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Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand (Paperback, New)
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Guided By Voices' Bee Thousand (Paperback, New)
Series: 33 1/3
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Discovery Miles 2 540
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Marc Woodworth's book covers the album's long and unorthodox period
of writing, recording, sequencing, and editing. It includes
interviews with members of the band, manager Pete Jamison,
web-master and GBV historian Rich Turiel and Robert Griffin of Scat
Records. At least sixty-five songs were recorded and considered for
the album and five distinct concepts were rejected before the band
hit upon the records final form. One late version, very nearly
released, contained only a few of Bee Thousand's definitive songs.
The rest were left out and nearly ended up in the boxes of cassette
out-takes cluttering up Robert Pollard's basement. The story of
Guided By Voices transformation from an occasional and revolving
group of complete unknowns to indie-rock heroes is very much part
of the story behind the making of "Bee Thousand". In addition to
providing a central account of how the record was made, Woodworth
devotes another substantial chapter to the album's lyrics. Robert
Pollard's lyrics are described by critics, when they're described
at all, as a brand of tossed-off surrealism, as if his verbal
sensibility is somehow incidental to the songs themselves. Nothing
could be further from the truth. I want to offer a sustained
discussion of Pollard's work as a writer of often sublime,
beautiful, and very human lyrics. I won't miss the chance to
consider the pleasures of the absurd in this context and, of
course, the contributions to "Bee Thousand" of Tobin Sprout. The
third key section of the book covers aesthetics. Woodworth
considers the great appeal of the do-it-yourself nature of "Bee
Thousand" and reflects on the larger importance of the strain of
alternative rock for which this record is a touchstone. The focus
is on "Bee Thousand", of course, but also includes discussion on
the rise of a lo-fi aesthetic and its continuing influence. This
chapter would also provide the context for an account of rock that
exists because of passion, love, and compulsive need rather than
formula, money, and marketing.
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