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| kathryn |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 10:22:43
My friend Dave, the font of all cool music, practically ran over and made me listen to Come On Pilgrim, right after it was released. Boom. I was 24 and got hooked for life. You?
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| apl4eris |
Posted - 06/28/2004 : 06:56:43
I was a junior in high school ('89?), volunteering at the Speed Art Museum at University of Louisville with a friend from my painting class, who gave me a ride home. The tape that was playing was (I think - it's all a blur) Doolittle. The world of music got brighter... One of us! One of us! Can I get a witness!? Surfer Rosa hit me the hardest. I listened to Pixies for rejuvenation religiously in college, while working in the studio or printmaking lab especially. All-nighters, 4 AM trying to meet a deadline, breathing lacquer thinner and turpentine, running manual presses, carrying slabs of limestone and hurting all over...I've got a broken faaay-ace! uh HUH! uh HUH uh HUH oooh-ooooo-ooh!
I've had no sleep.
I got into solo Frank with Teenager of the Year (wasn't aware of the first album. After several listens, it was (once again) a new part of my brain. I love the way he thinks.
 Swedish Chef's "Dumpling of Wisdom": Øder tis moodle in der noggin tu smacken der ouchey und vinger-slingers ur to smacken-backen und fix de morkin, yøobetcha! |
| Monsieur |
Posted - 06/28/2004 : 06:53:25
Mun Chien, your victory in the Euro doesn't excuse lame jokes ;) |
| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 06/28/2004 : 06:48:10
quote:
Originally posted by benji
i then bought COF when it came out - it was the first cd i ever bought..
 You Know You Want To!
You bought Dean? Wow
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| TattooedJeebus |
Posted - 06/28/2004 : 06:43:14
My buddy used to play the Pixies all the time when I was over at his place. He had some live bootleg, and I can remember hearing Tame and thinking "man can that guy scream!". I eventually went out and bought Doolittle, wanting to give this band a listen on my own. Instantly hooked. After that I went out and got the rest of their albums. At first I wasn't even aware that FB had gone solo, and I don't know where I got the info but anyways, the first FB cd I picked up was his self titled...as soon as I heard Los Angeles I was hooked. I went out and got TOTY and loved that as well. This was around teh time Dog in the Sand came out, so I went and got that too.
I guess I still have some listening to do. I lost all my old cd's one day so I was left with nothing, but I started buying them all back. I've got everything from DITS on, and recently (well not that recently) got Pistolero and have been getting into that, but there's still whole albums I haven't heard yet, such as Cult of Ray...Frank's solo stuff is hard to find in record stores here, but I'm keeping my eyes open
If you're getting cotton mouth, my mind is like an ocean... |
| benji |
Posted - 06/28/2004 : 03:21:59
I got into the Pixies when my sister came home from a year at university with Surfer Rosa/COP, Doolittle, and Pod by the Breeders.
i was about 14 at the time.
i was fascinated by the music - previously i had been into Tracy Chapman and Dire Straits etc...
i would get up really early in the morning so i could sit in the lounge by myself and listen to them on repeat for hours and hours.
i copied them all on to tape and i listened to these 3 albums constantly and exclusively for about a year.
then i got the others when i could afford too.
i then bought COF when it came out - it was the first cd i ever bought..
i didn't like it very much at all.
i then slowly got the others, but it wasn't til i got Pistolero that i really got interested in franks solo career. it's been great ever since.
You Know You Want To! |
| TarTar |
Posted - 06/28/2004 : 01:43:26
Funny enough, the Replacements, who I suppose are a bit more conventional on the songwriting and performance side than the Pixies, took me a lot longer to get into. I picked up Let It Be during the time I was just really getting into the Pixies, and the Replacements just weren't as demented or bizarre, but slowly, over the course of many months, Let It Be grew on me (Androgynous was one I always liked from the start), and now it's one of my favorites. I like just about everything the Replacements have done. Even the weak album Don't Tell A Soul has Achin' To Be and Talent Show.
"You gotta watch the mota, Thurston. Yr fuckin memory just goes out the window." |
| TarTar |
Posted - 06/28/2004 : 01:39:52
I had picked up the tribute to the Pixies because Weezer was on it (Velouria) and it was the first recording they had released in years, so I didn't mind paying $13 or so to get one new Weezer song. I really liked Velouria, and a couple other songs from the tribute (Monkey Gone to Heaven specifically) stuck out to me. I remember I downloaded the Pixies version of Monkey a while later and liked that a lot. But I never pursued hearing them beyond that. A few years later, I was taking a class at the local community college and there was a guy in the class who I talked about music with a lot, and he was always mentioning the Pixies and the Replacements. So one weekend I went out and picked up both Surfer Rosa and Bossanova. I was surprised out how raucous and weird the songs were at first. I had been under the impression the Pixies were about as poppy and catchy as Weezer. There was some stuff on Bossanova that was close to that degree of hookiness, but I couldn't really connect w/ Surfer Rosa in any way at first, except WIMM? and Gigantic. So I listed to Bossanova a lot and slowly it sunk it's hooks into me and songs like Is She Weird? and The Happening started to sound more and more appealing and full of flavor on repeated listens, and eventually that whole album made sense to me. I started to spin Surfer Rosa more often and started hearing the songs underneath all the chaos, and soon after picked up Doolittle, and immediately connected with Wave of Mutilation and Here Comes Your Man, and of course Monkey which I already knew. It took me a few months to really grasp the direction the Pixies were coming from, but I kept listening throughout that time, fascinated in uncovering what was going on there. I picked up both Cult of Ray and Teenager in this time period and was able to get into Black's solo stuff around the same time I was getting into the Pixies, which was nice. Pretty soon, I had everything the Pixies had officially available and most of Frank's stuff (now I have it all I think). Yeah.
"You gotta watch the mota, Thurston. Yr fuckin memory just goes out the window." |
| Sir Rockabye |
Posted - 06/28/2004 : 00:02:59
I got into the Pixies in the summer before 8th grade. I was a pretty big Nirvana fan, and saw a picture of Kurt wearing a Pixies shirt in some magazine. Bought me a copy of Surfer Rosa, and the rest was history.
I lift weights, but I don't sweat. I go for a swim, but I don't get wet. |
| n/a |
Posted - 06/27/2004 : 13:56:33
My boyfriend gave me "Come on pilgrim" vinyl when it came out(his first present), nobody knew the Pixies yet! And I loved it! And I got hooked to the Pixies!
Then we got married, had children, the Pixies broke out, Frank started his solo carreer and itīs still my favorite!
Itīs a true love story!
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| mun chien andalusia |
Posted - 06/27/2004 : 10:35:19
velouria and subbacultcha on a mixed tape hooked me on the pixies. i wasn't that much interested in fb's solo stuff until i listened to superabound. the rest is history.
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| kathryn |
Posted - 06/27/2004 : 10:27:32
quote:
Originally posted by Doog
I play in a conspiracy-themed mathrock band
That sounds like great fun! Good for you.
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| offerw |
Posted - 06/27/2004 : 09:49:14
I bought Trompe at a closing down sale after years of reading about the Pixies and not being able to afford the expensive imported cds. Borrowed money from my dad the next week to get Surfer. At the height of my Pixies madness they split up. Then Frank's debut came along and all was fine again.
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| Doog |
Posted - 06/27/2004 : 07:32:43
This guy I used to hang out with when I was 16 or so played DTTP about 5 times in a row at one of his house parties. Quite liked it, bought it, then Doolittle, then SR/COP...
Weirdly enough, I play in a conspiracy-themed mathrock band with him now, and his younger sister is the "Kim" figure in Nimrod's Son. Funny how things work out, eh?
 "I heard Francis speak one time, he said "hEY!"
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| kathryn |
Posted - 06/27/2004 : 04:05:52
quote:
Originally posted by glacial906
...Frank Black's songs "Los Angeles" and "Headache" were playing on the radio. One day I heard the DJ comment about Frank's connection with the Pixies, and then I really started getting into him, too.
Take me, break me, tell me a good one and maybe I'll cry
Both Switchy and Glacial harken back to the days when radio could be a little cool. How much does commercial radio suck today? Could be a whole other thread where we all bitch bitch bitch about it. But I'm gonna wait to post it when I figure out the correct place to do so.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
| kathryn |
Posted - 06/27/2004 : 04:01:21
quote:
Originally posted by VoVat
It's okay. Since this part of the forum is for anything, that technically includes Frank-related talk as well as everything else. It's just that it COULD have been in the General Frank Black Chat area.
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo.
Phew! You mean that the powers that be won't punish me by throwing me off the forum or making me listen to country "music"?
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
| Coldheartofstone |
Posted - 06/27/2004 : 01:54:04
My ex-boyfriend...boyfriend at the time...had a big boner for him..
I unfortunetly never knew he had a solo career outta this...being in BARBADOS AND ALL.
so...i found out...came back...and i love him all the more.
Her life was saved by Rock & Roll. |
| glacial906 |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 21:55:14
I had a letter published in a Wolverine comic book quite a while back (like, 94 or 95) and since it was Wolverine I got all these letters from like-minded comic book geeks wanting to talk about how big a badass Wolverine was. One of the letter-writers was this kid who lived in McMinville, not far away from me. We used to talk about other stuff too, mostly music. He sent me a copy of Pixies "Doolittle." My brother-in-law had also introduced me to the Pixies Alec Eiffel single and so I was a little bit familiar with them. So I got into them big time. All the while this was going on Frank Black's songs "Los Angeles" and "Headache" were playing on the radio. One day I heard the DJ comment about Frank's connection with the Pixies, and then I really started getting into him, too.
Take me, break me, tell me a good one and maybe I'll cry
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| The Champ |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 18:04:57
Brothers friend gave him a mixed tape with doolittle on it back in 96/97, good year, was hooked immediately. |
| VoVat |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 18:00:24
It's okay. Since this part of the forum is for anything, that technically includes Frank-related talk as well as everything else. It's just that it COULD have been in the General Frank Black Chat area.
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
| kathryn |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 17:46:25
quote:
Originally posted by VoVat
Doesn't this really belong in General Frank Black Chat, by the way?
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo.
If it does, it's my fault and I apologize. I'm new at this.
I still believe in the excellent joy of the Frank |
| Cheeseman1000 |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 15:10:05
Yep, prepare to incur a chucking.
A friend of mine made me a tape ages ago (ooh, 1998ish?) of Idlewild and 'friends', including a few Pixies songs: I think Debaser, WIMM? WOM and Holiday Song, and one or two more. It didn't grab me at first, but after a while I found myself humming these random songs. I went and bought Doolittle and it progressed slowly from there. I bought all the albums, and when it came to writing my dissertation on the band, I bought all the Bsides and stuff.
In fact, when I was researching for said dissertation, I visited the Barbican Music Library in London and amongst their big piles of CD's i found FB, TOTY and FB&TCs. And it progresses thusly.
 "Ee-hee! Shamone!" |
| VoVat |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 15:01:28
I've said this already, but I got into Frank because of his connection to They Might Be Giants. I bought Teenager of the Year used at the student union late in 1999. It took a little while to click with me, but I ended up loving it, and buying the other albums. I got into Frank solo before the Pixies, by the way.
Doesn't this really belong in General Frank Black Chat, by the way?
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
| Opaque |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 12:09:55
My buddy Derek first played the Pixies for me way back some many years ago. Geeze... I should ask him what the first song he played was. It very well may have been Bone Machine. No wait... mebbe it was Caribou. Heck. Hard to remember cause we listened to the Pixies A LOT.
"You've gotta listen for a weird, strange noise. Something out of the ordinary." - John Crichton |
| TheCroutonFuton |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 12:06:36
My sister (Who is 22 now.) was always into good music. I heard screaming and loud, crazy guitar work and asked her who it was. "It's the Pixies." So, I burned the cd (I had just gotten a first-generation cd-burner, hahaha...this was a LONG time ago, mind you.) and got into them. Burned all of her other cd's. She told me they had broken up, got me the first Frank Black cd for my birthday. Great sister. Love her to death. Before that I had been into oldies and blues. Still am. Ah, I love my family's musical tastes, haha.
I like your chameleon icon, KoK.
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| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 11:20:07
Can anyone suggest a good browser? I'm having trouble with both of mine.
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| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 11:18:43
quote:
Originally posted by Chip Away Boy
I really liked this band called the Toadies, and on their message board i kept reading about how their lead singers music was extremely influenced by this band called the Pixies, so i went to amazon.com and checked out the reviews to see which i wanted first. Surfer Rosa and Doolittle both had equally good reviews so i picked them both up, got into surfer first, from there it's history.
What's up with the toadies? They break up? Why are they calling them the croakers? Is that a nick name?
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| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 11:13:11
Weird, I keep trying to edit my message and it wont let me.
Hmm? I'm over on Safari because I'm having trouble with Explorer and when ever I post or edit it doesn't show. Then I check it on Explorer and its here.
W.T.F.?
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| Chip Away Boy |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 11:09:06
I really liked this band called the Toadies, and on their message board i kept reading about how their lead singers music was extremely influenced by this band called the Pixies, so i went to amazon.com and checked out the reviews to see which i wanted first. Surfer Rosa and Doolittle both had equally good reviews so i picked them both up, got into surfer first, from there it's history. |
| cvanepps |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 11:06:39
My sister turned me onto him. I knew about the Pixies of course but I wasn't a huge fan. But when sissy started playing the ORANGE (yes, it's orange) album, I said...hey that sounds an awful lot like the Pixies. Voila!
-= It's not easy to kidnap a fat man =-
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| The King Of Karaoke |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 10:43:07
I remember MTV doing a little snipit on them where they are walking down the street and showing clips from "Monkey's gone to Heaven". When asked "how he'd describe their music?" Black Francis say's something about "wanting to give people the same feeling you get when you get when you hear Bring in the Clowns". It was actually a little while before I picked up Doolittle. I brought it home and thought it was really noisey.
I had this ex-hippie english teacher at Andover high (Mr Turquotte) that once said to me, "Whenever you buy an album and are not really into it, put it on while you are sleeping."
This is what I have done since I was sixteen years old with almost everything I buy, and it works.
I didn't get much sleep the night I bought "Doolittle" because Frank was fucking screaming all night long but after that night I was hooked on Frank.
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| switchy |
Posted - 06/26/2004 : 10:38:30
I got hooked from hearing "Los Angeles" and "Hang on to Your Ego" on the radio in 1993. Around this time I also started getting into the Pixies from hearing "Monkey Gone To Heaven" and "Here Comes Your Man" on the radio. The radio was kinda cool back then. |
