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Album: Zero to 99
Released: Oct 6, 2009
Label: GBV Inc

General Info

  • Genre: Indie / Post punk / Psychedelic

    Location dayton, Ohio, US

    Profile Views: 148296

    Last Login: 7/21/2010

    Member Since 3/15/2008

    Website WWW.BOSTONSPACESHIPS.COM

    Record Label GUIDED BY VOICES INC.

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    2009: BOSTON SPACESHIPS - ZERO TO 99 (GUIDED BY VOICES INC 7) AVAILABLE AT WWW.ROBERTPOLLARD.NET Special musical guests include Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Sam Coomes (Quasi), Tommy Keene (Robert Pollard, Paul Westerberg), Scott McCaughey (R.E.M., Minus Five, Young Fresh Fellows) and Kaitlyn Ni Donovan. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. In 2007, after swearing off ever starting another band and enjoying a successful solo career for a half-decade since ending Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard was seduced by the camaraderie of former Guided By Voices bassist Chris Slusarenko (Takeovers, Svelt, Sprinkler) and John Moen (Perhapst, Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Elliott Smith, Dharma Bums) and launched the Boston Spaceships, putting out two LPs in less than a year. Now, in 2009, on their third record, Zero to 99, they are primed to seduce fans and critics alike with Pollard’s most relentlessly melodic, hook-laden, pop-punk record since Guided By Voices’ Alien Lanes almost 15 years ago. Pollard is rock’s Woody Allen, a man who indulges himself for the sheer creative joy that comes from making music, with no regard for the law of diminishing commercial (or critical) returns. In this decade alone, he has released dozens of records under many names, ignoring every bit of conventional wisdom in the music “biz” that demands artists pace themselves commercially, releasing a record every few years and supporting it with heavy touring, promoting, et. al. Yet despite the equanimity with which he approaches his myriad of releases, the Boston Spaceships announce that this is not just any rest stop on the Pollard intergalactic superhighway. “IS EVERYBODY HAPPY NOW?” Pollard defiantly screams on the opening track, as if he knows this is this record that longtime fans have been waiting for. So it’s perhaps ironic that Pollard confirms these suspicions with track two, “How Wrong You Are,” an anthemic Pollard insta-classic that proves quite quickly just how right listeners are to get excited. From the moment the first chorus begins, Pollard digs his hooks in deep and never lets go, culminating in a racous singalong reminiscent of the “You Are Forgiven” refrain in The Who’s “A Quick One While He’s Away”. Zero to 99 barrels like a freight train from there, delivering track after track of vintage Pollard pop rock, with a band more than up to the task of not only hanging on for the ride, but helping to fuel the engine. From the Buzzcocks-esque guitars on “Found Obstruction Rock ’n’ Rolls,” to the Keith Moonish, Tommy-era drums of “Question Girls All Right,” to the McCartney-like bass riffs on “Trashed Aircraft Baby” that would fit right in on Abbey Road, Zero to 99 is a 37-minute feast for fans of classic pop/punk rock. This is quintessential Pollard, a record that holds it own alongside widely acknowledged classics like Guided By Voices’ Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes and Under the Bushes Under the Stars. One gets the sense that Pollard is having the most fun he’s had in decades, before he was pulled reluctantly from obscurity and thrust into the limelight with GBV in those heady, post-Nirvana mid-1990s. The Boston Spaceships have not only landed; they’re conquering the goddamn planet. Robert Pollard was a fourth-grade schoolteacher until 1994, when Guided By Voices broke into the national consciousness with the release of the album Bee Thousand. With over 900 songs registered to his name with BMI, Pollard is among the most prolific and acclaimed songwriters of his time, having been named of one Rock’s “Top 50 Front-Men of All-Time” by SPIN magazine. Zero to 99 was recorded in Portland, OR and Kent, OH with producers Jonathan Drews and Todd Tobias. www.bostonspaceships.com www.twitter.com/bostonspaceship www.robertpollard.net
  • Members

    ROBERT POLLARD (Guided By Voices), CHRIS SLUSARENKO (Guided By Voices, Takeovers, Svelt, Sprinkler) JOHN MOEN (Perhapst, Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus/Jicks, Elliott Smith, Dharma Bums)--- Guests include Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Tommy Keene, Sam Coomes (Quasi), Scott McCaughey (Minus 5), Kaitlyn Ni Donovan & Jay Martin. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
  • Influences

    .. .. .. .. .. ROBERT POLLARD, GUIDED BY VOICES, ACID RANCH, CARBON WHALES, NIGHTWALKER, PSYCHO AND THE BIRDS, LEXO AND THE LEAPERS, PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH, MOPING SWANS, THE LIFEGUARDS, HAZARD HOTRODS, THE TAKEOVERS, CIRCUS DEVILS, GO BACK SNOWBALL, STYLES WE PAID FOR, ELF GOD, BOZO'S OCTOPUS, MOOSHOO WHARF, STINGY QUEENS, ANACRUSIS, ERIC PRETTY, BROWN SMOOTHIES, ANTLER, BEN ZING, FLAMING RAY, 8TH DWARF, GOD'S BROTHER, KINK ZEGO, PETE EASTWOOD, ACADEMY OF CROWSFEET, NELLY & THE DIRTFLOOR, HEY JOHN BEES, WIM DIALS, MILKO WAIF, AX, WIGSTOMPER, 7 FEET OF SUNSHINE, HEAVY RIVER, THE BUG-EYED MUMS, YUMMY ROPES, BLEEP BLEEP F*CK, TIMID VIRUS, BRAINBOW, THE BAD BABIES, USUALLY TO DEATH, CHRISTOPHER LIGHTSHIP, WE TOO BARK, SUCKO, SCOTT JOY, PRAYING MAN VS. BO DIDDLEY, THE FUNK PUNK 5 & THE ONE TOO MANY.
  • Sounds Like

    "IT'S SO MUCH"...FUN .. .. .. .. .. WE HAVE A WINNER! THANKS FOR ALL WHO PARTICIPATED AND VOTED! A HAVE A NICE BROWN SUBMARINE DAY ON 9/16/08!!! WINSTON'S ATOMIC BIRD BY THEMANSHERM .. .. .. .. .. A LATE ENTRY BY N8PAK .. .. .. .. ..

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  • The Clow

    Thank you Robert Pollard for all the great music over the years, keep going!

    3 years ago
  • wedgepiece

    The new EP is the shit!!!

    3 years ago
  • False Friends

    love to Robert Pollard and his team!!!

    3 years ago
  • Tigerbomb!

    Attention Southern California B.S/Pollard/GbV fans!!!


    Photobucket

    3 years ago
  • Jayo Reilly

    good lord album no. 3 is worthy of praise so was no 1 as was no 2

    3 years ago
  • Mark Cunliffe - Dandeli…

    Hey



    Your track “Radical Amazement” features on my show on Dandelion
    Radio
    ....



    ....the show broadcasts for the whole of December as part of
    a schedule of DJ shows....



    :-)



    www.dandelionradio.com - The online radio station inspired
    by John Peel

    3 years ago
  • jensen

    This "How Wrong You Are" song is just about the best thing since sliced bread....

    3 years ago
  • Erich

    Happy Birthday Bob> May you not remember it!

    3 years ago
  • Crossing Guards

    Happy Birthday, Bob!
    Come on back to the Turf Club--I used yer bathroom last night...

    3 years ago
  • Rootscauseway and the s…

    yello......the re-working of dorothys a planet is amazingly great......i always loved it on suitcase and the studio version amplifies it to sweetness.........  maybe on the next boston spaceships a version of stingy queens or the fool ticket or shoddy clothes or excellant things or ahhh its up to you Bob .......i'm just a ramblin...ranting......

    3 years ago
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Bio:

2009: BOSTON SPACESHIPS - ZERO TO 99 (GUIDED BY VOICES INC 7) AVAILABLE AT WWW.ROBERTPOLLARD.NET Special musical guests include Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Sam Coomes (Quasi), Tommy Keene (Robert Pollard, Paul Westerberg), Scott McCaughey (R.E.M., Minus Five, Young Fresh Fellows) and Kaitlyn Ni Donovan. In 2007, after swearing off ever starting another band and enjoying a successful solo career for a half-decade since ending Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard was seduced by the camaraderie of former Guided By Voices bassist Chris Slusarenko (Takeovers, Svelt, Sprinkler) and John Moen (Perhapst, Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Elliott Smith, Dharma Bums) and launched the Boston Spaceships, putting out two LPs in less than a year. Now, in 2009, on their third record, Zero to 99, they are primed to seduce fans and critics alike with Pollard’s most relentlessly melodic, hook-laden, pop-punk record since Guided By Voices’ Alien Lanes almost 15 years ago. Pollard is rock’s Woody Allen, a man who indulges himself for the sheer creative joy that comes from making music, with no regard for the law of diminishing commercial (or critical) returns. In this decade alone, he has released dozens of records under many names, ignoring every bit of conventional wisdom in the music “biz” that demands artists pace themselves commercially, releasing a record every few years and supporting it with heavy touring, promoting, et. al. Yet despite the equanimity with which he approaches his myriad of releases, the Boston Spaceships announce that this is not just any rest stop on the Pollard intergalactic superhighway. “IS EVERYBODY HAPPY NOW?” Pollard defiantly screams on the opening track, as if he knows this is this record that longtime fans have been waiting for. So it’s perhaps ironic that Pollard confirms these suspicions with track two, “How Wrong You Are,” an anthemic Pollard insta-classic that proves quite quickly just how right listeners are to get excited. From the moment the first chorus begins, Pollard digs his hooks in deep and never lets go, culminating in a racous singalong reminiscent of the “You Are Forgiven” refrain in The Who’s “A Quick One While He’s Away”. Zero to 99 barrels like a freight train from there, delivering track after track of vintage Pollard pop rock, with a band more than up to the task of not only hanging on for the ride, but helping to fuel the engine. From the Buzzcocks-esque guitars on “Found Obstruction Rock ’n’ Rolls,” to the Keith Moonish, Tommy-era drums of “Question Girls All Right,” to the McCartney-like bass riffs on “Trashed Aircraft Baby” that would fit right in on Abbey Road, Zero to 99 is a 37-minute feast for fans of classic pop/punk rock. This is quintessential Pollard, a record that holds it own alongside widely acknowledged classics like Guided By Voices’ Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes and Under the Bushes Under the Stars. One gets the sense that Pollard is having the most fun he’s had in decades, before he was pulled reluctantly from obscurity and thrust into the limelight with GBV in those heady, post-Nirvana mid-1990s. The Boston Spaceships have not only landed; they’re conquering the goddamn planet. Robert Pollard was a fourth-grade schoolteacher until 1994, when Guided By Voices broke into the national consciousness with the release of the album Bee Thousand. With over 900 songs registered to his name with BMI, Pollard is among the most prolific and acclaimed songwriters of his time, having been named of one Rock’s “Top 50 Front-Men of All-Time” by SPIN magazine. Zero to 99 was recorded in Portland, OR and Kent, OH with producers Jonathan Drews and Todd Tobias. www.bostonspaceships.com www.twitter.com/bostonspaceship www.robertpollard.net

Member Since:

March 15, 2008

Members:

ROBERT POLLARD (Guided By Voices), CHRIS SLUSARENKO (Guided By Voices, Takeovers, Svelt, Sprinkler) JOHN MOEN (Perhapst, Decemberists, Stephen Malkmus/Jicks, Elliott Smith, Dharma Bums)--- Guests include Peter Buck (R.E.M.), Tommy Keene, Sam Coomes (Quasi), Scott McCaughey (Minus 5), Kaitlyn Ni Donovan & Jay Martin.

Influences:

ROBERT POLLARD, GUIDED BY VOICES, ACID RANCH, CARBON WHALES, NIGHTWALKER, PSYCHO AND THE BIRDS, LEXO AND THE LEAPERS, PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH, MOPING SWANS, THE LIFEGUARDS, HAZARD HOTRODS, THE TAKEOVERS, CIRCUS DEVILS, GO BACK SNOWBALL, STYLES WE PAID FOR, ELF GOD, BOZO'S OCTOPUS, MOOSHOO WHARF, STINGY QUEENS, ANACRUSIS, ERIC PRETTY, BROWN SMOOTHIES, ANTLER, BEN ZING, FLAMING RAY, 8TH DWARF, GOD'S BROTHER, KINK ZEGO, PETE EASTWOOD, ACADEMY OF CROWSFEET, NELLY & THE DIRTFLOOR, HEY JOHN BEES, WIM DIALS, MILKO WAIF, AX, WIGSTOMPER, 7 FEET OF SUNSHINE, HEAVY RIVER, THE BUG-EYED MUMS, YUMMY ROPES, BLEEP BLEEP F*CK, TIMID VIRUS, BRAINBOW, THE BAD BABIES, USUALLY TO DEATH, CHRISTOPHER LIGHTSHIP, WE TOO BARK, SUCKO, SCOTT JOY, PRAYING MAN VS. BO DIDDLEY, THE FUNK PUNK 5 & THE ONE TOO MANY.

Sounds Like:

"IT'S SO MUCH"...FUN WE HAVE A WINNER! THANKS FOR ALL WHO PARTICIPATED AND VOTED! A HAVE A NICE BROWN SUBMARINE DAY ON 9/16/08!!! WINSTON'S ATOMIC BIRD BY THEMANSHERM A LATE ENTRY BY N8PAK

Record Label:

GUIDED BY VOICES INC.

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