PIXIES Poll: The best track on Come On Pilgrim

I think by virtue of having fewer songs, all of which being REALLY good, this could be the hardest of the Pixies polls for me.

caribou is the best pixies song

the holiday song.

caribooooooouuuuuuu

Owwww. Between Ed Is Dead and Holiday Song, but I think I'll have to go for the latter.

Impossible. But the Seaweed cover of "Levitate Me" made my love for that song feel almost new again, so "Levitate Me" -- the way the words of this song just kind of inexorably roll over each other is unequalled in the Pixies songbook.

it's gotta be caribou in a landslide, no?

Who says?

I'm bouncing between "I've Been Tired" and "Levitate Me", but I'm not gonna vote just yet.

also, YOU ARE THE SON OF A MOTHERFUCKER

(^^^great line)

Caribou just edges out Vamos here. Really like the sparse guitars on the latter, but I prefer the live versions elsewhere. 'This human form, where I was born, I now repent'. Caribou, I just love it.

Isla de Encanta

I said, "Losing my penis to a whore with disease."
"Just kidding," I said. "Losing my life to a whore with disease."
She said, "Excuse me, please?"
I said, "Losing my life to a horrid disease."
I said, "Please."

How can I not vote for that.

Caribou.

going 'levitate me', gotta be true to 17-y-o me tbh.

I said, "Losing my penis to a whore with disease."
"Just kidding," I said. "Losing my life to a whore with disease."
She said, "Excuse me, please?"
I said, "Losing my life to a horrid disease."
I said, "Please."

How can I not vote for that.

I'm in agreement. "I've Been Tired" it is.

When I was 14 I memorized the entire intro of Levitate Me, verbatim, and spent a good summer reciting it constantly (and still can). My other story about it is that once I was at a bar, and my friend casually (and entirely apropos to the situation) remarked "politics go so good with beer", either way, I only realized the reference 2 years later one day wile on the bus.

Oh Caribou wins this one

this may sound crazy but this is the only record by the Pixies that i own and i kinda love it but have no desire to get anything else. anyway "I've Been Tired" by a mile.

You should at least pick up Doolittle. It's in my top 5 rock albums of...ever.

ELEVATOR LADY ELEVATOR LADY ELEVATOR LADY ELEVATOR LADY LADY ELEVATE ME

some dude get more pixies NOW

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.

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 dude totally OTM

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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.

ARRRGH CAN'T CHOOSE CAN'T CHOOSE CAN'T CHOOSE

Not vamos.

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.

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.

There. I picked Levitate Me.

picked Ed Is Dead since it makes me nostalgic for Southern California and strand cruisers ...

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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.

Johnny, Bossanova then..

Yeah, Bossanova is next up.

So tough because I love every single song, but Caribou it is. It's pretty much a perfect song.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

quite surprised be the extent of the victory here

I missed this - boo. Tough but I would have had to go with I've been tired.

wow this is delightful - ilm mb u aint so bad after all

I forgot to vote! Glad to see every track got some votes.

I endorse these results.

Sweet!

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.

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 sure
what 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!

and yeah, I echo other posters here who have said Some Dude needs to get Doolittle PRONTO.

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.

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.

Poll Results
Option 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.

Thanks!

NOW I REALLY WANT TO LISTEN TO THIS.

There would have been another vote for Nimrod's Son had I been able to vote. :-(

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!

Sorry, you are drunked and I am full of tea.

Oh I know what it was, now! I was gonna say that Nimrod's Son shits all over the Violent Femmes. LOL

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.

But they tied!

Oh shit! They did! ILM in controversy shockah

YOU ARE THE SON OF INCESTUOUS UNION!!!!!!!!!!

THE JOKE IS COME UPON ME!!!!!!!!!

how could this song place so low?

Levitate Me should have won. Something's wrong here

how could this song place so low?

I bet a lot of people love it (I do), but not quite as much as the one they voted for.