#readandplay (542) My Valuable Hunting Knife GBV ... my valuable hunting knife She will shine like a new girl I want to shout out our love to the world hit it Everything I talk about I talk about with you It will not rust through the tears 25th Anniversary video youtu.be/-Mgt0xDkBng?...

Don’t drink and drive Stay at home and eat from “When Growing Was Simple” by Guided By Voices, Styles We Paid For (2020)

Jack was awesome! More of that, please! Robert Pollard still wears the crown.

Green beans Green beans They’re green, they’re beans, they’re green beans How can you fuck it up? from “Green Beans” by Cash Rivers and the Sinners, Loose Shoes (2019)

There’s a Robert Pollard lyric from a song called “Larger Massachusetts” that always gives me hope when I hear it: “The medium-sized world is making a comeback / The world at large is drowning”

What is Guided By Voices’ deal?

Waves crashing Everyone’s smashed By water Sixty percent within sixty miles by the water Sixty percent within sixty miles by the water By the water from “By the Water” by Rip Van Winkle, Blasphemy (2025)

I hear you singing The spiritual getaway Yearning to hike away From hurt and spiny things Who use you for their practices and settlements from “In Stitches” by Guided By Voices, Do the Collapse (1999)

“Wished I Was a Giant” said “Man, get off the street” Spoken like a traffic cop Cronies at his feet He turned on his radio And picked up the noise from “”Wished I Was a Giant”” by Guided By Voices, Vampire On Titus (1993)

Say goodbye in advance When you see them Say goodbye in advance You don’t want to meet them from “Street Toughs” by Circus Devils, Squeeze the Needle (2023)

We know his name We know his number We know his game We know his name We know his number We know his game And it’s the reason why he came Yeah, it’s the reason why he came from “Our Man Syracuse” by Guided By Voices, Thick Rich and Delicious (2025)

Face to face The face eraser has you Much like a pile driver, he can pound Down, down, down You should just go down Now that you’ve found just what you’re made of You should just stay down from “Face Eraser” by Guided By Voices, La La Land (2023)

And I’ve been waiting in line for this Now that it’s taking forever, I insist Until I get it I can’t breathe Climbing high upon the rocky cliffs she flies With surgical focus from “Surgical Focus” by Guided By Voices, Do the Collapse (1999)

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

She’s like cool skin hands, oily and hides Away from the furniture’s cat Says the king would like to greet you In his 1950s hat from “Weatherman and Skin Goddess” by Robert Pollard, Robert Pollard is Off to Business (2008)

"There will be no graduation. There will be no trumpets blowing in the light that passes through me. With the sinking of the sun, I've come to greet you. Clean your hands and go to sleep." — Guided by Voices, Glad Girls There's so much poetry between the choruses.

disarm the settlers the new drunk drivers have hoisted the flag we are with you in your anger proud brothers who do not fret the bus will get you there yet to carry us to the lake the club is open yeah the club is open

🎶Irrepressible flockings of people Who thinks that we already know That the ones who erect their own steeple Live in a black smoking hole🎶

You can be hungry and empty inside Strangled in the net or frozen on the outside It’s not very hard to do from “Endless Seafood” by Guided By Voices, Styles We Paid For (2020)

Robert Pollard is AI

Into the towering spheres Hovering high above them I shine the logo on the clouds Hovering high above them I send a signal, oh yeah from “How Did He Get Up There?” by Guided By Voices, Nowhere to Go But Up (2023)

Cool ja, check trouwens ons nieuwe nummer ook ff met een GBV lid in de gelederen :-)

Someone tell me why…🎶

Isn’t it great to exist At this point in time? Where the produce is rotten But no one’s forgotten On Strawberry Philadelphia Drive from “Dayton, Ohio/19 Something & 5” by Guided By Voices, Tonics & Twisted Chasers (1996)

Cast spells like a rock and roll witch I’m down And now it’s ‘cause of you You got me thinking rock ‘n’ roll won’t always be around from “Year of the Hard Hitter” by Guided By Voices, Surrender Your Poppy Field (2020)

Oh, now without a Gravy train forever while Get or down Be off someplace By kind permission of The very human race And there’s no island There’s a wrong way There’s a right way A constant strangle from “A Constant Strangle” by Robert Pollard, Moses On a Snail (2010)

Guitar in the window That no ghost child ever played And he’s not looking down or around On the long cruise compete And no more rock groups up the street Oh, no from “A. Glum Swoboda” by Guided By Voices, Thick Rich and Delicious (2025)

There is nothing worse than An undetermined person Can I abuse you please In my subspace biographies - Robert Pollard

Here come the fantasy creeps Thick walls they pound through They know where everyone sleeps And I’m glad they found you Any time Any time at all from “Fantasy Creeps” by Guided By Voices, King Shit and the Golden Boys (1995)

#musicinmusic #MusicChallenge June Salutes You—Guided by Voices 'Hey! June salutes you! From the fundamental champs And Tammy and the Amps were singing…' (And that's Kim Deal, lead singer of the Amps on the final refrain too.) #musicsky #nowplaying #vinyl

How can I look through Their senseless side? As much as I'd like to All is not right - and it shows All around you Under the tree - a seed Come in closer There is a sign Shaped in the mind Pick up - for God's sake When we call you back to the lake. Guided by voices, 2002, Indierock

holding the phone up to her ear, eyes closed, as Robert Pollard yells I AM A NEW MAN

Product head The ultimate in the service Check, credit card or cash Product head Don’t forget the cake Same face the pie got smashed from “Product Head” by Lifeguards, Waving at the Astronauts (2011)

Let me tell you a story Conclusive, based on fact Long ago in the morning She left, did not come back I don’t really care anymore I don’t really care from “Liar’s Tale” by Guided By Voices, Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia (1989)

Tom the happy pretender One eye on the menu, one eye on his watch His parents told him, “Don’t worry, Tom, there’s plenty of jobs In the big city” In the big city But with one eye only, it gets so hard It gets so hard from “Cyclops” by Guided By Voices, Devil Between My Toes (1987)

Never can touch their sign language So is the cost of sound barriers Even as though she’s still searching For a cloud with a silver lining We pray for her She’s burning slow, out on a mission’s light from “Christian Animation Torch Carriers” by Guided By Voices, Universal Truths and Cycles (2002)

And there is nothing worse than An undetermined person Can I abuse you please With my subspace biographies? from “Subspace Biographies” by Robert Pollard, Waved Out (1998)

Faces on and often Study, stupefy me A fine tradition Like vintage wine She comes out All in purple I take purple Make mine purple from “Hers Purple” by Guided By Voices, Universe Room (2025)

In the freezing lake, we were thinking About drinking, oh yeah In the morning dew, we were hoping But now we’re groping, oh yeah from “Scalding Creek” by Guided By Voices, Get Out of My Stations (1994)

Look out for truth when it’s full of surprise In need of assistance? Try one of these guys But most of all Let us go home again from “When We All Hold Hands At the End of the World” by Guided By Voices, August By Cake (2017)

With the sinking of the sun I’ve come to greet you Clean your hands and go to sleep Confess the dreams Of good and bad men all around Some are lost and some have found The light that passes through me now from “Glad Girls” by Guided By Voices, Isolation Drills (2001)

Thank you, Jane

When the fire that burns in the predator’s eyes Takes another disguise with a different face And it all gets down to the people in our town They don’t want to be found in the other place from “The Other Place” by Guided By Voices, Forever Since Breakfast (1986)

You know I love you I just don’t tell you each time But it gets easier This time, this time This time, this time from “Sight On Sight” by Boston Spaceships, Planets Are Blasted (2009)

Let’s see I remember now They were disenchanted with the script you wrote They said you were being lazy But with another network and another run You win over everyone, everyone, everyone from “Captain Kangaroo Won the War” by Guided By Voices, Thick Rich and Delicious (2025)

Hi! Onze nieuwe single is vandaag uit, geproduceerd door Sarah Tudzin (Illuminati Hotties). Eindhoven based i.s.m. leden van Guided By Voices en Superdestroyer — uit op NY @totallyrealrecs.bsky.social wearejoinersband.bandcamp.com/track/white-...

A joy of my life was Bob singing this in soundcheck once in the style of Peter Gabriel solely for my personal enjoyment. Think Red Rain era Gabriel singing And Wear My Maroon Blazer, Alllllll the Time for effect.

And the courage seekers Of the aborted logo Of declaration no-go Are gone But I’ll keep a light for ‘em Hold down the fort for ‘em And wear my maroon blazer All the time from “Sad If I Lost It” by Guided By Voices, Mag Earwhig! (1997)

imagine being the guy who has to come up with apple music descriptions for new guided by voices albums. “the ohio indie rock legends are back with their 67th album full of their classic quirk” “Robert Pollard and crew return for another round of wacky lyrics and guitars that sound like that”

Every sort from such a grooveless place My heads race Drawing mug shots Staking out the place It’s all too much visuals Contracts and residuals from “Blue Shadow” by Keene Brothers, Blues and Boogie Shoes (2006)