{"id":31,"date":"2016-04-14T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/departmentoftangents.wordpress.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2016-11-09T05:28:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T10:28:55","slug":"perfect-pop-guided-by-voices-glad-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2016\/04\/14\/perfect-pop-guided-by-voices-glad-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Pop: Guided By Voices &#8220;Glad Girls&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p6MrMI9bhHc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most music fans I know have in their collection albums they love, albums they should get rid of but can\u2019t, and then this wide no man\u2019s land of titles that they recognize as good, but rarely get played. Nothing wrong with them, for the most part, but they are part of a rotation of stuff that gets yanked out randomly when you need to give your favorites a rest. Maybe once a year, maybe once every couple of years.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nIsolation Drills<\/em> by Guided By Voices occupies that space for me. I\u2019ve had it in my collection for a long time, and it has very little wear on it. I was in one of those bored moods today when I picked it up and popped it in the car stereo. For the first several tracks, I was starting to realize why I don\u2019t listen to it often. It was something I could appreciate more than love.<\/p>\n<p>My ears perked up at track seven, \u201cWant One?\u201d A cohesive sound was starting to develop, crunchy and catchy. A few tracks later came the epiphany \u2013 jangly, aggressive, and a vocal hook mammoth enough to skydive off of. \u201cHey hey, glad girls only want to get you high.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It reminded me of hearing the Who on the radio when I was a kid, when rock and roll was still new to me. It starts with the chorus, and it\u2019s thrilling every time it comes around again. It\u2019s always a good sign when I\u2019m singing a song before I\u2019ve finished listening to it the first time. It\u2019s exquisite power pop.<\/p>\n<p>Why this never hit me this way before, I could only speculate. I have found through the years that things that have been hanging around in my periphery for years will sometimes pop into full focus. For no good reason, it finally clicks.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently back in 2001 when <em>Isolation Drills<\/em> was released, Robert Pollard had some hope that the song would break big for GBV. He said <a href=\"http:\/\/bombmagazine.org\/article\/2420\/robert-pollard\">this in an interview with Bomb Magazine<\/a>. \u201cI have people tell me that they have four-year-old kids who constantly sing \u2018Teenage FBI\u2019 and \u2018Glad Girls\u2019 and other songs of ours. And if four-year-old kids can sing it, then why can\u2019t high school kids and college kids get into it? I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve come to the conclusion that maybe we\u2019re not capable of having a hit, we\u2019re just not that kind of a band.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t the first one to miss it the first time around, and that\u2019s a shame. Don\u2019t know how often I\u2019ll come back to the album, but I know I\u2019ll be coming back for \u201cGlad Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can stream the new Guided By Voices album, <em>Please Be Honest<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/noisey.vice.com\/blog\/stream-guided-by-voices-album-please-be-honest\">on Vice&#8217;s Noisey site here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\namzn_assoc_enable_interest_ads = \"true\";\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"thedepaoftang-20\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"auto\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"f2cbe1aa3ba1a6957aab0125ca18b05c\";\namzn_assoc_emphasize_categories = \"130,5088769011,195209011,301668,16261631\";\namzn_assoc_fallback_mode = {\"type\":\"search\",\"value\":\"guided by voices\"};\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\namzn_assoc_rows = \"1\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most music fans I know have in their collection albums they love, albums they should get rid of but can\u2019t, and then this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[790,183,49],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-glad-girls","tag-guided-by-voices","tag-perfect-pop"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/guidedbyvoices_id.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}