ELEVATOR LADY ELEVATOR LADY ELEVATOR LADY ELEVATOR LADY LADY ELEVATE ME
― contenderizer, Saturday, 14 February 2009 05:47 (fifteen years ago) link
some dude get more pixies NOW
― contenderizer, Saturday, 14 February 2009 05:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Whooops, replace "Levitate Me" with "I've Been Tired" up there.
and Doolittle is above and beyond all their other albums, if you ask me.
― mehlt, Saturday, 14 February 2009 16:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm not gonna get into a whole thing about this but the Pixies have always been one of my least favorite bands in the alt-rock canon, this record just had a few songs that endeared them to me a little bit.
― some dudes might think about blow jobs, like, way way way less (some dude), Saturday, 14 February 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago) link
some dude totally OTM
― devin harris with an appletini (call all destroyer), Saturday, 14 February 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
;_;; ;; ;; ;
― contenderizer, Saturday, 14 February 2009 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, this album (ep?) is pretty good. But I've always found this band a little cutesy, lacking weight. Likethe Violent Femmes: love em when you're 17, sound silly afterwards. Holiday Song, btw.
― paulhw, Sunday, 15 February 2009 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
ARRRGH CAN'T CHOOSE CAN'T CHOOSE CAN'T CHOOSE
― Coffee Table LP's Never Breathe! (Bimble), Sunday, 15 February 2009 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Not vamos.
― StanM, Sunday, 15 February 2009 01:50 (fifteen years ago) link
We'll keep well bred,We'll stay well fed,We'll have our sons,They will be all well hung.
They'll come and play,Their friends will say,Your daddy's rich,Your mamma's a pretty thing.
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 15 February 2009 03:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I've been seeing this poll resurface for over a week & I still can't decide b/w the sequential extremes of: Caribou_____________________Levitate Me. It speaks to their awesome quality-control that these Pixies album polls are such a goddam headscrew.
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Sunday, 15 February 2009 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
There. I picked Levitate Me.
― StanM, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
picked Ed Is Dead since it makes me nostalgic for Southern California and strand cruisers ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 17 February 2009 17:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 26 February 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Liked 'I've Been Tired' when I was much younger, but Chris Morris did it all so much better with 'Motherbanger'. 'Holiday Song' is it.
― ambulance chaser (S-), Thursday, 26 February 2009 01:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Johnny, Bossanova then..
― 2 ears + 1 ❤ (Pillbox), Thursday, 26 February 2009 05:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, Bossanova is next up.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 26 February 2009 05:23 (fifteen years ago) link
So tough because I love every single song, but Caribou it is. It's pretty much a perfect song.
― Chris in Belfast, Thursday, 26 February 2009 11:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 27 February 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
quite surprised be the extent of the victory here
― special guest stars mark bronson, Friday, 27 February 2009 00:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I missed this - boo. Tough but I would have had to go with I've been tired.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Friday, 27 February 2009 00:32 (fifteen years ago) link
wow this is delightful - ilm mb u aint so bad after all
― s1ocki kong country (cankles), Friday, 27 February 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago) link
I forgot to vote! Glad to see every track got some votes.
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 27 February 2009 10:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I endorse these results.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 27 February 2009 10:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Sweet!
― Chris in Belfast, Friday, 27 February 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess I'm kind of spoiled on Caribou because I used to play in a band that covered it, but I can't argue these results.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 February 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I put off listening to this again too long, and then the poll was over, so I didn't vote. :(
The Pixies were such a shock when they came along. A total shock. I wasn't surewhat to make of them at first. A 4AD record with swear words in it? What? I was looking for something to fit the mould of the 4AD records trademark sound, and this definitely did not fit that mould. But after you got used to it, you realized they were brilliant. Or at least I did. They were entirely unique.
"I could tell you a story that could make you cry I wanna be a singer like Lou Reed I like Lou Reed..."
Take that Reed/Cale poll!
― Still More Goth Than Your Cat's Asshole (Bimble), Sunday, 1 March 2009 11:19 (fifteen years ago) link
and yeah, I echo other posters here who have said Some Dude needs to get Doolittle PRONTO.
― Goth As A Moth (Bimble), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I saw them open for Throwing Muses back in the old days, you know. They were really damn good. In a tiny club in the middle of nowhere. Before anyone knew who they were. I WAS THERE.
― Goth As A Moth (Bimble), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:25 (fifteen years ago) link
This still doesn't load for me, so I can't even see the results (and wasn't able to vote in the poll, either)
But I just wanted to say ^^^^^^^^^^^ Bimble, my friends saw them on that TM/Pixies tour and they said it was AMAZERATING.
― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Poll ResultsOption Votes"Caribou" 30"The Holiday Song" 16"I've Been Tired" 16"Levitate Me" 13"Ed Is Dead" 8"Vamos" 6"Isla de Encanta" 3"Nimrod's Son" 3
Only time I ever got to see them live was opening for U2, and I was way up in the rafters of an arena. Still a good time, tho.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks!
NOW I REALLY WANT TO LISTEN TO THIS.
― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:37 (fifteen years ago) link
There would have been another vote for Nimrod's Son had I been able to vote. :-(
― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:40 (fifteen years ago) link
xposts to Kate:
Yeah! Actually, it turned out to be only a small chapter in my Throwing Muses lifetime, that gig, because I ended up seeing TM more times than any other band (about 8 times I think, dunno). But I'm listening to this Come On Pilgrim record now and something in the sound is making me recall this gig I saw when Pixies had just started out, in this little club, hardly anyone there, you know? And the memories are making me feel really strange right now. Kindof...like it makes me shudder to suddenly remember traces of something I had totally forgotten.
Stop cross posting with me I was just going to say something about Nimrod's Son! Let me get a word in!
― Goth As A Moth (Bimble), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Sorry, you are drunked and I am full of tea.
― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:43 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh I know what it was, now! I was gonna say that Nimrod's Son shits all over the Violent Femmes. LOL
― Goth As A Moth (Bimble), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyway, I think "I've Been Tired" is the easy-way-out vote for this poll, and I don't really approve of that as a vote. I'm very glad that Holiday Song prevailed over that.
― Goth As A Moth (Bimble), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:45 (fifteen years ago) link
But they tied!
― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh shit! They did! ILM in controversy shockah
― Goth As A Moth (Bimble), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:48 (fifteen years ago) link
YOU ARE THE SON OF INCESTUOUS UNION!!!!!!!!!!
THE JOKE IS COME UPON ME!!!!!!!!!
how could this song place so low?
― Dances With Psychedelic Owls (Masonic Boom), Saturday, 7 March 2009 09:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Levitate Me should have won. Something's wrong here
― turtles all the way down (Face of Wolf), Saturday, 7 March 2009 10:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I bet a lot of people love it (I do), but not quite as much as the one they voted for.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 March 2009 10:09 (fifteen years ago) link