Matador Records
2003
Human Amusements At Hourly Rates
About This Album
It sometimes appears that Guided By Voices leader Robert Pollard has taken it upon himself to ensure that GBV is the best-documented rock band on the face of the Earth. Between the band's busy schedule of studio albums, frequent live discs, copious singles, and numerous archive releases and side projects issued as part of GBV's Fading Captain series, it seems as if every sound the group or its leader emits will make it onto sound-bearing plastic in some form, and in what could be some sort of world's record, Hardcore UFOs: Revelations, Epiphanies and Fast Food in the Western Hemisphere is the second multi-disc box set from Guided By Voices in three years, and none of the 129 tracks that appear here were on 2000's 100-song Suitcase (and none of those had been previously released). In short, this is the sort of release that forces fans to ask the question, "Just how much Guided By Voices do I really need?" Disc one is a useful 32-song "best-of" disc, which cherry picks 77 minutes of prime-quality material from a catalog that has long needed a healthy pruning; this disc, also available separately in a different sequence, is as good an introduction to the band as you're likely to find.
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