- Psycho

The Sparkles- Hipsville 29 BC

The Chocolate Watchband- Sweet Young Thing

The Count Five- Psychotic Reaction

The Iguanas- Mona

The Magic Mushroom- I'm Gone

The Seeds- I Can't Seem To Make You Mine

The Pretty Things- Get A Buzz

The Smoke- High In A Room

The Standells- Barracuda

The Strangeloves- Night-Time

Them- Baby Please Don't Go

The Truth- Hey Gyp

The Yardbirds- Over Under Sideways Down

The 13th Floor Elevators- You're Gonna Miss Me

My Favorite Albums of 2012

Here are my favorite albums released in 2012 in no order of preference. 

 

Animal Collective- Centipede Hz

Experimental Pop

Sample Track- Today's Supernatural

Best Coast- The Only Place
Retro Pop

Sample Track- The Only Place

The Brian Jonestown Massacre- Aufheben
Modern Psychedelic Rock

Sample Track- I Wanna Hold Your Other Hand

Deftones- Koi No Yokan
Alternative Metal

Sample Track- Swerve City

Dinosaur Jr.- I Bet On Sky
Modern Rock

Sample Track- Watch The Corners

Fiona Apple- The Idler Wheel....
Adult Alternative

Sample Track- Anything We Want

Guided By Voices- The Bears for Lunch
Alternative Rock

Sample Track- King Arthur The Red

Local H- Hallelujah! I'm a Bum
Alternative Rock

Sample Track- Feed A Fever

The Mars Volta- Noctourniquet
Progressive Rock

Sample Track- The Malkin Jewel

Metz- Metz
Neo-Grunge

Sample Track- Wasted

Nu Sensae- Sundowning
Noise Punk

Sample Track- Swim

Nude Beach- II
Modern Rock

Sample Track- Walkin Down My Street

Sleepies- Weird Wild World
Punk Rock

Sample Track- Terra Firma

Thee Oh Sees- Putrifiers II
Modern Psychedelic Rock

Sample Track- Hang A Picture

Ty Segall- Twins
Garage Rock

Sample Track- Thank God for Sinners

Ty Segall Band- Slaughterhouse
Garage Rock

Sample Track- I Bought My Eyes

White Fence- Hair
Garage Rock

Sample Track- Time

Wavves- Life Sux (EP)
Modern Rock

Sample Track- Bug

Yuck- Yuck
Modern Rock

Sample Track- Operation

All Time Favorite Music Videos

A likely ever-growing list of my all-time favorite music videos.  Trying to keep it limited to one video per band

(Kudos to you if you can endure the goddamned advertisements)

Nirvana - In Bloom (Nevermind, 1992)

The Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want (Check Your Head, 1992)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking The Girl (Blood Sugar Sex Magic, 1992)

Smashing Pumpkins - Rocket (Siamese Dream, 1993)

Blind Melon - Toes Across The Floor (Soup, 1994)

Weezer- The Sweater Song (Weezer, 1994)

Radiohead - Just (The Bends, 1995)

Oasis - Morning Glory ((What's The Story) Morning Glory, 1995)

Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around (Foo Fighters, 1995)

Stone Temple Pilots - Big Bang Baby (Tiny Music... 1996)

Folk Implosion - Natural One (Kids Soundtrack, 1995)

REM - E-Bow The Letter (New Adventures In Hi Fi, 1996)

Reef- Place Your Hands (Glow, 1997)

Soul Coughing - Circles (El Oso, 1998)

Blur - Coffee and TV (13, 1998)

Sean Lennon- Home (Into The Sun, 1998)

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Talk About The Blues (ACME, 1998)

The Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be (Surrender, 1999)

Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around The Block (Hour of Bewilderbeast, 2000)

The White Stripes - Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground (White Blood Cells, 2001)

The Strokes - Last Night (Is This It?, 2001)

The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So (Vini, Vidi, Vicious, 2001)

The Black Keys - Set You Free (Thickfreakness, 2003)

Kings Of Leon - Molly's Chambers (Youth and Young Manhood, 2003)

Deftones - Hexagram (Deftones, 2003)

The Raveonettes - That Great Love Sound (Chain Gang of Love, 2003)

Guided By Voices - My Kind Of Soldier (Earthquake Glue, 2003)

*Bonus for being filmed at the now defunct St. Louis club Mississippi Nights

The Arcade Fire - Lies (Funeral, 2004)

The Willowz - Ulcer Soul (Talk In Circles, 2005)

Silversun Pickups - Kissing Families (Pikul, 2005)

The Dead Weather - Treat Me Like Your Mother (Horehound, 2009)

Cage The Elephant - Shake Me Down (Thank You, Happy Birthday, 2010)

The Black Angels - The Haunting at 1300 McKinley (Phosphane Dream, 2011)

Nude Beach - Some Kinda Love (II, 2012)

Father John Misty- Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings (Fear Fun, 2012)