Guided By Voices – Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere

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Artist : Guided By Voices
Album : Hardcore UFOs
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Year : 2003
Genre : Rock

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Here is the great Guided By Voices Boxet"Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the WesternHemisphere"

I haven’t uploaded the DVD. Mainly because I’m not sure how to do that! If anyone really wants it I’m sure I could work it out.

5CD + DVD SLIPCASE BOX SET WITH BOOK (142 COMPLETE
TRACKS, 14 FRAGMENTARY TRACKS, 8 VIDEOS)

DISC ONE: "Human Amusements At Hourly Rates: The Best of Guided By
Voices" CD

[ALSO AVAILABLE AS SEPARATE CD ENTITLED "THE BEST OF GUIDED BY
VOICES: HUMAN AMUSEMENTS AT HOURLY RATES" WITH DIFFERENT ARTWORK,
SEQUENCE AND SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT VERSIONS: SEE "SEPARATE RELEASES"
SECTION AFTER BOX SET, BELOW]

1. Captain’s Dead (courtesy of Scat Records)
2. Drinker’s Peace (courtesy of Scat Records)
3. Exit Flagger (courtesy of Scat Records)
4. 14 Cheerleader Coldfront (courtesy of Scat Records)
5. Shocker In Gloomtown (courtesy of Scat Records)
6. Non-Absorbing (courtesy of Scat Records)
7. Tractor Rape Chain (courtesy of Scat Records)
8. Hot Freaks (courtesy of Scat Records)
9. Echos Myron (courtesy of Scat Records)
10. I Am A Scientist – SINGLE VERSION (courtesy of Scat Records)
11. A Salty Salute
12. Watch Me Jumpstart
13. Game Of Pricks – ALBUM VERSION
14. Motor Away – ALBUM VERSION
15. Hit
16. My Valuable Hunting Knife – ALBUM VERSION
17. Cut-Out Witch
18. The Official Ironmen Rally Song
19. To Remake The Young Flyer
20. I Am A Tree
21. Bulldog Skin
22. Learning To Hunt
23. Teenage FBI – DEMO VERSION
24. Things I Will Keep (courtesy of TVT Records)
25. Surgical Focus (courtesy of TVT Records)
26. Chasing Heather Crazy (courtesy of TVT Records)
27. Twilight Campfighter (courtesy of TVT Records)
28. Glad Girls (courtesy of TVT Records)
29. Back To The Lake
30. Everywhere With Helicopter
31. My Kind Of Soldier
32. The Best Of Jill Hives

DISC TWO: "Demons and Painkillers – Matador B-Sides, Out-of-Print
Singles and Compilation Tracks" CD

1. Motor Away
2. Color Of My Blade
3. My Valuable Hunting Knife
4. Game Of Pricks
5. Mice Feel Nice (In My Room)
6. Not Good For The Mechanism
7. Kiss Only The Important Ones
8. Dodging Invisible Rays
9. Deaf Ears
10. Why Did You Land?
11. June Salutes You!
12. Delayed Reaction Brats
13. He’s The Uncle
14. The Key Losers
15. Postal Blowfish
16. Unleashed! The Large Hearted Boy
17. Some Drilling Implied
18. Systems Crash
19. Catfood On The Earwig
20. The Who Vs. Porky Pig
21. A Life In Finer Clothing
22. The Worryin’ Song
23. Subtle Gear Shifting
24. Finks
25. The Finest Joke Is Upon Us
26. The Singing Razorblade
27. Now To War (Electric Version)
28. Mannequin’s Complaint (Wax Dummy Meltdown)
29. Do They Teach You The Chase?
30. (I’ll Name You) The Flame That Cries
31. The Ascended Master’s Grogshop
32. My Thoughts Are A Gas
33. Running Off With The Fun City Girls
34. None Of Them Any Good
35. Choking Tara (Creamy Version)

DISC THREE: "Delicious Pie and Thank You For Calling – Previously
Unreleased Songs and Recordings" CD

1. I
2. Back To Saturn X
3. H-O-M-E (Matador)
4. You’re The Special
5. Perhaps We Were Swinging
6. Mother & Son
7. 7 Strokes To Heaven’s Egde
8. Fire ‘Em Up, Abner
9. Harboring Exiles
10. Still Worth Nothing
11. Never
12. Slave Your Beetle Brain
13. It Is Divine
14. They
15. I Invented The Moonwalk (And The Pencil Sharpener)
16. Fly Into Ashes
17. The Various Vaults Of Convenience
18. Thrashed Aircraft
19. Running Off With The Fun City Girls
20. Bulldog Skin (Mag Earwhig! Demo)
21. Portable Men’s Society (Mag Earwhig! Demo)
22. Choking Tara (Mag Earwhig! Demo)
23. Man Called Aerodynamics – Concert For Todd Version

DISC FOUR: "Live at the Wheelchair Races – Unreleased Live Recordings
1995-2002"

1. intro by Randy Campbell — The Paradise, Boston, MA, June 20, 1995
2. I Am Produced — Bogart’s, Cincinnati, OH, July 25, 1997
3. Why Did You Land? — Fox Theatre, Denver, CO, April 10, 1995
4. Zap — Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC, April 16, 2002
5. Little Lines — Bogart’s, Cincinnati, OH, July 25, 1997
6. 14 Cheerleader Coldfront — The Paradise, Boston, MA, June 20, 1995
7. Everywhere With Helicopter — Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC, April 16, 2002
8. Quicksilver — Bogart’s, Cincinnati, OH, July 25, 1997
9. James Riot — Bernie’s Bagel Shop, Columbus, OH, March 28, 1998
10. Pretty Bombs — Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC, April 16, 2002
11. Far Out Crops — unknown
12. My Impression Now — Phantasy Club, Cleveland, OH, April 26. 1997
13. Look At Them — The Metro, Chicago, IL, February 24, 1996
14. A Salty Salute — unknown
15. Melted Pat — The Metro, Chicago, IL, February 24, 1996
16. How Loft Am I? — The Metro, Chicago, IL, July 11, 1998
17. King And Caroline/Motor Away — First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, February 22, 1996
18. Trap Soul Door — unknown
19. Cheyenne — Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC, April 16, 2002
20. Make Use — The Metro, Chicago, IL, July 11, 1998
21. Burning Flag Birthday Suit – The Metro, Chicago, IL, February 24, 1996
22. Weed King — The Metro, Chicago, IL, February 24, 1996
23. Town Of Mirrors — Bimbo’s, San Francisco, CA, February 27, 1999
24. Over The Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox — The Paradise, Boston, MA, June 20, 1995
25. Dragon’s Awake — 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA, January 22, 2000 (courtesy of TVT Records)
26. Shrine To The Dynamic Years — Bernie’s Bagel Shop, Columbus, OH, March 28, 1998
27. Game Of Pricks — unknown
28. Tractor Rape Chain — Melkweg, Amsterdam, Holland, July 10, 1997
29. Key Losers — Fox Theatre, Denver, CO, April 10, 1995
30. Now To War? — Melkweg, Amsterdam, Holland, July 10, 1997
31. Johnny Appleseed — Crocodile Club, Seattle, WA, April 17, 1995
32. Drinkers Peace — — unknown

DISC FIVE "Forever Since Breakfast" CD (FIRST REISSUE OF THE GBV
VINYL-ONLY DEBUT IN ANY FORMAT)

1. Land of Danger
2. Let’s Ride
3. Like I Do
4. Sometimes I Cry
5. She Wants to Know
6. Fountain of Youth
7. The Other Place

DISC SIX: DVD: "Watch Me Jumpstart" + Extras (NTSC ALL-REGION DVD)

[THIS IS AN EXPANDED VERSION OF THE OUT-OF-PRINT VHS "WATCH ME
JUMPSTART", ORIGINALLY RELEASED BY MATADOR IN 1998.]

[THE DVD WILL ALSO BE RELEASED SEPARATELY IN TWO DIFFERENT PACKAGES:
SEE "SEPARATE RELEASES BELOW.]

1. The Original "Watch Me Jumpstart" documentary by Banks Tarver

The documentary features footage of fractions of the following songs (all from 1995/1996):

Club Molluska (1:31) (courtesy of Scat Records)
14 Cheerleader Coldfront (1:34) (courtesy of Scat Records)
If We Wait (:59)
Gold Star for Robot Boy (1:00)
Systems Crash (1:45)
Don’t Stop Now (:32, 1:37)
Blimps Go 90 (1:55)
Yours To Keep (:54)
Weed King (1:13)
Hot Freaks (1:27)
To Remake the Young Flyer (1:40)
Chicken Blows (:41)
A Salty Salute (1:25)
Goldheart Mountain Top Queen Directory (2:02)

2. The original live footage that followed "Watch Me Jumpstart" on the VHS (1994-1997):

Hot Freaks
Superwhore
Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory
Shocker in Gloomtown
Postal Blowfish
Weed King
Exit Flagger
I Am A Scientist

3. "Beautiful Plastic" 8-minute film by Banks Tarver, 2003, not on VHS

4. Music Videos (these 5 also on the original VHS)

I Am A Scientist (courtesy of Scat Records)
Auditorium/Motor Away
My Valuable Hunting Knife
The Official Ironmen Rally Song
Bulldog Skin

(plus two added videos not on the original VHS):

Glad Girls (courtesy of TVT Records)
My Kind of Soldier

5. Three live songs filmed at Warsaw in June 2002 (not on the original VHS):

Echos Myron [5 angles choosable]
Tight Globes
Cut-Out Witch

6. One Easter Egg to be discovered

MOJO
January 2003
By Victoria Segal

Guided By Voices
Hardcore UFOs Box Set
Matador Records

5 out of 5 stars

Unleashed! The Large Hearted Band: 5-CD box set (plus DVD) chronicling two decades of songwriting magic courtesy of Robert Pollard and a cast of thousands.

"I figured if you record 100 songs, there’s gotta be 20 good ones in there," Robert Pollard, Guided By Voices’ singer, songwriter and scissor-kicking live spirit, told MOJO last year. It would probably take a team of government scientists the best years of their brains to discover exactly how many songs Pollard, his shifting band and his multifarious alter egos have devised over the past two decades. Fourteen official albums, a scattering of solo recordings, a maze of pseudonymous side-projects and untold overflow – Bob himself puts the number in the thousands. No wonder there’s a need for Hardcore UFOs, GBV’s very own Rosetta Stone, a way of deciphering the vast collection of rock’n’roll hieroglyphs that form their abundantly weird, endlessly wonderful back catalogue.

A lo-fi pioneer acclaimed by everyone from J Mascis to The Strokes, the 45-year-old former elementary schoolteacher (oh, to meet his former pupils) is both folk artist and folk legend. If his odd creative impulse had fused some different neurons, his Dayton, Ohio hometown might now have its own version of the Watts Tower, or the Midwest’s biggest collection of matchstick art. Instead, these five CDs show his uncanny ability to channel, say, The Beatles or The Who into his own psychic wonderland, deploying his random poetry generator to create music that is cryptic, vivid and ultimately profoundly touching.

For the bewildered, the essential component here is the 32-track Human Amusements At Hourly Rates: The Best Of Guided By Voices (also available individually for anyone short on time). At times, Pollard’s McCartneyesque holler hints at unhinged brain-fever, the singalong aphasia of Tractor Rape Chain or Everywhere With Helicopter equally disturbing and uplifting. At others, it lends itself to parallel-universe stadium anthems such as the swinging nursery rhyme Echos Myron or the small-town break-out of Motor Away, irresistibly poignant and pointing at all kinds of hidden symbols and
secrets. "I met a non-dairy creamer explicitly laid out like a fruitcake," smoulders Pollard on the sticky lust-funk of 1994’s Hot Freaks (co-written with former guitarist Tobin Sprout), while the cement-mixer clatter of My Valuable Hunting Knife could be a Freudian joke, the American dream dissected or a strange term of endearment. Meanwhile, tracks from the rich seam of albums since 1999’s Do The Collapse – the Big Star shine of Glad Girls, the autumnal heartbreak of The Best Of Jill Hives – indicate sadness and becoming maturity. Yet tellingly, the band sound older on 1986’s Forever Since Breakfast, their first 12-inch EP, included here as disc five. Endearing like an ultrasound snapshot, its unripe jangle is indebted to R.E.M. – although nobody could guess Pollard would soon make Michael Stipe look like a moon-June balladeer.

Windmill-fighting completists are further served by disc two, Demons And Painkillers: Matador B-Sides, Out Of Print Singles, Bonus And Compilation Tracks, which is stuffed with delights: the Roadrunner-rattle of Some Drilling Implied from the Cut Out Witch 7-inch, or the 1995 Tigerbomb EP, including the mop-topped brain-pop of quintessential GBV song Game Of Pricks. Meanwhile, disc three, Delicious Pie And Thank You For Calling, contains unreleased tracks for those who want to hear Pollard shouting into a boombox in 1984. Still, demos of Bulldog Skin and Man Called Aerodynamics reveal seed-corn greatness, while the backward Slave to Your Beetle Brain and the hysterical laughing on Back To Saturn X offer another little skylight into GBV’s consciousness.

It’s disc four, Live At the Wheelchair races, however, that best highlights the band’s undying rock’n’roll passion: live recordings between 1995 and 2002 bringing the full beer-swigging, high-kicking Pollard experience into your house. The freewheeling rush of live favourites A Salty Salute and Tractor Rape Chain just emphasise why the Strokes courted GBV so assiduously, hassling them for support slots way back when, then inviting them to appear in their Someday video when roles had reversed. To five young New Yorkers buckling under the weight of expectation, Guided By Voices’ independent integrity and Rolling-Rock good vibes must have seemed a glorious tonic. For Hardcore UFOs is not the record of a career, it’s an archive of a way of life and a catalogue of genius.

Total Playing Time: 306:39 (min:sec)
Total Size : 568.9 MB (596,570,861 bytes)

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