Guided by Voices Over the Neptune / Mesh Gear Fox UPDATED

Guided by Voices Over the Neptune / Mesh Gear Fox

Album: Propeller
Year: 1992

"Alright, stone 'n' roll!
G!B!V!
Thou!B!V!
G!B!V!
G!B!V!"

This is where the legend begins. Sure, Guided past Voices were a band prior to Propeller, but this is all the same where the legend begins.

The large rock. The prog rock. The lo-fi. The popular hooks. It's all here on about six minutes of poorly-recorded withal still transcendent bliss. "Over The Neptune / Mesh Gear Fox" might non be the longest song ever recorded by GBV, only it'southward the longest of the 229 Guided By Voices songs that are in my iTunes.

Which ways that information technology'south completely atypical — 175 of those songs are under 3:00, with the shortest weighing in at 0:18 — and that'due south also role of their legend somehow.

The point being is that we've landed on a ring I've loved for over 20 years now, and that 229 songs in my iTunes is what — a half?, a quarter? a hundredth? — of the songs they've actually issued.

But like calculating Pi, it's impossible to whatsoever device known to mankind to fully count how many songs that Robert Pollard has written and released. That'south as well part of the legend.

Of course, none of that would fifty-fifty remotely matter without songs like "Over The Neptune / Mesh Gear Fox," which connect in reality, as well.

Like during the "Over The Neptune" function when Pollard sings the chorus over chugging and churning guitars.

And hey, let's throw the smashing party
Today for the balance of our lives
The fun is just about to get started
So throw the switch, it's stone and roll fourth dimension

Subsequently the 2d chorus, the guitars start heading for the stratosphere, seemingly unstoppable until they of a sudden run out of steam and commencement tumbling back to World, but Pollard seems not-plussed, swimming in the heart of the tide below until the drums bring "Mesh Gear Fox" fully online, stately and anthemic.

And oh, mesh gear fox
Put out another purse of tricks from scientific box
Time'southward wasting and yous're non gonna live forever
And if you practise
I'll come up dorsum and ally you
No use changing at present, y'all couldn't anyhow and ever

Like so many GBV songs, the lyrics con't make complete linear sense, and nevertheless the emotion with which Pollard invests "I'll come up back and ally yous," does make complete linear sense, and so when the guitars — some combination of Mitch Mitchell, Jim Pollard and Tobin Sprout, no doubtfulness — start squealing confronting each other until the fade, the whole thing feels like a rock 'north' curl fever dream that came creeping in from another dimension.

What even was that? Oh right. The beginning of a legend.

"Over The Neptune / Mesh Gear Fob"

"Over The Neptune / Mesh Gear Flim-flam" performed live in Oslo in 2011

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