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| Active Duck |
Posted - 10/30/2024 : 07:56:09
The least played 2.0 album tracks (taken from spotify). Not including The Night The Zombies Came at this point.
10). 876,289 - Ring The Bell
9). 848,979 - The Lord Has Come Back Today
8). 855,871 - Bird Of Prey
7). 815,157 - Jaime Bravo
6). 766,498 - Death Horizon
5). 556,575 - Doggerel
4). 552,860 - Thunder And Lightning
3). 539,273 - Who's More Sorry Now?
2). 480,730 - Pagan Man
1). 437,962 - You're Such A Sadducee
Honourable mention to the BTE Demos that have more plays than those bottom 5 tracks. Mal Del Mer (584,249), Under The Marigold (565,656) and Chapel Hill (564,268).
I'd personally be happy to see Death Horizon rise up and out of this list.
I haven't looked at 1.0 numbers but Lovely Day is the least played on TLM with 1,405,674. |
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| Brank_Flack |
Posted - 11/01/2024 : 17:39:41
quote:
Originally posted by Troubles A Foot
I find Indie Cindy endlessly fascinating. So Frank has more or less admitted he was purposefully trying to please the record management people by self-consciously writing Pixies songs. But...
1) many of those songs are fantastic!
2) He put that resentment and inner conflict IN THE SONGS!
I think a more artistically satisfying approach would be something like Bluefinger. You're doing a rocking, wild, sexy and scary Pixies album but on your own terms, doing a crazy concept and doing something Pixies have never really done before. I think Frank could lean into more of these esoteric ideas he has (Golem, etc) and blend that with the Pixies and I think we'd all be really into it. Zombies hints at that but I just don't think it quite gets there.
Great points about Indie Cindy (as the other forum IC fan).
Sign me up for that second project! |
| Troubles A Foot |
Posted - 11/01/2024 : 15:51:44
I find Indie Cindy endlessly fascinating. So Frank has more or less admitted he was purposefully trying to please the record management people by self-consciously writing Pixies songs. But...
1) many of those songs are fantastic!
2) He put that resentment and inner conflict IN THE SONGS!
I think a more artistically satisfying approach would be something like Bluefinger. You're doing a rocking, wild, sexy and scary Pixies album but on your own terms, doing a crazy concept and doing something Pixies have never really done before. I think Frank could lean into more of these esoteric ideas he has (Golem, etc) and blend that with the Pixies and I think we'd all be really into it. Zombies hints at that but I just don't think it quite gets there. |
| Bedbug |
Posted - 11/01/2024 : 10:10:49
Indie Cindy has been steadily trending up for me since its release
Opposite for Head Carrier |
| Troubles A Foot |
Posted - 11/01/2024 : 09:16:06
quote:
Originally posted by Active Duck
And yet no Head Carrier songs are in this bottom 10.
Head Carrier is all fine. There's no big highs (except maybe All the Saints) or huge lows. It's a totally OK album. Nothing on it really bothers me, except the outrageously bad production of Baals Back, as mentioned already, but the song itself isn't a low point. Agree that it could have been so ferocious and exciting. Instead you just want to skip to the next song. |
| Active Duck |
Posted - 11/01/2024 : 00:20:44
And yet no Head Carrier songs are in this bottom 10.
6 Doggerel
2 BTE
2 Indie Cindy
I wonder how many from Zombies will rise above Ring The Bell. |
| Ziggy |
Posted - 10/31/2024 : 15:57:58
quote:
Originally posted by billgoodman
It was a messy recording for sure. Frank never really has those, maybe some parts of Christmas and the mixing of SR in a way.
Could be fun if they did that a whole album.
Now it was a weird fit with the rest of HC
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Nonstoperotik has a very strange mix throughout too.
Head Carrier is my least favourite 2.0 album. Horrible, airless production. Baal's Back suffers badly from that. |
| Active Duck |
Posted - 10/31/2024 : 00:23:54
quote:
Originally posted by Brank_Flack
Yeah, Birds of Prey, Death Horizon, and Doggerel are some of the best Pixies 2.0.
My bottom 10 (not counting the BTE outtakes disk) would probably be:
Women of War
Oona (I don't get the love for these top two!)
Bel Esprit
Long Rider
Hypnotized
Tenement Song
You're Such A Sadducee
There's a Moon On
I Hear You Mary
Human Crime
I should probably make another thread with the most played songs but I'm pretty sure at least 3 of your bottom 10 would make the the top 10 most played. |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 10/30/2024 : 14:23:17
It was a messy recording for sure. Frank never really has those, maybe some parts of Christmas and the mixing of SR in a way.
Could be fun if they did that a whole album.
Now it was a weird fit with the rest of HC
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| Skatealex1 |
Posted - 10/30/2024 : 13:43:53
I think Baals Back could've been a newer version of Tame or something if the production didn't ruin it. It's baffling how that came out compared to the fiery live version I've seen clips of. |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 10/30/2024 : 12:25:17
I love Baal's back
Ans I also like Women of War. One of their weirdest songs
BTE demo feel
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| Bedbug |
Posted - 10/30/2024 : 10:09:01
Yeah I’m a WOW fan too, mainly because of the tempo and guitars, sounds slightly unhinged which I miss in many 2.0 tunes. The backing vocals not so much
Oona is not one of my favs either, but man I love Tenement Song even though the pacing crawls
My bottom 10 would be
Baal’s back
And then a mix of other HC and IC songs, probably 60/40 |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 10/30/2024 : 10:08:29
quote:
Originally posted by Active Duck
Women Of War would 100% be in my top 10. I wish it was on spotify. It has now got to the point where whenever I watch anything else on Youtube the algorithm will suggest that I listen to Women Of War and so I do listen to Women Of War.
Haha
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| Active Duck |
Posted - 10/30/2024 : 09:56:23
Women Of War would 100% be in my top 10. I wish it was on spotify. It has now got to the point where whenever I watch anything else on Youtube the algorithm will suggest that I listen to Women Of War and so I do listen to Women Of War. |
| Brank_Flack |
Posted - 10/30/2024 : 09:46:01
Yeah, Birds of Prey, Death Horizon, and Doggerel are some of the best Pixies 2.0.
My bottom 10 (not counting the BTE outtakes disk) would probably be:
Women of War
Oona (I don't get the love for these top two!)
Bel Esprit
Long Rider
Hypnotized
Tenement Song
You're Such A Sadducee
There's a Moon On
I Hear You Mary
Human Crime |
| Sprite |
Posted - 10/30/2024 : 09:29:27
Take out Pagan Man and you're not that far off my Best of 2.0 pre Zombies |
| Bedbug |
Posted - 10/30/2024 : 08:55:32
Some absolutely great songs on that bottom 10 list
Not surprised though |
| Active Duck |
Posted - 10/30/2024 : 08:31:31
The Vegas Suite currently doing well too |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 10/30/2024 : 08:06:24
Songs on the second half of an album are likely to get the least amount of plays
All The Saints did a great job!
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