Tim Heidecker on Guided By Voices
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2017
- From the Office Hours podcast #35, 3.17.17. The caller on the line is Cal McNamara, and here is his rendition of Tim's improvisation as a shockingly authentic Bob Pollard jam / the-universe-of-crayon...
"the bumble-man from tinfoil raisin"
I thought he said "tinfoil reason? This is fun!
I like raisin better. It’s more drunk
I hate how correct this is
Huge fan of GBV and Pollard, but even I can't help but laugh at this.
That Pollard impression is dead on. Pretty funny.
That was me on the call with him. I had no clue he was about to bust into an impression. Couldn't have asked for more LOL
Awesome, so you're the instigator! I had to upload this. Being a longtime GBV fan too, I think we all get it.
Yeah I really wanted to hear what he liked about GBV. I feel like it's ok to love GBV and Bob to the core, but also recognize the goofiness that happens in his lyrics. Tim obviously respects the music, but he's a comedian first.
That's rad, does anyone live in Dayton? You can day drink with Bob like 3-4 days a week at Wings. It's fucking awesome.
That's some pretty funny stuff! Love gbv too but have felt this way since Mag Earwhig. Rock on! Ps- was listening to Pollard's "Not in my Air Force" yesterday and enjoyed it so I can't really talk shit!
@@davidcutts9079 its not like the walt Whitman style poetry/lyrics started with mag earwhig. A lot of tongue and cheek lyrics in the earliest stuff too. Plus those early 2000s albums under the gbv moniker and the other side projects like RP and Boston spaceships have a lot of pretty "conventional" lyrics and song structures. Tim's one to talk, his comedy is pretty bizarre and nonsensical the vast majority of the time.
Tim needs to write and record a full length "Guided By Voices" album.
That impression is ridiculously good
The Bumble Man from tinfoil reason.
Did he just freestyle half of a imaginary Pollard song?!? I love GBV, but he nailed that to the point if Robert wrote it I wouldn't question it. I respect it because you really have to be a fan to pull that off, and it's funny as hell!
Wizards clashing on the trees
Breakneck speed of shadow light
And the wizard can believe in choice
I like your choice of Bob and Tim Tobias for the photo. Closest thing to Tim and Bob Awesome Show: Great Band!
this one is only available on Japanese bootleg
What the fuck are you talking about, man?
"Fractions past, the night goes back!
There's a way to think about the reasons why,
We are standing in the real fine place, to find ways home!"
The Rush influence shines through here
he just sang like 15 of my favourite gbv songs at the same time
Ho time
The spirits arising
And everyone comes clean
The universe of cry
The universe of cry-on man has placed itself in
Wondrous sparkling trees
There is nothing more than that!
We cannot explain the reason why
The bumble-man from tinfoil reason
But that line about shattered light at breck-neck speed! Whoa!
the lyrics are vague yet elaborate so you can use your imagination to interpret it for your own experience
I believe it's "tinfoil raisin".
@@brookmelee5983real heads know it’s tinfoil raisin
My favourite band in the world but there's no describing how much I enjoyed this. Fucking hilarious. The best part is that the lyrics are still way too straight-forward.
Bob Pollard has written so many songs he is the living embodiment of the "monkeys with typewriters" theory.
Well put
All the recent GBV albums I've heard from the current lineup sound fantastic. Also, Tim's impression is good and i'd LOVE to hear bob make a song riffing off that.
Best thing Bob could do is actually use these bits in a GbV song.
I'm a massive fan of GBV, but this is so accurate!
100% agree. I love the band but it's a great impression.
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I love GBV but this is spot on. Coming out with their 100th album soon...
Come on this is hilarious and I love GBV
Thanks for the band name: the Bumble Men. And their first album Tin Foil Reason!
“The bumble man from tin foil reason” is already a gbv song
Have no idea who tim is here but he does a fine parody of gbv...jokes aside the best indie band of the 90s
Holy shit your Pollard impression is excellent! But his recent stuff is also amazing!
as a huge Guided by Voices fan I laughed and laughed at this
Me too. Cuz gbv fans are cool and have a sense of humor.
Damn that's a great song.
Wizards Clashing is actually my favorite GBV song.
When he starts making up lyrics, I think of songs from his album with Doug Gillard: Soul Train College Policeman, and Frequent Weaver Who Burns. And yes, huge GBV fan here.
“Nothing more than that” is even directly the “helium balloons” part of shocker in gloomtown. I’m pretty sure it’s even the same key
I thought it was still Tim singing when GBV came on.
hahaha this is perfect I agree completely. Wizards clashing in the trees! I do love GBV.
Can’t help but hear the Twilight Campfighter instrumental while Tim’s singing
Dead on impression hahahaha
I think pretty much every GBV fan feels the same way. Love the early stuff, but once you get to Earthquake Glue, it's really enough. Heidecker's riffing is precisely how I imagine Pollard actually makes his songs.
I got "there" with Under the Bushes, though I've heard several that followed once or twice. I still think their best run was circa Propeller through Alien Lanes.
Anyone who like guided by voices should give Hood a listen. the closest Britain ever came to anything like them. Autumn colours, British radars, western housing concerns, and Collapsing Climate Soul are probably their best songs
theyre not british?
I've never heard anyone else talk about Bored Civilians. Great record!
The new GBV stuff is great, easily as good as the “old stuff”
Easily is completely subjective lol it's good but it's very very forgettable.
Get out your blue bathrobe
Get out the blue babbleships bay
Feed the world
Get out your Cleopatra shoes
We'll take the blue babbleships bay
Round your world and back by house again.
How time the spirits arising and everyone comes clean. The universe of crayon men has placed itself in wondrous sparkling trees, there is nothing more than that. We cannot the reason why. The bamble man from tin-foil reason- Wizards clashing on the trees break-neck speed of shadow light and the wizard can believe in choice. Fractions pass, the night goes black, there is no-
The Grand Hour, Sunfish Holy Breakfast, Tigerbomb 7", and Vampire on Titus if you can tolerate it...
Sunfish Holy Breakfast is a masterpiece! If We Wait, what a song.
Every time I listen to the song "Flunky Minnows" I think of this video.
a gente sempre soube que tinha uma influência aí
pensei isso
Aren't they from the UK? Keith Cross and Peter Ross
thanks for showing me dr. feelgood falls off the ocean
That last caller though xD HELLO?
i get where tim's coming from but it sounds a lot more like the stuff Tim mentioned liking than the stuff Bob makes now
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No YOUR RIGHT!!!
😂😂😂
I totally agree. GVB is great and I respect the work ethic but they should only release a record every other year or so. One GREAT record is better than 3-4 mediocre records.
That runs contradictory to the needmore records ethos
this is the funniest fucking thing i have ever heard
"Big fan of all these albums I can't name"
Blurillaz Dude, he is clearly very familiar with what Bob does. 1:29 is a direct melodic lift from Shocker in Gloomtown. He named Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes unassisted without knowing the subsequent ones by title. Must we be so “cult of Bob’s genius” that we can’t have a sense of humor and have to bash on anyone who dares take the piss?
And again, in an inarguably accurate way? I guarantee you a lot of GBV fans, if they heard Tim’s off the cuff lyrics in an actual Pollard tune wouldn’t bat a lash.
What is the guided by voices song played in the clip?
Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean
@@aaronnevins1258 thanks so much!
What is the actual song that plays at the end?
Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean
this coming from the man who created on cinema at the cinema. you are the same
gotta love it :D
I disagree with this guys opinion of GBV more recent stuff,
The stuff Bob has done in the past ten years is up there with his best.
I've been a fan since 1995 when I picked up "Alien Lanes" which begin the search
for everything they did before.
But I don't like the fact that some fans go no further than their 90's stuff,
Boston Spaceships, Circus Devils and the GBV Reunion stuff is too great to ignore,
Ricked Wicky, ESP Ohio and the latest GBV album, "August By Cake" is even better.
Robert Pollard is on the Upswing as an artist.
With the live shows I would be fine with keeping to classic stuff
to about 10 songs, Guided By Voices is not an oldies act,
like Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones who are at the tail-end
of their careers, making albums just to keep their names alive
and performing 2 or three songs from their current albums,
which is usually a good time to use the bathroom.
I can always count on the bathroom being empty during
"Hot Freaks" and "Smothered In Hugs."
I agree with you insofar as I think it's wildly inaccurate to write off everything post-Bushes as inherently inferior. I've heard almost everything Bob 'the P is for Pop' has recorded, and there are plenty of gems (and diamonds like 'From A Compound Eye'), but even I have not been able to plumb the depths of ALL the side projects, and probably haven't LOVED an album beginning-to-end since the so-called 'classic' period.
Tbf though, I think Tim's jibes in this clip are affectionate, and like many people he is a way-back fan who stopped keeping up with them years ago.
2015 to 2016 was banner year in Robert Pollard creativity and great material,
I'm sorry most of you so-called GBV fans missed it.
I remember Cal from the halcyon days on PB!
Bob ebbs and flows, but he always puts out at least 10 great songs a year. very few songwriters do that anymore. song of the reunion era albums were super sloppy though, and I wasn't a big fan of their recent double album. but How Do You Spell Heaven is a really solid album. it keeps growing on me.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: August by Cake has grown on me and might just be my favorite of the 9 (!!!) post-reunion albums.
I disagree. The low-fi- 3 AM basement-weirdo stuff is for me. Call me old, but his power pop stuff (since Isolation Drills, if I must,) that kinda sounds the same is not my bag. (I gave August, and Space Gun both a good listen too!) STILL better than 1000 container ships full of soulless, disposable, auto tuned-ProTooled shite out there! So, yeah...
What was that last song he played?
Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean
mini gbv farm: need slag knob
"ho time, the spirits arising"
clang clang ho?
He’s reciting Magic Theater
If you haven’t seen it yet, Tim played a house show set at Eric’s in 1997 and he dresses like a wizard singing about wizards with Eric on drums in full furry dragon mascot suit
Hey Pep Pep can we have a barbecue? thank you ^_^
I agree
Tim, your fake GBV song is alright.
oh my god hahahahahah
Tim is badt
I still love GBV, but this bit definitely made me hear his music a little differently.
I love GBV and TIm, but TIm is guilty of the exact same shit. He's been doing the same thing for the past 12-15 years now.
not true!
“The bumble man from tinfoil raisin.” lol. He definitely does a good Pollard but as a huge GBV fan it would never occur to me to praise them and then in the same breath make fun of them. Sprout and Pollard are jangly geniuses who should always be celebrated, for heaven’s sake they’ve made more pop hooks than The Beatles. I’ve been re-listening to Airport 5’s two albums - in my estimation two of the best indie rock albums of the last 20 years.
I love Bob but Tim is not wrong…
Funny but gbv is gotten by only a few
When does the funny part start?
Fuck off, John.
Don't you dare make me be the one who has to fuck off!
this opinion is wrong
He likes pretty much all the ones I liked
It did get sort of boring and predictable
amazing how tim heidecker can criticize anyone for being redundant when esoteric yet predictable wackiness is his entire schtick
I totally get what he's saying there
I was going to make a similar comment. I feel like I lot of what Tim is saying about GBV could easily be applied to his comedy.
Regardless, I still like both.
I don’t know if tim’s stuff is really predictable. You definitely can predict that it will be weird and insane, but I don’t see how you could predict the actual content for an episode of tim and Eric before you saw it. Not just tim and Eric, but check it out, all their UA-cam skits, bedtime stories. Do you know what I mean? That’s a Nice Glenn Tennis picture btw.
death becomes her schtick being the key word
@@grahamroth2615 That IS good tennis. Ooo muh-ma!
The schmoo he’s taking to ruins it every time he starts talking. Just let Tim do his schtick
I can never tell if he's in character or not. that's why I hate him.
hater
I like their music a lot. But yeah it’s becoming too samey as well. Idk
Tim not realizing what gbv is all about.
who the fuck is tim heidecker
GBV is the best band in the world. FU if you aren't into their new stuff. They are still writing great songs after 30 years. You can't say that for hardly any other band. Get the negativity out yr butt and actually listen. The lyrics are stream of consciousness so you can take what you want from them.
U mad?
I'm a huge GBV fan, and I hate TIm Heidecker after what he did to Sam Hyde, but he's right. Bob Pollard basically started to resort to almost spoken word nonsense after the 90s. The classic shit was nonsense too, but at least it was catchy, and it didn't throw in all those minor chord endings that he does now. That shit is so bad.
what did Tim do to Sam Hyde?
got his show on Adult Swim cancelled because it was too politically incorrect
i would really love for gbv to take more than 3 months to develop a record
SimMaster agree that Bob overuses chord progressions that end with a random minor chord. it makes me instantly dislike the song, because it almost seems blatantly lazy. Bob still writes a lot of great songs though.
@@SimMaster that Sam Hyde show sucked. Probably why it was cancelled.
This is a take that didn't age well. GBV continues to release two albums per year of sheer genius, while America is still completely unaware of whoever the fuck Tim Heidecker is.
1. Tim obviously likes GBV
2. Also I bet "America" is also wondering who the fuck Guided by Voices is...
That's a pretty humorless defensive take on this. I don't see in what why it hasn't "aged well."
Strongest American interpretation moment
This is spot on BUT Tim Heidecker's attempts at music are like Ronnie Woods attempts at paintings. "I'm famous and critically acclaimed, I can do anything"
Nah pal you're just good at that one specific thing. Tim's albums are turds and ironically he know shits them out more the GBV releases.
Being hyper prolific is great, if you actually have new or fresh ideas to express. It feels like Pollard gets out of bed and records every single fleeting thought and tries to somehow repackage a bunch of meaningless ideas. Take my advice Bob. Take a year off. Wait for a real reason to make a record. I love the same 4 or 5 GBV releases that everybody else does, they are mind blowing. He is nowhere near the genius he thinks he is.
smartalec 88 your way off base. the last 3 gbv records are leaps and bounds better than anything from the "classic" era. I've met bob and he definitely isn't pretentious like your comment is insinuating. Sucks for you that you cant recognize one of the best songwriters of all time.
I've met Bob and found him to be very down to earth. I think he produces a lot of material because he loves what he does and he is a workaholic...also, he may have felt the need to make up for lost time since he became a full time musician somewhat later in life than many rock musicians do.
tim heidecker will never be funny lol
This guy sounds like his Mommy fed him only what he liked for breakfast is entire life. I do, however, agree with him about Guided by Voices. They have been as boring as white paint for the last 17+ odd years. Certainly don't understand the hype of the last two albums?!