로파이씬의 가장 중요한 밴드 중에 하나가 Guided By Voices다. 로파이씬의 비틀즈란 호들갑스러운 별칭까지 얻었던 밴드는 뛰어난 송라이터 로버트 폴란드가 음악적 열쇠를 쥐고 있다. 로파이의 장르적 속성인 뼈대만 세워둔 그 날 것의 음악들을 이렇게 팝적으로 먹기 좋게 요리해낸 본 작은 무수한 앨범 작업으로도 악명 높은 밴드의 역사에 있어서 가장 중요한 음반이다. 무엇보다 로파이란 음악사에 가장 중요한 방점을 찍고 있기도 하는 본 작은 음의 생동을 한번에 나꿔채 배열한 듯한 활기는 그 어떤 음반에서도 들려주기 힘들만큼 훌륭하다. 그들의 무수한 다작 가운데서도 가장 중요하며 미국 인디락의 어떤 경향에 대한 훌륭한 보고서이자 전범이 되는 결과물이다. 피치포크 선정 1990` 베스트 4위 .... ....
The lifeblood - the lighthouse flashing Sixteen chicks remain on watch For the wheels to come rolling in And they do... Yes they always do I'd be bored and disappointed if they didn't
Buzzards and dreadful crows Right on the tip of my nose They wait like cats and fly out For the light in my eyes to die out And it does... Yes it always does I'd be shocked and removed if it didn't
Buzzards and dreadful crows A necessary evil, I suppose There's something in this deal for everyone Did you really think that you were the only one?
Buzzards and dreadful crows A necessary evil, I suppose There's something in this deal for everyone Did you really think that you were the only one? You were the only one
Why is it every time I think about you Something that you have said or implied makes me doubt you Then I look into your cynical eyes and I know it As if it never meant anything to me
Parallel lines on a slow decline - tractor rape chain Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end
In the first place it's probably just paranoia But there's a ghost in my room And he says I better run It's a thing I know - it's a thing I believe in Won't you tell it to go away?
Parallel lines on a slow decline - tractor rape chain Better yet, let's all get wet on the tractor rape chain Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end Speed up, slow down, go all around in the end...
Cold hands touching my face Don't hide - the snake can see you Old friends you might not remember Fading away from you The goldheart mountaintop queen directory The goldheart mountaintop queen directory
And we looked And we passed Through the hallway of shatterproof glass
She runs through the night as if nobody cares She screams and she cries and ignores all the stares She wants me to come, but I'm never going there The goldheart mountaintop queen directory The goldheart mountaintop queen directory
I met a non-dairy creamer Explicitly laid out like a fruitcake With a wet spot Bigger than a great lake Took me to the new church And baptized me with salt She told me, "liquor" I am a new man
Hot freaks
This one is on the house This one is better than ever
I walked into the house of miraculous recovery And stood before king everything And he asked me to join him in the red wing Took me to pie land Said, "I'm a thigh man" I will be eternally hateful
Hot freaks Hot freaks Hot freaks
This one is on the house This one is better than ever And this one is on the house This one is better than ever This one is on the house This one is better than ever
In the summer that you came There was something eating everyone Snd the sunshine fund was low We couldn't greet you With a simple hello
And the watchers of the flood Were busy in their chambers Making sure there was new blood To sustain their dying veins
But I believed you No need for further questioning I'm gonna leave with you You can teach me all you know Which way will we go now On our trip to taller windows I really don't know now I really don't know
In the winter that you left There was business as usual With the same old fears and frustrations But the word got out It was really such a pity
But the judges and the saints And the textbook committee Decided you should be left out Not even mentioned
But I believed you No need for further questioning I'm gonna leave with you You can teach me all you know Which way will we go now On our trip to taller windows I really don't know now I really don't know
Tower to the skies An academy of lies And what goes up Surely must come down And we felt the mighty blow-up With the walls coming down Or something like that
Most of us are quite pleased With the same old song And all of a sudden I'm relatively sane With everything to lose and nothing to gain Or something like that
Man of wisdom and man of compromise Man of weak flesh in an armored disguise All fall down
"If it's right you can tell" echos myron like a siren With endurance like the liberty bell And he tells you of the dreamers But he's cracked up like the road And he'd like to lift us up, but we're a very heavy load And we're finally here and shit yeah it's cool And shouldn't it be - or something like that
You chose a giant step - caught your eye Guaranteed sweetness that you thought broken And you were not fine And bearing in mind Other ones that you could have wed And hopefully dread
Mincer ray don't worry If the road's a little worn It's a cold and filthy cavern That we're traveling on
Richer day assured me Of the weak-link mending plan Danger's always there to follow Just do the best you can And a light shines down...
Mincer ray don't worry If the road's a little worn It's a cold and filthy cavern That we're traveling on And a light shines down And a light shines down..
Oh, to speak on one's feet To beat on one's brain The popular mechanics are at it again A tenement filled with side-show freaks Assembled to downgrade An impeccable arrangement By the soft-rock renegades And give me time to light A sentimental torch tonight I'm a big fan of the pigpen
Sharper than most Cut with exacto Gone is all good Ex post facto Ba-da-ba-da... Oh, oh...
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on high seas you search of the sickly sweet milk of selfish love and knife these for warm fresh blood
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in studded crown the thief of souls the parasites - the bugs of gold this fertile land now spoiled and sold
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deliver this message to the one i love the most i've lost all my money to a 300 pound ghost squeaky was a sad child - the product of neglect got stoned by a jellyfish demanding her respect
demons are real they are standing still demons are real they are standing still
I am a scientist - I seek to understand me All of my impurities and evils yet unknown I am a journalist - I write to you to show you I am an incurable And nothing else behaves like me
And I know what's right But I'm losing sight Of the clues for which I search and choose To abuse To just unlock my mind Yeah, and just unlock my mind
I am a pharmacist Prescriptions I will fill you Potions, pills and medicines To ease your painful lives I am a lost soul I shoot myself with rock & roll The hole I dig is bottomless But nothing else can set me free
And I know what's right But I'm losing sight Of the clues for which i search and choose To abuse To just unlock my mind Yeah, and just unlock my mind
I am a scientist - I seek to understand me I am an incurable and nothing else behaves like me
Everything is right Everything works out right Everything fades from sight Because that's alright with me
give me the cost as the albatross and wear it 'round your neck for size don't let it get you down i'm looking inside your house I know that it smells so nice your house always looks so nice
bear the crosses high laughing maybe the time is right you know promise me not to leave i'm looking inside your brain christ it's a cluttered mess i love you i must confess