Details

Subject(s)

• Guided by Voices (Musical group).—Bee thousand [Browse]

Series

• 33 1/3. [More in this series]
• 33 1/3 ; v. 38

Summary note

"Marc Woodworth's book covers the album's long and unorthodox period of writing, recording, sequencing, and editing. It includes interviews with members of the band, manager Pete Jamison, web-master and GBV historian Rich Turiel and Robert Griffin of Scat Records. At least sixty-five songs were recorded and considered for the album and five distinct concepts were rejected before the band hit upon the records final form. One late version, very nearly released, contained only a few of Bee Thousand's definitive songs. The rest were left out and nearly ended up in the boxes of cassette out-takes cluttering up Robert Pollard's basement. The story of Guided By Voices transformation from an occasional and revolving group of complete unknowns to indie-rock heroes is very much part of the story behind the making of Bee Thousand. In addition to providing a central account of how the record was made, Woodworth devotes a substantial chapter to the album's lyrics. Robert Pollard's lyrics are described by critics, when they're described at all, as a brand of tossed-off surrealism, as if his verbal sensibility is somehow incidental to the songs themselves. Nothing could be further from the truth. Woodworth offers a sustained discussion of Pollard's work as a writer of often sublime, beautiful, and very human lyrics. The third key section of the book covers aesthetics. Woodworth considers the great appeal of the do-it-yourself nature of Bee Thousand and reflects on the larger importance of the strain of alternative rock for which this record is a touchstone."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Persons of the Play; A Man Discovers His Coat Has a Pocket; Listener Responses #1-3; Love & Purity; Listener Response #4; Fiction, Man & Hardcore Facts Part One; Four-Track Tape; Guided by Voices Narrative #1: Robert Pollard; Listener Response #5; A Correspondence with Lewis Klahr; Fiction, Man & Hardcore Facts Part Two; Listener Response #6; Guided by Voices Narrative #2: Don Thrasher; Fiction, Man & Hardcore Facts Part Three; Desire & Its Limits; Guided by Voices Narrative #3: Kevin Fennell; Listener Responses #7 & 8
• Spatial Representation #9 of Bee Thousand Action MotivesThe Diamonds of Being in the Dirt of the Pigpen: On Robert Pollard's Lyrics Foreword by Bart O. Roper, LLD; Excerpts from an Unfinished Dissertation by Nolen Twinn-Johnson; Listener Responses #9-11; Bee Thousand Word Cluster: Fauna; A Sonnet-Made from Bee Thousand Fragments (Themselves Often Fragments); Guided by Voices Narrative #4: Robert Griffin; Bee Thousand Word Cluster: States (Of Being); Fiction, Man & Hardcore Facts Part Four; Guided by Voices Narrative #5: Dan Toohey; Listener Response #12; Dayton Ode; Listener Response #13
• KicksGuided by Voices Narrative #6: Greg Demos; Bee Thousand Word Cluster: Generation; Tobin Sprout's Tascam Portastudio 1 Four-Track & Electro-Harmonix Memory Man; Guided by Voices Narrative #7: Tobin Sprout; Listener Responses #14-16; Fiction, Man & Hardcore Facts Part Five; Acknowledgments; Footnotes; Ch05_Fn; Ch11_Fn

Other format(s)

Also issued in print.

ISBN

• 9781501396922
• 1501396927
• 9781441148476
• 1441148477
• 9781441115270
• 1441115277

OCLC

781614740

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