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| starmekitten |
Posted - 03/17/2006 : 14:34:20
Once more same as before… well I completely lie when I say once more because as you well know there is a massive body of work with this lot. For the first time I’m almost a little grouchy at how much there is hehe. Ok so, correct my lyrics, feel free to state your opinion on the songs (open discussion is much welcome), tell me what a song is about and put the icing on the cake if you can with a quote that will blow the minds of the children. Blow their tiny little minds.
Another premature databaser Thank You ….
Debaser
Got me a movie
I want you to know
Slicing up eyeballs
I want you to know
Girly so groovy
I want you to know
Don't know about you
But I am un chien Andalusia
I am un chien Andalusia
I am un chien Andalusia
I am un chein Andalusia
Wanna grow
Up to be
Be a debaser
Debaser
Debaser
Debaser
Debaser
Debaser
Got me a movie
Ha ha ha ho
Slicing up eyeballs
Ha ha ha ho
Girly so groovy
Ha ha ha ho
Don't know about you
But I am un chien Andalusia
I am un chien Andalusia
I am un chien Andalusia
I am un chien Andalusia
Debaser
Debaser
Debaser
Debaser
Debaser
What is a debaser, well, a debaser (noun) is a person who lowers the quality or character or value. Hmm, nice, but what is debaser about? Well according to wiki:
"Debaser" is a song by the alternative rock band Pixies. It is the first song on their 1989 album Doolittle. It was written by Black Francis.
The lyrics are based on a French surrealist film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí called Un chien andalou. The film opens with a scene in which a woman's eye is slit by a razor, which is referenced in the song lyric "Slicing up eyeballs/I want you to know". The title "Debaser" comes from Un chien andalou debasing morality and standards of art, according to Black Francis.
Interesting no? has anyone got quotes for this or further insight?
Tame
Hips like cinderella
Must be having a good shame
Talking sweet about nothing
Cookie I think you're
Tame
Tame
Tame
Tame
I'm making good friends with you
When you're shaking your good frame
Fall on your face in those bad shoes
Lying there like you're
Tame
Tame
Tame
Tame
Tame
Tame
Tame
Tame
Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh
Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh
Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh
Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh
Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh
Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh Uh huh huh
Tame
Tame
Tame
Tame
Tame
Tame
Tame
Tame
Wave of Mutilation
Cease to resist
Giving my goodbye
Drive my car into the ocean
You think I'm dead but I sail away
On a wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave
Wave
I've kissed mermaids
Rode the El Nino
Walked the sand with the crustaceans
Could find my way to Mariana
On a wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave
Wave
Wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave
Wave
I’ve kissed mermaids
Rode the el Niño
Walked the sand with the crustaceans
Could find my way to mariana
On a wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave
Wave of mutilation
Wave
I bleed
As loud as hell
A ringing bell
Behind my smile
It shakes my teeth
And all the while
As vampires feed
I bleed
I bleed
I bleed
Prithee, my dear,
Why are we here
Nobody knows
We go to sleep
As breathing flows
My mind secedes
I bleed
I bleed
I bleed
I bleed
I bleed
I bleed
There's a place
In the buried west
In a cave
With a house in it
In the clay
The holes of hands
You can place
A hand in hand
I bleed
I bleed
I bleed
I remember someone posted about the cave with the holes of hands, I’m pretty sure someone posted pictures so I’m convinced this is a real place. Why it is though I could do with a quote for… any clues?
Here Comes Your Man
Outside there's a boxcar waiting
Outside the family stew
Out by the fire breathing
Outside we wait 'til face turns blue
I know the nervous walking
I know the dirty beard hangs
Out by the boxcar waiting
Take me away to nowhere plains
There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Big shake on the boxcar moving
Big shake to the land that's falling down
Is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
A big big stone fall and break my crown
There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Here comes your man
There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Here comes your man
Oh you all know what this one is about! From wiki
In an interview with NME (April 1989), Frank Black told the following about the meaning of the song:
This is a pre-Pixies song that I wrote when I was about 15. It's about winos and hobos traveling on the trains, who die 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, because 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
Just because you know doesn't mean thats that, anyone else able to back this up?
Dead
You crazy babe Bathsheba
I want ya
You're suffocating you need
A good shed
I'm tired of living Sheba
So gimme
Dead
Dead
We're apin' rapin' takin'
Catharsis
You get torn down and I get
Erected
My blood is working but my
My heart is
Dead
Dead
Dead
Hey
What do you know?
Your lovely
Tan belly
Starting to grow
Uriah hit the crapper the crapper
Uriah hit the crapper the crapper
Uriah hit the crapper the crapper
Dead
Dead
Monkey Gone To Heaven
There was a guy
An underwater guy who controlled the sea
Got killed by ten million pounds of sludge
From New York and New Jersey
This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey’s gone to heaven
This monkey’s gone to heaven
This monkey’s gone to heaven
The creature in the sky
Got sucked in a hole
Now there's a hole in the sky
And the ground's not cold
And if the ground's not cold
Everything is gonna burn
We'll all take turns
I'll get mine too
This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey’s gone to heaven
This monkey’s gone to heaven
This monkey’s gone to heaven
Rock me Joe
If man is five (If man is five if man is five)
Then the devil is six (then the devil is six then the devil is six)
And if the devil is six
Then God is seven
Then God is seven
Then God is seven
This monkey's gone to heaven
This monkey’s gone to heaven
This monkey’s gone to heaven
This monkey’s gone to heaven
wiki again
Monkey Gone to Heaven is a alternative rock song by the Pixies, and the first single from their 1989 album Doolittle. It is arguably their most famous piece. Known for cryptic lyrics which many have tried to interpret, they are, in fact, only present for aesthetic value - according to the band, the line, "this monkey's gone to heaven" was a phrase that they thought had a decent ring to it. All the lyrics are meant to be utterly surreal, subconcious, and meaningless, built around the title
Mr Grieves
Hope everything is alright
Hope everything is alright
What's that floating in the water
Old Neptune's only daughter
I believe
In Mr Grieves
Pray for a man in the middle
One that talks like Doolittle
I believe
In Mr Grieves
Do you have another opinion
Do you have another opinion
La la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la la
Got bombed got frozen
Got finally off to a finally dozing
I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Do you have another opinion
Opinion
Do you have another opinion
Do you have another opinion
You can cry you can mope
But can you swing from a good rope
Oh I believe
In Mr. Grieves
Hope everything is alright
Hope everything is alright
It’s about the end of the world I guess. Mr Grieves is the Death character of mythology. The ‘man in the middle’ is Dr Doolittle, because if you could speak to the animals you would be the great link between mankind and the animal world. There’s this theory that if not smarter than us, animals are aware of what’s going on and if we could communicate with them, they could give us the answer of the future and make everything ok. But I’m assuming that a nuclear winter will mean that Mr Grieves is going to win in the end.
- NME 22nd April 1989
Crackity Jones
Jose Jones
Told me alone
His story
He has friends
Like Paco Picopiedra
La muneca
He receives on his set
Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack
Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack
Crack crack crackity Jones
Please forgive me
Jose Jones
You need these walls
For your own
I'm moving out of this hospedaje
I'm afraid you'll cut me boy
Thirty miles by
Hundred miles by
Stinking island
Por goofiar
En crushing automovil
Chasing voices
He receives in his head
Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack
Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack
Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack
Crack crack crackity Jones
Joses Jones is a roommate I had in Puerto Rico. I lived in this men’s dorm that was half homosexual and I had this really crazy drug addict psycho weirdo guy to share with and this is all about him.
I would be speaking to him in Spanish so everything would be a little vague to me and he kept talking on and on about Paco Picopiedra and La Muneca. I couldn’t work out what he was talking about and it was Fred Flinstone!
- NME 22nd April 1989
La La Love You
Yeah
I love you
I do
I love you
All I'm saying pretty baby
La la love you don't mean maybe
All I'm saying pretty baby
First base
Second base
Third base
Home run
Yeah
I love you
I do
I love you
All I'm saying pretty baby
La la love you, don't mean maybe
All I'm saying pretty baby
There is no love in here. Not a drop. I’ve never written a love song. It’s just like an abstract sort of joke; ‘la la love you don’t mean maybe’. It’s just mimicking a really bad 1950’s song or maybe I should say 1980’s. ‘First base, second base, third base, home run’ is a very Shakespearian crass joke in America, a crude joke for full copulation. I’m just being as minimalist as I can, but it conjures up lots of images – well one image I should say.
- NME 22nd April 1989
Number 13 Baby
Got hair in a curl
That flows to her bones
And a comb in her pocket
If the wind get blown
Stripes on her eyes when she walks slow
But her face falls down
When she go, go, go
Black tear falling on my lazy queen
Gotta tattooed tit say number 13
Viva
Don't want no blue eyes
La loma
I want brown eyes
Rica
I'm in a state
I'm in a state
I'm in a state
I'm in a state
I'm in a state
Choir in the yard
In the house next door
Where a grandma brought
Some songs from the shore
Six foot girl gonna
Sweat when she dig
Stand close to the fire
When they light the pig
Standing in her chinos shirt pulled off clean
Gotta tattooed tit say number 13
Viva
Don't want no blue eyes
La loma
I want brown eyes
Rica
I'm in a state
I'm in a state
I'm in a state
I'm in a state
I'm in a state
This is a collage of images of when I was growing up in Los Angeles. Number 13 traditionally means bad luck, but in America, especially in the 60’s among bikers and chicanos, the number 13 is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet: M for marijuana.
It’s a really goofy sub culture, but it’s kinda funny, and even today you can see it spray-painted on walls ‘The Meter Boys Number 13’. So it is about a Mexican girl or a Samoan girl, a boyish, sexual, adolescent collage of Southern California living.
- NME April 22nd 1989
There Goes My Gun
Yoo hoo
Yoo hoo
Yoo hoo
There goes my gun
There goes my gun
There goes my gun
There goes my gun
Look at me
Look at me
Look at me
There goes my gun
There goes my gun
There goes my gun
There goes my gun
Friend or foe
Friend or Foe
Friend or Foe
Friend or Foe
There goes my gun
There goes my gun
There goes my gun
There goes my gun
There's nothing to this apart from that one line. It's the hook right? It's the chorus. I could have written a verse but it sounded cool without the lyrics so it's much more effective and theatrical. These are just popular phrases I would associate with having a gun, 'Look at me' because it's a position of power. I don't own a gun, I'm afraid of them.
People keep asking me is this some sort of phallic symbol, you know 'There goes my gun', an orgasm. I mean I suppose that could be true but I get the impression that in the literary world anything that is taller than it is wide is a phallic, you know what I mean? I'm just talking about guns I guess. I just want to make a cool rock 'n' roll song.
- NME 22nd April 1989
Hey
Hey
Been trying to meet you
Hey
Must be a devil between us
Or whores in my head
Whores at my door
Whores in my bed
But hey
Where
Have you
Been if you go I will surely die
We're chained
Uh said the man to the lady
Uh said the lady to the man she adored
And the whores like a choir
Go uh all night
And mary ain't you tired of this
Uh
Is
The
Sound
That the mother makes when the baby breaks
We're chained
It’s a relationship song about two classic sad figures. Myself or maybe not myself. Uh is the sound of sex and also of childbirth. I dunno I’m just sorta sad about about how sex goes the wrong way in a very basic sort of way and how it results in very amazing things like childbirth and stuff.
- NME 22nd April 1989
Silver
In this land of strangers
There are dangers
There are sorrows
I can't see this lady
It is shady
I am leaving tomorrow
Tomorrow
Tomorrow
Even there's a reason
It's silver
It's gone
In this land of strangers
There are dangers
There are sorrows
Sorrows
Sorrows
Sorrows
This is a song me and Kim wrote really fast one night sitting around bored in the studio waiting for whatever to happen with the engineers. There were other lyrics that were supposed to have been written for the actual song but all we’d got left were the original phrases that we came up with so that was that
- NME April 22nd 1989
Gouge Away
Gouge away
You can gouge away
Stay all day
If you want to
Missy aggravation
Some sacred questions
You stroke my locks
Some marijuana
If you got some
Gouge away
You can gouge away
Stay all day
If you want to
Sleeping on your belly
You break my arms
You spoon my eyes
Been rubbing a bad charm
With holy fingers
Gouge away
You can gouge away
Stay all day
If you want to
Chained to the pillars
A three day party
I break the walls
And kill us all
With holy fingers
Gouge away
You can gouge away
Stay all day
If you want to
" The pillars have something to do with an old story - Samson and Delilah. Pillar's a cool word, though. It's something that supports traditionally, but I don't think like that. I think of it more as a decoration, in mansions or a palace or a big ballroom or even an old archaeological dig with no buildings left. I worked on a couple of burials (a few years ago on an archaeological dig in Arizona). I don't remember if we figured out if they were buried the same time or not. I saw the rib cage of the infant. "
Yeah, you’ve got it in one. It’s a story about Sampson and Delilah, you’re the first person that’s actually realised - probably because the song doesn’t actually mention Sampson or Delilah. It’s a sort of sex story: Delilah shows up as a secret spy of the Philistines and has an affair with Sampson. I don’t know what he was getting out of it. But enough sex and drugs and relaxation to give up his secrets. Maybe he loved her, I dunno. But they gouged his eyes out in the end.
- NME 22nd April 1989
'Gouge Away' is a telling of Samson and Delilah. It's a story that has anger. Do I purge via a song? I don't know. I suppose it's possible
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| Carl |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 11:50:38
I haven't listened to it in a good while. I'm probably wrong!
 pas de dutchie!
Here's a blog thing about Doolittle:
http://openyoureyestomusic.blogspot.com/2006/12/pixies-doolittle.html
...And another:
http://forgottendiscfriday.blogspot.com/2007/03/fdf-volume-1-issue-51-pixies-doolittle.html |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 04:39:33
They certainly say "shake yo butt" when the song is performed now. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 04:20:50
quote:
Originally posted by Carl
This has been discussed before, but I reckon the ad-libbing at the start of La La is:
Dave:"Kick yo' butt!"
Black:"Not so hard!"
pas de dutchie!
I've always heard "shake your butt."
I got some heaven in my head
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| Carl |
Posted - 03/22/2006 : 01:48:51
This has been discussed before, but I reckon the ad-libbing at the start of La La is:
Dave:"Kick yo' butt!"
Black:"Not so hard!"
pas de dutchie! |
| Carl |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 18:38:10
quote:
Originally posted by starmekitten
"I worked on a couple of burials (a few years ago on an archaeological dig in Arizona). I don't remember if we figured out if they were buried the same time or not. I saw the rib cage of the infant. "
pas de dutchie! |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 03/19/2006 : 16:05:17
on the here comes your man video:
It's really funny and weird and we're hoping there' ll be a fluke and they' ll play it, at least for the humor value. The look of it is real cheap. There's no lip synching. We just open our mouths real wide and go aaaahhh.... Some friends of ours directed and we used local film students around town. Water on the brain is the theme
Gouge Away:
" The pillars have something to do with an old story - Samson and Delilah. Pillar's a cool word, though. It's something that supports traditionally, but I don't think like that. I think of it more as a decoration, in mansions or a palace or a big ballroom or even an old archaeological dig with no buildings left. I worked on a couple of burials (a few years ago on an archaeological dig in Arizona). I don't remember if we figured out if they were buried the same time or not. I saw the rib cage of the infant. "
- Alternative Press Vol. IV No. 22, September 1989
Monkey Gone To Heaven:
"It's a reference from what I understand to be Hebrew numerology, and I don't know a lot about it or any of it really. I just remember someone telling me of the supposed fact that in the Hebrew language, especially in the Bible, you can find lots of references to man in the 5th and Satan in the 6th and God in the 7th. I don't know if there is a spiritual hierarchy or not. But it's a neat little fact, if it is a fact. I didn't go to the library and figure it out. "
- Alternative Press Vol. IV No. 22, September 1989
Dead (honestly, even though it reads like gouge away)
1 think that kind of imagery is pretty staple, as far as old blues goes - singing about Samson & Delilah, and so on. I've been exposed to religion and blues music, and they're part of the same thing. Though I don't see myself in quite the same position of pain and desperation as some of those old blues guys must have been in. I'm flying around the world, playing for teenagers, y'know what I mean?"
- Alternative Press Vol. IV No. 22, September 1989 |
| Carl |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 11:28:44
Apparently, all of them sometimes wore eyeliner for shows in the early days.
pas de dutchie! |
| VoVat |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 11:27:04
I love how Frank used deodorant as an example of a girly product he doesn't understand. I always figured that was pretty unisex.
And don't forget that this is from a man who eventually started wearing eyeliner.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| Carl |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 09:27:32
I remember being thrilled to see those song explainations, benji. Especially No.13 Baby.
As I guess everyone already knows, Jean (and Dave L) gets a songwriting credit on Levitate Me for lyrical contributions.
I sound like I'm plugging it but Fool The World is worth checking out: it has a lot of interesting stuff in it, a lot of things I'd never heard before.
pas de dutchie! |
| The Holiday Son |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 09:14:36
quote:
Originally posted by kathryn
Anybody have a copy of that article?
I do actually !
Spin, September 2004
nb: "Johnny Angel : Journalist, musician" |
| jimmy |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 08:51:13
By the way, Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" has a reference to
David & Bathsheba, too.
"Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you." JOHN 15:14 |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 08:17:46
quote:
Originally posted by The Holiday Son
In a recent article (2004-2005) someone close to the band said that Tame had references to Jean (Cookie being her nickname) but I can't remember where I read it...
In that same Spin oral bio an interviewee whose name escapes me said that Jean spurred Charles' writing early on, for example she suggested he replace the word "baby" with something more interesting, so he wrote "cookie" instead. Anybody have a copy of that article? Thanks.
I got some heaven in my head
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| The Holiday Son |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 07:52:22
In a recent article (2004-2005) someone close to the band said that Tame had references to Jean (Cookie being her nickname) but I can't remember where I read it... |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 06:12:59
I truly could kiss you all right now. I know I spat out the barest bones here (lyrics hehe) but am so grateful for all pointers in the right direction and quotes and everything.
mwah! no, really! |
| benji |
Posted - 03/18/2006 : 03:48:04
there should be lots of info at alec eiffel - i wrote out a NME article from '89 where frank goes thru every song on doolittle and explains the meaning etc...
i posted it here too, but i dare say it's been archived....
in fact, here it is
http://forum.frankblack.net/topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=4814
"you change your lives with a change of a haircut" Die Die Die |
| Carl |
Posted - 03/17/2006 : 20:17:03
Lots of info here (not Doolittle-specific!!):
http://aleceiffel.free.fr/titles.html
Here's a couple of references I was thinking of:
Wave Of Mutalation:
"The first verse is about the phenomenon where Japanese businessmen were putting their whole family in the car and driving off the dock. The second verse features the Marianas Trench. The only Pixies song I've played as a solo guy." (Frank Black in SELECT, October 1997)
Tame:
"I don't want to sound like a male chauvinist, but I have a male perspective, because I am male. Tame is about women more than men. But the way some men treat their hair it's incredible and I can['t] understand all that deodorant and stuff. I've never related to it. My family's rather spartan. It's about putting all that time into sexual presentation. I don't mean it in a dirty kind of way. Where I live in the city, women spend time presenting themselves and still come out forever bland and mediocre." (Black Francis in the NME, April 1989)
pas de dutchie! |
| kathryn |
Posted - 03/17/2006 : 16:04:24
dayanara, can you remind us all what frank says in i forget which radio interview about how in his opinion caesar salad is one of those things that is debased and then he gives a recipe for non-debased caesar salad? thanks. kitty, it's a total tangent, i'll admit, but it's frank, baby, it's frank.
Thomas is correct about Dead being about King David. The biblical tale (Brian? Any comments?) goes a little something like this: King David saw from his rooftop Bathsheba and sent for her, knocked her up, then recalled from battle her husband Uriah the Hittite so he would pretend to be the one who got her pregnant. (Hello, Jerry Springer!) Uriah refused and King David sent him to the front lines where he got killed. King David married Bathsheba. Natan the prophet confronted him and he admitted his sin. His and Bathsheba’s child died. They had another child, Solomon (which takes us to "I've been tired"!).
also, kitty, is it ok to quote dagwieers? if so:
Debaser:
Based on French surrealistic film "Un Chien Andalou" (An Andalusian Dog), by Spanish director Luis Bunuel (1928). The film starts with the scene in which an eyeball is being cut open.
Andalusia is the Southern region of Spain including Sierra Nevada & valley of the Guadalquivir.
"I wish Bunuel was still alive. He made this film about nothing in particular. The title itself is a nonsense. With my stupid, pseudo-scholar, naive, enthusiast, avant-garde-ish, amateurish way to watch 'Un Chien Andalou' (twice), I thought: 'Yeah, I will make a song about it,' he sings: "un chien andalou"...It sounds too French, so I will sing "un chien andalusia", it sounds good, no?" - Black Francis, translated from a Spanish interview
Tin Machine performed this song on some concerts during the Tin Machine 91 tour. This was probably an early indication of David Bowie's fascination with the Pixies.
Also covered by Loud Family, The Frames and Kerbdog.
Wave:
"This is a song about nothing" -- Black Francis in a concert
"The million pounds of sludge killing men in the sea. Charles himself gets sucked into the Ocean on Wave Of Mutilation. 'I guess I've always lived kind of near the ocean. I never got to live for too long in one place, but I like oceans in general. I think the oceans are an inspiration for anybody. It's the other part of the earth. There's land and then there's the ocean, and it's even bigger. There's nothing in there man, but it's just a big blank space. Kind of scary too, for everybody, even for people that aren't afraid to die in it, like the captain of the ship. The watery deaths and everything that lives there, food, fish and animals. Just amazing stuff.'" -- Alternative Press citing Black Francis
"People would listen to something like Wave Of Mutilation and think, 'Oh yeah, murder, crucifixion, extermination', but it was really just a song about sea currents and nice animals. It was nothing to do with cutting throats." -- Black Francis in Melody Maker
"Wave Of Mutilation attempted to intertwine The Beach Boys with Charlie Manson" -- Melody Maker
"The first verse is about the phenomenon where Japanese businessmen were putting their whole family in the car and driving off the dock. The second verse features the Marianas Trench. The only Pixies song I've played as a solo guy." -- Frank Black in SELECT, October 1997
kitty, it might be handy to list here all the different versions of wave, which has been attempted in at least one thread. we've also got a thread kicking around on what "here comes your man" is all about. if memory serves, it contains much speculation by forum members as well as some good info.
Frank on here comes your man in SELECT, October 1997 -- from alec eiffel:
"Last winter I was doing promotion in Stockholm and I heard this on the radio. It sounded like the most sugary, sweet thing ever. One of our chirpier numbers. Other people like it, what can you say?"
Gouge Away
1) i recall frank saying in the spin oral biography cover story something along the lines of "you can't go wrong with the old testament." i know speedy's got a copy of that mag kicking around, maybe he can cough up the correct quote.
2) Frank in Sept. 9 02 blogcritics.com interview
" 'Gouge Away' is a telling of Samson and Delilah. It's a story that has anger. Do I purge via a song? I don't know. I suppose it's possible."
also in 9/9/2 blogcritics.com:
when asked "You made one of the best-produced, best-sounding records in rock history (Doolittle). Was moving to live recording a way to keep people from demanding another Doolittle?"
Frank said "No not at all. Doolittle is Doolittle. There will never be another Doolittle."
doolittle
"Actually, this Monkey Gone To Heaven forced the Pixies to change their original album title, WHORE. 'I didn't like how the word went with the artwork. Too Catholic or something. People would think I was anti-Catholic." Frank, Alternative Press citing BF (from alec eiffel)
Debaser again, just to geek out ... I remember in French class learning that in the movie Buñuel and Dali used the eye of an ox to film the eye-slicing part. Random trivia....
lastly, kitty how do you feel about going on the record as saying that the band has never sung the alleged lyrics "this song is sung to heaven"? (ducks rotten tomatoes)
I got some heaven in my head
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| chineselover |
Posted - 03/17/2006 : 15:31:30
I remember looking up debaser many years ago, and to 'debase' was to be able to raise yourself above the ground and suspend yourself in a ghostly type manner, thats what i remember anyway, and at the time it seemed pefectly logical for a pixies lyric. |
| Thomas |
Posted - 03/17/2006 : 14:53:30
http://www.newadvent.org/bible/2sa011.htm
2 Samuel Chapter 11
David falleth into the crime of adultery with Bethsabee: and not finding other means to conceal it, causeth her husband Urias to be slain. Then marrieth her, who beareth him a son.
Dead
You crazy babe Bathsheba
I want ya
You're suffocating you need
A good shed
I'm tired of living Sheba
So gimme
Dead
Dead
We're apin' rapin' takin'
Catharsis
You get torn down and I get
Erected
My blood is working but my
My heart is
Dead
Dead
Dead
Hey
What do you know?
Your lovely
Tan belly
Starting to grow
Uriah hit the crapper the crapper
Uriah hit the crapper the crapper
Uriah hit the crapper the crapper
Dead
Dead
"Our Love is Rice and Beans and Horses Lard" |
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