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gotmeamovie Posted - 10/06/2006 : 04:37:41
it is a mnd blower when u learn how to play this song
becuae it is so simple
the same chord progression over and over all the way through
its further proof that this band was somethign so special
u never get sick of this song and it sounds out different parts
and i love the way he sings it
so funny!

"If all you've seen, is violence!"
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Jose Jones Posted - 10/07/2009 : 02:09:53

the version of this song on the live disc of DttP is super fantastic.

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they were the heroes of old, men of renown.
trobrianders Posted - 12/24/2006 : 05:33:20

Thanks Carl. Now I can rest easy.

Great version of EID on the Newport DVD

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Ed is the hoo hoo
Carl Posted - 12/20/2006 : 18:07:13
Hi trobrianders. No, that's a stretch.

Merry Christmas!
trobrianders Posted - 12/20/2006 : 17:59:41

Beautiful. Thank you.

So was Tarantino referencing EID when he has Butch tell Fabienne that Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead, or is that a stretch?

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Ed is the hoo hoo
floop Posted - 12/20/2006 : 12:23:46
the "hermosa strand" is part of Hermosa Beach, near where Frankie grew up



at least that's what your mom said
fbc Posted - 12/20/2006 : 12:09:43
I don't know about hormosa, but hermosa is Spanish for beautiful.
MikeW Posted - 12/19/2006 : 16:14:47
I like it live myself..... I like how Frank improvises the endings with the boogie-woogie pickings.
trobrianders Posted - 12/19/2006 : 15:42:46

His catchiest song, no?

Thompson - It's about this weird kinda girl
Kolderie - At one point they're just going "E-I-D!"
Fool the World

This one time I heard them play, Charles was singing the chorus like 'Ed is the hoo hoo, Ed is dead' I loved that and now it's my sig.

I don't ask what it's about, just savour the shifting images it conjures up in the bagatelle of my mind. Like Charles says it doesn't matter, it's rock n roll [sic]. Surfin' Bird's line - papa ooo mow mow, papa ooo mow mow. What does that mean? If we need to ask we'll never know.

All the same I'd like to know what hormosa is. And don't get smart. I'm asking for simple translation not meaning. Anyone?

I dedicate my strand cruiser to the memory of this song.


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Ed is the hoo hoo
HereComesYourMac Posted - 10/21/2006 : 05:48:47
Never sounded particularly special to me compared to some of the songs they did but its got one of the quirkiest meanings to a pixies song. Its about a girl thats riding along on her bicycle listening to music and gets hit, presumably by a car and dies.

Frank Black really was a morbid fucker when you think about it.

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billgoodman Posted - 10/06/2006 : 08:57:13
sings like Kristin Hersh on this one


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Cult_Of_Frank Posted - 10/06/2006 : 07:44:46
One of the first Pixies songs to grab me. Maybe the first actually, I don't remember, but it has a special place alongside Freedom Rock, Speedy Marie, and the Imperial March.


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