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Robert Pollard
Meet the King: Asshole 2
2007, Yuk Yuk Motherfucker

Don’t ask me for my favorite Robert Pollard album. There are too many. I don’t have a good answer. I may never have a good answer.

Here’s a juicier question for the deep-digging Pollard freaks in your life: What is your favorite year of his music?

Now that’s something to think about. As I revisit these old records, I find a curious coherence in Pollard’s path. Even when he puts out five albums that explode in several different directions in a year, he will circle around the same topics and there’s meaning in the contrasts.

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Robert Pollard
Relaxation of the Asshole
2005, Yuk Yuk Motherfucker

Technically, this is Robert Pollard’s first solo album after the end of Guided by Voices and I’m down with that.

In the cold January of 2005, when some fans were just getting over their hangovers from GBV’s New Year’s Eve grand finale, Pollard dropped a new record that, depending on your point of view, was either:

A)  a weird and funny artifact of his unique personality

or

B) a new low from an artist whose lax standards for quality control had been bothering you for awhile.

Considering how quickly this sold out, we could also tack on a third group: The collectors. They can smell limited vinyl from five hundred yards away.

Relaxation of the Asshole is a comedy album made up of clipped-out excerpts of Pollard’s stage banter at Guided by Voices live shows. It’s got twenty-five tracks, but only one joke.

That joke is that this record exists at all and I think that’s funny.

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