143. Glad Girls by Guided by Voices 1999

One of my favourite GBV tracks and one that was well played when I lived in Elwood. There was lots of sunlight in the back room of Elwood and this is really a sunshine song. Fell in love with the vaguely obtuse lyrics and started looking for more of the same stuff in record shops. Eventually picked up quite a lot of Guided By Voices records. Some great and some incredibly lo-fi. But always interesting. I always though GBV were quite power pop and I must say when writing the new album they were a big influence both in their sound and lyric writing.
this song I can't enough of. And it's got a great film clip to go along with it. But what was is he singing about? Which leaves an opening for all kinds of interpretations. And that's the kind of writing I like. Songs should mean different things to different people. I like the imagery and I kinds cribbed a bit of this song on my song Pretty penny. "I can see the light behind you!" is a bit of a homage to Robert pollard singing "The light that passes through me"