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Sister_Rosa_Velouria Posted - 01/04/2006 : 03:34:21
I am doing research for a song website and would like to know the story (if there is one) behind "Here Comes Your Man." I have heard the predominant theory is that the song is about a drug deal, or at least in homage to the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting For The Man."
But I have also heard something about Frank Black in NME saying this was about hobos riding the rails in California back in the day and dying in a big earthquake. Given the Pixies and how much they liked songs about unconventional things, I'd wager it was the second story, but can anyone at least point me in the right direction to find out for sure?
Thanks for all your help!

Kate
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Carl Posted - 02/01/2006 : 23:07:45
This song doesn't mean anything. Frank told me at the LA party.

pas de dutchie!
floop Posted - 02/01/2006 : 13:47:43
quote:
Originally posted by TRANSMARINE

quote:

if i ever see that someone again i'll be sure to mention how incorrect they were. preferably in front of a large group of people who will laugh at them



Thank you. They will surely learn their lesson, goddamnit.













Hank the 8th was a duplicated man

-bRIAN



yes, they will pay.

that guy
Monsieur Posted - 02/01/2006 : 12:03:51
Isn't this song about the Holocaust?


I will show you fear in a handful of dust
TRANSMARINE Posted - 01/20/2006 : 08:01:07
quote:

if i ever see that someone again i'll be sure to mention how incorrect they were. preferably in front of a large group of people who will laugh at them



Thank you. They will surely learn their lesson, goddamnit.













Hank the 8th was a duplicated man

-bRIAN
floop Posted - 01/20/2006 : 07:55:32
quote:
Originally posted by TRANSMARINE

quote:
Originally posted by floop

back in the Pixies days someone told me that they met Frank and he told them that one of the songs on Doolittle was about TWIN PEAKS, but he'd have to guess which one. i've always thought "Here Comes Your Man" was probably it. but i can't really argue it.

and he might have been lying



This 'someone' is totally incorrect as DOOLITTLE emerged a full year before TWIN PEAKS hit the tube.

I always imagine HCYM as a song about molestation...I know it's not, nevertheless, this always springs to mind.

Hank the 8th was a duplicated man

-bRIAN



if i ever see that someone again i'll be sure to mention how incorrect they were. preferably in front of a large group of people who will laugh at them
Carl Posted - 01/20/2006 : 07:22:34
quote:
Originally posted by TRANSMARINE

I always imagine HCYM as a song about molestation...I know it's not, nevertheless, this always springs to mind.


That line 'outside the dirty beard hangs' does sound like a reference to a dirty old man, or something! Maybe the parking lot incident in Bone Machine made you think of that....oh oh, here comes that dirty old man to molest Frank!

pas de dutchie!
TRANSMARINE Posted - 01/19/2006 : 14:27:44
quote:
Originally posted by floop

back in the Pixies days someone told me that they met Frank and he told them that one of the songs on Doolittle was about TWIN PEAKS, but he'd have to guess which one. i've always thought "Here Comes Your Man" was probably it. but i can't really argue it.

and he might have been lying



This 'someone' is totally incorrect as DOOLITTLE emerged a full year before TWIN PEAKS hit the tube.

I always imagine HCYM as a song about molestation...I know it's not, nevertheless, this always springs to mind.

Hank the 8th was a duplicated man

-bRIAN
Carl Posted - 01/05/2006 : 17:12:14
Yeah, I think that must of been in the back of my head.

pas de dutchie!
VoVat Posted - 01/05/2006 : 16:06:25
quote:
Just as a (kind of not very relevent) side note, Pere Ubu have a song called 30 seconds Over Toyko.


There's also a Simpsons episode called "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo."



"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares."
Carl Posted - 01/04/2006 : 22:36:31
Okay. That's okay then. :)

pas de dutchie!
floop Posted - 01/04/2006 : 22:31:55
no, this guy
Carl Posted - 01/04/2006 : 22:31:19
You callin' Frank a liar, floop?

pas de dutchie!
floop Posted - 01/04/2006 : 21:48:31
back in the Pixies days someone told me that they met Frank and he told them that one of the songs on Doolittle was about TWIN PEAKS, but he'd have to guess which one. i've always thought "Here Comes Your Man" was probably it. but i can't really argue it.

and he might have been lying
Carl Posted - 01/04/2006 : 21:05:14
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn

I haven't come across a Frank quote about a nukes connection. But Fat Man was the name of the second nuclear bomb, dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, from a B-29 that after the mission was renamed Bockscar in honor of its regular pilot, Fred Bock. It is sometimes misquoted as Boxcar. Totally unrelated, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark's song "Enola Gay" shares the name of the other plane used in the other bombing (Hiroshima) named after that pilot's mom, Enola.


I got some heaven in my head





Just as a (kind of not very relevent) side note, Pere Ubu have a song called 30 seconds Over Toyko.

Hi Sister Rosa Velouria, your very welcome to FB.Net!

pas de dutchie!
Sister_Rosa_Velouria Posted - 01/04/2006 : 07:15:08
Ha ha ha...I'll see what they have at my local HMV in Hong Kong. I might have to type quckly over to amazon.com or something if I want any Frank Black. But you never know. :)
kathryn Posted - 01/04/2006 : 07:07:59
Hi there, SRV

Sadly, I read it off the web, not in the original form.

Now run, don't walk, to your nearest CD store and buy some FB solo and some Catholics.

Welcome to fb.net.


I got some heaven in my head

Sister_Rosa_Velouria Posted - 01/04/2006 : 07:01:26
Embarrassingly enough, I don't know much about Frank Black solo or his stuff with the Catholics. I'm familiar with Hang On To Your Ego and Los Angeles and I loved those songs, but yeah, I haven't followed him so much. :/
pixiestu Posted - 01/04/2006 : 06:49:43
Wecome, Sister Rosa Velouria, are you a fan of Frank Black's solo and Catholics stuff too?

"The arc of triumph"
Sister_Rosa_Velouria Posted - 01/04/2006 : 06:45:41
Thanks for your help! I'll go with the unlucky hobos traveling on the trains. Kathryn, did you see that article yourself or read it off the web?

I'm a really big fan of Pixies. I used to have all their albums on cassette, and then switched over to CD with the intent of rebuying them all at some point soon. I love Doolittle best but have a soft spot for Trompe Le Monde, the first album of theirs I was really introduced to.
pixiestu Posted - 01/04/2006 : 05:14:27
I heard that too, Steve. Interesting stuff.

By the way, I love this quote...
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn

Frank in NME:
It’s very exciting actually, a very comical thing. It’s like the earth is shaking, and what can you do? Nothing."



"The arc of triumph"
kathryn Posted - 01/04/2006 : 05:12:26
I haven't come across a Frank quote about a nukes connection. But Fat Man was the name of the second nuclear bomb, dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, from a B-29 that after the mission was renamed Bockscar in honor of its regular pilot, Fred Bock. It is sometimes misquoted as Boxcar. Totally unrelated, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark's song "Enola Gay" shares the name of the other plane used in the other bombing (Hiroshima) named after that pilot's mom, Enola.


I got some heaven in my head

PixieSteve Posted - 01/04/2006 : 05:05:34
i also heard that boxcar was the name of the plane that dropped the second atomic bomb or something. if you read it in the context if a bomb being dropped and going off, it's quite interesting.


kathryn Posted - 01/04/2006 : 04:18:15
Frank in NME:

"This is a pre-Pixies song that I wrote when I was about 15. It’s about winos and hobos travelling on the trains who dies in the California earthquake. Before earthquakes everything gets very calm, animals stop talking and birds stop chirping and there’s no wind. It’s very ominous. I’ve been through a few earthquakes actually ‘cos I grew up in California. I was only in one big one in 1971. I was very young and I slept through it. I’ve been awake through lots of small ones at school and at home. It’s very exciting actually, a very comical thing. It’s like the earth is shaking, and what can you do? Nothing."


I got some heaven in my head


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