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Self-Inflicted Aural Nostalgia

43 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 104 ratings

The podcast Self-Inflicted Aural Nostalgia ran from January 2018 to December 2020, covering every GBV studio album from Devil Between My Toes to Styles We Paid For. There were also several bonus episodes devoted to various aspects of the group and people who worked with the band. And check out Zeppelin Over Dayton: Guided By Voices Album By Album wherever books are sold.

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Episodes

GBV Top Ten

January 31, 2021 16:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MB

My top ten favorite Guided By Voices tracks. 

Episode 31 // Styles We Paid For

December 27, 2020 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MB

Recording the plague. 

Tobin Sprout // Empty Horses

October 11, 2020 15:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MB

Ten songs. Thirty minutes. One classic record. 

Episode 30 // Mirrored Aztec

August 23, 2020 14:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MB

Global plague? No sweat. It’s GBV LP #30. 

GBV DNA Part 2: The Four Ps

July 05, 2020 15:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

Pop, psych, prog, and punk: the voices Bob is guided by.  

GBV DNA Part 1: Four EPs

June 21, 2020 15:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MB

An in-depth look at Static Airplane Jive, Get Out of My Stations, Fast Japanese Spin Cycle, and Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer. 

Bonus Episode // Doug from GBVguitar.com

April 26, 2020 14:00 - 41 minutes - 28.4 MB

A talk with the mastermind behind GBVguitar.com, a website devoted to transcribing the many songs of Robert Pollard. 

Episode 29 // Surrender Your Poppy Field

February 23, 2020 16:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB

There's no place like Dayton. 

Bonus Episode // New Year's Eve 2019

January 04, 2020 16:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MB

GBV close out an amazing year and decade with an epic New Year's Eve show. 

Episode 28 // Sweating the Plague

October 27, 2019 15:00 - 37 minutes - 25.5 MB

Twelve tracks of vintage GBV. 

Episode 27 // Warp and Woof

April 28, 2019 15:00 - 37 minutes - 17.3 MB

GBV's second record of 2019 is a return to what the band does best: lo-fi indie rock.

Episode 26 // Zeppelin Over China

February 03, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour - 30.3 MB

GBV's first record of 2019 is a double album. And an instant classic.  

Bonus Episode // How Do You Spell GBV

December 23, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 34.2 MB

27 original songs about and inspired by Guided By Voices. 

Episode 25 // Space Gun

December 16, 2018 08:00 - 41 minutes - 19 MB

We finish up our look at the first twenty-five GBV LPs with an in-depth audio tour of the band’s only studio record of 2018, Space Gun. 

Bonus Episode // Travis Harrison

December 09, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 39.4 MB

My talk with the engineer of the last three GBV LPs. Plus the next two.   

Episode 24 // How Do You Spell Heaven

December 02, 2018 08:00 - 44 minutes - 20.6 MB

Two records in one year? That’s the GBV we all know and love. 

Episode 23 // August By Cake

November 18, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 28.1 MB

Bob’s back with a new band. And they all write songs. And they’re good. It’s a 32 track instant classic. 

Episode 22 // Please Be Honest

November 04, 2018 07:00 - 42 minutes - 19.6 MB

Bob plays all the instruments on the surprise return of Guided By Voices. 

Episode 21 // Cool Planet

October 21, 2018 07:00 - 33 minutes - 15.2 MB

Bob breaks up the band yet again. It was fun while it lasted.

Bonus Episode // Mike Postalakis

October 14, 2018 07:00 - 1 hour - 41.8 MB

My discussion with the director of four videos for Robert Pollard. 

Episode 20 // Motivational Jumpsuit

October 07, 2018 07:00 - 38 minutes - 17.5 MB

The last LP featuring the so-called classic lineup. 

Episode 19 // English Little League

September 23, 2018 07:00 - 33 minutes - 15.6 MB

After three records in 2012, this was the band’s only record from 2013.

Episode 18 // The Bears for Lunch

September 09, 2018 07:00 - 32 minutes - 14.9 MB

What we talk about when we talk about prolific. It’s GBV's third LP of 2012. 

Episode 17 // Class Clown Spots a UFO

August 26, 2018 07:00 - 39 minutes - 18.3 MB

You wanted a reunion, you got a reunion. It's the second GBV LP of 2012. (And there’s a third.) 

Bonus Episode // Matthew Cutter

August 19, 2018 07:00 - 39 minutes - 17.9 MB

A discussion with the author of the Robert Pollard biography, Closer You Are.

Episode 16 // Let's Go Eat the Factory

August 12, 2018 07:00 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MB

You call that a break up? It’s the triumphant return of GBV’s classic lineup. 

Episode 15 // Half-Smiles of the Decomposed

July 29, 2018 07:00 - 47 minutes - 21.9 MB

It’s the end of Guided By Voices. For a couple of years anyway.

Episode 14 // Earthquake Glue

July 15, 2018 07:00 - 40 minutes - 18.9 MB

My Son, My Secretary, My Country, My Look at GBV LP #14. 

Episode 13 // Universal Truths and Cycles

July 01, 2018 07:00 - 41 minutes - 18.9 MB

GBV heads back to the lake for LP #13. And back to Matador Records.

Bonus Episode // Adam Shore

June 24, 2018 07:00 - 56 minutes - 25.8 MB

Adam Shore, the man who signed GBV to TVT, talks about working with the band, getting kicked out of the Pine Club, and why going to see the band play live is like going to church. 

Episode 12 // Isolation Drills

June 17, 2018 07:00 - 42 minutes - 19.6 MB

Divorce, drinking and poetry written at ninety miles an hour. 

Episode 11 // Do the Collapse

June 03, 2018 07:00 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MB

GBV’s most controversial record. I’ll be the someone who tells you why. 

Episode 10 // Mag Earwhig!

May 20, 2018 07:00 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MB

Bob pairs up with Cleveland band Cobra Verde for a record that sounds like the Who, except on all those tracks where it doesn’t.

Episode 9 // Under the Bushes, Under the Stars

May 06, 2018 07:00 - 43 minutes - 20 MB

Kim Deal. Steve Albini. Robert Pollard. What could go wrong? 

Episode 8 // Alien Lanes

April 22, 2018 07:00 - 40 minutes - 18.4 MB

Dud? Masterpiece? Bombastic? Steve Albini’s cat? It’s Alien Lanes.

Bonus Episode // Robert Griffin

April 15, 2018 07:00 - 36 minutes - 17.2 MB

Here’s my discussion with the man who first signed GBV, and who gave The Grand Hour, Vampire on Titus, and Bee Thousand to the world.

Episode 7 // Bee Thousand

April 08, 2018 07:00 - 37 minutes - 17 MB

Take an audio tour of an indie rock masterpiece, GBV’s 1994 record, Bee Thousand. 

Episode 6 // Vampire on Titus

March 25, 2018 07:00 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MB

Shocker in Dayton: GBV gets signed, plays shows, and releases a lo-fi classic.

Episode 5 // Propeller

March 11, 2018 08:00 - 32 minutes - 15.2 MB

The indie rock classic that almost never got heard.

Episode 4 // Same Place the Fly Got Smashed

February 25, 2018 08:00 - 36 minutes - 17 MB

Drinking, destruction, murder, and madness. It’s GBV’s fourth record, and their first classic.

Episode 3 // Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia

February 11, 2018 08:00 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MB

1989. The birth of lo-fi. Let's navigate some flood regions. 

Episode 2 // Sandbox

January 28, 2018 08:00 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MB

Let's talk about GBV's second record of 1987, Sandbox. Bob calls it "overproduced." I call it not as bad as you remember it. 

Episode 1 // Devil Between My Toes

January 13, 2018 08:00 - 25 minutes - 11.6 MB

The podcast kicks off by looking at the first LP by Guided By Voices, Devil Between My Toes.