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- Posted: 12/04/2013 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1107): Bee Thousand by Guided By Voices
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Today's album of the day
Bee Thousand by Guided By Voices (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1994.
Country: 
Overall rank: 311
Average rating: 80/100 (from 152 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Hardcore UFOs
2. Buzzards and Dreadful Crows
3. Tractor Rape Chain
4. The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory
5. Hot Freaks
6. Smothered in Hugs
7. Yours to Keep
8. Echos Myron
9. Gold Star for Robot Boy
10. Awful Bliss
11. Mincer Ray
12. A Big Fan of the Pigpen
13. Queen of Cans and Jars
14. Her Psychology Today
15. Kicker of Elves
16. Ester's Day
17. Demons Are Real
18. I Am a Scientist
19. Peep-Hole
20. You're Not an Airplane
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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revolver94
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Norman Bates
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Age: 51
Location: Paris, France
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- #3
- Posted: 12/04/2013 21:04
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aaah I need to listen to this. tbh, I've needed to listen to this ever since it was released, it's probably the oldest album-on-my-3000- LPs-long-wishlist-I-haven't-listened-to
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Dingerbell
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- Posted: 12/04/2013 21:07
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I like it, but it's sort of underwhelming for me. Definitely due another listen.
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drakonium
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- #5
- Posted: 12/04/2013 21:18
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Superb record. It goes everywhere, but does it perfectly. Lots of fantastic tracks, and not so many less than great ones.
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- #6
- Posted: 12/04/2013 21:22
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Short songs with big hooks. "Gold Star for Robot Boy" is perfect.
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ButterThumbz
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- Posted: 12/04/2013 21:26
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I still remember the first time I ever listened to this. It sounded like the most inept attempt at a recording session I think I'd ever heard and I remember thinking that whoever recommended it to me must have been winding me up, but by the end of that first track I was hooked. Any other band would have turned the majority of these tunes into 7 minute epics but here they're lucky if they break the 2 minute mark before it's time to crap out the next golden opus.
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meccalecca
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- Posted: 12/04/2013 21:45
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| Norman Bates wrote: | | aaah I need to listen to this. tbh, I've needed to listen to this ever since it was released, it's probably the oldest album-on-my-3000- LPs-long-wishlist-I-haven't-listened-to |
what are you thinking? This album is a goldmine.
For all its inconsistency, I still think this is one of the most brilliant albums ever recorded.
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Norman Bates
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- Posted: 12/04/2013 21:48
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| meccalecca wrote: | what are you thinking? This album is a goldmine.
For all its inconsistency, I still think this is one of the most brilliant albums ever recorded. |
Well, I did like Under the Bushes... very much, so I wouldn't be surprised. Okay, moving this to the top of said list.
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meccalecca
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- Posted: 12/04/2013 21:51
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| Norman Bates wrote: | | Well, I did like Under the Bushes... very much, so I wouldn't be surprised. Okay, moving this to the top of said list. |
Can't believe you've listened to Under The Bushes and not Bee Thousand. Under The Bushes is great, but I don't think it's anywhere near the level of Bee Thousand. But maybe it's just that Echos Myron is such a killer track. Alien Lanes is close to the same level, but I find Bee Thousand to be slightly more consistent.
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