very well done Earthquake Review

[gelgis olowana]

cheers to Dave Heaton for a perceptive, insightful and thought-provoking piece - Dave Heaton's Earthquake Glue review from Erasing Clouds (http://www.erasingclouds.com/page25august.html)
"It's one thing to like both The Who and Wire, it's another to try to be both of them at the same time."

[newspearmint]

someone on this board recently remarked something like " i was scared that this would be the time where the songs finally don't hit me" and i had that same feeling. Its odd how that works. it's not like the radiohead listening syndrome where on first listens it sounds weird but still interesting and good...somethimes new gbv albums can sound boring..and almost bad. but then it happens.

Earthquake glue is mega. i agree with most of the said opinions on the album highlights but for me it is the other songs like aplogies in advance and mites and men that make the record great. no filler. i can't wait to get the cd so i can sing along to some of these lyrics i can't yet make out.

[lester1/2jr]

I remember when i got Do the Collapse. I was like what the hell is this for like a month. I feel bad for people who have to review gbv albums. It's one of my favorites now, but i couldn't make heads or tales of it at first.

[cungar]

I think this is the reason they sometimes get bad album reviews. An average music critic (ie Roling Stone, Entertainment Weekly etc) isn't going to invest the time required to get into a GBV CD when he/she has a stack of Linkin Park and Mudvayne CD's they have to listen to. Oh well their loss is our treasure.

[Craig]

These days, you rarely see a well written, insightful GBV review in the mainstream press. They always start off with the same lame joke intro about this being "album number 127 by Guided by Voices." There's no intelligent writing about the music or the band. Just the usual tripe about Pollard's prolific songwriting, beer and maybe a Who reference. If Earthquake Glue was released by a 20 something NYC band who looked like models, it would be hailed as a masterpiece. Instead, it will simply get the generic 3 star GBV review. I guess that's just life.

[johansen smith]

well, actually, Entertainment Weekly has given two GBV releases, Tigerbomb and Vampire on Titus, an A+... I'm not even kidding, an A+.