can you guys just listen to this and concede it crushes "headache" like a grape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMT0BXosu3g
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 6 November 2014 04:52 (nine years ago) link
Great to see all the love for both "Safari" and Safari.
I haven't investigated solo Frank that much outside of the debut. The big alt-theatre company down here staged a musical based on Bluefinger a few years back and it ruled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FYR2hkQD6k
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 November 2014 05:48 (nine years ago) link
Wait what!? There was a side project poll? Why did I not know this?
― Moka, Thursday, 6 November 2014 06:46 (nine years ago) link
side poll makes you think Kim was the true creative force behind pixies.
― Moka, Thursday, 6 November 2014 06:47 (nine years ago) link
surely all (most) those Divine Hammer votes must have been tactical, trying to break an assumed Cannonball stranglehold
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 6 November 2014 07:32 (nine years ago) link
nope
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 6 November 2014 07:34 (nine years ago) link
I mean, okay, I listened, and nope
the only post-Doolittle Blank Frank record I own is the Headache 7" with the acoustic version on the B-side, but I liked the first album
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 6 November 2014 07:37 (nine years ago) link
[checks Teenager track listing]
Whatever Happened to Pong?, (I Want to Live on an) Abstract Plain, Bad Wicked World - heard all those on a '90s radio session ten years ago, also p good iirc
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 6 November 2014 07:40 (nine years ago) link
Still repping for Speedy Marie, still don't really get to complain because I didn't vote :(
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 6 November 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
top three seemed pretty obvious, in some order. never really need to hear any of them again. pleased that safari, do you love me now and iris placed well.
thanks JF for the whole shebang, great stuff
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 6 November 2014 12:40 (nine years ago) link
I guess? But to me this is one of those areas where popular judgment basically got it right. "Cannonball" was a giant hit because it was unstoppably great. I voted "Do You Love Me Now" #1 but it was a close thing between those two.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 6 November 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
Cheap truckdriver key change at the end, thin sound
Truckdriver key change usually refers to a whole-step modulation -- "Headache" jumps up a 5th, from B to E!
― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Thursday, 6 November 2014 13:55 (nine years ago) link
one of the greatest, weirdest, fiercest acts of the era and ilm votes for the song that sounds like a cover of "feed the tree"
eh I feel this stupid need to insist that "Feed the Tree" is p. great and weird, if not fierce, and "Divine Hammer" has reasonable scores for all 3 imo (OK maybe more "lyrically unconventional" than "weird"), but I get your point
I didn't vote in either poll because I didn't feel my knowledge was encyclopedic enough but if I'd paid attention to the fact there was a side-projects poll and thought about how much of the 90s I spent listening to the Breeders (and all related bands) and pre-Catholics FB I should probably have got something together
― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 6 November 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
But to me this is one of those areas where popular judgment basically got it right. "Cannonball" was a giant hit because it was unstoppably great.
yes, I agree, one of the two best pop singles of the '90s - which is why I assume people overthought their voting, because it should have won.
or if beaten, only been by Safari
― the incredible string gland (sic), Thursday, 6 November 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
still an overall great album – white Noise Maker also got a vote from me in the side poll and Thalassocracy came close.
i will also "nope" this. 'tis a fine song, but for me Headache is an all all-time great song.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 6 November 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
wheay-hey-hey-hay, isn't so great, since you learned karate, chop chop CHop chop...
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 6 November 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
I remembered reading an article about the Pixies about 20 years ago where it described the Velouria video as "the band members running in slow motion in the buff" and this thread somehow jogged that out of my memory banks so I just went to YouTube to watch the video and realize that it was actually "the band members running in slow motion down a bluff".
― how's life, Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
lol
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 6 November 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
Cannonball: Love Shack:: Divine Hammer: Roam
― livid in America (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 7 November 2014 01:47 (nine years ago) link
good call!
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 7 November 2014 03:19 (nine years ago) link
wow there is something so deeply, deeply right about that analogy
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 7 November 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link
I'm ranking for fire!.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 October 2018 01:53 (five years ago) link