14 Cheerleader Coldfront

"That's probably my favorite title that I came up with. I was at a high school basketball game, a tournament; I think it was in Centerville. And they had so many cheerleaders. I counted fourteen all the way across the court, facing the crowd. The were all really pretty and you could see that they were obviously kind of stuck on themselves, they were just staring -- the point is that it was obviously all about them; it wasn't about the game, it was about them. And that's when I said, "Look at the fourteen cheerleader coldfront." I had to write that down. Then Toby -- it was actually Toby's song, but it needed some lyrics. In fact it was the only song that Toby and I ever sat down and worked on together, truly cowrote together." (Greer p.117)

 

from Guided by Voices: A Brief History