But it's so fun! Best lyrics ever!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 19 March 2004 05:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Mr Mime (Andrew Thames), Friday, 19 March 2004 05:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Cacaman Flores, Friday, 19 March 2004 05:57 (twenty years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 19 March 2004 06:02 (twenty years ago) link
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
although this might be. maybe not though.
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:43 (eighteen years ago) link
"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 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link
**** You kyle you kyke.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 10 April 2006 10:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― haitch (haitch), Monday, 10 April 2006 10:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 10 April 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
: )
nice to hear that you concur, sara x 3
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 31 August 2007 14:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Dunno what yr on about. They were good when I saw them x2.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Effect.
At the time, they were massively classic, though. And I still really like them for that.
― StanM, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I bow to that excellent comment, Stan.
― PhilK, Friday, 31 August 2007 15:22 (sixteen years ago) link
still classic
― 6335, Friday, 31 August 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
Overrated, overplayed, misunderstood - heard Dinosaur Jr. described the other day as a band "influenced by the Pixies". Still classic.
― Bob Standard, Friday, 31 August 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― Charlie Howard, Friday, 31 August 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― 6335, Friday, 31 August 2007 17:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 31 August 2007 19:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, 31 August 2007 21:19 (sixteen years ago) link
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".
― MaGoGo, Friday, 31 August 2007 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
"To me the song is purposefully trying to be shallow"
Well, there you go then.
― PhilK, Saturday, 1 September 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
It is indeed shallow for a history of the world in what like 10 lines
― President Evil, Sunday, 2 September 2007 14:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 07:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm drunk and I've pulled out Prince tonight. Looks like we're both in the 'P' section at least. Huh.
― stephen, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 10:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 10:16 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh shit I thought this was a Prince thread. I'm so sorry.
― Bimble, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 10:21 (sixteen years ago) link
hahah, nice one.
there's a Purple Rain thread open so, you know, it happens.
― stephen, Tuesday, 25 December 2007 10:47 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 25 December 2007 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
It's that moment when you realize...you don't have any Pixies on your iPod. You almost want to commit suicide.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Saturday, 31 May 2008 10:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 31 May 2008 13:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I hear Dean Wareham disses them in his book. Anyone read it and can elaborate.
Pixies are Classic.
― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 31 May 2008 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone seen the Thomson holiday advert lately ? the piano tune sounds extremely like Where is My Mind
― Summer Slam! (Ste), Saturday, 22 October 2011 23:15 (twelve years ago) link
i think it's maxence cyrin's cover? or a cover of his cover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8B1ZNv9m4s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NZdggNUvq0
― jed_, Sunday, 23 October 2011 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
I still haven't removed Bimble from my phone or chat contacts. Seems like he never got around to adding the Pixies to his iPod.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 23 October 2011 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sorry -- I was born in 89, Pixies have a handful of amazing songs but largely sound dated. Nirvana was a better actual band, could play better, were better performers, wrote better songs, etc. More than any other band of the era that felt like you "had to be there" for (the Replacements might be my favorite band, and I wasnt fucking even close to being there for it) I don't see it with Pixies. I can't say C or D, but I can say that their catalogue doesn't hold up nearly as well as many other 80s bands. Best band of the late 80s/early 90s Bush-era malaise was Uncle Tupelo, in my opinion, hands down. And it's not even close.
― answering_machine, Sunday, 23 October 2011 07:19 (twelve years ago) link
When Come On Pilgrim & Surfer Rosa came out, it was the freshest, most spontaneous and fun thing a lot of people had heard in a long time. It made your heart beat that tiny bit faster when you got slapped in the face by their youthful enthusiasm, even though there were still some obvious influences (Violent Femmes, e.g.) it was fresh and new. So um yeah, you had to be there - you can't describe the impact of something like that accurately 20+ years after the fact.
― StanM, Sunday, 23 October 2011 07:51 (twelve years ago) link
I can understand that. I just wish I could figure out what that band would be for me, in this music era.
― answering_machine, Sunday, 23 October 2011 08:04 (twelve years ago) link
nah fuck that i was born in 88 and i listened to doolittle last night at work and it was soooooo swagged out. dunno at all how it sounds dated.
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 23 October 2011 08:19 (twelve years ago) link
I first really started listening to The Pixies in the early 00's and it sounded weird and fresh to me then. "Dated" is kind of a strange criticism to throw at these guys imo.
― circa1916, Sunday, 23 October 2011 08:25 (twelve years ago) link