It's the moment you've all been waiting for. I'm going to wrap up this Guided by Voices current lineup deep dive. It's been an amazing journey through 16 albums and 254 songs. If you've been following along you probably have a good idea where this is going. I'm going to rank the albums and then give you a playlist of the Top 20 songs from this dive, in no particular order. If you'd like a larger playlist add the other tracks I've singled out in my posts. They're great too. Just a reminder, I'm not including the compilation album, Warp and Woof, or any side projects like Cub Scout Bowling Pins or Cash Rivers. I will also share my favorite lyric from each song. This is going to be a long one. Peace.
1, Space Gun - 5 Stars
2. Welshpool Frillies - 4.5 Stars
3. Nowhere To Go But Up - 4.5 Stars
4. Styles We Paid For - 4.5 Stars
5. Crystal Nun Cathedral - 4.0 Stars
6. It's Not Them... - 4.0 Stars
7. August By Cake - 4.0 Stars
8. Mirrored Aztec - 4.0 Stars
9. Sweating the Plague - 4.0 Stars
10. Strut of Kings - 3.5 Stars
11. Zeppelin Over China - 3.5 Stars
12. How Do You Spell Heaven? - 3.5 Stars
13. Tremblers and Goggles By Rank - 3.5 Stars
14. Surrender Your Poppy Field - 3.0 Stars
15. Earth Man Blues - 3.0 Stars
16. La La Land - 3.0 Stars
1. GREY SPLAT MATTERS from Space Gun
"Sleepy heavy eyelids you believe your sockets. Take them out slowly and just let them dry."
2. TO KEEP AN AREA from Mirrored Aztec
"But you stumble on broken ladders and it's easier to turn back and go home."
3. MR. CHILD from Styles We Paid For
"Roll with the punches and remain as a child."
4. ALEX BELL from Tremblers and Goggles By Rank
"Babies can see, but they can't conceive how it feels when you lose it all."
"I see you around every time there's a ghost in town."
5. BETTER ODDS from Welshpool Frillies
"You caused an earthquake, yeah, I felt it."
6. LOCAL MASTER AIRPLANE from Nowhere To Go But Up
"Ten billion clocks in on the beat."
7. SONG AND DANCE from Nowhere To Go But Up
"Should have seen rock and roll had nowhere left to go."
8. SERENE KING from Strut of Kings
"When I get around town, people in surround sound."
9. 5 DEGREES ON THE INSIDE from August by Cake
"5 degrees on the inside, baby that's cold."
10. MAN CALLED BLUNDER from Surrender Your Poppy Field
"Everywhere that he goes he finds a loser's game and he plays."
11. NEVER MIND THE LIST from Crystal Nun Cathedral
"Make a fist when you pray."
12. SEE MY FIELD from Space Gun
"Go on - be a spectator. See my field. I discovered lightning in a jar."
13. MY FUTURE IN BARCELONA from Zeppelin Over China
"Moving units, testing time, saving nothing, make it rhyme."
"Excruciatingly slow. Excruciating me so."
14. MEET THE STAR from Welshpool Frillies
"Gone the fear. Soon to release his thundering brain children out from their crease."
15. THE BATMAN SEES THE BALL from Earth Man Blues
"Reality is based only on what their screens display, that's all."
16. HIGH IN THE RAIN from It's Not Them
"I'm taking this time for staying behind and writing my notepaper play."
17. COUSIN JACKIE from La La Land
"Climb the mountain to the valley. Drive the highway to the alley."
18. ROMEO SURGEON from Welshpool Frillies
"Alleys and aisles of mystery. Anesthetic permafrost, aisle three."
19. RADIOACTIVE PIGEONS from Welshpool Frillies
"May you always know yourself."
20. FICTIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL DREAM from Strut of Kings
"Programming fever dreams with the fools."
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