Pixies: Classic or Dud

You don't know The Happening, Shakey? That's like one of the major candidates for the best post-Doolittle song!

apparently one of the many songs on Bossanova I've completely forgotten. I never liked the sound of that record. Apart from Velouria and Stormy Weather I didn't like it at all.

Frank's sci-fi lyrics feel very emotional - perhaps you could put this yearning for space and extra-terrestrials down to a kind of self-loathing, a desire to get as far away from the Earth as possible, a need to connect with people who aren't vile humans. Regardless, Motorway to Roswell, The Happening, Velouria, are all very affecting for me.

― antiautodefenestrationism (ledge), Tuesday, October 25, 2011 3:19 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

otm about motorway to roswell "last night he could not make it", the way it's repeated in different registers, such a plaintive note, and the outro

I don't think Velouria's about an alien - isn't she from Atlantis or something? Actually, probably Lemuria based on that lemur line.

Oops, never mind - just realized I was thinking of the Frank Black song Velvety (which the Pixies did as an instrumental B-side)

Actually, looking at the Velouria lyrics I think both songs are about that. Especially with the Mt Shasta reference at the end of the song and this from Wikipedia:

In 1894, Frederick Spencer Oliver published A Dweller on Two Planets, which claimed that survivors from a sunken continent called Lemuria were living in or on Mount Shasta in northern California. Oliver claimed the Lemurians lived in a complex of tunnels beneath the mountain and occasionally were seen walking the surface dressed in white robes.

1967:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A0Lpw09HD4

O_O

looks like I need to quit farting around and get the second Red Krayola album...

wanna grow up to be...
be a debaser!

could, in an alt universe, be a Kobain Lyric and a really good one at that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksJNALKISiw&feature=related

(only interesting variation is that they haven't got Joe's solo at the end figured out yet...)

That is from "The Purple Tape" which was a widely available bootleg in the late 80s/early 90s. Half of which ended up on Come On Pilgrim.

Like that pixies cover -- probably bcz I wd never have noticed it in a million years unless it was pointed out.

ended up as?

thats not from the Purple Tape dude

The Purple Tape 2, my bad.

I'm actually mad at the GIS results for pixies tattoo 13. The only actual 13-emblazoned tits are on dudes. Um, guys?

are those MS-13 tattoos?

two things:

1) has anyone done a super extendo 20+ min jam of "i bleed"?! if so, please direct me to it. if not, get on it imm folks.
2) i had this random memory of my friends and i going up to random people (at the mall? i don't remember) and saying "chicken butt" to see if they got it. iirc it did not go well.

omg xp MS-13 tattoos scary GIS dnw

xp: one might be, the other is definitely a scrawny white kid.

I'm actually mad at the GIS results for pixies tattoo 13. The only actual 13-emblazoned tits are on dudes. Um, guys?

― rustic italian flatbread, Thursday, October 27, 2011 10:25 AM (21 minutes ago)

try "XIII" instead

I scrolled down til I got to the furry pr0n thanks!

yiff yiff

new pixies album has 2 good songs on it

classic masher is a good song and a great title

Very doubtful.

And it’s lovely to hear a second Pixies album in a row that doesn’t contain the slur “whore”, a relief that they’ve carefully avoided the misogynistic tropes of their early work (although to wonder if they’ve grown out of this completely feels a bit optimistic, since they still play those early songs with no sense of responsibility for the lack of safety for women in a crowd of people singing along to “whore”-filled classics like ‘I’ve Been Tired’ and ‘Hey’)
http://diymag.com/2016/09/30/pixies-head-carrier-album-review

hmmmmmm

I like this record.

gonna stream this today. feels so weird to not care about a new Pixies album, 15 years ago it would have been all i wanted in the world

I think people dont even like music anymore, they just like think pieces about music.

JFC, that DIY Mag review.

5 songs in. i can't remember a single melody or song title.

I haven't heard this yet, but surely it can't be that bad. Indie Cindy wasn't a great record but it had its moments.

kornrulez6969 OTM in general, though.

That review reads like a parody of whatever is going on with the kids and their safe spaces.

whore-filled classics!

There are some very fundamental things about artistic expression that that reviewer does not understand

i like their whore songs. maybe whores are what is missing.

it's fine, there are a few songs here that are bad; but on the whole the worst thing it is is unmemorable. I like "head carrier' and 'um chagga lagga' or whatever it's called quite a bit. it does feel kind of unnecessary though. I don't know if I listened to indie cindy more than once.

Luke Haines' review of Head Carrier is OTM, despite seemingly having not realised Indie Cindy existed.
http://thetalkhouse.com/luke-haines-auteurs-blackbox-recorder-not-thrilled-heard-pixies-new-record/

I found Head Carrier a but blah after first listen, but after a couple of weeks a strange thing happened: I now can't stop playing it

I think Head Carrier is a really great name for a Pixies album! Still don't want to listen to it tho.

my 13 year old is upstairs in his room playing his guitar along with a Pixies CD right now. old Pixies. not new Pixies.

not one of the ones i liked, but i woke up this morning with "Talent" running through my head.

ugh that is one of the worst songs on the album. um chagga lagga is the one I keep getting stuck in my head and I only listened to it once

from the Luke Haines review: "her replacement — someone called Paz — does brilliantly. The excitingly named Paz seems to be a one-woman Kim Deal tribute act (this is a good thing). "

goddamnit luke do your homework. she might play like that here but she's an amazing bass player with a long history.

whore-filled classics!
There are some very fundamental things about artistic expression that that reviewer does not understand
I love PC music critics! Too bad they weren’t around hundreds of years ago to put a stop to all those nasty murder ballads still being sung today.

Looks like it may be a whore-filled classic after all
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCFPpnHFTts
Nina Keen will be upset

Paz should shave her head and grow a little beard and mustache combo.

she is a very attractive and talented woman. everyone should leave the pixies except for her

yeah she rules. saw her playing bass for RTX in a tiny club about 10 years ago and she was awesome. killer stage presence.

her performance on the new Pixies album is really pretty good. i like her duet w Frank on "Bel Esprit". and her helping write "All I Think About Now", a song about looking back on The Pixies, is cool.

but Albini's "bar band" comment has never been more appropriate. it's very generic.

also i'm pretty sure they aren't singing "Um Chagga Lagga" but "Boom Shacka Lacka", a reference to Ali G