{"id":13505,"date":"2012-05-17T10:15:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T14:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13505"},"modified":"2012-05-17T16:25:41","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T20:25:41","slug":"consult-the-orockle-can-i-be-glad-der","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/consult-the-orockle-can-i-be-glad-der\/","title":{"rendered":"Consult The Orockle: Can I Be Glad-der?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Confession upfront: The “friend” discussed here<\/a> is me.\u00a0 I have album issues<\/em> and am reluctant to chase down and\/or listen to singles. Using iTune’s Genius Playlist thingy is about as close as I get. I’m working on getting over my condition and I have found a most unexpected path.<\/p>\n

Years ago when Guided By Voices <\/span><\/strong>was being hailed as the-next-great-thing I read about the bands they were compared to and influenced by and blah blah blah. This led me to suspect that I would dig them. According to said experts, I should run-out-and-get a CD of theirs called Bee Thousand<\/em><\/strong><\/span>. So I did. I listened to it. I listened to it again. I even tried listening to it by skipping from song-to-song, which is unlike me. To no avail. I can’t say I think “they suck” as it seemed good enough I suppose. I could listen to it again and probably rip holes in it but I don’t see the point in that. Let’s just say that I haven’t listened to it since.<\/p>\n

In mod-like fashion Mr. Moderator<\/strong><\/span> recently gave me a flash drive with a bunch of singles-like stuff on it. Loads of it I dug. None of it I disliked. I was playing it in my car via the USB Aux thingy and it didn’t always reveal the artist\/song\/album on the radio display. \u00a0I actually liked that I was frequently unaware of who was playing the song. I had no prejudgement on any of these particular tracks. Of all the tracks, I kept coming back to one over and over again. It quickly became my favorite among so many that I liked. I even misunderstood a word that I assumed was in the title. I thought the guy was singing “Hey, black girls, only wanna get you high.” I thought that was funny, gutsy, and cool and so I Googled that phrase. Other than a number of\u00a0 links quoting the fairly obvious Rolling Stones <\/strong>reference, I kept seeing that Guided By Voices did a song that went “Hey glad girls, only wanna get you high.” <\/span><\/span>At first I thought that there was no way it could be GBV as I didn’t really like GBV. I was wrong.\u00a0 Here’s the tune:<\/p>\n

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