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Working at Store 24 isn't easy -- it requires patience and stamina. Customer personalities vary widely. Robert and Bonnie reminisce about confrontations with vocal, swaying drunks tossing around change, yelling profanities and swift-footed shop lifters leaving behind bruised cashiers and empty spaces in the soda case...
...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, and half-audible, countrified laments. Occasionally you'll find all these elements together in one song...
...messy: writing clever-odd lyrics, playing with AM radio-quality sound, or with cheap, half-broken microphones--anything that will throw their "pop" talents into sharper relief. "Marchers in Orange," on this new record, lasts about a minute and has no guitars, just an accordion and a bass: the vocal melody does all the work. "Gleaner (The Deeds of Fertile Jim)" uses a deadpan strum not unlike the one perfected by college-radio heroes Sebadoh (whose "Brand New Love" the knowing lyrics quote). "Exit Flagger" rides a pushmepullyou-like hook to the chorus, where it suddenly gains a kick more...
...diverse beasts of the rock and roll jungle that lets him get them to do his bidding. Like Dr. Doolittle, Pollard can convince animals that would normally be at each other's throats--a two-chord, thumping stomp, say, and its natural enemy, a spiraling, self-involved vocal line--to team up and make nice. And, like Dr. Doolittle, GBV seems out of place in a world that includes compact discs, cable TV, Ministry and Steve Albini...
Professor of Philosophy Warren D. Goldfarb '69, who has been a vocal advocate for gay rights, said only that Mansfield's comments "speak for themselves...