Word: scats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GUIDED BY VOICES Vampire on Titus CD/LP (Scat) It's tempting to write that GBV has had "eight years to perfect their craft," but the truth is that they've been great from the start. The basic GBV sound is 1967 British pop filtered through basement-tape-recorder grime, and within its confines they're the best, and the most versatile, there is. Each of their seven albums includes vocal harmonies from Revolverera Beatles, scattered outbreaks of pure punk, flat despair, soaring hopes, noises like ovens exploding (immediately followed by familiar hooks), wisps of pot smoke over seaswell chords...
...mean, I think it's blueprinting." On Tanner, fortunately, because the story zigged and zagged according to actual events and incorporated real political figures, the writing was necessarily quick, sketchy, Altmanesque. "What Bob makes is a kind of visual jazz," says Trudeau, "and I thought of myself as providing scat lyrics for him. They were always just a departure point...
...first group, the Callbacks, opened with a crowd-pleasing--but very hokey--tap-dance routine that included a barely audible scat solo. The group's musical selection improved markedly with their second song, the Rolling Stones' "As Tears Go By," ending on an "ooooooh" that seemed to last a good half hour...