Pollard's at it again, eh?

FT · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 4:38 pm

Yet another new Bob Pollard album (Lord of the Birdcage), and I just today found out about it.

Somebody (I'm looking at you M-Cap) hit me up with a link, yo.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 4:47 pm

Not my link Bobbo:

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?eni586hzu7i9rdr

FT · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 4:48 pm

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

Not my link Bobbo:

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?eni586hzu7i9rdr

thanks, mike!

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

any good?

FT · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 6:55 pm

Saint Wrote:

any good?

will let you know once i give it a listen

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

looks like there are a bunch of Boston Spaceship albums I didn't realize were released.

robotboy · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 8:05 pm

as much of a gbv completist i have tried to be, i just cant keep up with the fucker. i have a couple of his solo albums from the past 5 years but thats about it. i got grass to cut and pictures to hang and mouths to feed!

timmyjoe42 · **Posted:** Tue May 31, 2011 8:11 pm

Did you really think he would be able to stop?

FT · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 11:39 am

robotboy Wrote:

as much of a gbv completist i have tried to be, i just cant keep up with the fucker. i have a couple of his solo albums from the past 5 years but thats about it. i got grass to cut and pictures to hang and mouths to feed!

that's why god invented mediafire

mcaputo · **Posted:** Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:58 pm

I put this together in 2009. The twenty tracks presented here were released after 'From A Compound Eye' & 'Normal Happiness'. (2006-2009)

Things Have Changed (Down in Mexico City) **
Stiff Me **
Death of The Party $$
Symbols and Heads **
Miles Under The Skin ++
Heavy Crown ##
Gratification To Concrete ()
Canned Food Demons ##
Go For The Exit &
Johnny Optimist **
Queen Of Stormy Weather ##
Jimmy **
No Island *
The Original Heart ()
Beauty of the Draft $$
The Killers ^^
Tattered Lily **
The Naked Wall $$
(All You Need) To Know **
Wealth And Hell-Being ()

Robert Pollard - Elephant Jokes **
Boston Spaceships - Planets Are Blasted ##
Robert Pollard - The Crawling Distance *
Robert Pollard - Off To Business ()
Boston Spaceships - Brown Submarine &
The Keene Brothers - Blues and Boogie Shoes $$
Robert Pollard - Coast To Coast Carpet of Love ++
Robert Pollard - Standard Gargoyle Decisions ^^

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mmjrmztji1u/

saint · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm **Posts:** 4271

robotboy Wrote:

as much of a gbv completist i have tried to be, i just cant keep up with the fucker. i have a couple of his solo albums from the past 5 years but thats about it. i got grass to cut and pictures to hang and mouths to feed!

i can't either...i find much of it to be really unlistenable. i need to cull the best tracks from all of the boston and solo stuff...

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

Planets Are Blasted is damn near flawless. I would say 10 songs or more would be mix tape fodder.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Thu Jun 02, 2011 11:10 am

robotboy Wrote:

as much of a gbv completist i have tried to be, i just cant keep up with the fucker. i have a couple of his solo albums from the past 5 years but thats about it. i got grass to cut and pictures to hang and mouths to feed!

Saint Wrote:

i can't either...i find much of it to be really unlistenable. i need to cull the best tracks from all of the boston and solo stuff...

I agree that a lot of the records (about 5 releases per year) contain a bunch of filler, mostly the Circus Devil's material. As for the official "Pollard" releases, it's the same, but not nearly as bad. That's why I took liberties in posting most of his best solo tracks from '06 to '09. In my opinion his best material, the thing to seek out are the Boston Spaceship records. That's the closest you're going to get to GbV, mostly cos they're a band playing his songs as opposed to one guy, Todd Tobias, playing & recording mostly everything on his solo records which can get old pretty fast.

Boston Spaceships -
I would seek out Zero to 99 first cos it might be his best post GbV record, topping FaCE. Followed by Planets, Brown Sub, then Our Cubehouse Rocks. "Let it Beard", a two-disc concept record is next.

jewels santana Wrote:

Planets Are Blasted is damn near flawless. I would say 10 songs or more would be mix tape fodder.

....easily.

bort · **Posted:** Sat Jun 04, 2011 10:30 am

mcaputo Wrote:

I put this together in 2009. The twenty tracks presented here were released after 'From A Compound Eye' & 'Normal Happiness'. (2006-2009)

Things Have Changed (Down in Mexico City) **
Stiff Me **
Death of The Party $$
Symbols and Heads **
Miles Under The Skin ++
Heavy Crown ##
Gratification To Concrete ()
Canned Food Demons ##
Go For The Exit &
Johnny Optimist **
Queen Of Stormy Weather ##
Jimmy **
No Island *
The Original Heart ()
Beauty of the Draft $$
The Killers ^^
Tattered Lily **
The Naked Wall $$
(All You Need) To Know **
Wealth And Hell-Being ()

Robert Pollard - Elephant Jokes **
Boston Spaceships - Planets Are Blasted ##
Robert Pollard - The Crawling Distance *
Robert Pollard - Off To Business ()
Boston Spaceships - Brown Submarine &
The Keene Brothers - Blues and Boogie Shoes $$
Robert Pollard - Coast To Coast Carpet of Love ++
Robert Pollard - Standard Gargoyle Decisions ^^

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mmjrmztji1u/

awesome dude, you just read my mind.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Sun Jun 05, 2011 4:10 pm

Some great Summertime rock n roll.

The Best of Boston Spaceships

Code:

http://www.mediafire.com/?9z1ia51ob05bk0i

40 minutes - 15 songs - 97mbs

01 The Comedian
02 How Wrong You Are
03 Heavy Crown
04 Come On Baby Grace
05 Question Girl All Right
06 Canned Food Demons
07 Let It Rest For A Little While
08 Radical Amazement
09 Queen Of Stormy Weather
10 Meddle
11 Exploding Anthills
12 Winston's Atomic Bird
13 Go For The Exit
14 Freedom Rings
15 A Good Circuitry Soldier

#1-2-5-7-8-10-11-15 - Zero To 99
#3-6-9 - Planets Are Blasted
#4-14 - Our Cubehouse Still Rocks
#12-13 - Brown Submarine

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

thread has me on a Boston Spaceships binge. How does he write this many good songs?

mcaputo · **Posted:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:47 am

Even the most casual of listeners on this board who can only stand the GbV greatest hits package 'Human Amusements' would dig the shit out of this rockin best-of.

Rick Derris · **Posted:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 10:51 am

I'm all over it.

Thanks man.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 11:01 am

mcaputo Wrote:

Even the most casual of listeners on this board who can only stand the GbV greatest hits package 'Human Amusements' would dig the shit out of this rockin best-of.

This is me so I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip!

mcaputo · **Posted:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:16 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

mcaputo Wrote:

Even the most casual of listeners on this board who can only stand the GbV greatest hits package 'Human Amusements' would dig the shit out of this rockin best-of.

This is me so I'll check it out. Thanks for the tip![/quote

Rick Derris Wrote:

I'm all over it.Thanks man.

Targets now established.

PopTodd · **Posted:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:38 pm

Thanks for the tunes, Mark!
DLed, gave it a listen and, while it's pretty good... it just doesn't have the hooks of the best GBV stuff.
Still, I'm a gonna listen to it again and see if any of it sticks.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Tue Jun 07, 2011 2:52 pm

PopTodd Wrote:

Thanks for the tunes, Mark!
DLed, gave it a listen and, while it's pretty good... it just doesn't have the hooks of the best GBV stuff.
Still, I'm a gonna listen to it again and see if any of it sticks.

When it comes to Pollard, I try not to base anything off of one listen. That said, while there are an abundant amount of hooks all over this collection, it's hard to compare anything to B1000 or Alien Lanes.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

it took me a while to find the hooks on all the best GBV songs.

Pollard's at it again, eh?

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