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| Amber X |
Posted - 02/29/2004 : 12:08:44
I remember the first time I ever heard the Pixies: it was John Peel's radio show in 1990, I was 12, and Velouria had just been released (I may be wrong on the date). Immediately I knew that I had to hear more of this: it was the beginning of my emotional history. The most cataclysmically beautiful phase in my life - my first love - was three years in the future, but I still view my discovery of the Pixies as a precursor of that eternally wonderful time, and have never ceased searching for whatever it was that I lost when those times passed. I wonder what there is in the Pixies' music that opens the lid of the piano in my heart and strikes the strings with a veritable hammer - any suggestions?
Moomaa. |
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| Steak n Sabre |
Posted - 03/03/2004 : 11:06:18
Welcome aboard Amber X.
Reading this thread brought to mind a line from the movie 'Blazing Saddles'....
"You use your tounge purtier than a twenty dollar whore"- Mr. Taggert (Slim Pickens)
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| DruggedBunny |
Posted - 03/01/2004 : 02:20:46
I think it's because they rock or something.
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"I appreciate your being offended, but who gives a fuck? Where do I take my list of things I’m offended by? Is anybody accepting applications?" -- Bill Hicks
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| martha_promise |
Posted - 02/29/2004 : 21:35:06
Wow! This could either be the biggest circle jerk in awhile...or you may be on to something. Very interesting...
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| boom_cheek_aroon |
Posted - 02/29/2004 : 13:02:25
i am just dumbfounded with your writing style, amber. your hypothesis of the transformation is intriguing.
you make a very valid point with them knowing each others musical styles so well that it halped produce great quality in individual songs on the later albums, despite the initial raw feeling becoming ever dormant. that, however, doesn't change the fact that another, perhaps greater feeling was felt in the end as you mentioned with a majestic fantasy quality to it all.
maybe what makes the pixies so great is that their history carried such a complex feeling in such simple and short songs.
i could be wrong
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| Amber X |
Posted - 02/29/2004 : 12:39:02
I think it's one of those happy confluences that's logically explicable in terms of what constituted it, but the way the parts became the sum will remain unknown. The early stuff was much more about raw instinctive musicianship - the Pixies sound was defined by the bandsaw guitar, the girder-strength bass and the naked four-by-four drumming (the sound of sex), not to mention the man himself sounding like a three-legged skeleton from your very own cupboard. Later on the fantasy took over (I started from Bossanova and worked backwards), and that can only be put down to Black Francis' (does the change of name mean something? I think it defines the two phases quite nicely) fecundity of imagination being charismatically transmitted through a group of musicians who know each other's playing inside out. Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde were the best two Frank Black albums (now there's a chestnut!)
Moomaa. |
| boom_cheek_aroon |
Posted - 02/29/2004 : 12:17:30
first off, great imagery in your writing. secondly, i think it is just a really great pop writer teamed up with great artistic minds and progressively better producers. they are all simple songs, but they sound great and that is what it is all about.
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