Happy birthday to Bob Pollard on this final day of Bobtober. You’re the best.
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Telling someone how big they are reveals how small you feel. Or something like that.
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Love this song about how Sisyphean life feels.
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Pop! Bob and Slusarenko!
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A song about a baseball and going the extra mile seemed apropos
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I’ve fallen down on my #Bobtober posting! Listening as always. Always like it when this one pops up.
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Sometimes you gotta start the week with a statement.
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Here is an outtake from Do The Collapse, stuck on a b-side and then forgotten because he had 1200 more songs to release since.
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It’s college football day which, for me, means watching half a game and working a slow day at the shop for the rest. This song ends with Bob singing touchdown a lot. It rocks.
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In honor of the World Series.
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Deep cut here. It’s all about the Who-like payoff in the middle.
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Woke up with Bob singing “eye” in this in my head- great note. I think this is about a casino.
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Now to just share songs that come to mind.
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Teenage Guitar is basically Bob and a 4 track. It’s so lo fi, it strikes oil.
Echoing sharks
Lost in the darks
Of hinterlands
winterlands
splintered hands
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The Takeovers were the prequel to the Boston Spaceships. This song has Mudhoney’s Dan Peters drumming all over an old Suitcase song. I love it.
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Only one album was released with the credit to Robert Pollard with Doug Gillard and it’s a classic.
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Rip Van Winkle is very recent Bob and 3 really cool people doing sessions that produce songs like this. May they do many more.
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Choreographed Man of War could be my favorite EP Bob has done. Lots of bigass fist pumpers and also this, the best hangover song there be.
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Get out of his way, he’s going in!
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Ricked Wicky, Bob with local human jukebox Nick Mitchell and dependables March and Tobias, put out 3 albums in less than 7 months(!). Classic rock filtered through the Bob system.
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Psycho and The Birds is Todd Tobias playing over Bob's boombox demos written in batches. Kind of a inverse Circus Devils thing. The results are cool and unique. You can hear what Tobias worked here with on Suitcase 2.
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Life is Beautiful > Messiahs and a cup of tea to help kickstart another year around the sun for me.
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Moping Swans ep is Bob, Greg Demos, Jimmy Mac and pre-GBV bandmate Tony Conley (RIP). There are a couple of catchier tunes, but I love musing on this song title/lyrics
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Woke to 6 crows enjoying scattered leftover takeaway from last night’s homecoming game. Wisconsin lost, but this album’s a winner.
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Mars Classroom was the postal rock album with band Big Dipper. This one’s mighty special and should be on a lot of best of lists.
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The 2 albums of Lifeguards are Doug Gillard doing the music and Bob sings. This song inspired the name of my nonexistent Bob cover band The Pad Rammers.
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A Salty Salute to all the October birthdays!
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Bob did one ep with Dayton band The Tasties backing him up. Legend is one Tastie worked at a Sunoco and sold this at the counter.
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The worst name ever for an album (Blues and Boogie Shoes) is a disservice to the gorgeous music the Keene Brothers gave us. RIP Tommy Keene.
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Still feeling crummy, but I realized I missed a few days of #Bobtober
To make up for this personal failing, here's one of the greatest records ever. Can you hear it, Kid Marine?