"the bumble-man from tinfoil raisin"

@hippojuice23

5 жыл бұрын

I thought he said "tinfoil reason? This is fun!

@spikeycoda

4 жыл бұрын

I like raisin better. It’s more drunk

That was me on the call with him. I had no clue he was about to bust into an impression. Couldn't have asked for more LOL

@johnnorfolk

7 жыл бұрын

Awesome, so you're the instigator! I had to upload this. Being a longtime GBV fan too, I think we all get it.

@calm2348

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah I really wanted to hear what he liked about GBV. I feel like it's ok to love GBV and Bob to the core, but also recognize the goofiness that happens in his lyrics. Tim obviously respects the music, but he's a comedian first.

@coupelikeacaravan

6 жыл бұрын

That's rad, does anyone live in Dayton? You can day drink with Bob like 3-4 days a week at Wings. It's fucking awesome.

@davidcutts9079

4 жыл бұрын

That's some pretty funny stuff! Love gbv too but have felt this way since Mag Earwhig. Rock on! Ps- was listening to Pollard's "Not in my Air Force" yesterday and enjoyed it so I can't really talk shit!

@unionprounion6356

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidcutts9079 its not like the walt Whitman style poetry/lyrics started with mag earwhig. A lot of tongue and cheek lyrics in the earliest stuff too. Plus those early 2000s albums under the gbv moniker and the other side projects like RP and Boston spaceships have a lot of pretty "conventional" lyrics and song structures. Tim's one to talk, his comedy is pretty bizarre and nonsensical the vast majority of the time.

Huge fan of GBV and Pollard, but even I can't help but laugh at this.

That Pollard impression is dead on. Pretty funny.

Tim needs to write and record a full length "Guided By Voices" album.

I hate how correct this is

Did he just freestyle half of a imaginary Pollard song?!? I love GBV, but he nailed that to the point if Robert wrote it I wouldn't question it. I respect it because you really have to be a fan to pull that off, and it's funny as hell!

he just sang like 15 of my favourite gbv songs at the same time

Wizards clashing on the trees Breakneck speed of shadow light And the wizard can believe in choice

@calm2348

7 жыл бұрын

I like your choice of Bob and Tim Tobias for the photo. Closest thing to Tim and Bob Awesome Show: Great Band!

@bardicpearl

7 жыл бұрын

this one is only available on Japanese bootleg

@JoshuaRoss2

6 жыл бұрын

What the fuck are you talking about, man?

@Mineav

6 жыл бұрын

"Fractions past, the night goes back! There's a way to think about the reasons why, We are standing in the real fine place, to find ways home!"

@kalenbaker7901

3 жыл бұрын

The Rush influence shines through here

Ho time The spirits arising And everyone comes clean The universe of cry The universe of cry-on man has placed itself in Wondrous sparkling trees There is nothing more than that! We cannot explain the reason why The bumble-man from tinfoil reason

@hippojuice23

3 жыл бұрын

But that line about shattered light at breck-neck speed! Whoa!

@martellusbennett8840

3 жыл бұрын

the lyrics are vague yet elaborate so you can use your imagination to interpret it for your own experience

@brookmelee5983

2 жыл бұрын

I believe it's "tinfoil raisin".

@charlessale409

Жыл бұрын

@@brookmelee5983real heads know it’s tinfoil raisin

@intercalactic

9 күн бұрын

Reminds me of my favorite gbv documentary when the opening band disses them by butchering gbvs name but only invents a better name "Guided by Prima Donnas" GBD GBD GBD!

Bob Pollard has written so many songs he is the living embodiment of the "monkeys with typewriters" theory.

@MeanManu

Жыл бұрын

Well put

That impression is ridiculously good

My favourite band in the world but there's no describing how much I enjoyed this. Fucking hilarious. The best part is that the lyrics are still way too straight-forward.

The Bumble Man from tinfoil reason.

All the recent GBV albums I've heard from the current lineup sound fantastic. Also, Tim's impression is good and i'd LOVE to hear bob make a song riffing off that.

I'm a massive fan of GBV, but this is so accurate!

@lowcostiqchasm3226

4 жыл бұрын

100% agree. I love the band but it's a great impression.

@robbery666.

2 жыл бұрын

jandek profile pic!

Best thing Bob could do is actually use these bits in a GbV song.

I love GBV but this is spot on. Coming out with their 100th album soon...

Thanks for the band name: the Bumble Men. And their first album Tin Foil Reason!

Have no idea who tim is here but he does a fine parody of gbv...jokes aside the best indie band of the 90s

Holy shit your Pollard impression is excellent! But his recent stuff is also amazing!

Come on this is hilarious and I love GBV

as a huge Guided by Voices fan I laughed and laughed at this

@Earlydoors272

2 ай бұрын

Me too. Cuz gbv fans are cool and have a sense of humor.

When he starts making up lyrics, I think of songs from his album with Doug Gillard: Soul Train College Policeman, and Frequent Weaver Who Burns. And yes, huge GBV fan here.

“The bumble man from tin foil reason” is already a gbv song

Wizards Clashing is actually my favorite GBV song.

I thought it was still Tim singing when GBV came on.

Anyone who like guided by voices should give Hood a listen. the closest Britain ever came to anything like them. Autumn colours, British radars, western housing concerns, and Collapsing Climate Soul are probably their best songs

@A2Z83

4 жыл бұрын

theyre not british?

“Nothing more than that” is even directly the “helium balloons” part of shocker in gloomtown. I’m pretty sure it’s even the same key

Damn that's a great song.

The new GBV stuff is great, easily as good as the “old stuff”

@distantandvague

2 ай бұрын

Easily is completely subjective lol it's good but it's very very forgettable.

hahaha this is perfect I agree completely. Wizards clashing in the trees! I do love GBV.

I think pretty much every GBV fan feels the same way. Love the early stuff, but once you get to Earthquake Glue, it's really enough. Heidecker's riffing is precisely how I imagine Pollard actually makes his songs.

@christopher9152

4 жыл бұрын

I got "there" with Under the Bushes, though I've heard several that followed once or twice. I still think their best run was circa Propeller through Alien Lanes.

Dead on impression hahahaha

The Grand Hour, Sunfish Holy Breakfast, Tigerbomb 7", and Vampire on Titus if you can tolerate it...

@lowcostiqchasm3226

4 жыл бұрын

Sunfish Holy Breakfast is a masterpiece! If We Wait, what a song.

I totally agree. GVB is great and I respect the work ethic but they should only release a record every other year or so. One GREAT record is better than 3-4 mediocre records.

@unionprounion6356

3 жыл бұрын

That runs contradictory to the needmore records ethos

Can’t help but hear the Twilight Campfighter instrumental while Tim’s singing

I've never heard anyone else talk about Bored Civilians. Great record!

Get out your blue bathrobe Get out the blue babbleships bay Feed the world Get out your Cleopatra shoes We'll take the blue babbleships bay Round your world and back by house again.

a gente sempre soube que tinha uma influência aí

@pedro.sh101

5 жыл бұрын

pensei isso

How time the spirits arising and everyone comes clean. The universe of crayon men has placed itself in wondrous sparkling trees, there is nothing more than that. We cannot the reason why. The bamble man from tin-foil reason- Wizards clashing on the trees break-neck speed of shadow light and the wizard can believe in choice. Fractions pass, the night goes black, there is no-

Every time I listen to the song "Flunky Minnows" I think of this video.

"Big fan of all these albums I can't name"

@michaelmcdonald8452

5 жыл бұрын

Blurillaz Dude, he is clearly very familiar with what Bob does. 1:29 is a direct melodic lift from Shocker in Gloomtown. He named Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes unassisted without knowing the subsequent ones by title. Must we be so “cult of Bob’s genius” that we can’t have a sense of humor and have to bash on anyone who dares take the piss? And again, in an inarguably accurate way? I guarantee you a lot of GBV fans, if they heard Tim’s off the cuff lyrics in an actual Pollard tune wouldn’t bat a lash.

Aren't they from the UK? Keith Cross and Peter Ross

I disagree with this guys opinion of GBV more recent stuff, The stuff Bob has done in the past ten years is up there with his best. I've been a fan since 1995 when I picked up "Alien Lanes" which begin the search for everything they did before. But I don't like the fact that some fans go no further than their 90's stuff, Boston Spaceships, Circus Devils and the GBV Reunion stuff is too great to ignore, Ricked Wicky, ESP Ohio and the latest GBV album, "August By Cake" is even better. Robert Pollard is on the Upswing as an artist. With the live shows I would be fine with keeping to classic stuff to about 10 songs, Guided By Voices is not an oldies act, like Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones who are at the tail-end of their careers, making albums just to keep their names alive and performing 2 or three songs from their current albums, which is usually a good time to use the bathroom. I can always count on the bathroom being empty during "Hot Freaks" and "Smothered In Hugs."

@johnnorfolk

7 жыл бұрын

I agree with you insofar as I think it's wildly inaccurate to write off everything post-Bushes as inherently inferior. I've heard almost everything Bob 'the P is for Pop' has recorded, and there are plenty of gems (and diamonds like 'From A Compound Eye'), but even I have not been able to plumb the depths of ALL the side projects, and probably haven't LOVED an album beginning-to-end since the so-called 'classic' period. Tbf though, I think Tim's jibes in this clip are affectionate, and like many people he is a way-back fan who stopped keeping up with them years ago.

@matrtdc

7 жыл бұрын

2015 to 2016 was banner year in Robert Pollard creativity and great material, I'm sorry most of you so-called GBV fans missed it.

@JK-ym7cc

7 жыл бұрын

I remember Cal from the halcyon days on PB!

@SpookyApparition

6 жыл бұрын

Bob ebbs and flows, but he always puts out at least 10 great songs a year. very few songwriters do that anymore. song of the reunion era albums were super sloppy though, and I wasn't a big fan of their recent double album. but How Do You Spell Heaven is a really solid album. it keeps growing on me. IMPORTANT UPDATE: August by Cake has grown on me and might just be my favorite of the 9 (!!!) post-reunion albums.

@hippojuice23

5 жыл бұрын

I disagree. The low-fi- 3 AM basement-weirdo stuff is for me. Call me old, but his power pop stuff (since Isolation Drills, if I must,) that kinda sounds the same is not my bag. (I gave August, and Space Gun both a good listen too!) STILL better than 1000 container ships full of soulless, disposable, auto tuned-ProTooled shite out there! So, yeah...

What is the guided by voices song played in the clip?

@aaronnevins1258

Жыл бұрын

Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean

@andybonerpower1806

Жыл бұрын

@@aaronnevins1258 thanks so much!

i get where tim's coming from but it sounds a lot more like the stuff Tim mentioned liking than the stuff Bob makes now

this coming from the man who created on cinema at the cinema. you are the same

@NickRitorto

4 жыл бұрын

gotta love it :D

thanks for showing me dr. feelgood falls off the ocean

That last caller though xD HELLO?

What is the actual song that plays at the end?

@aaronnevins1258

Жыл бұрын

Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean

No YOUR RIGHT!!! 😂😂😂

this is the funniest fucking thing i have ever heard

"ho time, the spirits arising" clang clang ho?

Tim, your fake GBV song is alright.

He’s reciting Magic Theater

@gloomybeachy

3 жыл бұрын

If you haven’t seen it yet, Tim played a house show set at Eric’s in 1997 and he dresses like a wizard singing about wizards with Eric on drums in full furry dragon mascot suit

mini gbv farm: need slag knob

What was that last song he played?

@dcomposr

6 жыл бұрын

Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean

🎯

I love GBV and TIm, but TIm is guilty of the exact same shit. He's been doing the same thing for the past 12-15 years now.

Hey Pep Pep can we have a barbecue? thank you ^_^

I still love GBV, but this bit definitely made me hear his music a little differently.

Tim is badt

I agree

“The bumble man from tinfoil raisin.” lol. He definitely does a good Pollard but as a huge GBV fan it would never occur to me to praise them and then in the same breath make fun of them. Sprout and Pollard are jangly geniuses who should always be celebrated, for heaven’s sake they’ve made more pop hooks than The Beatles. I’ve been re-listening to Airport 5’s two albums - in my estimation two of the best indie rock albums of the last 20 years.

I love Bob but Tim is not wrong…

I respectfully disagree 100%

oh my god hahahahahah

not true!

Funny but gbv is gotten by only a few

amazing how tim heidecker can criticize anyone for being redundant when esoteric yet predictable wackiness is his entire schtick

@DSarge1100

7 жыл бұрын

I totally get what he's saying there

@BushPrintzle

7 жыл бұрын

I was going to make a similar comment. I feel like I lot of what Tim is saying about GBV could easily be applied to his comedy. Regardless, I still like both.

@grahamroth2615

6 жыл бұрын

I don’t know if tim’s stuff is really predictable. You definitely can predict that it will be weird and insane, but I don’t see how you could predict the actual content for an episode of tim and Eric before you saw it. Not just tim and Eric, but check it out, all their KZread skits, bedtime stories. Do you know what I mean? That’s a Nice Glenn Tennis picture btw.

@pepperpattynaise

6 жыл бұрын

death becomes her schtick being the key word

@existingcondition

4 жыл бұрын

@@grahamroth2615 That IS good tennis. Ooo muh-ma!

He likes pretty much all the ones I liked It did get sort of boring and predictable

this opinion is wrong

I can never tell if he's in character or not. that's why I hate him.

The schmoo he’s taking to ruins it every time he starts talking. Just let Tim do his schtick

hater

When does the funny part start?

@Mineav

6 жыл бұрын

Fuck off, John. Don't you dare make me be the one who has to fuck off!

I like their music a lot. But yeah it’s becoming too samey as well. Idk

This is a take that didn't age well. GBV continues to release two albums per year of sheer genius, while America is still completely unaware of whoever the fuck Tim Heidecker is.

@mackereltacos2850

2 жыл бұрын

1. Tim obviously likes GBV 2. Also I bet "America" is also wondering who the fuck Guided by Voices is...

@michaelmcdonald8452

2 жыл бұрын

That's a pretty humorless defensive take on this. I don't see in what why it hasn't "aged well."

@matheusberica

Жыл бұрын

Strongest American interpretation moment

GBV is the best band in the world. FU if you aren't into their new stuff. They are still writing great songs after 30 years. You can't say that for hardly any other band. Get the negativity out yr butt and actually listen. The lyrics are stream of consciousness so you can take what you want from them.

@punchypizzainpizza6616

3 жыл бұрын

U mad?

This is spot on BUT Tim Heidecker's attempts at music are like Ronnie Woods attempts at paintings. "I'm famous and critically acclaimed, I can do anything" Nah pal you're just good at that one specific thing. Tim's albums are turds and ironically he know shits them out more the GBV releases.

@ROYALPRIX

29 күн бұрын

His albums rule

I'm a huge GBV fan, and I hate TIm Heidecker after what he did to Sam Hyde, but he's right. Bob Pollard basically started to resort to almost spoken word nonsense after the 90s. The classic shit was nonsense too, but at least it was catchy, and it didn't throw in all those minor chord endings that he does now. That shit is so bad.

@betterdaysareatoenailaway

7 жыл бұрын

what did Tim do to Sam Hyde?

@SimMaster

7 жыл бұрын

got his show on Adult Swim cancelled because it was too politically incorrect

@Quebedify

7 жыл бұрын

i would really love for gbv to take more than 3 months to develop a record

@SpookyApparition

6 жыл бұрын

SimMaster agree that Bob overuses chord progressions that end with a random minor chord. it makes me instantly dislike the song, because it almost seems blatantly lazy. Bob still writes a lot of great songs though.

@taylorconrad1439

5 жыл бұрын

@@SimMaster that Sam Hyde show sucked. Probably why it was cancelled.

who the fuck is tim heidecker

Tim not realizing what gbv is all about.

Being hyper prolific is great, if you actually have new or fresh ideas to express. It feels like Pollard gets out of bed and records every single fleeting thought and tries to somehow repackage a bunch of meaningless ideas. Take my advice Bob. Take a year off. Wait for a real reason to make a record. I love the same 4 or 5 GBV releases that everybody else does, they are mind blowing. He is nowhere near the genius he thinks he is.

@unionprounion6356

6 жыл бұрын

smartalec 88 your way off base. the last 3 gbv records are leaps and bounds better than anything from the "classic" era. I've met bob and he definitely isn't pretentious like your comment is insinuating. Sucks for you that you cant recognize one of the best songwriters of all time.

@christopher9152

4 жыл бұрын

I've met Bob and found him to be very down to earth. I think he produces a lot of material because he loves what he does and he is a workaholic...also, he may have felt the need to make up for lost time since he became a full time musician somewhat later in life than many rock musicians do.

tim heidecker will never be funny lol

This guy sounds like his Mommy fed him only what he liked for breakfast is entire life. I do, however, agree with him about Guided by Voices. They have been as boring as white paint for the last 17+ odd years. Certainly don't understand the hype of the last two albums?!