Pixies: Classic or Dud

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

But it's so fun! Best lyrics ever!

although this might be. maybe not though.

"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?

**** You kyle you kyke.

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

???

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.

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.

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.

: )

nice to hear that you concur, sara x 3

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

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.

Effect.

At the time, they were massively classic, though. And I still really like them for that.

I bow to that excellent comment, Stan.

still classic

Overrated, overplayed, misunderstood - heard Dinosaur Jr. described the other day as a band "influenced by the Pixies". Still classic.

i'd rather listen to frank black's 'cult of ray' than any of the pixies records ('cept for 'surfer rosa') these days. for some reason it's considered awful, but i find it to be one of the better things he's been involved with

i mostly listen to 'trompe le monde' and 'bossanova'. even to this day, little things that i've never noticed will pop out at me. those recordings are really lush and deep, i love they way they are mixed. they just keep giving. i also like the frank black s/t

Cult Of Ray is not considered awful by me, but it's nowhere near any of the Pixies albums.

Trompe Le Monde is great. I like Surfer Rosa, Doolittle & that about equally.

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

Overburn!!! I've been able to burn CDs up to almost 82 minutes. Alternately, edit out all the silence at the beginning and end of each track. Finally, a couple tracks could be faded out early.

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.

To me the song is purposefully trying to be shallow based on the aesthetic of the lyrics. It's the proto-hipster irony.

Tis why they are absolutely CLASSIC.

...and "massively influential".

"To me the song is purposefully trying to be shallow"

Well, there you go then.

It is indeed shallow for a history of the world in what like 10 lines

I'm so drunk I've pulled out the Pixies. That means I'm really, really drunk. Surfer Rosa with those extra tracks which are my favourite, COME ON PILGRIM RULES. But I got Doolittle too. No one cares.

I'm drunk and I've pulled out Prince tonight. Looks like we're both in the 'P' section at least. Huh.

Fucking goddamn hell I know. And I've got to go back to watching the movie Purple Rain if only Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures would leave me alone instead of leaving me in absolute awe.

But I want this goddamn Time album, whatever they had with Jungle Love, I want that damn thing.

Oh shit I thought this was a Prince thread. I'm so sorry.

hahah, nice one.

there's a Purple Rain thread open so, you know, it happens.

The 33 1/3 book on _Doolittle_ is among the most classic in this series, and serves as a good reminder that the Pixies, were, in fact, classic. There are some songs I consider among their greatest ("Debaser," "Caribou," "I Bleed") that I can imagine other people objecting to, but also lots of perhaps minor but perfect songs like "Manta Ray" which it's really hard for me to imagine _anyone_ not loving.

On the other hand, people who, when you talk about "The Pixies," correct you and say "It's just "Pixies," no "The"" are MASSIVELY DUD.

It's that moment when you realize...you don't have any Pixies on your iPod. You almost want to commit suicide.

I sold Doolittle a few months after getting it on release day because I was so disappointed. I thought it was crap compared to Surfer Rosa. Only a few years later people were starting to call it a classic, and I thought, my god, was that really the best 1989 had to offer? I've grown fonder of them over the years, saw their reunion show, etc. Though I still have to skip through some songs, classic.