Coast to Coast Carpet of Love

Robert Pollard

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 9, 2007)
• Original Release Date: October 9, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Merge Records
• ASIN: B000VDDBGG
• In-Print Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #192,873 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Some people collect stamps or dolls or baseball cards. There are others, though not as many, who collect Robert Pollard songs, and it's more and more evident that amassing the Pollard goldmine has become the most time-consuming hobby. Seems that every time you look up there's another record--either by Pollard or an alias--from the ex-Guided by Voices pilot, and this time he celebrates birthday 50 with two brand-new slabs of music spilling out on the same day. Where its bookend Standard Gargoyle Decisions is said to side more with Pollard's glam-rock-and-roll persona, Coast to Coast is cut from the same power-pop cloth as GbV classic cuts "Shocker in Gloomtown," "Game of Pricks," and "I Am a Scientist." Sixteen songs, 16 different hooks to reel you in, from the jangling purr of "Our Gaze" to the love-struck diffidence of "Current Desperation (Angels Speak of Nothing)" to twin psychedelic nuggets "Pnumbra" and "Youth Leagues." Since his much-adored band closed down, it seems that nothing has changed for Pollard, who endures as the perpetually prolific, massively tuneful, beer-swigging king of pop. --Scott Holter

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not Great, April 5, 2008

By	Concrete Dovetail (Groningen, Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This is definitely not the Bob album to start with. It's not bad, just not representative of the world's greatest artist compared to his other albums. I really like some of the songs like Youth Leagues and I clap for Strangers Now but feel that they're missing a certain edge that is present in most of his music. I blame this mainly on the production. In the same way that the song "Hold on Hope" didn't work many of these songs suffer, (but are not completely lost). This kind of album from Bob is ok every now and then. I just hope he's not being hijacked by that crowd where every guy in the bar is scrawny and has a haircut that says "I rock, but I don't rock too hard".

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2.0 out of 5 stars Whatever pays the rent., July 16, 2008

By	W. Beverly (DC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

But whatever's what you've got. Since records cost money (right?), presumably you'd want to save your money for the best of them. Pollard is his usual oozing self, but these performances are flat, neither crappy enough to be charming nor punchy enough to rock you. Listened to it three times hoping to be tugged in, but I'm bored. Back to 'Alien Lanes.'

Diss me now ye faithful.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good, February 4, 2008

By	Shawna M. Steffen "picture show" (cincinnati) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I love Robert Pollard and have almost everything he has done. I did not like this album at all at first but it has grown on me quite a bit. The opener on the album may be one of my favorite Pollard songs of his solo career. This record is a good listen especially for a Bob fan but Standard Gargoyle descisions is the better of the two.