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Guided By Voices — Twilight Campfighter
Album: Isolation Drills
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Released: 2001
Length: 3:04
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Twilight campfighter
You build your fire into an open wound
You want us to feel better
On these darker trails
With light revealing holy grails
To hike through dangerous weather
You need twilight eyes

Sunspot solider, you come from another day
Accept no pay
You want us to feel better
All for longing causes
Racing minds and lengthy pauses
All who must soon shed their veils
And wipe their eyes

As we vegetate and wait around for brighter days
And can dance contented to the sound of money
Could I have seen a sight
Much greater than your twilight eyes
That penetrate your silent lives (lies)

Twilight campfighter
We do congratulate
It's not too late
To make us all feel better
Under darker skies
With your twilight eyes
Comments (38)add comment
I'll always be a bit sad GBV never made it big.  I'll also never totally forgive them for starting a New Year's Eve show until AFTER midnight. 
Posted 3 years ago by handyrae    [ Reply ]
Great album by this band.  Not bad for a guy who was a schoolteacher in Ohio!
Posted 3 years ago by drwhy    [ Reply ]
Brilliant guys

Brilliant harmonies
Posted 4 years ago by ExploitingChaos    [ Reply ]
Another first for me on RP. Don't know if I've ever heard this band before. 
Odd cover art. Planes, fighter planes, private planes. And...?

 
Posted 12 years ago by kingart    [ Reply ]
 eastcoast wrote:
Sounds too much like REM
 
...and REM sounded too much like Big Star.  This guy's voice sounds nothing like Michael Stipe's to me, but we all hear different stuff.
Posted 12 years ago by Proclivities    [ Reply ]
Another great tune from GBV - I really like these guys!  {#Yes}
Posted 12 years ago by Elroweho    [ Reply ]
 dreadpixie wrote:
has the previous poster, romeotuma, srsly been living in a hotel for 5  months? 

 
Longer than that if I remember correctly.  Romeo, how long's it been since you've lived in a normal house or apartment?

And yes, this is jealousy talking.  There have been a few hotel rooms that I wouldn't mind living in, just none in Vegas.  I don't do hot weather, people, scorpions, and rampant commercialism.
Posted 12 years ago by Byronape    [ Reply ]
 dreadpixie wrote:
has the previous poster, romeotuma, srsly been living in a hotel for 5  months? 

 
That's a late checkout.


Posted 12 years ago by Wittgenstein    [ Reply ]
boring
Posted 12 years ago by Stingray    [ Reply ]
has the previous poster, romeotuma, srsly been living in a hotel for 5  months? 

Posted 12 years ago by dreadpixie    [ Reply ]
if here were a hotel room, everyone wd be dancing :-)

Posted 12 years ago by tutakea    [ Reply ]
They have a new CD coming out this year!
Posted 12 years ago by Jack_Jefferson    [ Reply ]
terrific song! thx!!
Posted 13 years ago by tutakea    [ Reply ]
 ick wrote:
Is it just me or is the now playing window working in reverse? 
 
Current playing track is on top.
Posted 13 years ago by Wittgenstein    [ Reply ]
Is it just me or is the now playing window working in reverse? 
Posted 14 years ago by ick    [ Reply ]
horstman wrote:
My son just walked in the room and said "REM?". End quote.
(I hear) Rusted Root. Just IMHO.
Posted 17 years ago by DigitalJer    [ Reply ]
I miss GBV a lot. I've seen them live several times and talked to Bob Pollard before one of the shows. Too bad they're best stuff is self-produced home-made 4 tracks (lo-fi). I'd love to hear stuff from "Bee Thousand" on RP.
Posted 17 years ago by crinky    [ Reply ]
eastcoast wrote:
Sounds too much like REM
My son just walked in the room and said "REM?". End quote.
Posted 17 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
Wow, that has to be the most normal looking distribution chart I've seen for a song with 100-ish votes... Polarizing it's not, just an inoffensive presence.
Posted 17 years ago by FeydBaron    [ Reply ]
Sounds too much like REM
Posted 17 years ago by eastcoast    [ Reply ]
plutodazed wrote:
Noting the REM/Byrds discourse, I saw REM in 1984, and Roger McGuinn of the Byrds opened up (and played as long as REM.) This quite good GBV song has some of these bands' sounds in their mix.
I saw Roger McGuinn at Riverbend in Chattanooga a couple of years back........I got up and left after having to hear him "name dropping" between each song about the "good old days"
Posted 17 years ago by Fiji5555    [ Reply ]
Lucky! plutodazed wrote:
Noting the REM/Byrds discourse, I saw REM in 1984, and Roger McGuinn of the Byrds opened up (and played as long as REM.)
Posted 18 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
Saw them (final tour) 12/3/2004 @ Irving Plaza in NYC. Can't remember if they played this one...? Ah - my man is the big fan. I was just along for the ride. The crowd was madly in love with them. Good show, great memory. (Cool song, this 'un.)
Posted 18 years ago by RBS76    [ Reply ]
RichardPrins wrote:
8) another GBV song!
Posted 18 years ago by Mari    [ Reply ]
Something about the structure of this song is just wrong. Playing/writing/singing is fine, its just not organized right. Is there a producer around??
Posted 18 years ago by Daveinbawlmer    [ Reply ]
Well, the song is pretty average. But that album cover, now that is unique. It's like going to the airport on acid.
Posted 18 years ago by GPLDAN    [ Reply ]
GBV is seriously overrated, but typically by people whose musical taste I respect, so maybe there's something I'm missing. I'll just have to take your word for it, folks.
Posted 18 years ago by DjThirteenP    [ Reply ]
Mari wrote:
...Hey Hey Glad Girls!...
Only wanna get you high!!!
Posted 18 years ago by ratko    [ Reply ]
Noting the REM/Byrds discourse, I saw REM in 1984, and Roger McGuinn of the Byrds opened up (and played as long as REM.) This quite good GBV song has some of these bands' sounds in their mix.
Posted 18 years ago by plutodazed    [ Reply ]
Does make clear the debt REM owes to the Byrds.
Posted 19 years ago by g-rod    [ Reply ]
Yeah GBV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One of my favorite GBV efforts though I 've heard it said most fans find Isolation Drills too polished. Brides Have Hit Glass is my fav--
Posted 19 years ago by 326    [ Reply ]
GBV is definitely one of the best bands on the 90s. Bob Pollard is a genius. Great Album by them, too bad they broke up.
Posted 19 years ago by darthblav    [ Reply ]
Yes, it sounds like REM!!!
Posted 19 years ago by qosforever    [ Reply ]
Obvious why you played this following REM's Pretty Persuasion -- I thought you were actually playing two REM songs in a row! (Twofer Sunday? aargh...)
Posted 19 years ago by radiojunkie    [ Reply ]
Kind of a rip off of the Byrds and REM. Love the Byrds, hate REM and don't care for this.
Posted 20 years ago by Spliff    [ Reply ]
8) another GBV song!
Posted 20 years ago by R_P    [ Reply ]