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Topic: The Pixies |
Lazarus Disco
Myrmidon |
posted December 20, 1999 03:24 PM
  
I have been working long hours lately and haven't been posting much.
Sorry.
But, I'm back...to say I'm a Pixies fan and other Pixies fans
seem to have dropped off this lonely planet of ours.
I was awfully glad to see David Fincher end Fight Club with the
damn lovely "Where is my mind?" and Doolittle (Yum Yum) is one of
the best albums ever produced. Anywhere. Period
The Pixies were never popular enough (not that popularity is much
of a yardstick for musical success) here in the US, but people
always say that they played stadiums in Britain.
Hope some of you share my affection. dK 
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grant
Operative |
posted December 20, 1999 06:28 PM
Frank Black has been too prolific for me to catch up on, but Pod is
perfect album by Breeders.
Post Pixies still rock.
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 20, 1999 07:44 PM
Much love to The Pixies and their memory.
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Tom
Archon |
posted December 20, 1999 09:52 PM
You're talking directly to the heart - the Pixies always seemed to
me to best fit (and transform) my internal rebellious musical
aesthetic, much as the Invisibles fits (and transforms) my interal
rebellious transgressive political insurgent one. Frank Black's
stuff has gradually deteriorated in class if you ask me, but there
was nothing that either The Pixies or the Breeders did which was
anything but perfect, and the first Belly album and most of the
Throwing Muses also gets me going. The great big, ever-expanding 4AD
happy family (before the collapse and mad goths with cellos took
over)..
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matsya
Operative |
posted December 20, 1999 10:21 PM
The song "I've been Tired", which was on their first EP, but which I
came across on the CD of Surfer Rosa, became mine and my housemate's
"song of ultimate fulfillment" through my early twenties. Whenever
we were going out to a party or to see a band, we would put that
song on my stereo, crank it, and dance around screaming the lyrics
at the top of our lungs.
one-two-three...
she's a real left-winger 'cos she's been down
south and held peasants in her arms, she said I could tell you a
story that would make you cry, what about you? I said me too - I
could tell you a story that would make you cry and she sighed,
ahhhhhhh...
I said I wanna be a singer like Lou Reed. I like Lou Reed she
said, stickin' her tongue in my ear. Let's go, let's sit, let's
talk, politics goes so good with beer and while we're at why don't
you tell me one of your greatest fears I said losin' my penis to a
horrible disease just kiddin' I said losin' my life to a horrible
disease and she said excuse me, please?
Well, I'm a humble guy with healthy desires. Don't gimme no shit,
though, because I've been tired.
Damn, that's the best song EVER. Years later I had a community
radio show from 2am to 6am that I called (naturally) I've Been
Tired.
m.
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 21, 1999 12:04 AM
Debaser kicks big arse.
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Lazarus Disco
Myrmidon |
posted December 21, 1999 08:18 PM
Glad to see the Pixies so well remembered.
Frank Black was never able to carry a solo career because he was
without the angelic counterpoint of the lovely Kim Deal.
This was the grand Pixies Secret, the one that made them great:
Black Francis was the voice of the devil and Kim Deal was the
harmony of heaven. Their songs were duels on the fate of man in the
face of all of our ugliness. Black Francis would remind sing about
pollution and crustaceans, acne and vomit, then Kim Deal would
remind us of the reveries, the daydreams the blind truthful moments
where we manage to be.
Nothing recent equals them. dK
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Waxy T
Initiate |
posted December 22, 1999 12:00 PM
I love the pIxies, although I found them to late to see them live,
much the same with Janes Addiction. For both bands I was offered
tickets to their last gig's in the U.K, The Pixies at Crystal Palace
and I forget where Janes addiction was.
For me, the Pixies
sounded like nothing else, and nothing else reminds me of them.
Try and describe an average Pixies track...I cant. Take Ive been
tierd as an example, quote the lyrics to somebody who hasnt heard
them and they give you weird stares. I dont event begin to try to
know what they were about. And I love them for it.
They have the
hallmark of a great band, along with the Velvet Underground, Captain
Beefheart and Britney Spears.(Joke)
I could go on, but im
rambling.
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Tom
Archon |
posted December 22, 1999 07:29 PM
I may be in the awe of The Pixies, but that doesn't give anyone the
right to slam the GODDESS BRITNEY SPEARS - Ancient Muse of
Advertising and Copy Writing! (Sheesh - they've got me going
again).
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Lazarus Disco
Myrmidon |
posted December 22, 1999 09:15 PM
Tom-
I think he was invoking Britney in her role as the incarnation of
humorous pop phenomenon, a legitimate role for any goddess.
He was also being a Debaser! dK
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70sman
Initiate |
posted December 23, 1999 04:20 PM
Hi everybody. Im back (just).
Just thought Id tell you all that ,
at the moment , the Pixies are my favorite band.
I know nothing
of their history , discography etc. but a few months ago a freind of
mine lent me a tape with some of their stuff on and I was so
impressed that I now own Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim and Trompe le
Monde on CD and am looking to buy the rest.
Based solely on their
music , I can say that they are possibly the most extrordinary
guitar band ever.
I could go on for hours about how much I like
the different songs on the CDs , but I won't.
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