Pixies
 

big big big fan. anyone with me here? if so, favourite songs and albums?
favourite songs for me are "hey", "here comes your man", "gouge away", "monkey gone to heaven" and "veluoria".
favourite album without a doubt- doolittle.

Doolittle is their best album without a doubt. The hardcore fans might be sick of listening to it, but it is what it is. Im a big fan of UMass and Debaser. When I worked at a record store a huge fan of their who I worked with made me get Doolittle. I've only heard those songs and the hits, but im suprsed how obscure they've been considering their really good.

Even the spanish stuff is kick ass. I don't know more than 15 words in spanish.

those are all really good songs.

I'm a fan myself. I saw them w/ the Thrills during their reunion tour. :)

Surfer Rosa is my favorite album, but more for sentimental reasons than anything else. I'd have to agree that Doolittle is their best album. Tromp Le Monde is very good too.

My favorite Pixies song would have to be Gouge Away.

My favourite album is bossanova. the first 3 songs, probably the best into to an album.

vamos pays testament to what you said. and i actually thought bossanova was quite poor compared to their other stuff.

payed £40 on a red hot chilli peppers concert believing they were supporting, i saw the peppers on the sunday- pixies supported the day before. who did i get as a support act? yup you guessed it, stellarstar and james-bloody-brown. legend in his day, well past it now.

The BBC Sessions album melted my ears

good way? bad way?

Oh a VERY good way

Yeah I like them as well but I haven't got round to buying an album by them yet. 'Here Comes Your Man' and 'Monkey Gone To Heaven' are my favourite songs I have heard.

So then buy Doolittle because their both on their, and Debaser is a pretty badass song.

I find though, that im Super addicted to UMass. Maybe because I go there. (not the one he's singing about, but i still do damn it)

Anything Kim Deel was involved rocks... but I have to agree that Doolittle tops the lot...
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I know nothing of stellarstar, but James Brown is pretty awesome no matter when he plays. Sucks that you missed the Pixies, but the fact is, you got a better deal.

Tell me "The Funky Drummer" is not one of the best funk songs ever.

When i saw the Peppers chicks on speed were performing. nuff said mate.



Anyway. i bought Trompe Le Monde today for £4.99. thanks HMV! and i have to say its a pretty ****ing good album!

"Where is My Mind?", "Velouria", and "Tame" are my favs.

I've only got a best of at the mo, death to the pixies, but It's one of the best, bests of that i've heard, pretty much every song on it kicks ass. My fav's are Nimrods son, Gouge away, Monkey gone to heaven. oh and Gigantic

heck yes...love the Pixies. monkey gone to heaven and album doolittle. i loved when they played the pixies at the end of Fight Club... i almost cried.

Where is my mind was a great ending song for fight club.

I'm going to see the Pixies!! :tramp:

Doolittle was originally my faveourite, I think its easier to get into as 'Debaser' 'Here comes your man' 'Monkey gone to heaven' etc are so good! So good other bands felt the need to copy the tune. Bossanova is really great as well though.

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Not yet, unlike you I'm still a young thing :p:


































Just kidding ;)

Age means nothing when you look as good as me

They'er playing at lalapolooooooooooooza this year .... be there, it will be an awesome show.

I have ordered Doolittle from eBay just waiting for it to arrive.

Now i`m not doubting the genius of the pixies here.

I just hate it that they have to even reform just because people were too lazy to check them out the first time around.

I just think it`s sad that in 2005 people are hearing Doolittle for the first time , even though it came out 17 years ago

Well thats what it is like when you're 15.

I wasn`t talking about age.

I was referring more to the fact that in the 80s they were possibly the biggest Indie band around (Maybe with the exception of REM) and also one of the biggest influences in the 90s 'alternative' *cough* movement & yet people have to go out & discover them rather than come into contact with them through the usual channels.

Fair enough but it is better than not getting into them at all.

Well the 80's were the worst decade for music I can hear. Im sure the Black Plauge years in europe turned out some ****ty tunes, but the 80's was a decade full of novelty. Forgive me if I glance over that entire abboration in taste.

Secondly, I agree with REM being bigger, I think U2 was bigger as well, and im sure there was another one im forgetting.

I'd invest in a hearing aid. The 80s were amazing.

great use of backing facts to support some random statement.

the pixies
the smiths
the cure
new order
REM
jesus and mary chain
dire straights
the specials
madness
the clash
ultravox
ozzy
siouxie & the banshees
queen

80 had some good indie, electro-rock going on. i liked the 2-tone movement aswell. but ive always said, the hair metal scene always tarnishes my view of the 80s, i tend to forget about the pluses. good bands though.

Fair enough, but its not just hair metal, I wasn't speaking blindly when i said there were novelty acts abound. The hard part is making an argument when you can't remember their names. Aside from my own rememberence of what horrors existed then, if you've ever caught "I love the 80's" on VH1, then you would know what I meant. Songs about convoys and something with donald duck, im sure there was a packman song. Micky you're so fine, whatever the Knack wrote.

As I've said, I can't conjure every crap song that they dished out then, but the fact is that the 80's was inundated with garbage.

The Chameleons
Japan
Wire
Mission Of Burma
The Gun Club
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Fall
Public Enemy
The Birthday Party
Spacemen 3
Human League
Husker Du
P.I.L.

Just thought I`d add a few more

id agree with 3/4 of those bands being good. husker du barely make the standard needed to be seen as acceptable in my view.

WTF?

You had Dire f-ing Straits in your list

whats wrong with dire straights i ask?

Whats right with them