BEVIL WEB / 3 DREAM BAG Split 7 inch 1994

 

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Bevil Web Biography by Andy Kellman

Bevil Web is one of the many Guided by Voices-related splinter projects. This one features ace songwriter Tobin Sprout and drummer Don Thrasher, both of whom have logged a number of years in the Dayton-based band. In 1995, Sprout and Thrasher contributed three songs to a split 7" release with 3 Dream Bag called Dig Out the Catacombs. The duo has also released a 7" on their own, Minutemen, on the Wabana label. Sprout, in addition to recording semi-prolifically under his own name, has also released records under the name Eyesinweasel. Thrasher is also known as one half of Swearing at Motorists.

3 Dream Bag featured Guided By Voices / Swearing At Motorists / Bevil Web drummer Don Thrasher and bassist Greg Demos. - Blogatrix 

 

Tracklist

A1	Bevil Web–	Dig The Catacombs
A2	Bevil Web–	Apple Cores & Plums
A3	Bevil Web–	Gleemer
B1	3 Dream Bag–	Saline Man
B2	3 Dream Bag–	Demons Become Doves
B3	3 Dream Bag–	Bad Rice Stew / Chase & Sanborn

 

THE TERRIFYING EXPERIENCE Supreme Radial 1998

 

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Terrifying Experience Biography

by Mike DaRonco

After parting ways with the seminal Guided By Voices in 1996, guitarist Mitch Mitchell wanted to take the opportunity of writing and recording his own music. So without any assistance from additional musicians, Mitchell went into the studio, recorded all the instrumental tracks by himself, layered the vocals and released it as a split EP with Illyah Kuryahkin in 1996 -with a little help from Arena Rock Records; hence, Terrifying Experience was born. Not to long after the record sold out, Mitchell wanted to take things a step further by recruiting an actual band; resulting in the 1997 line up of guitarist Duane Hart, bassist Geoff Ortlip and drummer Mark Craigo, Terrifying Experience quickly followed with their second seven inch (first release as a band), "I'm Invisible" b/w "Legacy of Conquest" and the Search for Omega Minus EP -both courtesy of AAJ Records. With a local following developed in their home quarters of Dayton, Ohio, Terrifying Experience felt the confidence for a 1998 US tour, after the release of their first full-length Supreme Radial that same year.

 

Tracklist

1		Two Day Mini-War
2		Snakes Are Arrows The Moon
3		Cocktail Party Effect
4		Dynasty Of The Last Star Children Have Come To An End
5		Attacking Of The Padded Assailant
6		Genesis Flood
7		Get Out Of My World
8		Everytime I Turn Around
9		Exhilarating Ether Jags
10		Cash Money Runaway
11		You Don't Recognize "Sweet Leaf"
12		Critics Assert Influence Once In Office

SUPERCLIMA Various Artists 1996

                                        

 

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Spanish (from Spain) comp released on Caroline Records for Rockdelux magazine

 

Tracklist

1	Prodigy*–	Firestarter
2	Girls Against Boys–	Super-Fire
3	Steve Wynn–	Shelley's Blues, Pt. 2
4	Throwing Muses–	Shark
5	Lush–	I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend
6	China Drum–	Last Chance
7	June (8)–	Stripteaser
8	Peter Perrett In The One*–	Falling
9	Papas Fritas–	Afterall
10	Guided By Voices–	The Official Ironmen Rally Song
11	El Inquilino Comunista–	Colored View
12	Holy Barbarians–	Space Junkie
13	Cool Jerks–	Beautiful Sad Face
14	Scheer–	Wish You Were Dead
15	Lisa Germano–	A Beautiful Schizophrenic
16	Spoon–	Dismember
17	Vancouvers–	Reach Out
18	Gorky's Zygotic Mynci–	If Fingers Were Xylophones
19	Tommy Keene–	On The Runway
20	Jack Logan–	When It All Comes Down
21	Dover–	She Will
22	Spain–	Untitled 1 (Radio Edit)

 

SUMMER HIT! Various Artists 1995

 

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Compilation on the Spanish record label Running Circle

Tracklist

  1. Smog - Bathysphere
  2. Guided By Voices - Motor Away
  3. Archers of Loaf - Fabricoh
  4. The Minus 5 - The Emperor of the Bathroom
  5. Cheralee Dillon - Little Yellow Lemon
  6. Walter Salas-Humara - Be Honest With Me
  7. DM3 - 1 Time, 2 Times Devastated
  8. Smudge - It's Over
  9. Sebadoh - Skull
10. Lambchop - Soaky In The Pooper
11. Picasso Trigger - Club Joiner
12. Edsel Auctioneer - Summer Hit
13. The Pastels - Guiding Star
14. Palace - New Partner
15. Butch Hancock - To Each His Own
16. Dubrovniks - Holy Town
17. The Dickies - Golden Boys
18. Lunachicks - Drop Dead
19. 24-7-Spyz - Outta Mind, Outta Time
20. Gutterball - Transparency
21. Kim Salmon - Suzanne

TARD & FURTHER'D Various Artists 1997

 

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compilation on the Siltbreeze label

Tracklist

1	Halo Of Flies–	Richie's Dog	2:59
2	Gibson Bros.*–	Brokedown Engine	3:33
3	Monkey 101–	French Feelings	2:11
4	Monkey 101–	Now That You Have Left Me	3:13
5	V-3–	Inside Outpost	5:32
6	Dead C*–	Hell Is Now Love	3:52
7	Dead C*–	Bone	2:38
8	Alastair Galbraith–	As In A Blender	2:20
9	Sebadoh–	Cheapshot	1:13
10	Sebadoh–	Delicious Cakes	1:39
11	Queen Meanie Puss–	Lily Heart	2:28
12	Mike Rep & The Quotas*–	Village Idiot	2:54
13	Terminals*–	Black Creek	6:00
14	Guided By Voices–	Melted Pat	1:38
15	Guided By Voices–	Dusty Bushworms	2:29
16	Thomas Jefferson Slave Apts.*–	Baboon's Liver	2:48
17	Shadow Ring*–	Tiny Creatures	4:20

 

THE LOUNGE AX DEFENSE & RELOCATION COMPACT DISC Various Artists 1996

 

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Tracklist  

1	–The Jesus Lizard	Uncommonly Good	2:47
2	–Shellac	Killers	1:26
3	–Sebadoh	Whole Hog	1:54
4	–June Of '44*	Rivers And Plains	4:55
5	–The Coctails	Wood Bee	2:09
6	–Guided By Voices	Beneath A Festering Moon	3:04
7	–Archers Of Loaf	Mark Price P.I.	2:03
8	–Bad Livers	Wild Bill Jones	3:07
9	–Yo La Tengo	Attack On Love	2:14
10	–Mekons*	Axcerpt	2:57
11	–Superchunk	Fader Rules	5:52
12	–Seam	The Prizefighters	3:15
13	–Tortoise	Restless Waters	3:44
14	–Rachel's	Those Pearls ...	6:14

ROBERT POLLARD WITH DOUG GILLARD Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Department 1999

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1	Frequent Weaver Who Burns	2:48
2	Soul Train College Policeman	1:38
3	Pop Zeus	2:27
4	Slick As Snails	4:19
5	Do Something Real	2:55
6	Port Authority	4:05
7	Soft Smoke	0:44
8	Same Things	1:18
9	And I Don't (So Now I Do)	2:10
10	Tight Globes	3:07
11	I Get Rid Of You	2:49
12	Life Is Beautiful	2:27
13	Messiahs	2:25
14	Larger Massachusetts	2:52
15	And My Unit Moves	1:41

ROBERT POLLARD Waved Out 1998

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Artist Biography by Michael Sutton

One of the things that made Guided by Voices' rise from underground curios to indie superstars in the early '90s so noteworthy was that vocalist/guitarist Robert Pollard was also a teacher, an uncommon occupation for rock & roll idols. Pollard was born on October 31, 1957, in Dayton, Ohio. As a child, he was groomed by his father to become a professional athlete, and pitched a no-hitter for his high-school baseball team, but in college he realized that music meant more to him than sports. Pollard formed Guided by Voices in Dayton in 1983 while working part-time at an elementary school. Also consisting of Paul Comstock (guitar/piano), Mitch Mitchell (bass), and Eric Payton (drums), Guided by Voices released their first EP, Forever Since Breakfast, in 1986. Pollard's love for British Invasion records, as well as an admiration for progressive rock and R.E.M.'s murky jangle, sculpted the band's early LPs, all of which Pollard, his brother, and the group's manager financed by requesting a loan from the Dayton Public Schools Credit Union.

Although Pollard remained at the helm, Guided by Voices had a continuously changing lineup in the '80s and '90s. A firm believer in the artistic qualities of lo-fi production, Pollard also had an ear for accessible albeit quirky pop, and when both sides converged on 1994's Bee Thousand, many critics began to chant his name. On Bee Thousand, Pollard's songwriting finally reached its potential, and the band's initial post-punk experimentation was toned down for hook-laden college rock such as "I Am a Scientist." The group was suddenly thrust into the mainstream, appearing briefly on MTV and acquiring the kind of glowing accolades from corporate magazines often given to established alternative bands like R.E.M. and Nirvana.

Pollard quit his teaching job, and the group performed on the Lollapalooza tour. A year later, Guided by Voices recorded 60 tunes in a 24-track studio; however, Pollard wasn't pleased with the results. At first uncomfortable with the songs' "hi-fi" sound, Pollard returned to the studio to finish the album, recording much of Under the Bushes Under the Stars in two days. In 1996, following Pollard's decision to fire the other members of Guided by Voices and replace them with members of the group Cobra Verde, he released his solo debut, Not in My Airforce, and as GbV became increasingly popular, Pollard began using his solo releases as a platform for his more esoteric musical ideas.

In 2004, Pollard announced he was retiring Guided by Voices and relaunching himself as a solo artist. Signing with Merge Records, Pollard released his first post-GbV album, From a Compound Eye, in early 2006, and a second album, Normal Happiness, appeared a few months later. By the end of 2007, Pollard parted ways with Merge and formed his own label, Guided by Voices Inc., which soon spawned offshoot imprints such as Prom Is Coming Records, Record Company Records, Fading Captain Records, and Rockathon Records, allowing him to release as much new music as he pleased. Between the near constant flow of solo material and his collaborations with the Keane Brothers, Circus Devils, Boston Spaceships, and other ad hoc bands, Pollard released 14 albums, ten singles, and four EPs from 2008 to 2010, more than many of his peers would release in their entire careers. In 2010, Pollard got back in touch with his inner jock when he scored 4,192, a documentary about legendary Cincinnati Reds hitter Pete Rose; earlier that same year, Pollard was inducted into the Northridge High School Hall of Fame for his teenage skills on the diamond, and as Pollard told a reporter, "You could make a lot of money on a bar bet: 'One of these two men is in a baseball hall of fame. Can you guess who?'"

In 2010, Pollard surprised many by reuniting the "classic lineup" of Guided by Voices -- Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos, and Kevin Fennell -- for a handful of live shows. As the concerts quickly became sellouts, Guided by Voices added more dates, and in 2012 GbV confirmed their reunion was semi-permanent when they cut a new album, Let's Go Eat the Factory, released by Pollard's GbV Inc. label. Three more GbV albums appeared within the space of 12 months -- Class Clown Spots a UFO, The Bears for Lunch, and English Little League -- while the band played occasional live shows and Pollard remained furiously prolific as a solo artist, releasing two solo albums a year in 2011 and 2012.

In the fall of 2013, the "classic lineup" of Guided by Voices splintered when drummer Kevin Fennell was either fired (according to Pollard) or resigned (according to Fennell) after a bizarre incident in which Fennell unsuccessfully attempted to sell his drum kit online for $55,000. While fans waited on the group's future, they had plenty to keep them occupied: in December 2013, Pollard released another solo set, Blazing Gentlemen, in which he claimed to be experimenting with more traditional songwriting techniques, while in the months that followed he scheduled another solo single, two LPs with the Circus Devils (When Machines Attack and My Mind Has Seen the White Trick), and yet another GbV album, Motivational Jumpsuit, with Kevin March on drums. In September 2014, months after the release of GbV's Cool Planet, Guided by Voices unexpectedly announced they were canceling all tour dates as the band had once again broken up, but that did little to slow down the notoriously prolific Pollard; he launched yet another ad hoc group, Ricked Wicky, with the February 2015 album I Sell the Circus, and May 2015 saw the release of a Pollard solo set, Faulty Superheroes. 

 

Tracklist

1	Make Use	3:16
2	Vibrations In The Woods	1:06
3	Just Say The Words	3:00
4	Subspace Biographies	2:58
5	Caught Waves Again	1:52
6	Waved Out	1:15
7	Whiskey Ships	2:00
8	Wrinkled Ghost	1:57
9	Artificial Light	1:03
10	People Are Leaving	2:37
11	Steeple Of Knives	2:13
12	Rumbling Joker	2:53
13	Showbiz Opera Walrus	2:34
14	Pick Seeds From My Skull	1:08
15	Second Step Next Language	4:35

 

GEM Hexed 1995

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Artist Biography by Erik Hage

Gem is a guitar-driven pop-rock band with explicit connections to Cobra Verde and Guided By Voices. After launching Cobra Verde (out of the ashes of the Cleveland group Death of Samantha) with singer/guitarist John Petkovic and Dave Swanson in the early '90s, guitarist Doug Gillard formed the side project Gem with Prisonshake drummer Scott Pickering and Four Coyotes guitarist Tim Tobias. The group debuted with the album Hexed in 1995. In 1997, Gillard and the rest of Cobra Verde backed up Robert Pollard as a de facto Guided By Voices lineup for the Mag Earwig album. Gillard would remain with Guided By Voices in subsequent years, with Gem member Tim Tobias joining up with Pollard as well (on bass). The two Gem members were important components of the relatively stable GBV lineup that existed from the late '90s and on into the new millenium (and that played on the landmark Isolation Drills album). In 2001, Tobias and Gillard once again turned their attentions to Gem with the album Sunglare Serenades. 

Tracklist 

1	Sheep
2	Your Heroes Hate You
3	Only A Loan
4	Failed To See
5	Suburban Girl
6	Little Star
7	I Hate It
8	Any Trepidation
9	Like This
10	Many Moons Break
11	Yeahya
12	2 Me Now

SWEARING AT MOTORISTS

Tuesday's Pretzel Night

7 inch 

1996 

 

self titled

1997

 

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Artist Biography by Jason Ankeny

Dayton, OH-based lo-fi pop duo Swearing at Motorists teamed singer/guitarist Dave Doughman and drummer Don Thrasher, the latter a member of local heroes Guided by Voices at their Bee Thousand-era peak. Debuting in 1995 with a self-released, self-titled cassette, Swearing at Motorists returned the following year with an EP, Tuesday's Pretzel Night. The full-length Fear of Low Flying Clouds appeared in 1997, with More Songs from the Mellow Struggle (the band's debut effort for the Secretly Canadian label) and Number Seven Uptown both following two years later. By 2000, founding member Don Thrasher left the band. The Trouble with Sweeney's Joseph Siwinski was brought in to play drums. The Along the Incline Plane EP and the This Flag Signals Goodbye album both followed in 2002. A tour with the Hold Steady as well as an appearance at the annual SXSW conference coincided the release of Last Night Becomes This Morning in 2006. After an 8 year gap, the band returned with a full-length, While Laughing, The Joker Tells the Truth, in 2014. 

Tuesday's Pretzel Night 7 inch


Tracklist

A1		All The President's Men
A2		Feeling Transparent
A3		Painfully Obvious
A4		A Drinking Town
A5		Bars Close
B1		Before The Flood
B2		Plum Island
B3		Speedracer's Lament
B4		Two Blocks From The River
B5		Smart Aleck's Karma

 

Swearing At Motorists

 

Tracklist

1		Soundtrack For A Nightmare	2:06
2		Resin Completed The Task	1:35
3		The King Of Baltimore	1:17
4		New Teen Anthem	1:09
5		Reinforcing Stereotypes	1:12
6		Similar To Floral Design	0:50
7		Derailed	1:51
8		Ballad Of Shane And Tanya	1:48
9		The Trouble With Gravity Is...	2:06
10		Our Adventurers Return	0:45
11		Obsessed With Falling	2:58
12		Cabin Fever	2:08