As we go up, we go down by GBV

Ok, I just realized that GBV is not on here enough. Thank you Troy for your post way back in the day.

For starters, Bob Pollard is the most genious song writer of our time hands down. No bones about it, no one else will match. The music is good becuase it is one take, 4 track in some guy's basement RAW. And these guys rock cuz they never sold out, never moved to NYC or LA. They did it all in Dayton, Ohio. Somebody crown the men, or whoever might be left.

This song is one of the catchier tunes of the Alien Lanes disc. All GBV discs give you a scramble of near pop hits mixed with noisy lo-fi cuts and some that you can tell they just weren't trying that hard. You can't help singing along with this one

I can't terrorize/I see terror in your eyes
As we go up, we go down
I can't socialize/I'll be institutionalized
As we go up, we go down
And see the truth
Is a lie.

It is so simple, yet so deep.

Long live GBV

* Granted, the Pollard-Sprout years were the best. Even though I appreicate GBV in all its manifestations.

Bob Andy - You Don't Know

I picked this one up on iTunes. It was one of my favorites to hear at the now-defunct Answer Bar in the Nishinakajima-Minamigata neighborhood of Osaka. I miss that place. This is a deep old reggae cut that was part of an iTunes Trojan Records essentials collection. I had always wondered how to find it again and it was mine for the amazing price of 99 cents.
I never knew what the song was called or the artist but would often hear it amongst the mix of reggae tunes over the PA at my favorite bar from 2001-2003. Often I was several glasses of Booker's away from the real world, but that one was just so beautiful it got to me wherever I was.