Pixies Appreciation Thread

[Dave A]

Our love is rice and beans and horses' lard

I'm dating the shit out've myself, but... they're one of my favorite bands. Ever.

Favorite albums? Songs? Memories?

Let's share.

[clever_username]

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Love the Pixies. Doolittle is my favorite (I think I posted why in the Albums thread). But I can't deny how awesome Surfer Rosa is.

[Matt H.O.W.L.]

Very few clunkers from this band, that's for sure. I love it all. Bossanova was my least favorite, but its slickness grew on me over the years. I guess Trompe is my least favorite now, but I still enjoy it quite a bit. I wanted marry Kim Deal for years. The Breeders' Pod came out when I was in high school and I had a picture of her from Alternative Press taped to my rearview mirror of my car. 

[malpractice]

fav song - Gouge Away

fav album - (not sure if it counts) Death To The Pixies

oddly enough i was just listening to Far's cover of "Monkey Gone To Heaven" just as i stumbled across this thread.

[Adam Besenyodi]

Karma for the thread!

Favorite Songs - "U-Mass", "Dig for Fire" ("Dig" being the best Talking Heads' song not written or performed by the Talking Heads, if you know what I mean) and anything off of Doolittle

Favorite Albums - Doolittle and Live in Akron 11.21.04 (from the Reunion tour where you could buy a double-disc memory of the show you just watched on the way out the door after the show -- don't know why this did not catch on, it's brilliant!  plus, in the middle of the show/recording, Kim, an Ohioan, says "My mom's here!")

My thoughts on Pixies Sell Out - here

[Dave A]

Awesome review! I love Pixies Sell Out as well....

In spite of my comments in my opening post about dating myself, I came to the party late with the Pixies, nearly 10 years after they broke up. I'd been a Breeders' fan for years, listening and re-listening to Last Splash and Pod, and when Title TK came out I rushed out to buy it (juuuuust before CDs went the way of the dodo for me). A buddy went to the shop with me, and I told him I was so excited about Title TK that I also wanted to try out a Pixies album, and could he recommend one? He handed me Doolittle, and we listened to it on the way back home (we were in another state visiting a friend at the time). It was many, many months before Doolittle left the CD player in my car, and I've since gone on to pick up (and absolutely love) the remainder of the Pixies' catalog.

Thank God for the reunion tour is all I can say, because footage of them playing live when they were making music together was (and is) sparse. I saw them twice on the tour (and Frank Black and the Catholics once, at a much smaller venue), and each experience was life-changing... those songs are like an assault. I remember wanting to go backstage after hearing a 40+ year-old Black Francis scream his way through "Tame" and say "Hey man, don't kill yourself over us. We're not worth it, dude." But that's just how those songs are constructed... primal rhythms and lyrics being stabbed to death by bizarre surf guitar riffs from the future, with a lunatic cackling over all of it. The thing I may love most about the Pixies is that they're a real rock band, and it's immediately obvious that they weren't constructed by a studio to sell a couple gold records... a group of people who aren't particularly TV-friendly dressing sloppily and coming out of nowhere with a music that openly defied the conventions of the day (and influenced everything that would follow).

Favorite Album: Surfer Rosa
Favorite Song: Break My Body
Favorite film about the Pixies: LOUDquietLOUD
Favorite memory: Being blown away the first time I saw them live when I saw how they'd reimagined their cover of David Lynch's "In Heaven (Everything is Fine)"... Kim was singing it now instead of Francis, it was slow and dreamy and reflective and hopeful and beautiful instead of loud and ironic. Top notch.

[deadcowaroma]

Nice! First time I ever heard about the Pixies was on the bathroom wall of my school. Someone started writing down their top albums of all time and other people added to the list. High on it was something called Surfer Rosa, so I searched it out and I loved it. Best advice I ever took from bathroom grafitti.

[clever_username]

I first heard of them as being one of the major influences on Nirvana. But didn't hear a whole album until years later in college. My now-wife had a copy of Doolittle and I borrowed it for a while.

I currently am reading the 33 1/3 book about Doolittle. Not as good as the one on Paul's Boutique, but still good.

[SpeedSuit]

Easily one of my favorite bands. Their cover of Zevon's "aint that pretty at all" is a hoot. The acoustic  Live at Newport folk festival dvd is excellent as well. Remember when Warren Ellis used to name storylines after pixies songs?

[Dave A]

I currently am reading the 33 1/3 book about Doolittle. Not as good as the one on Paul's Boutique, but still good.

Their cover of Zevon's "aint that pretty at all" is a hoot.

I like both of these quite a bit. 

[ElasticViper]

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DEBASER!

[VinceB]

Doolittle and Wave of Mutilation are my faves, but I loves 'em all.

[bobx]

Where is my mind!

[ElasticViper]

If they only stayed together a little longer they would of been huge during 90's