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I feel like Guided By Voices this fine Monday... ...and I get the feeling I might feel like this every Monday into the distant future... ...here's a couple "must listens"... First up, from "Earthquake Glue," a doozy called "The Best of Jill Hives"... (Robert Pollard, lead singer/songwriter/all-round guru, apparently got the title to this song while snoozing while watching TV... what might have been "Days of our Lives" turned into the "Best of Jill Hive... MORE
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Matthew Friedberger, Times New Viking, and Guided by Voices' Doug Gillard as well as the Guided By Voices cover band Textbook Committee will play the paperback release party for John Sellers' book Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life at Brooklyn's Don Pedro's on March 1st. On March 4th the book will be released for the first time in paperback via Simon and Schuster.
The party will also have Sellers reading an excerpt of the book, which largely is dedicated ... MORE
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Cold hands touching my face
Don’t hide - the snake can see you
Old friends you might not remember
Fading away from you
These faithful words emanated from a scratchy piece of vinyl, weighted down by a copper penny in its fidelity. Guided by Voices "Bee Thousand" is one of those seminal records, where one can place their exact whereabouts, setting our chronometers to the wistful days of 1994. Summer exactly; living in a dilapidated green house with four other d... MORE
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I'm offering up a game of Wormhole! to test out this whole new Mog layout. Heck I don't even know if posting songs in the comments is available anymore - and that's the crux of Wormhole!
I would watch the video and learn all about the NEW Mog, but then what would I do at work tomorrow.
I offer to you a meatball of a starter:
Mose Allion's "Back Country Suite: Blues (AKA Young Man Blues)"... MORE
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There are a lot of great quality posts this Funky Friday. Here's a track I'm gonna offer up a track ripe with a recognizable sample for this game of Wormhole! Here's Kool Keith, before he was Dr. Octagon/Black Elvis/etc. with The Ultramagnetic MC's... MORE
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So, the first official game of Wormhole! (beta) took place On Mog here. And I would like to thank these Moggers in order for their help and participation (directly or indirectly): SamTheArtist Bartleby Groon Dzendvokh For their posts in the very first experimental stage of Wormhole! And these folks for their participation in the first official beta version of the game: brendanhalpin TroyPowers scottfree lizziegreeneyes
The winner of the first official beta version of ... MORE
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I have Dzendvokh to thank for helping me figure out how to construct a little game out of posting a song on Mog and exploiting the comments section. Here are the rules I've flushed out so far, and are apt to change, seeing how it plays out with participation of you, fellow moggers! I haven't figured out how to make this competitive or points oriented, rather it works as a social networking game that players work together to build a mix.
The thinking that goes behind a ga... MORE
The thinking that goes behind a ga... MORE
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There's no need to reach all the way back to the 60s or 70s to discover a band with as much power and melody as The Who...
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This generation has GUIDED BY VOICES.
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Born and nurtured in the Lo-Fi nest... sounding like a slightly British garage band, but hailing from Dayton, Ohio, GBV ripped through two decades... leaving empty beer bottles and brilliant tunes in their wake.
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The heart of GBV is Robert Pollard. The former school teacher turned tunesmith seems to have an ... MORE
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To GbV's Alien Lanes I realize just how used I am to stereo sound and how many possibilites can be opened by using monoaural.
Bob Pollard's band managed to bring together a sound that is typical to Mid-Western alt bands like The Replacements, but in addition he managed to give it that casual off-the-cuff air that makes their music so interesting.... MORE
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Ever have somebody in your life that you were just absolutely head over heels in love with...but they could just never get their demons in check? And you left because you had to...not because you wanted to...I did.
I think about her from time time...and what could have been.I hope she's doing well...this song speaks to relationships like that better than I ever could.
'One day I will know it's a waste of time...and there's a better road ahead of me...I just don't ho... MORE
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Sometimes when I am resistant to working, I put on a playlist of long songs alternating with this one song which is exactly 2 minutes long. During the short song, I get to take a break. When the next long song starts I get to switch to a different task. This is a way of bargaining with procrastination, which is sometimes helpful as a self-employed person.
I think this is a pretty perfect break song: My Valuable Hunting Knife, by Guided by Voices. It kicks right of... MORE