i have one of those gadgets from men in black and whenever i see a reference to 21st c. pixies material i zap myself.
the film, not the frank black song
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
No indicindy ne. The song I've loved most during the reformation years gigs is Velouria. It always sounds so magnificent.
Also late voters should check Subbacultcha again. mf awesome. There's something about that song. It's on the Purple tapes as a lesser version i seem to remember?
― kraudive, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
COP: 2SR: 5D:10B: 4TLM: 0 (controversial!)IC: 0B-sides: 1
― prince moth mothy moth moth (cajunsunday), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:19 (nine years ago) link
I could have easily put 5 songs from Teenager of the Year on my non Pixies list.
― mizzell, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:22 (nine years ago) link
Is there anything good anywhere online on Pixies lyrics? I'd like someone cleverer than me to think about them for me. (Quarter-remembered Melody Maker articles from 1989 aren't going to help.)
― Citizen Smith (Jamie T Smith)
http://songmeanings.com/artist/view/songs/891/
User interpretations. Mind you the Pixies were dadaists or something, so half of the time their lyrics don't mean a damn thing.
― Moka, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
it's not rocket science dudes, every song is about sex and death and then all of a sudden every song is about aliens
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Yes, that seems about right.
― Moka, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
CoP = 3, SR = 8, D = 5, B = 4, TLM = 2
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:01 (nine years ago) link
sent - hope you got it
lots of TLM
― kraudive, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
tried as much as i could to include a b-side but it fell too forced, so none for me.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:24 (nine years ago) link
I think I only had one CoP song in mine (two if you count Vamos but I was thinking about Surfer Rosa's version).
― Moka, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
yeah, same as that, Into The White is kinda great but it's never gonna fit into the top 22 imm.
xp
― kraudive, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
Something about Lovely Day I can't quite put my finger on it, but to me it's one of their better lesser celebrated songs.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
Also, I always imagined Bossanova (side 1) and TLM (side 2) has a space conspiracy double album, with two very distinct and competing style, and it multiplied my love for both records over time.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
I once heard their B-Sides album compilation and I didn't like it. As far as B-sides go it's a great compilation but compared to the other Pixies work it doesn't measure up to the actual songs on the albums.
The highlights for me in there where the alternate versions of the album records. The fuzzier version of River Euphrates, the opiate, surf version of Wave of Mutilation and The Thing (which is a revamp of the second half of The Happening).
The 'original' b-sides which are worth anything, imho, are Manta Ray and Into the White.
― Moka, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
Currently soliciting ideas for punny titles for the results thread.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 October 2014 05:20 (nine years ago) link
He bought me a soda and he tried to POLLest me in the parking lot
― Darin, Thursday, 23 October 2014 05:32 (nine years ago) link
This is a POLL about a superhero named Tony
― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 October 2014 05:54 (nine years ago) link
Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, let's have a POLL
― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 October 2014 06:23 (nine years ago) link
^lock thread
― hardcore dilettante, Thursday, 23 October 2014 06:34 (nine years ago) link
He was into field hockey POLLers
― Don A Henley And Get Over It (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 23 October 2014 07:20 (nine years ago) link
The creature in the sky got sucked in a POLL
― ledge, Thursday, 23 October 2014 07:41 (nine years ago) link
Losing my POLL to a whore with disease
― nate woolls, Thursday, 23 October 2014 08:24 (nine years ago) link
Something about Lovely Day I can't quite put my finger on it, but to me it's one of their better lesser celebrated songs.― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, October 22, 2014 7:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, October 22, 2014 7:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's got the same "trying to make our long distance relationship work by sending stuff in the mail" vibe as Letter to Memphis and Cactus. Any others like this?
― kelly sleater's pro kinney (how's life), Thursday, 23 October 2014 08:55 (nine years ago) link
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 23 October 2014 12:35 (nine years ago) link
It's educationPOLL
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 23 October 2014 12:35 (nine years ago) link
poll my songs into the ocean
― how's life, Thursday, 23 October 2014 12:38 (nine years ago) link
Hold my head / we'll tramPOLLine
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 23 October 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
poll running on this panamanian schooner
― how's life, Thursday, 23 October 2014 12:52 (nine years ago) link
Break my body, POLL my bones
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 23 October 2014 12:58 (nine years ago) link
I like Lou Reed, she said, slipping her poll in my ear
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Thursday, 23 October 2014 13:03 (nine years ago) link
Oh my POLLy
tbf though nate's suggestion is the clear winner
― bizarro gazzara, Thursday, 23 October 2014 13:05 (nine years ago) link
Remember, tomorrow's the last day to vote! 24 ballots at present, so it will be a successful poll regardless, but if you're out there and on the fence about voting, just do it.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:19 (nine years ago) link
I should be able to finish my ballot today.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
Trying to organize mine now. I've got my top 5-6 in place, so the rest is kind of arbitrary, just need to work it out.
― bippity bup at the hotel california (Phil D.), Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
crack crack crackity POLL
I guess I should vote to make sure that Gigantic finishes #1. Though how it could not, I have no idea.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 23 October 2014 15:36 (nine years ago) link
Something against POLLS
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 23 October 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
ballot sent. man the past few years of the reunion tour made me forgot how the Pixies rocked my teenage years, them reuniting in 2004 was everything to me.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 23 October 2014 18:01 (nine years ago) link
My ballot's on its way but I realize how much of a soft spot for the songs that mention that album's title.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 23 October 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
― nate woolls
― Moka, Thursday, 23 October 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
One thing that I left off my ballot is the cover of David Lynch's "In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)" which they covered live back in the day in an extremely heavy way, maybe as heavy as they got, and for much, much longer than the short snippet that appeared as a B-side.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 23 October 2014 19:46 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qkoGA_ewic
― Welcome To (Turrican), Thursday, 23 October 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Poll sent.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:07 (nine years ago) link
er Ballot
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 23 October 2014 20:09 (nine years ago) link
Just voted after taking 10 minutes and sorting through my favorites.
― voodoo chili, Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
vote doesn't count unless you clearly over-thought things.
― AKA Thermo Thinwall (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 23 October 2014 21:35 (nine years ago) link
This is a song about a war criminal named Kony. It's called Kony's theme!!!!!
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Friday, 24 October 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
One thing that I left off my ballot is the cover of David Lynch's "In Heaven (Lady In The Radiator Song)"
Never fear, it's on mine
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 24 October 2014 01:11 (nine years ago) link
Alright, just voted.
― kornrulez6969, Friday, 24 October 2014 02:12 (nine years ago) link
voted! Listening was fun (and EDUCATIONAL!) & I don't know if it's something bred in the times or what, but for me the falloff between Doolittle and the two after that is drastic. It's like... there's quality there but I can't crawl through the production to hear it.
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 24 October 2014 03:53 (nine years ago) link