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Guided By Voices - Mag Earwhig! (1995)

Guided By Voices - Mag Earwhig! (1995)

BAND/ARTIST: Guided By Voices

  • Title: Mag Earwhig!
  • Year Of Release: 1995
  • Label: Matador
  • Genre: Indie Rock, Lo-Fi
  • Quality: 320 kbps | FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 00:45:31
  • Total Size: 107 mb | 310 mb
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Tracklist:

01. Guided By Voices - Can't Hear The Revolution
02. Guided By Voices - Sad If I Lost It
03. Guided By Voices - I Am A Tree
04. Guided By Voices - The Old Grunt
05. Guided By Voices - Bulldog Skin
06. Guided By Voices - Are You Faster?
07. Guided By Voices - I am Produced
08. Guided By Voices - Knock 'Em Flying
09. Guided By Voices - Not Behind The Fighter Jet
10. Guided By Voices - Choking Tara
11. Guided By Voices - Hollow Cheek
12. Guided By Voices - Learning To Hunt
13. Guided By Voices - Little Lines
14. Guided By Voices - Portable Men's Society
15. Guided By Voices - The Finest Joke Upon Us
16. Guided By Voices - Mag Earwhig!
17. Guided By Voices - Now To War
18. Guided By Voices - Jane Of The Waking Universe
19. Guided By Voices - The Colossus Crawls West
20. Guided By Voices - Mute Superstar
21. Guided By Voices - Bomb The Bee-Hive

After Bee Thousand gave Guided By Voices a wider audience, it became evident that Robert Pollard saw himself as more than just the band's songwriter and frontman, and as his career ambitions grew, he became increasingly frustrated with the limitations of his band. Matters came to a head prior to the recording of Mag Earwhig! as Pollard broke ties with longtime guitarist and fellow songwriter Tobin Sprout and fired the rest of the group. While Pollard and Sprout soon buried the hatchet, Sprout opted not to stay on as a full-time member of the group, and Pollard was now Guided By Voices' uncontested leader. He hired Cleveland-based blues/garage rockers Cobra Verde as his backing band for the next GBV album, and Mag Earwhig! sounded a good bit different as a result; while there were a few stray four-track experiments with Sprout scattered about, most of the album had a solid, professional sheen, and Cobra Verde rock harder and sound tighter than any of the lineups Pollard had worked with in the past. Unfortunately, his songwriting wasn't quite up to his usual standards, which the new clarity of this album makes all the more evident. Pollard is incapable of making an album without a few fine songs, and "Bulldog Skin," "Sad If I Lost It," "Not Behind the Fighter Jet," and "Portable Men's Society" certainly fill the bill, but it may well be significant that Mag Earwhig!'s most exciting song, the joyous "I Am a Tree," was written by Cobra Verde's Doug Gillard. While there's plenty to enjoy here, Robert Pollard's next experiment in hi-fi record making, Do the Collapse, would prove to be much more successful.


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  • whiskers
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