destroy: show me your tears (wayward and disorienting)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Destroy: everything else
― Venga (Venga), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― ledge (ledge), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― bendy (bendy), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 13:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link
bendy: There is something incredibly powerful about that song, isn't there? Maybe not all men would agree.
― relaxing (relaxing), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― bendy (bendy), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
DestroyEverything else since 2001 bar "Selkie Bride" and "Manitoba"
― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― held tony (held tony), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― i'll mitya halfway (mitya), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hugo Lovelace (Hugo Lovelace), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
"i'm a JERK!"
― 6335 (6335), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:36 (seventeen years ago) link
suckin' syzzzzurp and soda youre gonna jus get hotter~!@
― held tony (held tony), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 17:43 (seventeen years ago) link
d: everything else has left me really bored, but to be frank (oh!) i've never really listened closely.
this is kinda the music corollory of 'all politics is local.'
― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 10:26 (seventeen years ago) link
god just the ugliest cover art on the planet with this guy constantly
― your son rip is on line toot (iiiijjjj), Sunday, 21 June 2009 00:57 (fourteen years ago) link
The "rock songs" version of The Golem is pretty good! First time I've been excited about a Frank Black/Black Francis thing since Dog in the Sand.
― o. nate, Saturday, 22 October 2011 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I'm really digging this. love "Miriam and Florian" and "bad news".this is my favorite thing he's done in awhile.
― gman59, Monday, 14 November 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
Those are nice, yeah. I don't dislike any of the songs on here, but I think my favorite run is Astaroth->The Obedient Servant->The Maharal.
― o. nate, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
haven't heard golem, but his bluefinger album from a year or two ago was surprisingly strong.still listen to the first 3 solo albms a lot.
― mizzell, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
"Threshold Apprehension" from bluefinger came on the other day in a mix, and I was thinking Mclusky? Beastie Boys? I had a FB sense about it, and was happy it was him. Great song. It made me more inclined to comb through his later releases.
― dlp9001, Saturday, 26 March 2016 20:35 (eight years ago) link
i used to like that one - getting old is a bitch - bluefinger is his most pixies-like thing i reckon
― peanutbuttereverysingleday, Sunday, 27 March 2016 05:00 (eight years ago) link
search: cult of ray (gem, and oft overlooked critically)
― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Tuesday, October 3, 2006 2:15 PM
Thankyou, I'm very saddened by how many think it's a bad album (just confirmed by looking at reviews), I think it's brilliant and essential but just not quite as good as the previous two. But you need it!
Also sad: no mentions in the recent early 90s polls and surprisingly short threads here. I've got 14 of his albums, if I had to recommend some after the first 3, it would be Dog In The Sand, I find most everything else a mixed bag. Pistolero has some fun, the first Catholics album is great in the first half. As much as I'm eager to boost/defend some of his stuff, I'm not that interested in hearing the newer albums, whether solo, Grand Duchy of even new Pixies. Maybe some years down the line. But I will be getting Oddballs soon, wanted to hear that for years.
Got Black Session recently (French live show from 94) and it just seems okay so far, will give it a few more spins. But there's lots of lyrics I never noticed before, this inspired me to read the lyrics for some early songs and they are amusingly incomprehensible (particularly "Thalassocracy").
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 October 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
Genuinely surprised by the dislike for "I Don't Want To Hurt You (Every Single Time)", I think it's lovely.
"Out of State" on Devil's Workshop is one of his better later-ish songs.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 18 October 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link