Do the Collapse

Do the collapse is het 12^e studioalbum van de Amerikaanse indierockband Guided by Voices. Het is tevens het eerste album dat de band uitbracht op het label TVT Records. Het album werd geproduceerd door Ric Ocasek (The Cars). Do the collapse werd matig ontvangen. De band stond tot dan toe bekend om hun lo-fi opnames met opvallende momenten. Dat begon volgens critici voorspelbaar te worden en het aantrekken van een grote producer bracht daar geen verandering in. Stephen Thomas Erlewine van AllMusic merkte op: "It's hard to blame the major label, actually, because Do the Collapse simply doesn't work. It's not that Ocasek's production is inappropriate, or that the expanded song lengths feel wrong, it's that Pollard is stuck in a rut."

Do the collapse
Studioalbum van Guided by Voices
(Albumhoes op en.wikipedia.org)
Uitgebracht	3 augustus 1999
Opgenomen	Brian Sperber, Ric Ocasek Electric Lady Studios New York, Verenigde Staten
Gemasterd	George Marino Sterling Sound New York, Verenigde Staten
Genre	Indierock
Duur	43:45
Label(s)	TVT Records
Producent(en)	Ric Ocasek
Professionele recensie
AllMusic Link Pitchfork 4.7 Link
Chronologie
1997 Mag earwhig!   1999 Do the collapse   2001 Isolation drills
Portaal    Muziek

Tracklist

Alle muziek en teksten zijn geschreven door Robert Pollard. 

Nr.	Titel	Duur
1.	"Teenage FBI"	2:53
2.	"Zoo pie"	2:18
3.	"Things I will keep"	2:25
4.	"Hold on hope"	3:31
5.	"In stitches"	3:39
6.	"Dragons awake!"	2:08
7.	"Surgical focus"	3:48
8.	"Optical hopscotch"	3:01
9.	"Mushroom art"	1:47
10.	"Much better Mr. Buckles"	2:24
11.	"Wormhole"	2:33
12.	"Strumpet eye"	1:58
13.	"Liquid Indian"	3:38
14.	"Wrecking now"	2:33
15.	"Picture me big time"	4:01
16.	"An unmarketed product"	1:08
17.	"Avalanche aminos" (Bonustrack op de Japanse uitgave)	2:10

Personeel

Bezetting

• Robert Pollard, zang, gitaar
• Doug Gillard, zang, gitaar, keyboard
• Greg Demos, bas
• Jim MacPherson, drums

Enkele nummers zijn muzikaal ondersteund door The Soldier String Quartet met arrangement van David Soldier.

Productie

• Ric Ocasek, producer

Externe links

• (en) Do the collapse in de Guided by Voices Database
• (en) Do the Collapse op Discogs
• (en) Do the Collapse op MusicBrainz

Guided by Voices

Leden: Robert Pollard · Bobby Bare jr. · Doug Gillard · Mark Shue · Kevin March Ex-leden: Greg Demos · Nate Farley · Kevin Fennell · James Greer · Jim MacPherson · Mitch Mitchell · Chris Slusarenko · Tobin Sprout · Tim Tobias · Dan Toohey · Don Thrasher Albums: Devil Between My Toes (1987) · Sandbox (1987) · Self-Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia (1989) · Same Place the Fly Got Smashed (1990) · Propeller (1992) · Vampire on Titus (1993) · Bee Thousand (1994) · Alien Lanes (1995) · Under the Bushes Under the Stars (1996) · Tonics & Twisted Chasers (1996) · Mag Earwhig! (1997) · Do the Collapse (1999) · Isolation Drills (2001) · Universal Truths and Cycles (2002) · Earthquake Glue (2003) · Half Smiles of the Decomposed (2004) · Let's go eat the factory (2011) · Class clown spots a ufo (2012) · The bears for lunch (2012) · English little league (2013) · Motivational jumpsuit (2014) · Cool planet (2014) · Please be honest (2016) · August by cake (2017) · How do you spell heaven (2017) · Space gun (2018) · Zeppelin over China (2019) · Warp and woof (2019) · Sweating the plague (2019) · Surrender Your Poppy Field (2020) · Mirrored Aztec (2020) Ep's: Forever Since Breakfast (1986) · The Grand Hour (1993) · Static Airplane Jive (1993) · Get Out of My Stations (1994) · Fast Japanese Spin Cycle (1994) · Clown Prince of the Menthol Trailer (1994) · I Am a Scientist (1994) · Tigerbomb (1995) · Sunfish Holy Breakfast (1996) · Plantations of Pale Pink (1996) · Wish in One Hand... (1997) · Plugs for the Program (1999) · Hold on Hope (2000) · Dayton, Ohio-19 Something and 5 (2000) · Daredevil Stamp Collector: Do The Collapse B-sides (2001) · The Pipe Dreams Of Instant Prince Whippet (2002) · Down by the racetrack (2013) · Wine cork Stonehenge (2018) · 100 Dougs (2018) · 1901 acid rock (2019) · Umlaut over the ozone (2019) Verzamelalbums: The Best of Guided by Voices: Human Amusements at Hourly Rates (2003) · Crickets: Best of the Fading Captain Series 1999–2007 (2007) Boxsets: Box (1995) · Suitcase: Failed experiments and trashed aircraft (2000) · Hardcore ufos: Revelations, epiphanies and fast food in the Western hemisphere (2003) · Suitcase 2: American superdream wow (2005) · Suitcase 3: Up we go now (2009) · Suitcase 4: Captain Kangaroo won the war (2015)

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