My Top 1000 Songs #922: Cindy
[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.] Given the modest-sized yet adoring cult that has gathered around Guided By Voices , faithfully wading through the literally thousands of songs generated between the mid-80s and roughly a week ago by the band (as well as Robert Pollard 's various solo & side projects ), it's a little surprising there haven't been more imitators. Pollard's prolific gift for low-key skewed pop songs and alt.rock cast-offs, often (at least in the earlier years) delivered with half-assed lo-fi abandon, may be unique, but I'd think more bands would take a stab at it. Of course, there are a few. Fellow Ohio band Smug Brothers probably come closest, with a fistful of like-minded records (another one due this summer ). 2nd Grade are a newer band, with a couple albums packed with the sort of pithy, absurdly-titled tracks that would do Polla...
