Covers the album Bee Thousand's long and unorthodox period of writing, recording, sequencing, and editing. This book includes interviews with members of the band Guided by Voices, manager Pete Jamison, web-master and GBV historian Rich Turiel and Robert Griffin of Scat Records. It provides a central account of how the record was made, and more.
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Though they had been releasing albums and EPs since 1986, Guided By Voices leapt into the independent rock consciousness with their rambling, scattershot, incongruous, lo-fi masterpiece BEE THOUSAND in 1994. The album was defiantly eclectic, a jumbled grab-bag of sawed-off tracks that included a mix of home-cooked pop songs, cacophonous riffs, and whimsical sad song-stories. Marc Woodworth adds to the Continuum 33 1/3 series with a heartfelt ode to the oddly enchanting power of the essential GBV album. Appropriately, Woodworth uses a kaleidoscopic approach, switching between lyrical reveries, fan responses, and critical analyses of specific elements--even Robert Pollard's famous karate kick--that made Guided By Voices and BEE THOUSAND so pivotal and beloved.
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