Pixies: Classic or Dud

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CD80 'portable' Pixies go!

Vamos (Come on Pilgrim vers.)
Isla de Encanta
Bone Machine
Break My Body
Something Against You
Gigantic (album vers.)
River Euphrates (album vers.)
Where is My Mind?
Debaser
Wave of Mutilation (album vers.)
Here Comes Your Man
Monkey Gone to Heaven
La La Love You
Hey
Winterlong
Cecilia Ann
Velouria
Allison
Ana
Dig for Fire
The Happening
Havalina
Evil Hearted You
Trompe Le Monde
Alec Eiffel
Palace of the Brine
Letter to Memphis
Motorway to Roswell
The Navajo Know

(80:36)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 November 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I *hug* you for the thought, Spencer! Off to compile my list....

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 6 November 2003 21:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm not sure if this adds up to 80 minutes, but mine would probably go something like this:

Caribou
The Holiday Song
Nimrod's Son
Bone Machine
Something Against You
Broken Face
Gigantic
River Euphrates
Where is My Mind?
Debaser
Here Comes Your Man
Monkey Gone To Heaven
Mr. Grieves
No. 13 Baby
Gouge Away
Velouria
Dig for Fire
Trompe Le Monde
Planet of Sound
Alec Eiffel
The Sad Punk
U-Mass
Letter to Memphis

(It's been a while since I've heard Bossanova, so I may be forgetting some other tracks I like from that.)

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

it's funny, loved them in the early 90s.
now they sound badly dated, maybe as a result of others ripping em off since?
i don't know, they sound very much like kid's music now, with no gravity or riddle to them. which is probably what they always were, but my tastes have changed i guess.
to me, now, something like 'monkey gone to heaven' sounds like slower sum 41. and that's not good.
i'm leaning towards 'dud'.

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 6 November 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Paul, they haven't dated at all for me...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 November 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Spencer's wins for having "The Navajo Know" on it.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 6 November 2003 21:57 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a great closer!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

and sorta their "last" song too...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, if that's all it takes, I'll add it to mine too. I like the song, just wasn't sure if I was up to 80 minutes yet!

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

if they had stopped at "i been tired" i'd still probably consider them a classic (as long as i ever heard of them of course)

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

no "d = r x t" but spencer makes up for it for the (hopefully) seamless transition of "palace of the brine"/"letter to memphis" which always knocked me out.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

paulhw just summed it up exactly for me..

― Broheems (diamond), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

No love for "Dead"?

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Good point, Dan! Oversight on my part - I would have included that one too.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Pixies are the best and most important band of my life, so, CLASSIC of course.
I'll argue Surfer Rosa and Doolittle as two of the best rock albums ever. "Hey" might be the best song ever.

― Shaun (shaun), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to play "Surfer Rosa" and "Doolittle" endlessly - the Pixies were just my absolute favourite band at that time. I didn't think "Bossanova" was as good and was disappointed by "Trompe le Monde". I don't listen to them an awful lot any more, but that doesn't mean i think any less of their music. For me, they were and always will be undisputably CLASSIC.

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

yes gygax, the mix is seamless of course! 2 second gaps suck!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 6 November 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

No love for Levitate Me?

― ModJ (ModJ), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I really hate this band whose lead singer what'shisname has one fuck of an annoying voice.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

which band is that?

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:44 (twenty-two years ago)

pixies may be in the category "stuff i once listened to a lot but wouldn't feel the need to put on anymore". but i'm glad i did listen to them a lot at one point. classic, obv.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

My actual Pixies mix CD, which is beaten up from the car and titled "Killer Pixies":

1. Debaser
2. Break My Body
3. Gigantic
4. River Euphrates
5. Where Is My Mind?
6. I've Been Tired
7. Nimrod's Son
8. Brick Is Red
9. La La Love You
10. Hey!
11. Ana
12. U-Mass
13. Subbacultcha
14. Monkey Gone to Heaven
15. Here Comes Your Man
16. Wave of Mutilation (UK surf)
17. Dig for Fire
18. Head-On
19. Alec Eiffel
20. Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons
21. Vamos (Surefer Rosa version)
22. Gouge Away
23. Velouria
24. Is She Weird?
25. Planet of Sound
26. The Navajo Know
27. Havalina

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 7 November 2003 01:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic

― Cacaman Flores, Friday, 7 November 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Classic, classic, classic, classic.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

"Nadine" off of Show Me Your Tears is classic. Is the rest of the album worth the price of a CD?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

still hate em, still feel the need to tell people this occasionally

― outlawed thermal & electrical weapons (doorag), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 07:11 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

This is a band that truly makes aggression and ranting the fun-loving hijinx they are. Very much a compliment.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 March 2004 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Who on ILE is going to Coachella? I'm going, transcontinental.

― Aaron A., Friday, 19 March 2004 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't hate 'em as much as I used to. Neither classic nor dud. They got some really good songs ("Here Comes Your Man"! "Head On"! "Bone Machine"! the "You Fuckin' Die!" bit!) and some absolutely UNLISTENABLE ones ("Something Against You"! "U-Mass"! "Vamos"! "Crackity Jones"!)

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 19 March 2004 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Something Against You"!

But it's so fun! Best lyrics ever!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 March 2004 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"U-Mass" is as far as I know the ONLY good song about university. Perceptive and insightful lyrics, too.

― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 19 March 2004 05:54 (twenty-two years ago)

WTF! You bastard! Vamos and Crackity Jones rule! Especially when the lines: 30 miles by 100 miles by stinking island, make so much goddamn sense!, well, at least in my case.

― Cacaman Flores, Friday, 19 March 2004 05:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"U-Mass" unlistenable? Have your brain checked please.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 19 March 2004 06:02 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

DUD.

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

wrong.

although this might be. maybe not though.

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

Overrated. Tired of reading smug "expertise"-justifying historical revisionism like this Pitchfork bullshit

"Frank Black has earned the right to do whatever the hell he wants, and he unfortunately seems to know it. The man who brought you the Pixies and, by extension, the alternative rock boom of the early 90s. . . ."

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/b/black_frank/honeycomb.shtml

That's right, The Pixies brought us the alternative rock boom of the early 90s. Forget REM, Dinosaur Jr., Replacements, Husker Du, Galaxie 500, Meat Puppets, Butthole Surfers, Flaming Lips, Mission of Burma, etc. Bow down before The Pixies.

Doolittle's alright, but could a band possibly be more overrated?

― blue paul, Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:43 (twenty years ago)

CLASSIC.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Virtually impossible to overrate. The Pixies were way better than 99% of alternative rock in the 90s.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:46 (twenty years ago)

WRONG! I'd take the fuckin' Stone Temple Pilots over the Pixies ANYDAY.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

take STP, please

― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

eight months pass...

Whoa!

**** You kyle you kyke.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 10 April 2006 10:14 (twenty years ago)

did spencer ever bring one of his 'c80 portable _______ go!' comps in under the 80-minute barrier??

― haitch (haitch), Monday, 10 April 2006 10:27 (twenty years ago)

That's cool I guess. Fucking impersonate me behind my back.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:05 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Hold on, what's this? I thought the remasters were cancelled because nobody was happy with them? And now I get this mail from bleep.com that links to this:

http://bleep.com/?bleep=EADD803A

???

― StanM, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Do they need remastering? They sound fine to me.

Or LOL maybe they've fixed that pesky LOUD-quiet-LOUD problem they had by mushing it all out with the louderizer.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

i certainly think they're overrated and would much rather listen to a great number of bands, even some who supposedly derived their sound from the "wildly influential" pixies.

i had a passing interest in all their records, fished around for a bit, then left them alone. digestible like coca-cola, thin like water crackers.

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

i had a passing interest in all their records, fished around for a bit, then left them alone. digestible like coca-cola, thin like water crackers.

Hey, me too! They pretty much define overrated for me. And their concerts border on insulting. I'm not asking for jumping jacks, but could you please try to pretend to be the least bit enthusiastic about what you're doing? No? OK, bye.

― Sara Sara Sara, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

: )

nice to hear that you concur, sara x 3

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Dunno what yr on about. They were good when I saw them x2.

― Colonel Poo, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Massively over-rated rent-a-quirkiness.

Listened to "Monkey Gone To Heaven" for the first time in years the other day, and was suprised at how obvious the dramatic construction appears in retrospect. Almost like it was created from a manual called "Dramatic Affect In Rock Music - A Beginners Guide" by S. Ridgway and P. Murphy.

Dud, then.

― PhilK, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

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