Guided by Voices Movies
- 2004
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In this visual documentation of the last four hours in the life of indie rock stalwarts Guided by Voices, the band prepares for their final performance at Chicago's Metro on New Year's Eve of 2004 before taking the stage to offer a blistering sixty-three song set highlighted by fan favorites and seldom-played classics. In addition to the entire farewell performance, this release also offers over twenty-minutes of bonus materials including four live songs from a 1994 performance and footage of Guided by Voices frontman Robert Pollard recording demos for Half Smiles of The Decomposed. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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- Guided by Voices
- 2004
Proving that even a middle-aged schoolteacher from Ohio can front a great rock group, Guided By Voices emerged in the 1990s as one of America's most acclaimed independent rock bands, crafting brief-but-brilliant pop songs that combined a passionate love for rock's past and present with an eccentric wit and unique sonic vision. Guided By Voices: The Who Went Home and Cried is a documentary that captures the band in relaxed but emphatic form, performing a nine-song set on the front porch of the home of Robert Pollard, the band's songwriter and lead singer (and a former Dayton, OH, schoolteacher until the band's success allowed him to pursue music full time). In addition, the video includes highlights from a show the band played during a tour stop at Los Angeles' legendary Whiskey-A-Go-Go. Selections include "Smothered in Hugs," "Tractor Rape Chain," "Hot Freaks," "Submarine Teams," "Strumpet Eye," "I Am a Scientist," and "Cut out Witch." ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 2004
Guided by Voices were a band from Dayton, Ohio led by Robert Pollard, a junior high school teacher who wrote and recorded hard-rocking pop songs with his buddies in his spare time. When their self-released album Propeller -- recorded in Pollard's basement on a four-track cassette machine -- caught the attention of a handful of rock critics in 1992, Guided by Voices suddenly went from being a hobby to one of the most acclaimed bands in indie rock. But in 2004, after nearly twenty years and sixteen albums, Pollard decided to retire Guided by Voices and the band embarked on the "Electrifying Conclusion" farewell tour. Only a few weeks before their final concert, Guided by Voices taped an appearance on the long-running PBS music series Austin City Limits, and Guided by Voices: Live From Austin, TX preserves the full, uncensored performance GbV delivered at the KLRU-TV studios on November 4, 2004. Songs include "Teenage FBI", "Watch Me Jumpstart", "Gold Star For Robot Boy", "Glad Girls", "Window Of My World", "Exit Flagger", "Navigating Flood Regions" and many more. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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- Guided by Voices
- 2002
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Dayton, Ohio's once and future kings of indie rock, Guided By Voices, have scoured their archives for rare videos and film clips, and this compilation video is the result. Guided By Voices: Some Drinking Implied includes rare solo studio material by group leader and songwriter Robert Pollard and former bassist Greg Demos; little seen videos for "Weed King" and other early GBV classics; live footage and backstage glimpses from a 1992 gig; an amateur movie made by Pollard during his high school days, and much more. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 2000
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Matador Records may well have been the finest indie rock label of the 1990s. Label head Gerard Cosloy had an inarguable knack for finding great bands, and a number of his artists made watershed albums for Matador which helped change the shape and sound left-of-the-dial rock, including Pavement, Liz Phair, Yo La Tengo, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and Guided by Voices. Everything Is Nice: Matador Records 10th Anniversary Anthology collects music videos from a handful of Matador acts, including Pavement, Cat Power, Helium, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Guitar Wolf, Cornelius, Pizzicato Five, and more. Also included is background on the label, and brief interludes from friends and associates of Matador. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
- 1998
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Guided By Voices were one of the most celebrated indie rock bands of the 1990s, and one of the most unusual. Fronted by a former junior-high-school teacher from Dayton, OH, named Robert Pollard, the members of Guided by Voices were five guys from the Midwest who were all in their early-to-mid-thirties and for the most part had lost any illusions about becoming rock stars when their 1992 album Propeller -- recorded on the cheap on a four-track cassette machine -- began to earn the band a sizable cult following for its brilliant pop hooks and strange energy. Watch Me Jumpstart is a documentary directed by Guided by Voices fan Banks Tarver who offers an off-the-cuff look at Pollard and his bandmates as they relate their story of unexpected semi-stardom and ponder what might happen next for them. In a sad irony, within a year after Watch Me Jumpstart was completed, the lineup of Guided by Voices documented in this film collapsed; Pollard fired most of his bandmates in favor of stronger musicians from the group Cobra Verde, and GBV's membership became something of a case of musical chairs until the group finally broke up in late 2004. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
