PIXIES Poll: The best track on Doolittle

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xp lol LL I was just thinking I had thought Pixies had fallen from grace round these parts so it does my heart good to know that they are still reliable conversation-starters

even tho I don't really like them

This thread has just reminded me that I once worked with a guy called Jefrey.... with one F! First thing I asked him when I found out was "have you heard 'Space (I Believe In)' by Pixies!?!?"

Trompe is the best-sequenced Pixies album. It hits you with a burst of short, fast tunes out of the gate, changes it up a bit in the middle, and then closes strong. I think it works better as an album-listening experience rather than as an assortment of individual tracks.

― o. nate, Wednesday, November 9, 2011 4:49 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah, I would agree with it being the best-sequenced Pixies album. Definitely.

Slightly OT, but Pixies fans should check out the one-disc version of The Golem - Black Francis is reunited with Eric Drew Feldman (keyboardist on Trompe). Nice batch of songs!

TLM loses its way in the middle but the start and the end are great. bossanova is kind of a muddle the whole way through, never less than good but rarely much more than that either. and i don't like how it sounds. but surfer rosa and doolittle are a level above. if 80s pixies and 90s pixies were 2 different bands, the first one would still be iconic, the second one would be a good band.

Roberto, which songs does 'Trompe Le Monde' lose it and get it back on for you, out of curiosity?

"Space (I Believe In)" sucks a lot of energy out of TLM, imo

That song is funny!

yeah it's funny, but it's self awareness about being filler doesn't make it not filler

I like that one. The weakest point for me is "Subbacultcha".

"Planet of Sound" might be my least favorite Pixies song

i might agree with that.

JEFREY! (JEFREY!) WITH ONE! F! JEF! REY!
JEFREY! (JEFREY!) WITH ONE! F! JEF! REY!
JEFREY! (JEFREY!) WITH ONE! F! JEF! REY!

spaaaaaaaaaaace! i belieeeeeeeeve in spaaaaaaaace!

(and now I'm going to sing the Perry Mason theme!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8LMdPmvYK4&feature=related

i believe in (swinging at) spaaaaace

Planet of Sound is a paint-peeler! I crank it when I'm driving.

Yeah, I don't get the dislike for "Planet of Sound" - maybe not a typical Pixies song, but it moves!

lol I love both Planet Of Sound and Subbacultcha

yeah i'd put subbacultcha up there in my top 10 pixies songs i think.

I liked Subbaculcha more when it had the Distance Equals Rate Times Time part embedded in it

i don't even hate Planet of Sound (can't think of a single Pixies song that I really hate) it's just that it comes between the hugely awesome title track and alec eiffel. prefer the sad punk for a screamer.

Sad Punk is awesome!

i too consider Doolittle to be the worst pixies album and Bossanova the best. I bought D first followed closely by the two earlier records then B as soon as it came out. my pref is probably Bossa>Pilgrim>Surfer with the other two vying for last place.

sigh

i'm listening to Trompe rigth now and i'm pretty sure it's better than Doolittle.

i still love both it's just that the other three are better. actually Trompe is awesome.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo64ouJUSh1qa8xyfo1_500.gif

ok full disclosure - i haven't listened to TLM in probably...15 years? i remember the songs vaguely but i have it on cassette and never really felt super compelled to hear it again.

Head On: Mary Chain original vs. Pixies version

in a place they say is dead
in a lake that is not an ocean
i count about a million head
all the tiiiiiiiiiiiime
there's a mo-tion

would have voted for Debaser or Gouge Away. It figures that one of the two songs on this album I always skip won the poll (the other being the overplayed at the time 'Here Comes Your Man')

if I had the rank the albums it would be Doolittle >>> Surfer Rosa > Bossanova > Trompe Le Monde >>> Come On Pilgrim

I can't fathom people rating Trompe Le Monde #1... it seems like such a pieced together and incomplete album, and wasn't received well by anyone I knew at the time.

I'm relistening to all of their stuff on Spotify now, ha. I haven't listened to this stuff in years.

I've loved Trompe since the day it came out - sometimes I feel like it might be my fave Pixies album, but I think that's more down to what other people have noted above...it's their best-sequenced album, and to me that almost makes it feel like their most consistent.

FWIW I'll never understand why people consider "Space (I Believe In)" to be filler. It's odd, sure, but it still seems far too strong to me to be considered filler.

fwiw my hands down fave track on this record is 'wave of mutilation'

whores in my head

I'm absolutely baffled that "Hey" would be the #1 choice on an album with both "Debaser" and "Tame", let alone the other usual well-known hits. I had to actually listen to the album again to remember how "Hey" even went. Insanity.

There are these odd turns on Hey, then how it struggles to a chorus that is suddenly sneaks up at you and also feels aborted. Its quite unlike them, as good as Tame might be they've done a dozen songs that are around that ballpark.

Would have gone for Gouge Away myself, love that wasted riff...

doolittle has always been the most diluted pixies album for me, drawing on some of the potency and energy of surfer rosa, but watering it down with a bit of a bland pop sensibility. i like how bossanova and trompe le monde seem to be doing their own thing altogether, not stuck somewhere in between unhinged and conservative.

albini's dry sound was never suited for a pixies record. i dislike the monolithic drum sound on surfer rosa and think it kinda drown the songs. imo that record could have benefited with a more detailed/less thundering approach to production, i even prefer come on pilgrim's tiny SST-ish sound to the bombast of SR.

Gouge Away and Hey save the second half of this album, which goes downhill badly after Monkey. Then again i think Surfer Rosa goes down even further after Where Is My Mind.

Bossanova's heights aren't as strong as either but is better sequenced, same with Trompe

albini's dry sound was never suited for a pixies record. i dislike the monolithic drum sound on surfer rosa and think it kinda drown the songs.

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to the first part anyway. your own tastes are your own tastes, fine. but surfer rosa sounds exactly as it should.

i get surfer rosa is one of the quintessential albini jobs. anyway, i've always mantained the gil norton re-recorded versions of gigantic and river euphrates are miles better than the SR ones (they sound even grittier!), so i think a less clumsy approach to production would have suited surfer rosa better.

Yeah, I'm not a big Steve Albini fan or anything, but his style really works for Surfer Rosa.

"A patchwork pinch loaf from a band who at their top dollar best are blandly entertaining college rock. Their willingness to be "guided" by their manager, their record company and their producers is unparalleled. Never have I seen four cows more anxious to be led around by their nose rings."

yeah yeah

No nose rings in sight, Steve-dawg.

http://shiva.blogspot.com/pixies.jpg

Wait, what's kim doing down there?

"How I Met Your Mother" used "Hey" over its closing scenes last night. When I hear the opening notes I was like, "CBS licensed a Pixies song? o_O"

A. "heard" obvs, not "hear"
B. Yes, I actually said the emoticon out loud.

"Hey" is a bad-ass song that I often get stuck in my head.