PIXIES Poll: The best track on Bossanova

how does lemur skin reflect the sea?

i can't believe i never noticed the theremin on velouria until now. bossanova/trompe > first two LPs

"The Happening". just for the heavenly "in the suuun" part and talky second half alone.

i had some friends that made a cassette tape with only that song looped over and over.

oops i said the exact thing almost ten years ago. :-/

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— Hannah Tiede (@HannahTiedeTV) February 25, 2020

Havalina, the album's closing song, was composed after Charles and his girlfriend were chased by a wild pig in Arizona.

'So he decided to write a real pretty love song. I've been thinking about this...I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But generally they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When they get big, they get kinda gross.'

— Kim Deal, Melody Maker

I kinda wish I'd voted for Ana instead tbrr

More hushed surf mirages with structures like breath on a mirror plz

I remember being very excited when I found a copy of the famed truck stop surf comp that had the original version of "Cecelia Ann."

Played by everyone's favourite sonic guru Steve Hoffman, y'know. It's even his original kick-the-amp reverb splash at the start of the Pixies' version.
https://cdn.head-fi.org/a/3593451.jpg

Holy shit!

!!!!!!

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/cecilia-ann-by-the-pixies-surftones-on-youtube-yes-i-wrote-the-song-with-my-buddy-frosty.272578/

Supposedly a tribute to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Y0uQLgriA

"Sicilienne" => "Cecilia Anne"

NEVER knew the Cecilia Ann backstory! That rules.

Me neither, crazy

this album rules

holy shit @ the hoff!

"All Over The World" (0 votes) certainly is not the greatest song but it's such a groove and despite being a lesser Pixies song could be many, many other bands' career highlight.

Much of this record is lost in the blur of time to me. I had it both on cassette and on CD. For some reason, I have never ripped my Pixies CDs...

Weird #1

The pre-chorus of “velouria” is awesome

Or second half of the verse, whatever

maybe I need to listen again, I remember being underwhelmed by it as a lead single and that maybe shaped my enduring impression... I did love this album as an overall listening experience though

I love Velouria. All Over The World with 0 votes is a bit odd, it's probably my 2nd favourite song on the album

This was my fave for the longest time.

I think I was the one vote for Stormy Weather, just to give it some love

This is such a good record but def the catalog oddball, I tend to think of it more as the bridge to Trompe Le Monde-Frank Black-TOTY

This is such a "greater than the sum of its parts" record for me - looking at the tracklist I'm not really blown away, but I know this has been one of my favorite Pixies listens at certain moments in time.

yeah, it does feel like the first Pixies record where the sequencing is critical, the one that would suffer most from shuffling

Which is ironic, since it literally starts with an instrumental surf cover and is immediately followed by a screamy noise goof, which you would think is the *wrong* way to start an album, except in this strange case.