Pixies appreciation thread

IM0

Damn how did I miss out on these guys over the years!
I heard 'where is my mind' on the credits for Fight Club yeeeaars ago
and thought what a class song, but never really looked them up other than download the single.

Just lately stumbled accross one or 2 other classics on phantom I think, and realised hey (ha!) I know that song! - so decided that I really should look into these guys and MAAAAn are they good.

heard the name for yeears, and even knew some of the songs, but didnt know about the link between them

:bangs head off wall: damn all those pixie free years!

So influencial a band too (Nirvana, Offspring, Bush, and practially half of the genre too)

Class musicians/songwriters.

nobby grande

Hang your head in shame. Still they are touring again so lucky you. Everyone else had to wait for 13 years thinking they had missed their generations Beatles. Plus don't mention Bush in the same article as Pixies. Different planet.
One of the truly great / original american bands. No image or style just brilliantly written songs and excellent progression through the albums. Also if you are new to them, don't listen to the well trotted out line that says their best stuff ended with Doolittle, Bossanova is a surf / sci fi epic of colossal magnitude. Trompe le monde is filled with great melody and beauty. Get to see them if you can, one of the few great bands i have seen that work better in the live stage than on record and they sound mega on record.

Howard the Duck

My Favourite Band. They have no bad albums. Still hoping they decided to record a new album. Frank Black has a gizzillion solos albums.. but they are pretty hit and miss but there are some classic songs and it's worth checking them out.

bigfeller

Howard the Duck wrote: »

Frank Black has a gizzillion solos albums.. but they are pretty hit and miss but there are some classic songs and it's worth checking them out.

I'd recommend (after buying all the Pixies albums):
Bluefinger
SVN Fingers
Black Letter Days
Devils Workshop
Show Me your Tears

Jaysis - just found this - was at the gig. Cracking song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TE1c1hxq64

IM0

nobby grande wrote: »

Hang your head in shame. Still they are touring again so lucky you. Everyone else had to wait for 13 years thinking they had missed their generations Beatles. Plus don't mention Bush in the same article as Pixies. Different planet.
One of the truly great / original american bands. No image or style just brilliantly written songs and excellent progression through the albums. Also if you are new to them, don't listen to the well trotted out line that says their best stuff ended with Doolittle, Bossanova is a surf / sci fi epic of colossal magnitude. Trompe le monde is filled with great melody and beauty. Get to see them if you can, one of the few great bands i have seen that work better in the live stage than on record and they sound mega on record.

Agree pretty much entirely, lucky me
also the bush reference was more to do with their style of chords and musically (Im a musician).

Yeah thats one thing that became clear pretty quickly, they kick the shit out of themselves live V's in studio albums, amazing live I would say.

nobby grande

me@ucd wrote: »

Agree pretty much entirely, lucky me
also the bush reference was more to do with their style of chords and musically (Im a musician).

Yeah thats one thing that became clear pretty quickly, they kick the shit out of themselves live V's in studio albums, amazing live I would say.

(Im a musician) - haha so am i. Na i understand what you meant, they are kinf of Pixies by numbers. A pale comparison.

I agree on the Frank Black recommendatiosn above. IMO his best records are

Teenager of the year
Frank Black S/T
Devils Workhop
Black letter days
Show me your tears.

All excellent - in fact all of his records are good with moments of genius

Also if you liek the Pixies - check out The breeders / Kim Deals band - last splash is an absolute gem

old gregg

O yea verily I say unto you OP, if you get even half a chance to hear them live then go for it. They are a brilliant live act these days.
Anyone remember how they blew the RHCP off the stage a few years back?

rainbowtrout

old gregg wrote: »

O yea verily I say unto you OP, if you get even half a chance to hear them live then go for it. They are a brilliant live act these days.
Anyone remember how they blew the RHCP off the stage a few years back?

ya i would have gone home happy after the pixies set that night. I had actually bought a ticket to the RHCP gig anyway so when I heard pixies were supporting i was over the moon. My mother actually rang me to tell me she had heard on the radio they were teh support band, g'wan mammy, it was well drilled into her that I liked the pixies.

The atmosphere in the olympia back in september (first night) was electric.

Dont be at yourself

Best band in the world. Absolutely amazing. I fell in love with them in secondary school, when they were long broken up and I could only dream of a reunion. I would have given anything to see them play live, and I couldn't believe it when they toured. For me, as someone said, it was like seeing the Beatles.

Totally agree that their later albums are also quality. Lots of great b-sides as well. Not only have they never made a bad album, they've not even written a bad song.

old gregg

rainbowtrout wrote: »

ya i would have gone home happy after the pixies set that night. I had actually bought a ticket to the RHCP gig anyway so when I heard pixies were supporting i was over the moon. My mother actually rang me to tell me she had heard on the radio they were teh support band, g'wan mammy, it was well drilled into her that I liked the pixies.

The atmosphere in the olympia back in september (first night) was electric.

yep, I was at the first night too. It was pretty special. The Olympia can be like that, been to some great gigs there down through the years

me-skywalker

Well done OP.. Now spread the word onto more friends! Pixies are amzing first heard them when i was 17 in secondary school and went on an obsession with them learned Dolittle inside out on guitar and bass... very simple but very effective and intelligent raucous explosion of teenage and middle american angst!

AnonoBoy

I remember sticking NME reviews of their albums on my walls when I was young.

Feckin' brilliant so they are.

Spiritoftheseventies

Howard the Duck wrote: »

My Favourite Band. They have no bad albums. Still hoping they decided to record a new album. Frank Black has a gizzillion solos albums.. but they are pretty hit and miss but there are some classic songs and it's worth checking them out.

Not quite. Last two albums could have been merged into one IM0. As a live band there were probably no band worthy of touching them. Saw them a few times in their prime. So many great memories

Velvety

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

they've not even written a bad song.

Except Silver.

Spiritoftheseventies

Velvety wrote: »

Except Silver.

and four or five off Trompe le Monde

cashback

I discovered the pixies in college and listened to them almost non stop for years but I think I overloaded and now I never really listen to them anymore.
But I still love them and might well start listening to them again.
Saw them in the Phoenix park and RDS but didn't get to the Olympia, I'd say it was great.

Velvety

Fake Locke wrote: »

and four or five off Trompe le Monde

Maybe. I'd have to disagree with you on merging TLM with Bossanova though. I think Bossanova definitely stands up to Doolittle or Surfer/ COP.

Anyone seen Isla De Encanta on that new Visa ad? Very cool.

Spiritoftheseventies

Velvety wrote: »

Maybe. I'd have to disagree with you on merging TLM with Bossanova though. I think Bossanova definitely stands up to Doolittle or Surfer/ COP.

Anyone seen Isla De Encanta on that new Visa ad? Very cool.

Think the latter two have too many filler tracks tbh. Anyway lets make this thread interesting.
pick top three songs from each album (come on pilgrim included)
Come on Pilgrim
1. Levitate Me
2. Caribou
3. Holiday Song


Surfer Rosa
1. Gigantic
2. Break my Body
3. River Euphrates

Doolitte
1. Here comes your man (still the ultimate pixies song for me)
2. Hey
3. Debaser

Bossanova (weakest album IMO
1. Velouria
2. Down to the Well
3. Alison

Trompe Le Monde
1. Motorway to Roswell (probably my second favourite of all Pixies song)
2. Planet of Sound (Frank Blank at his screaming best)
3. U Mass

AnonoBoy

Nice idea. Here's mine:

Come on Pilgrim
1. Levitate Me
2. Caribou
3. Vamos

Surfer Rosa
1. Something Against You
2. Gigantic
3. Where Is My Mind?

Doolitte
1. Crackity Jones
2. Gauge Away
3. Debaser

Bossanova
1. Velouria
2. Cecilia Ann
3. Alison

Trompe Le Monde
1. Planet of Sound
2. U Mass
3. Subbacultcha

IM0

doolittle

gouge away
hey
tame

on the cutting room floor are

debaser
dead
wave of mutilation
here comes your man
monkey gone to heaven
la la love you

cracking album I could use 3 from above either.

bossanova

dig for fire
hangwire

surfer rosa

where is my mind
Gigantic
bone machine

Come on Pilgrim

isla de encanta
Caribou
the holiday song

trompe la monde

U mass
bird dream of the olympus mons
subbaclutcha

Time Magazine

Come on Pilgrim:
Caribou
Holiday Song
Nimrod's Song

Surfer Rosa:
Bone Machine
Gigantic
Where is my Mind?

Doolittle:
Debaser
Tame
Wave of Mutilation
(Best three intro songs to an album ever?)

Bossanova:
Cecilia Ann
Rock Music
Is She Weird

Trompe Le Monde:
Subbacultcha
Planet of Sound
U Mass

Anybody else got this? Great CD

Music-and-booze

the outro to no.13 baby off doolittle always gets me, so good...

Spiritoftheseventies

Music-and-booze wrote: »

the outro to no.13 baby off doolittle always gets me, so good...

Whats that song about again?

JerryHandbag

old gregg wrote: »

Anyone remember how they blew the RHCP off the stage a few years back?

Phoenix Park 04?? Yep I do remember (thru a bad bout of hay fever!) that the Chilli Peppers didnt move me like they did at Slane the previous year, and it was pretty cool to see the Pixies live having just kinda got into them a couple of years before.

Where Is My Mind is probably my fave track

Spiritoftheseventies

JerryHandbag wrote: »

Phoenix Park 04?? Yep I do remember (thru a bad bout of hay fever!) that the Chilli Peppers didnt move me like they did at Slane the previous year, and it was pretty cool to see the Pixies live having just kinda got into them a couple of years before.

Where Is My Mind is probably my fave track

Chilli peppers not fit to lace the pixies drinks let alone their boots. Shouldnt be even mentioned in same sentence

Seren_

Such a great band, although I probably don't listen to them as much as I should. Doolittle is one of my favourite albums

I wish I had gotten to see them the last time they were here.

jefreywithonef

Don't understand the aversion some people have towards Trompe. Took me three or four listens to properly appreciate it but I now love it. Brilliant album and the only disappointing thing for me is the almost total absence of BF's acoustic guitar. Planet of Sound, Letter to Memphis, Lovely Day, Motorway, U-Mass, Space (I Believe In), Subbacultcha, Bird Dream and Head On are all classics in my book.

Come On Pilgrim: The Holiday Song, Isla, Ed Is Dead.
Surfer Rosa: River Euphrates, Break My Body, Cactus.
Doolittle: Gouge Away, Debaser, Tame. [No.13 and Wave unlucky to be placed behind]
Bossanova: Rock Music, The Happening, Velouria [along with Ana, Is She Weird and All Over The World]
Trompe: Planet of Sound, Letter To Memphis, U-Mass.
B-Sides: Santo, Bailey's Walk, Make Believe.

As for Black's solo stuff you'll usually find four or five brilliant tracks in each album but the following albums are all quite brilliant in their own ways:
Bluefinger, Svn Fngrs, Frank Black, Teenager of the Year, Black Letter Days, Dog In The Sand, Show Me Your Tears. I ordered the Golem a couple of weeks ago too so I'm looking forward to it (especially since it's acquired very positive reviews).

edit: only discovered this song yesterday, it was written for the x-files, top stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inT7YUH9fDk

siltirocker

Come On Pilgrim:

Ed Is Dead
Caribou
Isla de Enchanta

Surfer Rosa:

Where is My Mind
Brick Id Red
River Euphrates

Doolittle (have to have 5:o):

Here Comes Your Man
No. 13 Baby
La la Love You
Hey
Gouge Away

Bossanova (need 4 lol):

Hangwire
Rock Music
Havalina
Dig For Fire

Trompe le Monde:

The Navajo Know
U-Mass
Alec Eiffel

B-Sides:

Wave of Mutilation (Live @ The BBC)
Lady In The Radiator
Into The White!

Dont be at yourself

Come on Pilgrim:
The Holiday Song
Ed is Dead
Levitate Me


Surfer Rosa:
Where is my mind?
Gigantic
Cactus

Doolittle:
Debaser
Tame
Hey

Bossanova:
Allison
Velouria
The Happening

Trompe Le Monde:
Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons
U-Mass
Distance equals rate times time

But it's a bit of a futile exercise. Every single song is quality - including Silver and Trompe Le Monde!

Tchaikovsky

cashback wrote: »

I discovered the pixies in college and listened to them almost non stop for years but I think I overloaded and now I never really listen to them anymore.
But I still love them and might well start listening to them again.
Saw them in the Phoenix park and RDS but didn't get to the Olympia, I'd say it was great.

Same here; they're a great band to listen to at college parties!
I saw them at the Phoenix Park and Lansdowne Road- fantastic both times, even though it was outside.

Come on Pilgrim: I've Been Tired / Holiday Song / Levitate Me
Surfer Rosa: Bone Machine / Oh My Golly! / Gigantic
Doolittle: Monkey Gone to Heaven / Tame / Here Comes Your Man
Bossanova: Dig for Fire / Velouria / Ana
Trompe le Monde: Motorway to Roswell / Subbacultcha / Letter to Memphis

Big Vern

Love The Pixies one of my favourite bands, listened to the whole of Doolittle the other day, what an album!!
Seen them twice in Dublin, in the National Stadium in 1990, supported by the Pale Saints and then again in 1991 in the Point. Set list from that night:

http://www.songkick.com/concerts/659972-pixies-at-point-theatre

1. Bleed
2. River Euphrates
3. The Happening
4. Allison
5. Velouria
6. Into The White
7. Bone Machine
8. Gouge Away
9. Hang Wire
10. Debaser
11. Subbacultcha
12. Is She Weird?
13. Palace Of The Brine
14. Letter To Memphis
15. Planet Of Sound
16. The Sad Punk
17. Monkey Gone To Heaven
18. Trompe Le Monde
19. Mr. Grieves
20. Blown Away
21. Here Comes Your Man
22. Where Is My Mind?
23. Holiday Song
24. Break My Body
25. Motorway To Roswell
26. Vamos
27. Head On
28. Tame

Cant remember who support was that night, managed to get served in the bar in the point and we stayed in there till the Pixies started!!

tech77

me@ucd wrote: »

Just lately stumbled accross one or 2 other classics on phantom I think, and realised hey (ha!) I know that song! - so decided that I really should look into these guys and MAAAAn are they good.

I think that is typically the reaction the first time you hear them.

It's like "WTF is this, this is amazing".

HandJobFilms

http://www.youtube.com/group/pixiesolympia

Tchaikovsky

tech77 wrote: »

I think that is typically the reaction the first time you hear them.

It's like "WTF is this, this is amazing".

Yeah I agree; it's completely timeless music too, it sounds nothing like what was around in the late 80s / early 90s.

loveissucide

Pixies are top-notch stuff, but it annoys me how people who have zero interest in indie music claim themselves as fans based on "Where Is My Mind" being on the Fight Club soundtrack.

tony1kenobi

Surfer Rosa

Something Against You
Where Is My Mind?
Gigantic ties with Tonys Theme (it's my f*cking theme tune)

Doolittle

Debaser
Wave Of Mutilation (actually the UK Surf cut....more specifically,that track in the movie Pump Up The Volume)
There Goes My Gun

Bossanova

Is She Weird
Dig For Fire
Down To The Well

Trompe Le Monde

U Mass
Alec Eiffel
Palace Of The Brine

Dig For Fire is the best Pixies track and I don't count Come On Pilgrim as an album because I wasn't able to hear it till the mid 90s.....and because it's an EP.

ned rierson

Big Vern wrote: »

Love The Pixies one of my favourite bands, listened to the whole of Doolittle the other day, what an album!!
Seen them twice in Dublin, in the National Stadium in 1990, supported by the Pale Saints and then again in 1991 in the Point. Set list from that night:


http://www.songkick.com/concerts/659972-pixies-at-point-theatre

1. Bleed
2. River Euphrates
3. The Happening
4. Allison
5. Velouria
6. Into The White
7. Bone Machine
8. Gouge Away
9. Hang Wire
10. Debaser
11. Subbacultcha
12. Is She Weird?
13. Palace Of The Brine
14. Letter To Memphis
15. Planet Of Sound
16. The Sad Punk
17. Monkey Gone To Heaven
18. Trompe Le Monde
19. Mr. Grieves
20. Blown Away
21. Here Comes Your Man
22. Where Is My Mind?
23. Holiday Song
24. Break My Body
25. Motorway To Roswell
26. Vamos
27. Head On
28. Tame

Cant remember who support was that night, managed to get served in the bar in the point and we stayed in there till the Pixies started!!

that setlist is incorrect. they started off with Rock Music ( have the recording ). power of dreams and some other band whose name escapes me played support

GoWithTheFlow

Pixies are awesome! Doolittle is an absolute classic, Tame blew my mind first time I heard it. When they do that heavy breathing harmony in the second half of the song, excellent, very original.

BurnsCarpenter

loveissucide wrote: »

Pixies are top-notch stuff, but it annoys me how people who have zero interest in indie music claim themselves as fans based on "Where Is My Mind" being on the Fight Club soundtrack.

I find it hard to believe that:

a) people who only know one song would call themselves 'fans'.

and

b) even if they did, that this would annoy you.

MARTINOZ

Not sure why so many on here are down on Trompe Le Monde. It's my favourite album by them, but I do love all the albums. Went and saw them here in Sydney last week for the Doolittle tour and they absolutely ripped it up. Brilliant show, and they seemed to really enjoy playing live again. Check out the setlist below, and look at the songs for the encores. Brilliant!

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pixies/2010/hordern-pavilion-sydney-australia-4bd4b37e.html

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18. Silver [URL="javascript:void(0);"]Play Video[/URL]
19. Gouge Away [URL="javascript:void(0);"]Play Video[/URL]

<LI class=encore>Encore:

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GoWithTheFlow

MARTINOZ wrote: »

Not sure why so many on here are down on Trompe Le Monde. It's my favourite album by them, but I do love all the albums. Went and saw them here in Sydney last week for the Doolittle tour and they absolutely ripped it up. Brilliant show, and they seemed to really enjoy playing live again. Check out the setlist below, and look at the songs for the encores. Brilliant!

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pixies/2010/hordern-pavilion-sydney-australia-4bd4b37e.html

1. Dancing The Manta Ray [URL="javascript:void(0);"]Play Video[/URL]
2. Weird At My School [URL="javascript:void(0);"]Play Video[/URL]
3. Bailey's Walk [URL="javascript:void(0);"]Play Video[/URL]
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7. Wave Of Mutilation [URL="javascript:void(0);"]Play Video[/URL]
8. I Bleed [URL="javascript:void(0);"]Play Video[/URL]
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11. Monkey Gone To Heaven [URL="javascript:void(0);"]Play Video[/URL]
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18. Silver [URL="javascript:void(0);"]Play Video[/URL]
19. Gouge Away [URL="javascript:void(0);"]Play Video[/URL]

<LI class=encore>Encore:

<LI value=20>Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)

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[*]Into The White [URL="javascript:void(0);"]Play Video[/URL]
<LI class=encore>Encore 2:

<LI value=22>Where Is My Mind?

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Strange opening to the list with all those B-sides, although I suppose they needed more material than the Dolittle album. Nice to see they did some material form the other albums too. I mean if you weren't expecting it, that second encore would have been awesome!

MARTINOZ

GoWithTheFlow wrote: »

Strange opening to the list with all those B-sides, although I suppose they needed more material than the Dolittle album. Nice to see they did some material form the other albums too. I mean if you weren't expecting it, that second encore would have been awesome!

Yeah, they played the B-sides as it was the Doolittle tour, and obviously playing just the tracks off the album wouldn't have been enough. Having said that, it is exactly the reason why the 2nd encore was so amazing. Nobody expected it, and with the start of every one of those 4 songs the place erupted. It was a great show. And the stage show itself is really cool. Lots of film playing behind them. If they go to Ireland with this tour, make sure you're there.

jefreywithonef

MARTINOZ wrote: »

Yeah, they played the B-sides as it was the Doolittle tour, and obviously playing just the tracks off the album wouldn't have been enough. Having said that, it is exactly the reason why the 2nd encore was so amazing. Nobody expected it, and with the start of every one of those 4 songs the place erupted. It was a great show. And the stage show itself is really cool. Lots of film playing behind them. If they go to Ireland with this tour, make sure you're there.

They started the tour in Ireland (although they didn't do any second encores apart from the final show when they played Where Is My Mind).

Hardly strange that they performed the b-sides by the way, they announced that the tour was to be Doolittle plus the six b-sides. Pretty great hearing them live.

Seedy Arling

The Happening. Greatest Pixies Song ever.

The End.

loyatemu

CMP Caribou/Levitate Me/I've Been Tired
SR Break My Body/Cactus (Bowie's version of this is cool)/Vamos (such a crazy track)
DL Hey/Gouge Away/No. 13 Baby (as others have said the outro to this is sublime)
BN Velouria/All over the World/Allison (it's about Mose Allison, not some bird named Alison)
TLM Alec Eiffel/Space (amazing guitar work)/Subbacultcha

Frank Blacks solo stuff is very uneven - "Los Angeles" the first track on his first album is amazing, but he's rarely hit the same heights again. I really like "Honeycomb" though - very laid back and mellow compared to everything else he's done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDVgfnyHP0c

jefreywithonef

loyatemu wrote: »

Frank Blacks solo stuff is very uneven - "Los Angeles" the first track on his first album is amazing, but he's rarely hit the same heights again. I really like "Honeycomb" though - very laid back and mellow compared to everything else he's done.

I dunno about that. FB, TOTY, DITS, Black Letter Days, Show Me Your Tears and Bluefinger are all brilliant (oddly enough I never really got into Honeycomb - there are four or five excellent tracks... but a few not so well thought out ones also). There are usually two or three quite weak tracks (while I can see why people grow wary of the length of some of his albums) on each album but there are enough gems to keep you going back for more. Have to say, his most recent offering, The Golem, is probably on a par with anything he's ever done. There's plenty of reprises and instrumentals but if you were to compress the album down into a collection of 'proper' songs (which apparently will happen sometime in the future) it'd be quite amazing.

GoWithTheFlow

Got caught out in Pixes trivia there recently which was annoying since I would call myself a serious fan. I always thought they had only four albums and the one EP but Come on Pilgrim used to be seperate form Surfer Rosa unlike the joined up version I own. In my defence I was only 1 year old when there first album came out! Im not sure why they joined the two version togehter however since I think they work better as seperate albums. Not sure which is the better album now though...

nobby grande

Agree with you 100% Monzo. Each of his albums contains moments of sheer genius. Ala Los Angeles. See Teenager of the year / adventure resolution COR / So.Bay pistolero / black letter days and devils workshop are fantastic records. Any nearly my favourite, show me your tears. A wonderful record.

Velvety

Anyone have any idea where the Cú Chulainn references on SVN FNGRS sprang from?

My list:

Come on Pilgrim: Levitate Me/ I've Been Tired/ Isla de Encanta
Surfer Rosa: Something Against You/ Where is My Mind/ Bone Machine
Doolittle: Tame/ Mr. Grieves/ Here Comes Your Man
Bossanova: Ana/ The Happening/ Is She Weird
Trompe le Monde: Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons/ Planet of Sound/ Distance Equals Rate Times Time

Oh, and for anyone who's never heard matthew's celebrity covers, do yourself a favour.

jefreywithonef

Velvety wrote: »

Anyone have any idea where the Cú Chulainn references on SVN FNGRS sprang from?

Yeah before the Svn Fngrs sessions he was looking for inspiration so he took to clicking Wikipedia's random article link (:D) and he eventually came across Demi-gods, sex robots and Cú Chulainn.

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Pimmy_Jage wrote: »

The Happening. Greatest Pixies Song ever.

The End.

On the same subject and a better song IMO, Motorway to Roswell.