I mean the Pixies should have recorded it (and Svn Fngrs)
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link
https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14572158_10157677727350571_2824272774505465435_n.jpg?oh=b13860a33b77bb073d70a721ea9ffaaf&oe=58AB9AD3
https://twitter.com/lucyandamysdad/status/785199542853570560
― PaulTMA, Monday, 10 October 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
Pretty sure that McLusky and et al. took over for the Pixies in the smartest way. The Beatles also had followers who improved on them...
― dlp9001, Monday, 10 October 2016 17:40 (seven years ago) link
Mclusky, give me a break
― seafaring funnyman Jacques Custos (rip van wanko), Monday, 10 October 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link
http://concert.arte.tv/fr/berlin-live-pixies
― StanM, Sunday, 16 October 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
is Head Carrier any good?
i don't know why i feel more open to giving it a chance than the first post-reunion album.
― alpine static, Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:37 (six years ago) link
it was pretty good, it was better than the previous one anyway. I gave it a listen again recently after kind of forgetting it existed and I liked it. That boom shaka laka song is great if stupid.
― akm, Sunday, 19 November 2017 22:47 (six years ago) link
i kind of grew to like it. it really feels like a Pixies album at times. there are some really nice melodies throughout and it kind of has a Trompe Le Monde feel to it at parts. like the whole build-up intro to "Bel Esprit" feels very TLM. obviously its not anywhere close to the heights of the first run albums but it's good, certainly better than Indie Cindy.
Paz is pretty cool too. i know this is a difficult thing for people to get over, cos Kim Deal was such an important part of the original band, but Paz is really great. that song she sings and had a hand in writing, "All I Think About Now", is kind of an interesting way to deconstruct "Where Is My Mind". she also directed a cool music video for "Classic Masher".
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 23 November 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzDJayVhhdA
― | (Latham Green), Monday, 1 October 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
Really enjoyed that. Surprised how good the sound quality is.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 01:13 (five years ago) link
impressive mullet on Charles
― Ah, the minty egg bits (sic), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 02:46 (five years ago) link
Thanks for posting that, LG. I was there! First festival I attended, it was a very wet day..Pixies were the highlight (but then they were my favorite band back then), other performances I can recall that were great: Elvis Costello (solo) and Nick Cave (in awesome striped pants) & the Bad Seeds.
― willem, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 08:44 (five years ago) link
They are like children in this video!
so young.
glad you enjoyed it as I did
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 17:09 (five years ago) link
I'm a big fan of Kim Shattuck and the Muffs, and some things I've read about her (short-lived) experience in tha band did not seem too positive. Nu-Pixies seems a little depressing on the whole but I hope I'm wrong
― rip van wanko, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
I interviewed Joey once, and it was either in that interview or some other one I read, back when the band reunited, where he conceded the money he was going to get from the reunion was the difference between a good school district and a bad school district for his kid. I totally understand, but that's still pretty mercenary.
The Pixies were once my favorite band, but thanks to 18+/21+ laws in Philly I never had a chance to see them live during their heyday (save their opening slot for U2 at the Spectrum, but I couldn't go to that one). I still regret seeing them on the first reunion tour, because it was just so ... bleh. They totally didn't care. Saw them a couple of more times since that, incidentally, maybe once with a dude on bass (can't remember) and once with Shattuck. They still couldn't have cared less, and neither could I.
What's weird is that I saw Frank Black a few times, and a couple of those shows were great. I guess the chemistry of the Pixies was sort of off from the start and only got worse over time.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 17:38 (five years ago) link
I saw them live once in their heyday, in late 1990. They didn't seem to enjoy playing live at all...or just playing music, period, or being in a band. Apart from a single Joey feedback solo, they all seemed like they'd rather be anywhere else.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
It was, I think, in a Spin profile early in the reunion where Kim said that the reason she agreed to reform - after several refusals to Charles - was that Joey called and told her the school district thing.
― Stab my hinge, get hit (sic), Tuesday, 2 October 2018 20:16 (five years ago) link
Yeah, maybe that was it?
I did interview Charles around the time of the reunion. It was a great conversation, and at some point he started complaining about reunions, and how they're all so lazy, especially the ones that aren't playing any new songs or anything. Then he pauses and adds "OK, so I'm a big hypocrite."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 20:47 (five years ago) link
hey this new pixies album is pretty good.
― akm, Friday, 27 September 2019 03:08 (four years ago) link
It's like a solid Frank Black album, unfortunately I'm not really interested in solid Frank Black albums.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 27 September 2019 08:29 (four years ago) link
Still need to get Oddballs and Black Sessions someday.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 27 September 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
I'm trying to decide which is the more lighting-in-a-bottle band, the Pixies or the Smiths. Right now I'm thinking .. Pixies.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 15 February 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
Given that the pixies wrote most of their best song within the span of about a year, I'd say Pixies too.(also, these days I just feel too conflicted listening to anything that Morrissey had a hand in, so)
― enochroot, Sunday, 16 February 2020 04:13 (four years ago) link
🏈 Joey & Dave help predict the 2021 @NFL Season - for the @nyjets and the @Patriots respectively.Check them out with @SPIN here:https://t.co/s9XbvdvbS0 pic.twitter.com/z6arEPwdFM— PIXIES (@PIXIES) September 10, 2021
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 September 2021 15:13 (two years ago) link
Joey is a Jets fan? Wow, guess I don't like Pixies anymore.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 10 September 2021 15:47 (two years ago) link
lol I just chuckled because I scrolled past this and assumed it was like an NFL promoted tweet or something, took me far too long to put all the pieces together
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 September 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
And this I knowThe Jets 16 and 0
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 10 September 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
if man is five(if man is five)then the devil is six(then the devil is six)the the JETS ARE ZERO THE JETS ARE ZERO
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 10 September 2021 16:56 (two years ago) link
Dave looking totes ready for a woodworking & magic tricks show on PBS.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 10 September 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
Ngl, I kind of want that sweater
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 10 September 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
I got no lips, I got no tongueI got a broken Gase...
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Saturday, 11 September 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
Joey’s Jets commentary in that article is pretty funny
― tumblin’ dice outro (morrisp), Sunday, 12 September 2021 00:12 (two years ago) link
Woke up in the middle of the night with the belated epiphany, with well over 30 years of listening to this band under my belt, that for all the attention the Pixies gets for its loud-quiet dynamics and screaming and guitar squall, its lyrical world-building - the Spanglish, the gruesome imagery, the surfing stuff, the space stuff - remains utterly novel and just as key to its success.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 January 2022 16:04 (two years ago) link
Do the reunion records betray that world that they built, or add to it, or just ignore it?
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 2 January 2022 22:59 (two years ago) link
I don't know if the reunion records ignore that world but I'm definitely ignoring the reunion records
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:01 (two years ago) link
disclaimer: i'm a jerkass.
the reunion records effectively ruined pixies for me. it's self-parody done so well that the it completely and totally eviscerates its source material. i can't even appreciate their initial run anymore. it all sounds like an unfunny joke at this point.
maybe i never liked them to begin with??? idk.
they suck though, those reunion albums. a lot of folks said they were passable but kind of boring "pixies by numbers" but if you really sit with those albums like i could with the older stuff (at one point in time anyway), they will drive you mad. stupid lyrics, plodding musicianship, and just an general overall vibe of bad taste in the air.
anyway. yeah. breeders were a cool band.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:17 (two years ago) link
sorry for typos. pixie make mad.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link
Breeders are a cool band, All Nerve was great.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:45 (two years ago) link
I've never heard the reunion albums but I saw the Pixies with Kim in 2004 and 2010 or 2011 and both were good. Zero interest in seeing them post-KD.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:47 (two years ago) link
I've successfully ignored the reunion albums, but I wish I ignored the reunion, period. Finally seeing them live, even a couple of times with Deal, left a bad taste in my mouth. I interviewed Charles/Frank/Black once, around the time of the reunion, and after complaining about contemporary country and alt-rock stations pandering to their audiences, giving them what they want and nothing more, I asked:
Me: But don’t you think these reunion shows are in danger of pandering?FB: Good point. Yes, there is a certain amount of pandering there. We are just playing the A-list. We’re not trying to challenge everybody. We’re trying to satisfy a lot of customers who have never seen us before, who know the records or at least have the best-of collection. They’re curious about the band, and we’re scratching their itch. We sound just like the records. Here we are – ta-dah! We feel like that’s really what people are paying for. We’re not doing the “how’s it going out there!?” and then kicking out a beach ball. We don’t do any of that. We do “La La Love You” and “Tame” back to back. We’re still raw. We’re not trying to be poignant or meaningful. We’re doing our thing, take it or leave it. People are more or less taking it. ... So, yeah, I guess I stand a hypocrite.
FB: Good point. Yes, there is a certain amount of pandering there. We are just playing the A-list. We’re not trying to challenge everybody. We’re trying to satisfy a lot of customers who have never seen us before, who know the records or at least have the best-of collection. They’re curious about the band, and we’re scratching their itch. We sound just like the records. Here we are – ta-dah! We feel like that’s really what people are paying for. We’re not doing the “how’s it going out there!?” and then kicking out a beach ball. We don’t do any of that. We do “La La Love You” and “Tame” back to back. We’re still raw. We’re not trying to be poignant or meaningful. We’re doing our thing, take it or leave it. People are more or less taking it. ... So, yeah, I guess I stand a hypocrite.
I guess good for them for making new music, but also, bad for us.
Personally, still love the records.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:53 (two years ago) link
Not a fan of most of the reunion albums, but Beneath the Eryie (the most recent) was fine, though still not a patch on the original run. The reunion show I saw in 2004 was great, but to be fair, I never saw them during the original run. The second show I saw five or six years later was pretty meh.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 2 January 2022 23:58 (two years ago) link
I thought Head Carrier was rather good indeed but I suspect Indie Cindy killed off the idea that them releasing new music was in any way a good idea
― PaulTMA, Monday, 3 January 2022 00:13 (two years ago) link
wonder if the pixies ever heard this giant sand song from 1986 because there is so much in it that sounds just like them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE6SCr-dKWU
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Monday, 3 January 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link
*except better
Honestly the Pixies could go on an Ivermectin Not Immigration world tour with Eric Clapton and Kid Rock and it wouldn't besmirch the greatness of the original records for me
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 3 January 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link
nickb otm. giant sand rules.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Monday, 3 January 2022 00:56 (two years ago) link
lol eephus
― best BASSMAN sticker on Etsy (morrisp), Monday, 3 January 2022 01:31 (two years ago) link
bluefinger by frank black sounded like the fifth pixies record that never was
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Monday, 3 January 2022 01:31 (two years ago) link
yeah i’ve thought that too, i assume that’s why he went back to the Black Francis name for it
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 3 January 2022 17:00 (two years ago) link
That Giant Sand song is uncanny. Things like this always make me think of Brian Eno's concept of "scenius"... even if we remember these things as isolated bolts of inspiration, there's always similar sounding stuff from the same era which everyone just forgot about.
― enochroot, Monday, 3 January 2022 17:39 (two years ago) link