PIXIES Poll: The best track on Doolittle

"Hey" is a bad-ass song that I often get stuck in my head.

are pixies songs expensive to license?

well the entire Doolittle album is on Rock Band, so it's hard to say

Rates probably went up after Fight Club

It's not so much the cost, but that The Old People's Network used such a song at all. HIMYM generally uses pretty decent music, though, but still.

If Glee can do "Heads Will Roll", anyone is likely to do anything

It's not so much the cost, but that The Old People's Network used such a song at all. HIMYM generally uses pretty decent music, though, but still.

It's a 22 year-old song. That would be like Full House using...The Beach Boys!

Not quite, but the Pixies are kind of an institution now

Wait, what's kim doing down there?

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Er... I dunno... er... stuff, man.

The worst thing I could say about Doolittle is that I'm tired of hearing 'Debaser' and 'Here Comes Your Man' in rock bars... Also even though I've only ever owned it on CD it really feels like an album of two sides (Side 1 being the pop half) and it's that run of songs towards the end that really makes it for me. I love the production too, I mean there's no way that beautiful coda on 'No. 13 Baby' would've turned out that way with Albini (though I like his work on Surfer Rosa just fine). 'Hey' is an incredible song.

having listened to all of the Pixies albums in chronological order today, Bossanova is certainly missing fangs compared to the others

B-b-b-but..."Rock Music"!

the only songs on the album I noticed were "Velouria", "Allison" and "Dig For Fire"; nothing else made an impression

"Rock Music" is the band's most ott banger...like "Planet of Sound" but more evil and awesome.

dan otm. I'd add "Is She Weird."

"Rock Music" is the band's most ott banger...like "Planet of Sound" but more evil and awesome.

listening to it now, it basically sounds like a slower take on "Wave of Mutilation" with shouting instead of singing; there's nothing special about it at all and stuff like "Tame" and "Dead" blow it out of the water

:(

Waht?!

(Btw "Rock Music" doesn't have the unbelievably annoying fauxhonkytonk guitar riff repeated over every chorus like Planet of Drownd)

I listened to the Bossanova again the other day to try to give it a fair shake and I came to much the same conclusion (again) as Dan - but also made me wonder if the people that really love it are more or LESS familiar with the surf music that inspired stuff like "Cecilia Ann". When it first came out I think the people around me that were most blown away were the ones that didn't really know the Ventures or Duane Eddy much and thought that Pixies were onto something really original. Listening back through Bossanova the other day it struck me that the surf stuff on the album was so much more listless than any of the things that no doubt inspired it....it really seemed like they were just walking through it rather than producing a passionate homage.

Interesting that you hear that as faux honky tonk. It just sounds like rock.

(Btw "Rock Music" doesn't have the unbelievably annoying fauxhonkytonk guitar riff repeated over every chorus like Planet of Drownd)

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yeah i don't hear a lot of honky tonk in that riff!
and bossanova has a lot more going on than just surf rock...i don't think it always succeeds, but it does strike me as the band's most ambitious record.

planet of sound's riff strikes me as almost prototypical santiago tbh

There is a bit of greasy, bar-room, blues-rock in that riff, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Have fun in your greasy bar-room, folks!

"I don't know bout you, but I like that one song by the Pixies that sounds like it coulda been in a monster truck rally commercial. Yee-haw!!!"

no one's said a word about "Subbacultcha"

Aside from the amount of fuzz, the riff is no more "honky-tonk" than the one in, say, "La La Love You."

Yeah you're right, Phil: I was in fact way off on that description. I'm sorry.

subbacultcha started out pretty good back on the purple tape. then they pulled out the good bit and made D = R x T which is excellent and unfortunately they kept the husk, which is the subbacultcha on TLM.

I have never been too fond of subbacultcha. I'll have to check out the purple tape version and see if I like it any better.

I am intrigued by the idea of a monster truck rally that advertises itself using "Planet of Sound", that sounds awesome

I like both 'Distance Equals Rate Times Time' and 'Subbacultcha'.

yeah, i like them separate. but that's how i first heard 'em.
i think subbacultcha is kind of brilliant lyrically

now we live on the sea and relax and ride the tack
drug running on this panamanian schooner
she walks the deck in a black dress
and me i dress up in black
and we listen to the sea
and look at the sky in a poetic kind of way
what you call it
when you look at the sky in a poetic kind of way
you know when you grope for luna.

and look at the sky in a poetic kind of way
what you call it
when you look at the sky in a poetic kind of way

this is pretty great

yeah, i just think it's a pretty inspired song.

It's the best song about trying to cop off with a fat goth girl in a goth club ever.

proven by the scientific method of not bringing enough CDs on a European road trip, Doolittle is brilliant but in need of a severe trim

reduced to 7 or 8 tracks it would be that magical combination of punchy, flawless and 20 minutes long, which more albums probably need to be

the gold stuff here more or less corresponds with the poll results. my personal tracklist, being hyper-reductive and completely disrespectful towards/otherwise unknowledgeable about Pixies would be debaser/tame/wave of mutilation/i bleed//monkey gone to heaven/hey/gouge away (latter is best track btw) but i am sympathetic towards 'dead' and '#13 baby' as well and would possibly add them in sequence on a weak day. rest is filllerrrrrr (except 'here comes your man' which belongs on a different, worse album)

so yeah. 20-minute albums. discuss.

Eff that. "I Bleed" may be filler, but it's some weird, spooky, awesome filler that shits all over most filler from most bands.

um, read my post again, concentrating on the 'tracklist' bit

Yeah sorry, the first time i read it I made it all the way to 'discuss'.

It's a bit of a quandary with bands whose songs generally end before the 3.00 mark.

It's not a problem if most Pixies albums were 20 minutes, given the brevity involved that's going to be a lot of greatness.

But on the other hand they'll feel the need to fill an album out because so many songs are so short.

TLM to me is maybe their most consistent without having as many peaks as Doolittle.

I have never listened to this album and thought "I wish there could be less of this."

Yeah a Doolittle without Crackity Jones is no Doolittle.

Silver is the only song I'd happily lose from this album but the rest is golden.

evan otm

one of the greatest rock albums of all-time. i think it's strength is that there is no stand-out song. there are very few albums this consistent around. the singing on silver is pretty awful but the bottleneck guitar playing plus the guitar fuzz at the end is really nice.

"i bleed" filler? are you crazy? how that song starts slowly and explodes in total self-abandonment is pure genius. it's one of the many highlights.

i bleed made the goddamn cut, man