I ended up voting "Dead".
― HI DERE, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 04:59 (eighteen years ago)
I love Debasser! Especially as the opening song for Haiku Tunnel. I think I'm gonna watch it now....
― Aja, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 05:05 (eighteen years ago)
"Wave of Mutilation" is great but I gotta give it to "Debaser".
― Nick Minichino, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)
i vote for dead.
― funny farm, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 05:24 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXMxMGJGkuI
Young, with hair, doing a beavis&butthead naw-naw-nawing intro to "wave of mutilation" - priceless!
"Do you intend paying him back?" "No, absolutely not! He's my father"
― willem, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 05:46 (eighteen years ago)
Most of the time I'm like "Oh, solo acoustic performance...*yawn*", but in this case it just shines a light on how excellent those old Pixies songs are. It's like his brain was in a lock groove of pure awesome for about five years.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 07:11 (eighteen years ago)
Hahah that is awesome with the "nawww naww nawww" pretend guitar he's sings :D
― Trayce, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 07:18 (eighteen years ago)
when i first heard this, aged ... what, 13? 14? ... i thought "dead" and "monkey gone to heaven" were actually two parts of the same song. can i have them both?
no? all right, then. MGTH it is.
― grimly fiendish, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:01 (eighteen years ago)
Sometimes, Dead is better.
― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:03 (eighteen years ago)
I meant to say Debaser and especially Here Comes Your Man would both have been top ten UK hits in another era.
Although Monkey was good too.
― Christopher Cross, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)
Unexpected but correct.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)
Interesting!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)
ilmotm
― Drooone, Thursday, 9 August 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)
ish.
I think I'm going to burn the songs to cd in this order and see how it goes.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 9 August 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)
i think it's the most popular poll in ilm ever. how many votes? 130 more or less? anyway,mr.grievs shouldve been higher.
― Zeno, Thursday, 9 August 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)
i think it's the most popular poll in ilm ever. how many votes? 130 more or less?
the Rolling Stones one had over 150 votes.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 9 August 2007 04:03 (eighteen years ago)
Two people voted for La La Love You? WTF?
― StanM, Thursday, 9 August 2007 04:31 (eighteen years ago)
i voted for "tame" but "i bleed" deserves more love
― latebloomer, Thursday, 9 August 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)
Holy crap! "Hey" won. I voted for it to make sure that its greatness was at least acknowledged, but I figured that "Debaser", "Here Comes Your Man", "Gouuge Away", and "Monkey Gone to Heaven" would have beaten it easily.
― j-rock, Thursday, 9 August 2007 04:52 (eighteen years ago)
at least the two worst songs on the record came last.
and the top four is actually about right.
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 9 August 2007 05:59 (eighteen years ago)
Debaser is not that good!
― mizzell, Thursday, 9 August 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)
And Silver! It makes me mad when people complain about the later albums being just bf solo albums and i'm like yeah what bossanova needs is a snoozer like Silver. No thanks.
― mizzell, Thursday, 9 August 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)
Bam Thwok is better than at least half of these songs.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 9 August 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)
"Hey"?? Strange decision, not even in the best ten songs of the album.
― zeus, Thursday, 9 August 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)
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― special guest stars mark bronson, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 14:48 (seventeen years ago)
man, looking at that song list reminds me that this is probably one of the ten best albums I own
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:03 (seventeen years ago)
A little surprised by the margin of victory here seeing as I never got into Hey when I was listening to this album regularly (ie about 12 years ago at least).
― Holy Suffering Gobi Desert Clit Nun (Matt DC), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:15 (seventeen years ago)
took me some distance and time, but it's definitely surpassed apparent fan favorite Surfa Rosa for me.
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Wednesday, 4 February 2009 15:16 (seventeen years ago)
wow. i saw this thread and logged in so i could vote for "Hey" and whaddya know..
i always loved the beginning it was like some kind of ghost version of the rolling stones
― Adam Bruneau, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 22:21 (seventeen years ago)
really surprised at this outcome. hey? really?
― goole, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 22:34 (seventeen years ago)
this should be a yearly poll. gouge away would win for me x99999999
― bnw, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 22:36 (seventeen years ago)
it's all about no. 13 baby
Dan I want to personally thank you for carrying the Kim Deal torch in this thread...anybody who's heard the Pod Demos knows that Sliver was utterly immolated out of spite by Mr. Black Francis...
― my brain hurts a lot (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 5 February 2009 04:20 (seventeen years ago)
alright I still really love No. 13 Baby, but I am starting to see how maybe Hey is the best song off this album...
― the soft boy of karate (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 28 March 2009 22:27 (seventeen years ago)
How is this album so perfect.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 02:50 (fourteen years ago)
It's incomprehensible.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:08 (fourteen years ago)
i honestly rate it as the worst of their albums. and this is a band i find extremely overrated btw
― charlie h, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:15 (fourteen years ago)
charlie otm
― some dude, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:16 (fourteen years ago)
for me the only album that really works is Bossanova.
But what a collection of songs here!! The 7 also-rans are a litany of awesome.
― virginia is for losers (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:20 (fourteen years ago)
some dude totally incorrect.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:21 (fourteen years ago)
thermo otm
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:22 (fourteen years ago)
dayo itt
― some dude, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:31 (fourteen years ago)
some dude otm
― charlie h, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:34 (fourteen years ago)
the circle is complete.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:35 (fourteen years ago)
some dude and charlie h completely and utterly wrong
― (Algerian Goalkeeper) Vs (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:36 (fourteen years ago)
curious what these 'no way is doolittle their worst album' ppl think is the actual worst pixies album.
― balls, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:37 (fourteen years ago)
trompe le monde
― so solaris (Lamp), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:38 (fourteen years ago)
sb
― balls, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:40 (fourteen years ago)
I couldn't handle Bossanova back when I bought it and I haven't given it a second chance. My Pixies album ranking:
1. Trompe le Monde2. Surfer Rosa3. Doolittle4. Come On Pilgrim5. Bossanova
― rustic italian flatbread, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 07:04 (fourteen years ago)