![]() ![]() ![]() Still, Pollard soldiered on regardless, prolific as ever, operating with a variety of line-ups and releasing four more GBV albums between 20 until finally he called time on the project with a four hour performance in Chicago on New Year’s Eve, 2004.Īt their finest, Guided by Voices come across like a masterclass in the writing of popular music. As if to prove this, Pollard polished up the band’s sound in the late ‘90s to make it more accessible, but the new production values alienated some fans, especially when 1999’s Do The Collapse was recorded with The Cars’ Ric Ocasek. By 1996, he claimed to have written some 5,000 songs, and though many of them (especially in the early part of the band’s career) last little more than a minute or two and were recorded to, at best, four track cassette – helping to popularise the lo-fi movement of the early 1990s (alongside acts like Smog, Sebadoh and Beck) – very few of them can be dismissed as disposable. ![]() Such is main man Robert Pollard’s ability to write a showstopping tune, one suspects that even his Budweiser-fuelled belches have an unforgettable melody. In their almost thirty years of existence, Guided By Voices have proven themselves to be one of the most prolific acts of all time. ![]()
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