my god, i just got into this band a few years ago...and i keep hearing songs i’ve missed and just become mind blown everytime i hear something like this. absolute genius song writer. can’t get enough.
The list of GBV/Bob songs whose "official" album versions are perfect (insofar as literal artistic perfection can even be achieved or perceived) but whose demo/early home-recorded versions somehow manage to be even better is, like, fucking stupid. This. Teenage FBI. Why Did You Land. Huffman Prairie. Like three quarters of Earthquake Glue. Smothered in fucking Hugs, like for Christ sake do you even know how tenderly and sparingly gorgeous the B1000 version of Smothered in Hugs is? And then you listen to the four-track demo and it's just... unbelievable, truly. Bob Pollard will never ever ever be properly appreciated or evaluated, not in his lifetime -- not a thousand years from now -- never. Because it's not possible, not by anyone, certainly not by me. It's like pearls before swine and I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, I mean that when I say it. I'm just happy as a pig in shit I'm privileged enough to exist at this moh-oment in tiiiime to get to hear it and be changed by it.
The full-on album version of this has always been a favorite of mine (the best on DtC I'd say), but man, the tenderness, the precise tenderness of this demo is almost heartbreaking. Had GbV still been making low-fi home-recorded records at this point it would surely have been just as good as what they put down in the studio. But I'll be damned if Doug Gillard didn't translate those "bup bup bahs" into a guitar solo of his own, making the song into itself again. Thanks for this!
Infinitely better than the album version, even though the completed lyrics on the last verse on the DTC version are fantastic and missed here. The divvying up of the guitar parts here is genius.
@@BobDinners1771 Sometimes it comes about, George Harrison couldn't write anything that good early on in the Beatles and once he left he started writing masterpieces like My Sweet Lord, maybe it's a hidden gift that is awakened.
