Pixies: Classic or Dud

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looks like I need to quit farting around and get the second Red Krayola album...

ge0rge (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 27 October 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link

wanna grow up to be...
be a debaser!

could, in an alt universe, be a Kobain Lyric and a really good one at that.

jed_, Thursday, 27 October 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksJNALKISiw&feature=related

(only interesting variation is that they haven't got Joe's solo at the end figured out yet...)

ge0rge (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link

That is from "The Purple Tape" which was a widely available bootleg in the late 80s/early 90s. Half of which ended up on Come On Pilgrim.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link

Like that pixies cover -- probably bcz I wd never have noticed it in a million years unless it was pointed out.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link

ended up as?

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link

thats not from the Purple Tape dude

ge0rge (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link

The Purple Tape 2, my bad.

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link

I'm actually mad at the GIS results for pixies tattoo 13. The only actual 13-emblazoned tits are on dudes. Um, guys?

rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link

are those MS-13 tattoos?

ge0rge (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link

two things:

1) has anyone done a super extendo 20+ min jam of "i bleed"?! if so, please direct me to it. if not, get on it imm folks.
2) i had this random memory of my friends and i going up to random people (at the mall? i don't remember) and saying "chicken butt" to see if they got it. iirc it did not go well.

omg xp MS-13 tattoos scary GIS dnw

Art Arfons (La Lechera), Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:33 (twelve years ago) link

xp: one might be, the other is definitely a scrawny white kid.

rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:39 (twelve years ago) link

I'm actually mad at the GIS results for pixies tattoo 13. The only actual 13-emblazoned tits are on dudes. Um, guys?

― rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, October 27, 2011 10:25 AM (21 minutes ago)

try "XIII" instead

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:47 (twelve years ago) link

I scrolled down til I got to the furry pr0n thanks!

rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:57 (twelve years ago) link

yiff yiff

citation needed (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 27 October 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link

four years pass...

new pixies album has 2 good songs on it

akm, Monday, 3 October 2016 23:02 (seven years ago) link

classic masher is a good song and a great title

mizzell, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 02:59 (seven years ago) link

Very doubtful.

Austin, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 03:03 (seven years ago) link

And it’s lovely to hear a second Pixies album in a row that doesn’t contain the slur “whore”, a relief that they’ve carefully avoided the misogynistic tropes of their early work (although to wonder if they’ve grown out of this completely feels a bit optimistic, since they still play those early songs with no sense of responsibility for the lack of safety for women in a crowd of people singing along to “whore”-filled classics like ‘I’ve Been Tired’ and ‘Hey’)
http://diymag.com/2016/09/30/pixies-head-carrier-album-review

PaulTMA, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link

hmmmmmm

tylerw, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link

I like this record.

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 14:31 (seven years ago) link

gonna stream this today. feels so weird to not care about a new Pixies album, 15 years ago it would have been all i wanted in the world

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link

I think people dont even like music anymore, they just like think pieces about music.

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link

JFC, that DIY Mag review.

Austin, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link

5 songs in. i can't remember a single melody or song title.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 17:41 (seven years ago) link

I haven't heard this yet, but surely it can't be that bad. Indie Cindy wasn't a great record but it had its moments.

kornrulez6969 OTM in general, though.

pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:02 (seven years ago) link

That review reads like a parody of whatever is going on with the kids and their safe spaces.

kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:27 (seven years ago) link

whore-filled classics!

There are some very fundamental things about artistic expression that that reviewer does not understand

seafaring funnyman Jacques Custos (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link

i like their whore songs. maybe whores are what is missing.

it's fine, there are a few songs here that are bad; but on the whole the worst thing it is is unmemorable. I like "head carrier' and 'um chagga lagga' or whatever it's called quite a bit. it does feel kind of unnecessary though. I don't know if I listened to indie cindy more than once.

akm, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link

Luke Haines' review of Head Carrier is OTM, despite seemingly having not realised Indie Cindy existed.
http://thetalkhouse.com/luke-haines-auteurs-blackbox-recorder-not-thrilled-heard-pixies-new-record/

PaulTMA, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link

I found Head Carrier a but blah after first listen, but after a couple of weeks a strange thing happened: I now can't stop playing it

PaulTMA, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 22:21 (seven years ago) link

I think Head Carrier is a really great name for a Pixies album! Still don't want to listen to it tho.

orifex, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link

my 13 year old is upstairs in his room playing his guitar along with a Pixies CD right now. old Pixies. not new Pixies.

scott seward, Thursday, 6 October 2016 01:05 (seven years ago) link

not one of the ones i liked, but i woke up this morning with "Talent" running through my head.

mizzell, Thursday, 6 October 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link

ugh that is one of the worst songs on the album. um chagga lagga is the one I keep getting stuck in my head and I only listened to it once

akm, Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:10 (seven years ago) link

from the Luke Haines review: "her replacement — someone called Paz — does brilliantly. The excitingly named Paz seems to be a one-woman Kim Deal tribute act (this is a good thing). "

goddamnit luke do your homework. she might play like that here but she's an amazing bass player with a long history.

akm, Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:12 (seven years ago) link

whore-filled classics!
There are some very fundamental things about artistic expression that that reviewer does not understand

I love PC music critics! Too bad they weren’t around hundreds of years ago to put a stop to all those nasty murder ballads still being sung today.

Jazzbo, Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:32 (seven years ago) link

Looks like it may be a whore-filled classic after all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCFPpnHFTts
Nina Keen will be upset

PaulTMA, Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:42 (seven years ago) link

Paz should shave her head and grow a little beard and mustache combo.

Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 October 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link

she is a very attractive and talented woman. everyone should leave the pixies except for her

akm, Thursday, 6 October 2016 23:42 (seven years ago) link

yeah she rules. saw her playing bass for RTX in a tiny club about 10 years ago and she was awesome. killer stage presence.

her performance on the new Pixies album is really pretty good. i like her duet w Frank on "Bel Esprit". and her helping write "All I Think About Now", a song about looking back on The Pixies, is cool.

but Albini's "bar band" comment has never been more appropriate. it's very generic.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 7 October 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link

also i'm pretty sure they aren't singing "Um Chagga Lagga" but "Boom Shacka Lacka", a reference to Ali G

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 7 October 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link

wow i've never read about zwan's dissolution before. the corgan quotes on the wiki page are pretty crazy.
also didn't know that paz played on the first brighblack album.

mizzell, Friday, 7 October 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link

haw, come on billy, this is just good clean fun: "Sex acts between band members in public. People carrying drugs across borders."

tylerw, Friday, 7 October 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link

There are a few duds on here, and the idea of having Kim Deal's replacement sing a song addressed to Kim Deal is beyond misguided, but by and large this album is better than I could have hoped. Plays like a slightly above average Frank Black solo LP; it's the best thing he's done since Svn Fngrs.

I like how cranky and peevish Frank Black sounds. He's at his best when he's not trying to be funny or weird, but when those qualities seem almost unintentional.

Evan R, Friday, 7 October 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link

Bluefinger would have made an excellent Pixies record

PaulTMA, Sunday, 9 October 2016 12:49 (seven years ago) link

also i'm pretty sure they aren't singing "Um Chagga Lagga" but "Boom Shacka Lacka", a reference to Ali G

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, October 7, 2016 4:26 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

or Apache Indian.

Bluefinger would have made an excellent Pixies record

― PaulTMA, Sunday, October 9, 2016 12:49 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree!

pen pineapple apple pen (Turrican), Sunday, 9 October 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link

Aside from "Captain Pasty" and "Threshold Apprehension" I think Bluefinger sounded like a regular more recent Black Francis album.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 9 October 2016 14:15 (seven years ago) link

i agree bluefinger is really good but even better was the svn fngrs ep.

mizzell, Sunday, 9 October 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link

I mean the Pixies should have recorded it (and Svn Fngrs)

PaulTMA, Sunday, 9 October 2016 16:11 (seven years ago) link


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