Your POLL's got a little machine: ILM Artist Poll #71 • Pixies (Voting Thread)

The biggest difficulty for me was conceptualizing of Palace of the Brine and Letter to Memphis as two separate songs. I always hear that as a mini-suite. Parts 1 & 2.

Yeah, I had Trompe on cassette for quite a long time before I bought it on cd, so I was surprised to find out they were two individual songs (even though I knew they were based on the tracklisting).

Broken Face is likely to be in my top 3, Hey probably won't even make the 22 .

I shouldn't try to predict placings I know, but will God be 7?

Based on the balloting so far, The Devil is 5, Man is 6 and God is 7.

"Hey"'s landslide win in the Doolittle poll was shocking to me. It's a fine song but fairly middling in the context of the Pixies' catalog on the whole, IMO. Had no idea it was held in such high esteem by so many.

Based on the balloting so far, The Devil is 5, Man is 6 and God is 7.

fuk I messed up my own joke

There's something so sexy and wrong and desperate at the way Frank sings 'We're Chained' in Hey that makes it one of my favorite songs by them. Cactus is my number 2 pick for the same reasons, I love the bent sex world and lusty yearning they share.

I had me a vision...

so, which tracks are people voting for off Indie Cindy?

Expect a very Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde-heavy ballot from yours truly.

My ballot's in!

Just sent my ballot. Of all the ILM polls I've participated in (not that many, actually), this was the hardest to do. So many great songs! I've been on a Trompe Le Monde binge the past few days thanks to this poll. I used to consider it somewhat of a lesser Pixies record, but now I like it more than Bossanova. It's just as classic as the other Pixies records.

I just want to stick up for Brick Is Red, which I think is fantastic, but will probably get overlooked.

Brick is Red is terrific!

8 ballots in already. MOAR PLZ

I did vote for Brick is Red... it's on the lower part of my ballot, but it's definitely one of the best songs on Surfer Rosa. That and Oh my Golly! save the last part of the album from being a mess, the highlights seem to be stacked on the first half.

Not that the second half is necessarily bad but it just doesn't compare to the first half.

The opening two tracks are probably the best

This is gonna be fun when I can get around to blasting the lps again. Was always a big, big fan of Trompe le Monde - some of their most beautiful tunes are on there.

Something about the typeface on Surfer Rosa always made me think that song was called Buick is Red.

I think its similar to a lot of the 4ad stuff. I got some earlier Lush song names wrong as well, I think. I always thought their first record was called Sear when I was a kid. Maybe it was just me.

"What's your guys' philosophy of the world?" is what the interviewer asked the band in that clip up there, just so everyone's clear.

I have never voted in a poll before but may try to do this one tonight.

I used to have this idea that Velouria and Wave of Mutilation and River Euphrates were basically the same song. I'm not convinced by this any more.

BTW I had a tough decision between "rate songs by my 'objective' opinion of how amazing they are" vs. "rate songs by how deeply embedded into my sense of self they were between 1988 and 1993" and I went with the later, partly because I didn't have time to do a scientific re-listening to all the songs in the catalog. So my ballot is CoP/SR/Doolittle heavy, because those were the records I cared about most at the time. Hoping this poll will illuminate the later records for me.

River Euphrates = probably my #1

Oh man, this is going to be hard. Voted all Pixies off the iPod a long time ago so haven't heard a note in years, but listening to that clip of "Dead" above made me realize how many of their songs are hardwired into my amygdala. Will listen scientifically & vote from the guts.

I used to have this idea that Velouria and Wave of Mutilation and River Euphrates were basically the same song. I'm not convinced by this any more.

― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), sábado 18 de octubre de 2014 22:22 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They share the same backbone but the style is very different depending on the album. You can listen to the three in a row and note their evolution. surfer rosa is loose and unruly like a child, doolitle is more confident and lush and bossanova is more forlorn and fatalistic. It may sound like I'm on drugs but they capture the esence of each record and the stages of the band perfectly the "childhood" (river euphrates), the teen years (wave of mutilation) and adulthood (Velouria).

In an effort to be completely thorough before making my ballot, I'm listening to Indie Cindy again for the first time since it showed up earlier this year. These songs aren't as objectively horrible/bland as I remember them all being, but Charles Thompson is an old lazy man now who picks melodically low-hanging fruit rather than approaching songwriting from bizarre angles like he did in his youth.

Everything is still too long, though. Shortest thing is 3:11, which would be among the longer tracks on any previous Pixies album.

The problem I have with Indie Cindy is that it sounds like they're trying too hard to live up to their past output. They're not the type of band that should over-think things. Nobody was asking for a new album so they might as well just had fun with it.

I've given Bossanova a few listens and there's nothing there that'll make my ballot. Trompe le Monde is better but it's looking likely that my ballot will be all CoP/SR/D.

i was at a wedding over the weekend and managed to get my table debating he best pixies tracks.

Excellent work!

I've given Bossanova a few listens and there's nothing there that'll make my ballot.

― nate woolls, Monday, October 20, 2014 7:35 PM (1 hour ago)

Velouria!!

ffs. really.

Yeah Velouria is alright but there's 22 better songs on the other albums.

pixies + muffs might have worked out better if kim shattuck replaced frank black instead.

Bossanova is just not a very good album.

I disagree. I love it and never understood why people were disapointed by it. Maybe they expected something less polished but there isn't really a bad song on it and the first 8 are as solid as any of their best work.
To me it sounds a lot like what The Breeders would do later except better.

I hadn't heard Distance = Rate x Time in decades. That is a doozy! Holy cow

Voted. A Doolittle heavy but Bossanova and Trompe le Monde friendly ballot. One from Surfer Rosa. None from Come on Pilgrim.

I love Bossanova so much. It was my first Pixies and I bought it at the same time I got The Bends. You can hear where early Radiohead lifted from it.

Q: Kelley Deal 6000 for the side poll--I assume, nay?

bossnova is fine in isolation but listening to COP thru TLM back to back it was remarkable just how much worse than everything else it is.

Trompe le Monde - 9
Doolittle - 8
Surfer Rosa - 5

I've only listened to Come On, Pilgrim and Bossanova once each.

Giving Bossanova & Trompe le Monde one more listen this afternoon then putting my ballot together tonight. Expecting a lot of Surfer Rosa, a little of Doolittle and one or two from Come On Pilgrim.

Misheard lyrics that I only just got around to looking up:

Fall on your face in those bad shoes
Lion-O lockjaw
TAME!

COP 4
SR 6
D 8
B 1
TLM 3

pixies b-sides range from bad to mediocre without exception, i don't understand the tremendous appeal they apparently have

I like 'Into the White' and the two Neil Young covers a lot but they'd barely make my top 30 Pixies songs.

<3 "Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons"

I'm working my way though this based on how much I like these tunes right now, rather than what I liked >20 years ago. So, Debaser, which I loved, probably won't make the cut because I feel like I've heard it faaaaaaaaaar too many times.

At least we can all agree Doolitle is the tits, right?

I danced around it for a long time, but I finally made peace with the fact their most popular album (Doolittle) is also their best (Doolittle).

Actually, it might well have done, but I think you've still got a few hours left to vote

12 midnight edt is +4 in gmt.

If the devil is +4 gmt, then god is +5 gmt. No way I'm going to make it, read abt this too late, still working. But watching this closely.

Sent.

i feel bad that lots of you guys are obviously putting much more work into this than i did

can i still vote? it will take me an hour or so - i've already made a 30 song shortlist.

Yeah, right around 4 hours left.

cheers Johnny.

sent x

Bossa=6
Pilgrim= 6
Trompe=3
Surfer=4
Doo=3

I went Doolittle heavy...

Doolittle: 9
Surfer Rosa: 5
Bossanova: 3
Trompe Le Monde: 3
COI: 2

LAST CALL - 51 minutes left.

when you plan on rolling out the results?

COI: 2

COME ON ILGRIM

C = 1
S = 7
D = 5
B = 5
T = 1
+ 3 B-sides

<i>when you plan on rolling out the results?</i>

Will start things on Monday.

And with that...voting is closed!

41 ballots, btw. Good haul!

Make that 42, but that's it. No more.

There's only two acceptable winners in this poll: Hey or Debaser. Don't let me down ILM.

Thanks for doing this JF.

42 is a great haul!

soooooo psyched for this

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