This page contains re-used lyrics, titles, music, and images found on GBV & GBV-related recordings. This is by no means complete, so if you have something to add send an email to [email protected]. Special thanks to David Tandy and Dan Jircitano for coming up with alot of these.
| Recycled Lyrics & Titles |
| Lyric/Title |
Appears |
| 7 strokes from heaven's edge |
Appears as a song on:
Delicious Pie & Thank You For Calling (from the Hardcore UFO's Box Set)
Appears as a lyric in:
King Arthur The Red
|
| Alien Lanes |
Appears as album title on:
Alien Lanes
Appears as song title on:
The Grand Hour EP
|
| All That Glue |
Appears in lyrics of:
2nd Moves To Twin
Appeared as album title of early version of:
Bee Thousand
|
| An earful o' wax |
Appears as album title:
An earful o' wax
Appears as song title on:
Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia
|
| Ask Them |
Appears in lyrics of:
Circling Motorhead Mountain
Appears as album title of:
Ask Them
|
| Astral city slickers |
Title of cover art used on:
Mag Earwhig!
Appears as lyric in :
Finks
|
Back to where we were
We're back to where we'll be |
Appears as lyrics in :
Once In A While
The Candyland Riots
|
| Bee Thousand |
Appears as album title on:
Bee Thousand
Appears as song title on:
The Grand Hour EP
|
| Burns Carpenter |
Appears in title of these songs:
Burns Carpenter, Man Of Science
Appears as fake band name on:
Suitcase
|
| Bump Uglies |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Let It Beard
I'm Dirty
|
| car/far |
Appears as lyrics of (in slighty different forms):
Bulldog Skin
I took a car. I drove it far.
Quality of Armor
Oh yeah I'm going to drive my car. Oh yeah I'm going to go real far.
|
| Ceramic Cock Einstein |
Appears as song title on:
In Shop We Build Electric Chairs...
Appears as fake band name on:
Suitcase
|
| Clown prince of the menthol trailer |
Appears as album title on:
Clown prince of the menthol trailer EP
Appears in Alien Lanes album notes beneath lyrics for "Chicken Blows":
i am the clown prince of the menthol trailer
|
| crash/nerve |
Appears as lyrics of (in slighty different forms):
Bulldog Skin
I crashed my nerve.
King Of Arthur Avenue
Crashing your nerve
|
| crying your _____ away |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
If We Wait
"Crying your life away"
Appears as album title on:
Crying your knife away
|
| cum engines |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Peace Needle
Appears as GBV pseudonym on this album:
The Cum Engines (Featuring The Cannot Changes) - Live At The Athens Time Change Riots
|
| Daredevil Stamp Collector |
Appears as album title:
Daredevil Stamp Collector
Was to appear as character in:
original Mag Earwhig! concept album
|
| Delicious Pie and Thank You For Calling |
Appears as disc title on:
Hardcore UFO's Box Set
Appears as lyrics of (in slighty different forms):
Big Boring Wedding
To call and thank you for such delicious pie
Fine To See You
Delicious and thank you for calling
|
| Discussions In The Cave |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Indian Was An Angel
Appears as song title on:
Circus Devils - The Harold Pig Memorial
|
| Do The Collapse |
Appears as album title on:
Do The Collapse
Appears as song title on:
Hold On Hope EP
Appeared as potential album title for:
Mag Earwhig!
|
| Fast Japanese Spin Cycle |
Appears as album title on:
Fast Japanese Spin Cycle EP
Appears in lyrics of:
3rd World Bird Watching
|
| Flings Of The Waistcoat Crowd |
Appears as song title on:
Kid Marine
Appears in lyrics of:
Snatch Candy
|
| glass in foot |
Appears as lyric in:
I Drove A Tank ("Had glass in foot, but I pulled it out.")
Appears as song ("W/ Glass In Foot") on:
English Little League
|
| Go Back Snowball |
Appears as artist name on:
Calling Zero
Appears as fake band name on:
Suitcase
|
| God's Brother |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Mascara Snakes
Appears as fake band name on:
Suitcase
|
| Half Smiles of the Decomposed |
Appears as album title on:
Half Smiles of the Decomposed
Appears in lyrics of:
Sleep Over Jack
|
| Hazzard Hotrods |
Appears as artist name on:
Big Trouble
Appears as fake band name on:
Suitcase
|
| Human Amusements At Hourly Rates |
Appears as album title on:
Human Amusements At Hourly Rates: The Best Of Guided By Voices
Appears in lyrics of:
In Stitches
|
| Instructions For The Rusty Time Machine |
Appears as album title on:
early working version of Bee Thousand
Appears in lyrics of:
Lethargy
|
| Isolation Drills |
Appears as album title on :
Isolation Drills
Appears as song title on:
Glad Girls
|
| issue presents itself |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Psychic Pilot Clocks Out (on Not In My Airforce)
Appears as title of song:
The Issue Presents Itself (on Suitcase 2) |
| Jagged Sea(s) |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Navigating Flood Regions
Queen Of Cans And Jars
|
| jellyfish reflector |
Appears as album title on :
Jellyfish Reflector
Appears as song title on:
Tonics & Twisted Chasers
|
| John Strange |
Appears as nickname for:
producer/musician John Shough
Appears in title of song:
John Strange School
|
| Kenneth Ray |
Appears as lyric in:
Expecting Brainchild
Appears in title of song on:
Nightwalker's In Shop We Build Electric Chairs
|
| King Shit And The Golden Boys |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Don't Stop Now
Appears as title of:
"Box" box set outtakes LP
Appears as early band pseudonym of:
Guided By Voices
|
| Kuda LaBranche |
Appears as artist name on:
Tractor Tunes Vol. 1
Appears as fake band name on:
Suitcase
Appears as poet name on:
"Hotels Green Houses Red" poem (from poetry/art zine pLopLop)
|
| Learn Something Old Every Day |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
7 Strokes To Heaven's Edge
The Great Blake Street Canoe Race
Appears in song title on:
Howling Wolf Orchestra "Speedtraps For The Bee Kingdom"
|
look at the photographs,
nothing is true |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Perhaps We Were Swinging
Why Did You Land?
|
| Mag Earwhig! |
Appears as album title on:
Mag Earwhig!
Appears as song title on:
Mag Earwhig!
|
| maximum torso |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Amazed
Mannequin's Complaint (Wax Dummy Meltdown)
|
| microscopes are fun |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Beach Towers ("Microscopes are fun, but the fun has just begun.")
Flunky Minnows ("Everything is wonderful, and microscopes are fun")
|
| Milko Waif from The Bug-Eyed Mums |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
The Word Business
Milko Waif is a fake band name in Suitcase II.
The Bug-Eyed Mums is a fake band name in Suitcase II.
|
| Mist King Urth |
Appears as album title on:
Mist King Urth
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
First Of An Early Go-Getter
|
| never really knowing |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Those Little Bastards Will Bite
Look At Them
|
| Not in my airforce |
Appears in lyrics of this song:
Roofer's Union Fight Song
Appears in song title on:
Howling Wolf Orchestra "Speedtraps For The Bee Kingdom"
Appears as album title:
Not in my airforce
|
Now I know it's not so impossible
Now I know we can't go back to where we were
We're back to where we'll be |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Candyland Riots
Once In A While
|
| It's the number on your head |
Appears in lyrics of this song:
Navigating Flood Regions
Similar reference appears in the title of this song:
The Numbered Head
|
| one more! (people shouting) |
Appears in these songs:
Gift (on Suitcase)
Jabberstroker (on Sunfish Holy Breakfast)
|
| Out Of The Universe By Sundown |
Appears in lyrics of this song:
Prom Is Coming
Appears as album title:
The Greatest Hits Of Boston Spaceships: Out Of The Universe By Sundown
|
| plantations of pale pink |
Appears in lyrics of this song:
Subtle Gear Shifting
Appears as album title:
plantations of pale pink EP
|
| Pirate's Coffee |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
The Future Is In Eggs
Appears as text on cover of:
original Propeller #35
|
| Pre-Med's A Trip |
Appears as title and lyrics of these songs:
Pre-Med's A Trip
Appears in intro of live version of this song from Live in Daytron:
Hot Freaks
|
| Psychopath Timecard |
Was working title for the album:
August By Cake
Appears as lyric in the song:
Packing The Dead Zone
|
quail and quasar
undetermined person
empties fired away |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Subspace Biographies
In The House Of Queen Charles Augustus
|
| quality of steel |
Appears in lyrics of this song:
Bulldog Skin
Similar reference appears in title of this song:
Quality Of Armor
|
| radioactive weather |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
158 Years Of Beautiful Sex
June Salutes You!
Trashed Canned Goods
|
| Ragged Enzyme |
Appears as musician credit on:
Sons Of Apollo (outro)
- as The Ragged Enzymes
Appears in lyrics of:
Sleep Over Jack
|
| Same Place The Fly Got Smashed |
Appears as album title on:
Same Place The Fly Got Smashed
Appears in lyrics of:
Local Mix-Up
Double Standards, Inc.
Variation appears in lyrics of:
Circus World
"the human fly gets smashed again"
|
| Scalping The Guru |
Appears as song title on:
Clown Prince Of The Menthol Trailer
Appears as early title of album:Alien Lanes
|
| Sea of Dead |
Appears as song titles on these albums:
Mist King Urth
Fiction Man |
Secret star of heavenly bundles
Firmly confirmed yesterday |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Playhouse Hostage
Secret Star
|
Secrets bleeding...
Painted over...
no aim which follows... |
Appears as lyrics in :
Finks
"A lie that's of no aim which follows secrets bleeding to you
Painted over beauty with tattoos of pink and blue"
The Enemy
"Aligned outside no aim
Which follows me
Painted over a well cleansed abdomen
Tattooed ugly and blue"
....
"Secrets bleeding to untold families"
|
| soft-rock renegades |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
A Big Fan Of The Pigpen
Appears in this side project band name:
Robert Pollard And His Soft Rock Renegades
|
sometimes i'm programmed
better then the other ones |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Heavy Metal Country
Talk To Me
|
Speed up, slow down, go all around
In the end |
Appears as lyrics in :
Still Worth Nothing
Tractor Rape Chain
|
| Stabbing A Star |
Appears as song title on :
Sunfish Holy Breakfast
Appears as lyrics in :
Ding Dong Daddy (Is Back From The Bank)
|
| Static Airplane Jive |
Appears as album title on :
Static Airplane Jive EP
Appears as song title on :
Suitcase
Partially appears as lyrics of this song :
What About It?
- just "static jive"
|
| Strawberry philadelphia drive |
Appears as potential album title for :
Do The Collapse
Appears as lyrics of this song :
Dayton, Ohio-19 Something And 5
|
Strong words and big black birds
On a telephone wire
She says ah look over there
There's a car on fire |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Pantherz
Turbo Boy |
| taste it with my own two eyes |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Dusted
Tobacco's Last Stand (same song as I'll Buy You A Bird) |
| television prison |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Enjoy Jerusalem!
Television Prison
|
| The Everlasting Big Kick |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
The Enemy
Appears as title of:
aborted 6-song Robert Pollard 7" EP |
| the last text on village firearms |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
158 Years Of Beautiful Sex
Mr. Gene-O |
| Ticket to Sugar Pie |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Glow Boy Butlers
Want One? |
| Tigerbomb |
Appears as title of:
Tigerbomb EP
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Stabbing A Star (Male Slut version by Thurston Moore on Blatant Doom Trip comp)
|
| tilted cubicles galvanized |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Carnival at the Morning Star School
White Gloves Come Off |
Try to find you
No matter where you may go |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Try To Find You
Storm Vibrations |
| took a journey back(wards) |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
My Thoughts Are A Gas
Look, It's Baseball |
| Under the bushes under the stars |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Bunco Men (lyrics are separated as "under the bushes" and "under the stars" in different parts of the song
Planet's Own Brand
Appears as album title:
Under The Bushes Under The Stars |
| Way up! |
Appears in lyrics of these songs:
Dancing With My Gun
Trampoline
|
| Waved Out |
Appears as album title on:
Waved Out
Appears as song title on:
Waved Out
|
| We've Got Airplanes! |
Appears as lyric in :
Our Value Of Luxury
Appears as song title on :
King Shit And The Golden Boys (from Box)
Appears as band name of early Pollard bros. project:
We've Got Airplanes!
|
| what makes big daddy happy |
Appears as text on the following album cover :
Devil Between My Toes
Appears as lyric in this song:
Don't Stop Now (which appears on Box and UTBUTS)
|
| whiskey ships |
Appears as song title on:
Waved Out
Appears as lyric in this song:
A Contest Featuring Human Beings
|
| wish in one hand |
Appears as album title :
Wish In One Hand... EP
Appears as lyric in this song:
Now I'm Crying
|
__________ throw parties than stones
__________ break virgins than bones |
Appears as lyrics in :
Curse Of The Black Ass Buffalo
Would rather throw parties than stones
Would rather break virgins than bones
The Theory Of Broken Circles
Would sooner throw parties than stones
Would sooner break virgins than bones
Slave your beetle brain (reversed)
most of them would rather throw parties then stones
surely they'd rather break virgins then bones
|
| You offer salvation and I salivate |
Appears as lyrics in :
Deaf Ears
Do The Earth
|
| Similar Songs & Music |
| Song |
Similar Songs |
| "Wished I Was A Giant" |
Similar to:
Less Active Railroad (Suitcase 4) |
| 2nd Moves To Twin |
Snippet used as outro on:
A Big Fan Of The Pig Pen |
| Alaska To Burning Men |
Same piano thing as on this song:
The Harold Pig Memorial |
| At Odds with Dr Genesis |
Snippet used as intro on:
Ester's Day |
| Ballyhoo |
uses hooks and lyrics from these other songs on Choreographed Man Of War:
I Drove A Tank
Citizen Fighter |
| Becoming Unglued |
similar riff as on:
Sensational Gravity Boy |
| Big Boring Wedding (Under The Bushes Under The Stars) [bridge] |
similar song as :
Dancing With The Answers (Suitcase 2) [verse] |
| Blasted But It's Easy |
similar song as :
Broken Brothers |
| Broken Brothers |
similar song as:
Blasted But It's Easy |
| Candyland Riots |
Similar to (just slower):
Once In A While |
| Cats Love A Parade |
similar song as :
Hello Forever and Frozen Vegetable Fiction |
| Ceramic Cock Einstein |
plays as intro to:
Paper Girl |
| Daily Planet |
used in background of:
Alright |
| Dirty Water (intro) |
similar to:
Silver Eyeballs (intro) - could DW intro actually be sped up version or SE intro? |
| Do The Collapse |
Instrumental version of:
Girl From The Sun |
| Dr. Feelgood Falls Off The Ocean |
similar song as :
Something For Susan In The Shadows |
| Eggs |
instrumental version of this song:
The Future Is In Eggs |
| Exoskeleton Motorcade |
same monkey laughter effect is used on:
Gargoyle City |
| Fish On My Leg |
contains a few recycled bits, including some from "Blatant Doom Trip" "Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer" and "Break Even" |
| Gift |
used as intro to:
Jabberstroker |
| Go for The Exit (Brown Submarine) |
similar song as :
Go For The Answers (Suitcase 1) |
| Hot Freaks |
plays as intro to:
Off The Floor |
| I Invented The Moonwalk (And The Pencil Sharpener) |
early version of:
Whiskey Ships |
| Invest In British Steel |
same guitar line as:
Break Even |
| Keep It Coming (The Pipe Dreams of Instant Prince Whippet) |
similar song as :
The Kissing Life (Suitcase 1) |
| King And Caroline (Alien Lanes) [melody from bridge]] |
similar song as :
I Love Kangaroos (Space Gun) [bridge] |
| Kisses To The Crying cooks |
basically an acoustic version of:
Over The Neptune |
| Oh, Blinky (Suitcase 1) |
similar song as :
Pink Drink
Beneath a Festering Moon |
| Ovarian Angel Architect (background sample) |
basically a slowed down version of:
Scalping the Guru (background sample) |
| Pantherz |
guitar riff same as on :
Don't Stop Now |
| Perhaps We Were Swinging (chorus melody) |
similar to chorus melody on:
Why Did You Land? |
| Pluto The Skate |
same guitar part used on:
Catfood On The Earwig |
| Psychic Pilot Clocks Out (intro) |
uses snippet of:
Soul Flyers (outro) |
| Secret Service |
has same music as:
One More |
| Snuff Movie (She's Gone) |
Same song as:
Reptilian Beauty Secrets
Idiot Princess |
| Talk To Me |
Same "sometimes I'm programmed" part as in:
Heavy Metal Country |
| Tear The Ticket In Half |
same riff and melody and some of the same lyrics (including the "Wait for me...one more hour" at the end) as:
Doctor Moon |
| The Enemy (intro) |
Includes snippet from the song:
Broadcastor House |
| The Flying Party Is Here |
song is played as the backing vocal on this song:
Beekeeper Seeks Ruth |
| Those Little Bastards Will Bite |
last portion of the song is very, very similar (albeit a bit more hazy and drunken) to:
Postal Blowfish |
| Way to a Man's Heart |
song is played in the background around the 1:00 mark of this song:
Mincer Ray |
| What Are We Coming Up To? |
basically same song as:
"Off The Wall" (part of "Medley: This View/True Sensation/Off The Wall") |
| Where I Come From (Suitcase 1) [Pre-chorus melody]] |
similar song as :
Telephone Town (Suitcase 2) [bridge] |
| White Whale |
same melody as:
Megaphonic Thrift (An Odd Assembly) |
