GUIDED BY VOICES Propeller Orig US Private LP Ltd 500
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GUIDED BY VOICES
Propeller
Original Private US LP released on Rockathon Records in 1992.
Self released edition of this album. Handnumbered 347/500. Cover is a plain white card sleeve with artwork pasted on. Record has white labels.
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Propeller is considered by some to be the most legendary Guided by Voices album. Conceived initially by Robert Pollard as a farewell album in the face of years of obscurity and mounting debt, the album ended up "propelling" the band to a higher-profile status and influence, affording the band a lasting position in the indie rock establishment.
While significant portions were recorded in a professional recording studio , the album is notable for being the first of the band's albums to make extensive use of 4-track cassette and lo-fi recording techniques as an aesthetic unto itself. Songs are frequently punctuated by unexpected blasts of noise, awkward tape edits, sped-up or slowed-down vocal or instrumental parts, and other sonic bric-a-brac. An interesting result of this technique is the intro to the album's opening track, "Over the Neptune/ Mesh Gear Fox". What appears to be the sound of a band taking the stage before a throng of thousands of fans chanting "G-B-V!! G-B-V!" was actually created by Guided by Voices in the studio (the band had not played live in years and, more to the point, never to more than a handful of people at the time of recording). Nevertheless, the inclusion of this clip ensured the canonization of the "G-B-V!" chant, heard at essentially every Guided by Voices concert thereafter, and the entire opening sequence was faithfully recreated at the band's final show in 2004.
Released on 'Rockathon Records' in 1997
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Disc is in EX+ condition
Sleeve is in EX condition
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