Guided By Voices should have stood alongside The Pixies and Sonic Youth as one
of the great American alternative rock acts of the 1980s. Instead their oddball,
outsider garage rock was roundly rejected by the conservative, blue collar mind
set of hometown Dayton, Ohio so Bob Pollard and his gang all got proper jobs and
met up at the weekends to record DIY, post punk jams on four-track cassette
recorders in their basements. Recognition eventually came when their homemade
cassette albums were championed by R.E.M. and The Breeders and their cult
favourite Bee Thousand (1994) landed ...