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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Hahah that is awesome with the "nawww naww nawww" pretend guitar he's sings :D
― Trayce, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 07:18 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Sometimes, Dead is better.
― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Unexpected but correct.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Interesting!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 August 2007 23:18 (sixteen years ago) link
ilmotm
― Drooone, Thursday, 9 August 2007 00:08 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Two people voted for La La Love You? WTF?
― StanM, Thursday, 9 August 2007 04:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i voted for "tame" but "i bleed" deserves more love
― latebloomer, Thursday, 9 August 2007 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Debaser is not that good!
― mizzell, Thursday, 9 August 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (sixteen years ago) link
Bam Thwok is better than at least half of these songs.
― nate woolls, Thursday, 9 August 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
"Hey"?? Strange decision, not even in the best ten songs of the album.
― zeus, Thursday, 9 August 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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― special guest stars mark bronson, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 14:48 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
really surprised at this outcome. hey? really?
― goole, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
this should be a yearly poll. gouge away would win for me x99999999
― bnw, Wednesday, 4 February 2009 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
How is this album so perfect.
― Turangalila, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
It's incomprehensible.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
charlie otm
― some dude, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
some dude totally incorrect.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:21 (twelve years ago) link
thermo otm
― ASPIE Rocky (dayo), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
dayo itt
― some dude, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:31 (twelve years ago) link
some dude otm
― charlie h, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:34 (twelve years ago) link
the circle is complete.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
some dude and charlie h completely and utterly wrong
― (Algerian Goalkeeper) Vs (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
trompe le monde
― so solaris (Lamp), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:38 (twelve years ago) link
sb
― balls, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
pixies 87-89 >>>>>>> bossanova/trompe le monde
― cock chirea, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 08:10 (twelve years ago) link
am with ship & charlie here, except that I think Trompe might be worse...Doolittle imo is the classic whole-is-less-than-the-sum-of-its-parts album; I like a ton of the songs, and feel overwhelmed when I try to rank them, but there's something about the context--the pacing, or maybe Gil Norton's production--that makes them sound impossibly stiff and pretentious, like some gallery exhibit for Black Francis's abstract song-sculptures.
Whereas, Surfer Rosa's audio-verite production makes that album sound like rock music as a form is undergoing some wrenching transformation as we're listening...
― stay tuned for more BLAHBLAHBLAH I'M A PEDANT (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 14:15 (twelve years ago) link
naw u crazy
― flopson, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
1. Surfer Rosa2. Trompe Le Monde3. Doolittle4. Bossanova
― Turrican, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link