get ready for challops!
"Gigantic" was better when Weezer remade it as "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here."
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 18 May 2009 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I didn't remember doing the poll, but looking back at my earlier post, I followed the exact same thought process when voting. I guess I have pretty entrenched feelings about this album.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 18 May 2009 13:06 (fourteen years ago) link
gigantic is pretty yawnsome, where is my mind is pretty awesome, but i always preferred doolittle.
― massive dynamic lady (ledge), Monday, 18 May 2009 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
When these were out I had Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa on either side of a cassette, and thought of them as two sides of the same album; I never really thought about how much more I like Come on Pilgrim. Though of course "Gigantic" is one of the best 3 Pixies songs probably and is a clear winner here. Loved, I think, because it's so majestically simple and strips out from the idea of song every element apart from "Pixiesness," and still flies.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 May 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Almost went for "Oh My Golly!" but switched to "Vamos" at the last second. "If we get bored....we'll move to cALiForNIAA!" A lot of things could have won this for me really. "Gigantic" obv.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, November 18, 2007 7:52 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ha, this time I voted for "Oh My Golly!" without a moment's hesitation. By far the most fun to sing without having to know the words.
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 18 May 2009 13:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Far and away my favorite Pixies, and "Broken Face" has always been the top track; the way it moves from the hanging sustained note to the full-on crush. If their legacy is the loud-soft thing, that's my favorite example of it. Also, I think the "I got no lips / got no tongue" expresses paralysis and confusion better than "Where is My Mind"
― bendy, Monday, 18 May 2009 16:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Gigantic has a boring chorus.
― paulhw, Monday, 18 May 2009 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
I think that the pre-chorus is more boring: "Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Hey Paul, Let's have a ball." If I didn't know that the part where she goes "GI-GAN-TIC! GI-GAN-TIC!" was coming up, I'd turn it off right there.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Monday, 18 May 2009 18:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Bone Machine.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 05:42 (fourteen years ago) link
second poll of the song/album/band never really seem to work on ILM.
― Bee OK, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 05:59 (fourteen years ago) link
srsly this album is all time top 10 for me...
River Euphrates (tho i feel like I should rep for Brick is Red)
― even corpse management will be at risk (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 19 May 2009 21:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 24 May 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Gigantic
― sonderangerbot, Sunday, 24 May 2009 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
too lazy to think on it. Gigantic.
― phantompenguin, Sunday, 24 May 2009 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
river euphrates
― Vokuhila (latebloomer), Monday, 25 May 2009 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe broken face
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 25 May 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Crap, now I can't remember if I even voted in my own poll. Or what I voted for if I did. I should write this shit down.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 26 May 2009 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, no track left un-voted for!
― I wish he hadn't adapted my critique of his "ilxor" moniker (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 26 May 2009 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link
30 Yearshttp://thequietus.com/articles/24210-pixies-surfer-rosa-review-anniversary
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 15:08 (six years ago) link
Pretty good piece. But is it really “ride the tyre down Ricer Euphrates”? I’ve always heard “tiger” but I guess they don’t float too well and object to being ridden.
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
I've always thought it was tiger too. Let's just pretend it is.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 20:01 (six years ago) link
ugh, RIVER, typing on a phone without glasses
― startled macropod (MatthewK), Thursday, 15 March 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
Always figured it was Tiger because of the name of the other big river in Mesopotamia.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 15 March 2018 05:02 (six years ago) link
I got logged out of Facebook BY Facebook this weekend because sometime in November I commented on a status with a youtube of "I'm Amazed" and the cover image on it was the album cover, boobs and all. Apparently that's a violation of Community Standards.
― Ubering With The King (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
It still bewilders me that boobs are somehow offensive. Like, to whom? Answer's Break My Body tho
― albvivertine, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
antisemitism on the hand is ok on fb. how hypocritical!
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 9 August 2018 14:00 (five years ago) link
I had the same thing last weekend after sharing a YouTube of "Oh My Golly" or something last September. They must be on boobwatch.
― the Joao looked at Jonny (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 August 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
Many Americans are scared of the female body and have trouble not looking at it as anything but a sexual object.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 9 August 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
This is more specific to FB than general cultural mores. We’re talking about widely available album cover images hereThere’s a big ongoing thing w/FB censoring breastfeeding community/instructional pics
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Thursday, 9 August 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
For the better part of my teenage years this was my favorite album. Where is My Mind and Gigantic where the initial highlights and I played them until they wore them out. these days Break my body and Cactus are the ones I’m the most fond of.
I prefer Doollitle by a long shot, which I didn’t really listen to until I was in my mid 20s almost a decade later after being in love with this album. Don’t know how to describe it but Surfer Rosa does seem to have a more manic and free form, all songs feel loose and a little bit like controlled chaos in a good way. Doolitle is more traditionally shaped.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 9 August 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
My best friend made a (cassette) copy of Surfer Rosa for me somewhere toward the end of 1989, at the beginning of 9th grade; I probably already knew Doolittle from 120 Minutes play. I don't know if it was by snobby design, but he left off "Where is My Mind?" so that he could fit in a bunch of random Amphetamine Reptile singles and shit. I didn't hear that song until I bought the CD many months later.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 August 2018 15:44 (five years ago) link
he left off "Where is My Mind?" so that he could fit in a bunch of random Amphetamine Reptile singles and shit.haha, classic teen move
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Thursday, 9 August 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link