The MFSL issue of Bossanova strips all the sheen away. Not to my liking at all
― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 4 January 2022 22:24 (two years ago) link
i listened to doolittle today. really good album imo
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
been listening to the pixies albums (Doolittle, trompe le monde, surfer Rosa) at work and loving it recently, sounds as good as I remember from my late teens, which was when I really listened to them. Creative, unique albums
― Swanswans, Wednesday, 5 January 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
the first time I heard his voice (something from Come On Pilgrim) I was convinced he was Gordon Gano
― StanM, Thursday, 6 January 2022 06:29 (two years ago) link
i'd like to think i'm not in the minority here, but realizing kim deal's track record over frank has probably been a big blight on the overall pixies image. i will pull any breeders record out any day of the week and not be disappointed where i can't say the same for the pixies at this point.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 6 January 2022 06:53 (two years ago) link
100%, Deal takes Francis out ANY day. although Title TK is my favourite so I may not be “of the majority” either
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 6 January 2022 07:39 (two years ago) link
Huh. I love Kim Deal, but I don't like anything by her as much as I like the Pixies with her. I like every single Pixies track, b-sides and all, but I've really never gotten that excited about the Breeders, first album perhaps aside. Post-Pixies, sure, I'd probably gravitate toward Deal because her six albums with the Breeders/Amps are as a whole better than Frank's (counts) 18 post-Pixies albums. Though of the ones I've heard or remember, I don't recall anything bad, and the times I saw him solo were pretty strong whereas the five or so times I've seen Deal live were pretty erratic.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2022 13:38 (two years ago) link
i prefer the breeders as well. doesn’t stop doolittle from being the best rock album ever
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 6 January 2022 14:02 (two years ago) link
Incidentally, Pixies is another band I love that I've just never sought out live clips of. But this set is great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzA3eCHI2ns
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 6 January 2022 16:31 (two years ago) link
I think the first two Frank Black solo albums are really great, basically carrying forward Trompe Le Monde
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 January 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
yeah i think they still sound very cool — his early solo releases are kind of like a West Coast speculative fiction novel mixed with memoir, looking back at a weird southern California past and forward to an apocalyptic future. they're interesting!
― tylerw, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:21 (two years ago) link
Cult of Ray wasn’t bad. It suffered from heinous cover art.
― Cow_Art, Thursday, 6 January 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
For a while, I'd rank their greater output as Pod, Surfer Rosa > the other three Pixie Albums > Last Splash, Teenager of the Year > various solid tracks mixed among the rest, like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQgV9q6fl1I
― the plant based god (bendy), Thursday, 6 January 2022 18:45 (two years ago) link
First 3 Frank Blacks over any Breeders for me, but Breeders win for overall consistency.
First Catholics album has some fun stuff but really tanks later on. Gotta buy Oddballs now, I've waited too long.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:12 (two years ago) link
hoo boy bendy, if that's a highlight . . . yikes.
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Thursday, 6 January 2022 19:18 (two years ago) link
Hmm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbXP8PdwnWM
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 June 2022 02:28 (one year ago) link
well that could suck a golf ball through a garden hose
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 12 June 2022 05:07 (one year ago) link
That one's ok when judged against other nu-Pixies work, which is how you have to approach these things now.
I thought this one was better, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ofPSefhyQ
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 12 June 2022 05:28 (one year ago) link
I was thinking the other day of making a thread on artists who had an amazing burst of creativity but pieced it out slowly over several albums. (Lou Reed's VU-era songs, Liz Phair's first songs, etc.) Forgot that the Pixies had the "purple" tape demos, which had songs that ended up on all four of their original albums.
― birdistheword, Sunday, 12 June 2022 05:38 (one year ago) link
I suspect that’s “all artists”, it’s just that we only know about those ones
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 12 June 2022 06:32 (one year ago) link
It's related to that "you have your entire life to make a first album, and six weeks to make the second" principle. Anyway, Cheap Trick is one of those bands. Van Halen, too; they were mining old demos as recently as the final album, the DLR reunion record.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 June 2022 12:34 (one year ago) link
Doggerel is surprisingly solid imho - in a "this sounds like a band that listened to the first four Pixies albums" kind of way though. Nothing groundbreaking
― StanM, Saturday, 1 October 2022 09:37 (one year ago) link
I need to hear this
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 22:08 (one year ago) link
Curious to check this out. While still standing multiple levels below their original run, each new album since the reunion has been marginally better than the previous.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 22:22 (one year ago) link
I don't know if Arte videos are region limited but this is going to be online for 6 Months: live at L'Olympia, Paris, March 16 2023
https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/113636-000-A/pixies-a-l-olympia/
setlist: (37 songs) https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pixies/2023/lolympia-bruno-coquatrix-paris-france-53bbbbfd.html
― StanM, Monday, 20 March 2023 18:27 (one year ago) link
He's achieved more success than I ever will, but... is its ever weird that he has an entire career based on 3 or 4 years in his early 20s? I guess it's a common rock thing.
― paulhw, Monday, 20 March 2023 23:06 (one year ago) link
Kinda like the Violent Femmes. They recorded other great stuff, but most of the accolades are based on an initial burst of songwriting that trailed off.
― Cow_Art, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 02:02 (one year ago) link
― paulhw,
Nah.
― the very juice and sperm of kindness. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 02:32 (one year ago) link
the first two Frank Black records are great
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 02:33 (one year ago) link
First three are fantastic, I love them as much as Pixies stuff although there are patchy areas but I feel that way about some Pixies albums too
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 21 March 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
I've probably posted this before, but my favorite post-Pixies thing he's done is the Golem rock album from 2011.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 16:26 (one year ago) link
I should also say that although you'd probably not get him working on an album for several years, he has done pretty much what he wanted, I can't see a lot of pandering at all. Most of his solo stuff had a blues-country rock thing and it actually intensified around the time of the reunion and Grand Duchy seemed pretty different from what little I've heard of that. A good chunk of this stuff might sound unrecognizable to fans of early Pixies.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 20:29 (one year ago) link
I never noticed this before- that sublime “and evolving from the sea” section of The Sad Punk is almost surely a callback to the “and when you’re high” section of Welcome to the Jungle. Very similar(almost transcendent) feel to me.
― epistantophus, Sunday, 30 April 2023 17:26 (one year ago) link
Apparently Paz got fired. Speculation is that it was for publicly supporting Ariel Pink. Wonder if Black still fires people by fax.
While still far short of the original run, I actually thought the two albums with Paz were the most interesting things they'd done since the reunion.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:29 (two months ago) link
I wondered about the Pink thing but her posts about that were some time ago at this point. Either way too bad, as I am a big fan of hers in general and only last week was thinking I might bother to see the pIxies again the next time they come through mainly because she's playing with them.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Thursday, 7 March 2024 15:39 (two months ago) link
Maybe she really did want to move on and work on her own stuff?
― birdistheword, Thursday, 7 March 2024 17:27 (two months ago) link
I mean, she herself described it as firing..
https://preview.redd.it/interesting-exchange-v0-5vdzmtmsupmc1.jpeg?auto=webp&s=891238057aa3f22f5cb0f94f76cfb4c0f8aa254d
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 March 2024 17:32 (two months ago) link
(fwiw she appears to have since deleted that one and her public statements have been more balanced)
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 7 March 2024 17:34 (two months ago) link
ahhhhh, nm
― birdistheword, Thursday, 7 March 2024 17:52 (two months ago) link
lots of rumors circulating that she's a right wing loon, but these seem to be based off her Pink defense plus she posted something when javier milei won in Argentina that some took as support. But there doesn't seem to be any other evidence.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 8 March 2024 14:24 (two months ago) link
lol at losing Paz damaging the Pixies permanently. You can't kill what is already dead!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 8 March 2024 14:29 (two months ago) link
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, March 8, 2024 8:24 AM (ten minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah but there's always more, i can't think of one time when an artist had some little flirtations with right wing/terf whatever stuff and it didn't end up being worse
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2024 14:36 (two months ago) link
Barbara Motchan@barbara_motchan·Mar 5Replying to @PIXIESPaz made the Pixies who they are today!! The Pixies will be nothing now without Paz. Just tell the truth.....
BLACK FRANCIS, YOU FIRED PAZ!!
lmao
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 8 March 2024 14:38 (two months ago) link
I mean, I will say the two studio albums she played on were miles better than any of the other reunion era studio stuff, but I'm not sure how much credit she takes for that.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 8 March 2024 14:53 (two months ago) link
she wrote a bunch of stuff on beyond the eirie or whatever it's called, but it's still not like, great. It's ok.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 8 March 2024 15:37 (two months ago) link
Neil Young, but that was the '80s - most of America was crazy for Reagan.
― birdistheword, Friday, 8 March 2024 19:10 (two months ago) link
But yeah, I can't say it's a big loss. I can't see anyone getting nostalgic for the Paz-era of the Pixies 20 years from now.
― birdistheword, Friday, 8 March 2024 19:12 (two months ago) link
maybe they'll hire a third Kim
― alpine static, Friday, 8 March 2024 19:45 (two months ago) link
Jong Un
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:49 (two months ago) link
nah the band already has a dictator
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 8 March 2024 19:50 (two months ago) link