The Mayor of Simpleton Wrote:
Spade Kitty Wrote:
these have all been clunkers:
the last two gbv albums
You have got to be shitting me.
Half Smiles of the Decomposed is killer, and
Earthquake Glue is way better than
Universal Truths.
Earthquake Glue is one of the worst GbV related albums I've ever heard. I've tried to like it. Really, I have. Half Smiles has six great songs, and 8 really, really awful songs. Nothing is worse than hearing Bob Pollard harmonizing off-key in a hi-fi studio.
UTAC is better than both of these because it has 9-10 really great songs. It's not one of their best, but I'd certainly take Wire Greyhounds/Skin Parade/Zap/Cheyenne/Back to the Lake/Eureka Signs/Everywhere with Helicopter/Wings of Thorn/Pretty Bombs/UTAC/Father Sgt. Christmas Card over any combination of songs you can come up with from either one of those releases.
Of the three in question 'Earthquake' as a whole is my least favorite. That said, 'My Kind of Soldier' is most certainly a Top 50 Pollard song.