RE:SCORE - Guided By Voices: Suitcase: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft: DISC THREE (2000)

TOTAL SCORE: 47, AVG: 1.88

Though not the case when I typed up my original post on Disc 3 of Suitcase, today its claim to fame is probably the four songs that all not only ended up redone as great Boston Spaceships songs, but also all ended up on the same album (Zero to 99). Meddle, A Good Circuitry Soldier, Exploding Anthills, and Trashed Aircraft are all here in early demo-like form, and though Carnival at the Morning Star School wasn't redone with the Boston Spaceships (though they did play it live once), I feel like it should have been...

Disc 3 has some other tracks that are decent, but better versions exist elsewhere. There is a non-live version of A Kind of Love on Suitcase 3, and a better version of Pantherz on some versions of Jellyfish Reflector. There is a much more awesome version of Perch Warble on Suitcase 2, and the accompanying Briefcase apparently has the better version of Cruise (I don't have Briefcase so I am assuming it is the version I've found on YouTube - maybe someone can confirm?). And if you were excited because there is another version of Buzzards and Dreadful Crows on this disc, don't be, because though it resembles the Bee Thousand track, it is so much worse.

Long Way to Run is another victim of my loss of love for very early era GBV but it is still a decent track, and of course Big Trouble can also be found on the Hazzard Hotrods album. Here is the updated ranking:

Among Bob's Best

-- none

Gems

-- none

Almost Gems

-- none

They're Good

55 A Kind of Love

57 A Good Circuitry Soldier

60 Pantherz

61 Cocaine Jane

62 Exploding Anthills

70 Carnival At The Morning Star School

71 Cruise

75 Trashed Aircraft

They're OK

51 Long Way to Run

52 Mr. Media

53 Settlement Down

54 Mr. Japan

56 Meddle

63 Perch Warble

65 What Are We Coming Up To?

68 Once in a While

Could Live Without

57 Big Trouble

64 Medley: This View/True Sensation/On The Wall

66 Scissors And The Clay Ox (In)

67 Cody's Antler

68 Buzzards And Dreadful Crows [different version]

72 Gayle

73 The Flying Party

Toss-Offs & Throwaways
59 Devil Doll

73 Gift

Given the scoring above, the album would get 47 points total (and an average of 1.88).