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| Carl |
Posted - 09/09/2009 : 03:04:03
Okay, so the old 'Really not worth a topic' thread is a total mess, with lots of stuff that's really not worth posting AT ALL. So, I thought I'd start a new thread for little articles and things, but not cram it with every little thing that mentions Pixies! So anyway, came across this and hopefully this is an example of something possibly worth posting:
NYTimes.com - Living With Music: A Playlist by Joanna Smith Rakoff.
1) Is She Weird, Pixies. Nowadays, when people talk about the 1990s, the first band they mention is Nirvana, but for me — and most of my college-radio-station-DJ, record-store-regular friends — that era was all about the Pixies, with their irresistible, genre-busting sound: the slow, precise bass, the shifting tempo, the eerie hiss and scream of Black Francis. In 1990, when “Bossanova” came out, I listened to it endlessly — even though it wasn’t on the level of “Doolittle” or “Come on Pilgrim” — thrilled by this brief, odd song, a freaky gloss on Macbeth: “Is she weird? / Is she white? / Is she promised to the night? / And her head has no room.” I was 18 then, and felt very weird and very white. |
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| Stevio10 |
Posted - 04/30/2019 : 12:35:15
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Originally posted by The Maharal
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Originally posted by Stevio10
According to Josh Frank on twitter, he and BF are working on a screenplay...no other details shared. How postable this news is I'm not sure but there you go!
Have you seen anything more about the screenplay?
Not heard anything, looks like Josh Frank is pretty busy with his new book release - Giraffes on Horseback Salad - a graphic novel based on a screenplay written by Salvatore Dali in 1937 for the Marx brothers. Looks pretty interesting, will check it out.
As on observation, Charles appears to have stopped with social media recently, he seems pretty elusive these days. Especially with interviews, it's usually Joey or Dave doing them all now. |
| The Maharal |
Posted - 04/29/2019 : 08:30:31
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Originally posted by Stevio10
According to Josh Frank on twitter, he and BF are working on a screenplay...no other details shared. How postable this news is I'm not sure but there you go!
Have you seen anything more about the screenplay? |
| Bedbug |
Posted - 04/28/2019 : 03:28:04
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Originally posted by pot
Finally, an explanation for the Pixies 1.0 and Bluefinger eras.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-48077012
Nailed it |
| pot |
Posted - 04/27/2019 : 09:44:08
Finally, an explanation for the Pixies 1.0 and Bluefinger eras.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-48077012 |
| oddball |
Posted - 10/10/2018 : 13:03:29
Yes, let's hope something along these lines materializes. Thanks for sharing this news Stevio10.
-oddball |
| Sprite |
Posted - 10/10/2018 : 10:12:21
It's more interesting to me than a Surfer Rosa reissue #128512; |
| Stevio10 |
Posted - 10/10/2018 : 08:17:36
According to Josh Frank on twitter, he and BF are working on a screenplay...no other details shared. How postable this news is I'm not sure but there you go! |
| coastline |
Posted - 06/27/2018 : 14:37:28
The Baltimore Orioles' ballpark speakers just played a few seconds of "Velouria" during a quiet moment of the O's game against the Mariners. Pretty sure that's the first time I've heard Pixies/FB during a ballgame.
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If all you see is violins, then I make a plea in their defense. |
| Bedbug |
Posted - 06/23/2018 : 14:55:07
David Lynch just mentioned Perry Mason as one of his all time favorite shows, so there’s another DKL / FBF connection. |
| pot |
Posted - 06/21/2018 : 10:17:46
Pixies are playing Ft Lauderdale this weekend, the solstice. I've been there, FL I mean. Three boring weeks drinking miller lite in bars with no atmosphere. It wasn't all bad though I Forrest Gumped a movie awards ceremony by accident and got to see Robert Wise getting a lifetime award. Might have been more fun if my family weren't such a bunch of huns. One of them might be at this selling home brew. |
| picpic |
Posted - 06/19/2018 : 23:22:51
http://www.indiehoy.com/noticias/steve-albini-productor-de-pixies-y-nirvana-gano-millonario-torneo-de-poker/
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| Bedbug |
Posted - 06/19/2018 : 10:13:26
Here's a nice slow motion skateboard montage set to the beautiful Frank Black song "The Swimmer"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NlraA8mQXM
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| Bedbug |
Posted - 06/16/2018 : 20:32:08
Everybody probably already saw this 5 years ago, but I just read it and found it interesting.
Pixies make Rolling Stone's top ten list of messiest band breakups
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/valentines-day-special-the-10-messiest-band-breakups-20130214/the-pixies-19691231 |
| Bedbug |
Posted - 05/19/2018 : 14:08:54
Over on Tony Hawk's instagram page there's a clip of his son's band covering HCYM.
There's some nice words by Tony re: the Pixies.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bi-dyW-gVLM/?hl=en&taken-by=tonyhawk |
| Bedbug |
Posted - 04/24/2018 : 04:21:05
This is from Jeremy Klein's instagram page
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh5EWn6AiAl/?hl=en&taken-by=hookupsofficial
He's a long time Frank fan. I just post this here because it's awesome reading the comments and seeing the younger generation asking "what song is this?" Birth of new fans right before our eyes.
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| The Maharal |
Posted - 03/27/2018 : 08:37:38
Black Francis on Juke Box Jury back in the day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVSHo07A2bU
(Apologies that you'll have to see Jools Holland..) |
| Sprite |
Posted - 03/25/2018 : 01:41:18
My early life in one article
http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/surfer-rosa-changed-world-2271974 |
| billgoodman |
Posted - 03/25/2018 : 00:43:42
The ringer: Nice article, the bashing of 2.0 seems a little cheap though
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BF: Mag ik Engels spreken? |
| Bedbug |
Posted - 03/25/2018 : 00:38:34
More SR praise
https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/03/how-pixies-surfer-rosa-rode-a-wave-that-changed-alternative-rock-forever/ |
| Bedbug |
Posted - 03/22/2018 : 09:00:51
And all the David Lynch references! What a read! |
| Bedbug |
Posted - 03/22/2018 : 09:00:13
And that story of him meeting Iggy, devastating to read. |
| Bedbug |
Posted - 03/22/2018 : 08:57:45
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Originally posted by natenate101
So Surfer Rosa turned 30 yesterday. Several articles written about it, one here from The Ringer.
http://therin.gr/c2XZYY0
Amazing article, thank you natenate101.
This:
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Information about the Pixies was scarce in the early days, and plenty of people who’d heard their early songs (see: the deranged-falsetto-driven “Caribou”) were probably uncertain of the singers’ genders. As were some of the first people to see them live. “I think we all thought they were women,” Throwing Muses frontwoman Kristin Hersh recalls of her first time catching a Pixies show in Boston."
Apparently lots of us thought BF was a F.
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| natenate101 |
Posted - 03/22/2018 : 08:23:18
So Surfer Rosa turned 30 yesterday. Several articles written about it, one here from The Ringer.
http://therin.gr/c2XZYY0
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| pot |
Posted - 02/20/2018 : 01:37:54
Love the cup of tea sitting on the drums at 3m20s in lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjkH3QNqiQw |
| stuczuba |
Posted - 02/19/2018 : 23:53:54
Tin Machine live were massively self-indulgent but they were stunning gigs, I prefer their garagey Debaser to Bowie's solo take on Cactus. |
| Stevio10 |
Posted - 02/19/2018 : 08:38:53
Tin Machine I and II are really good albums and have aged well. I thought they should have done more, a new Tin Machine album would have been better than his Earthling period. |
| pot |
Posted - 02/18/2018 : 03:26:00
I remember Tin Machine. My mate at school was really in to them. I listened to the album (the first one anyway) when it came out, but it never left much of an impression with me. Must give them a relisten sometime, see how well they've aged. (for want of a better experession since Mr Bowie is of course no longer with us) |
| pixie punk |
Posted - 02/18/2018 : 02:57:21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfrRWQ0RHE0 You are right pot,it's Tony Sales on main vocales with Bowie on choruses.
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| pixie punk |
Posted - 02/18/2018 : 02:40:35
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Originally posted by pot
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Originally posted by pixie punk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGutStpjcTA A remastered speedy 'Debaser' cover by Tin Machine.
PUERTO RICO PIXIE
Doesn't sound like Bowie on the vocals at all? Sounds more like Bon Scott. Is that really Bowie singing? Yes it's Bowie.
PUERTO RICO PIXIE |
| pot |
Posted - 02/18/2018 : 02:30:53
quote:
Originally posted by pixie punk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGutStpjcTA A remastered speedy 'Debaser' cover by Tin Machine.
PUERTO RICO PIXIE
Doesn't sound like Bowie on the vocals at all? Sounds more like Bon Scott. Is that really Bowie singing? |
| pot |
Posted - 02/18/2018 : 02:28:40
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Originally posted by picpic
wow, he was hot for a dude
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That's him getting psyched up to go zombie slaying. |
| pixie punk |
Posted - 02/18/2018 : 02:19:21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGutStpjcTA A remastered speedy 'Debaser' cover by Tin Machine.
PUERTO RICO PIXIE |
| picpic |
Posted - 11/28/2017 : 04:12:01
wow, he was hot for a dude
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| Fissile |
Posted - 11/27/2017 : 14:49:18
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Originally posted by Sprite
That Fissile gets around ;)
I never said, nor implied, that Kim was really a dude. In fact, I thought she was kinda cute when she was young. What I've been saying is that Kim was, and is, a mental case.
Young Kim when she was a cutie.
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| Jason Bravo |
Posted - 11/27/2017 : 14:32:30
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Originally posted by Bedbug
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Originally posted by Jason Bravo
Someone, please tell David Lovering to shave off that stupid gray beard of his and keep it off! Damn.
It kinda fits with his whole "we are the Grateful Dead of alternative" claim
Point taken, but it still looks stupid IMHO. |
