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Grade A-
Guided By Voices
Do The Collapse
TVT
The
cover of Do the Collapse depicts a wrecked car compressed into a
cube
of twisted metal, chrome and rubber. And that's a fair visual
representation of what this Dayton, Ohio, band has been doing to
pop music
for the past decade and a half.
They're renowned for their encyclopaedic knowledge of rock
history and a
penchant for writing songs that only occasionally stray beyond
three
minutes. In fact, at 16 tracks, this is the skimpiest number of
songs they
have squeezed onto one CD. It's what they manage to pack into
those tracks
that makes them special - specifically, the peculiar worldview of
songwriter Robert Pollard. The titles alone - "Teenage Fbi,"
"Much Better
Mr Buckles,"Optical Hopscotch" - are intriguing.