Nevertheless, the inclusion of this clip ensured the canonization of the 'G-B-V!' chant, heard at essentially every Guided by Voices concert thereafter, and the entire opening sequence was faithfully recreated at the band's final show before temporarily disbanding in 2004. What appears to be the sound of a band taking the stage before a throng of thousands of fans chanting 'G-B-V! G-B-V!' was actually created by Guided by Voices in the studio (the band had not played live in years, and never to more than a handful of people at the time of recording). An interesting result of this technique is the intro to the album's opening track, 'Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox'. Songs are frequently punctuated by unexpected blasts of noise, awkward tape edits, sped-up or slowed-down vocal or instrumental parts, and other sonic bric-a-brac. While significant portions were recorded in a professional recording studio (though later to be 'lovingly fucked with' by Mike 'Rep' Hummel, of Mike Rep and the Quotas), the album is notable for being the first of the band's albums to make extensive use of 4-track cassette and lo-fi recording techniques as an aesthetic unto itself.
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