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Chip Away Boy
= Cult of Ray =
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 Posted - 10/04/2002 : 09:59:47
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i just downloaded the song "draw attention" off kazza, its listed as pre-pixies frank black...anyone have any other info on this song, its really good.
also if anyone wants it let me know, AIM: tiMBo313
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El Barto
= Song DB Master =
USA
4020 Posts |
Posted - 10/04/2002 : 13:11:48
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It's from a college demo from who knows what year. Charles apparently recorded some songs on a boombox in his dorm room. The songs have no title that we know of, so whoever uncovered the tape just named the songs from the lyrics. There are 4 songs:
Draw Attention
Fight With Honour
Just Keeping In Time
Silhouette
Someone within the last few years gave Charles a copy at a show and he said he hadn't heard them in a while. That oughta be weird, getting a bootleg of a tape you recorded way back in college. Also, I'm pretty sure that he said the chord progressions were later used for Pixies songs. I think there's an old message on the AbstractPlain somewhere...if I dig it up, I'll post it here. |
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Thomas
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1615 Posts |
Posted - 10/04/2002 : 18:54:52
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I dug up this old post from FBFP on yahoo! that I made.
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From: BOCswu
Date: Fri Mar 10, 2000 7:51 pm
Subject: PRE-PIXIES SONG
Hi everyone just thought you might want to
download a song from my computer called DRAW ATTENTION. I
found it on E-Bay a few months back. Someone was
selling a cd-r of demo songs charles did before the
pixies he (the guy on e-bay) had a link to his homepage and you were
allowed to download one track from it. He said it was
recorded from a boom box (anyone remember those monsters).
so the sound isn't the best but it is 100% charles
frank black francis thompson singing and playing the
guitar. to download the song you have to have NAPSTER and
do a search for PIXIES, FRANK BLACK, CHARLES
THOMPSON or DRAW ATTENTION. If you don't have NAPSTER.
Then download it at http://www.napster.com
and then you can download just about any of your favorite
songs from other fans online. I didn't win the
bid on e-bay and i can't remember the web site were i
downloaded the song.
"our love is rice and beans and horses lard"
Thomas
Though I didn't win or buy the CD off of e-bay, but I must take credit for the name the song has become. The first name I gave it when I downloaded it was:
FRANK_BLACK_CHARLES_THOMPSON_PRE-PIXIES_DRAW_ATTENTION.MP3
since then it has been shortened.
"It's the Nexus of the Crisis"
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Edited by - Thomas on 10/04/2002 19:03:24 |
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Thomas
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1615 Posts |
Posted - 10/04/2002 : 19:01:02
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Edited by - Thomas on 10/04/2002 19:02:10 |
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Aarjan Snoek
- FB Fan -
South Africa
59 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2002 : 03:34:19
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where does boom-chick-a-boom fit into the greater scheme of things? if that wasn't pre-pixies, was that really early pixies days?
i have keeping in time and draw attention (starts with lyrics "my haricut cost 80 dollars...")
but i never got fight with honour or silhouette from audiogalaxy. where do you get those? |
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El Barto
= Song DB Master =
USA
4020 Posts |
Posted - 10/06/2002 : 07:21:56
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| Boom-Chik-A-Boom is from a Boston radio show in 86 I believe. It's a greaaaat song, I really wish they would have re-recorded it. |
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DruggedBunny
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
395 Posts |
Posted - 11/19/2002 : 14:42:04
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Draw Attention rocks, Keeping in Time uses the chords D A Em G, as in Here Comes Your Man, and Silhouette features the chords used in the chorus to Break My Body :)
Weirdly, I've always thought these sound more like 'Frank' material than the Pixies, even though they come from before then...
See ya,
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James L Boyd.
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BrendanT
= Cult of Ray =
Canada
907 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2002 : 12:55:36
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What a delight when I stumbled across those songs on the now defunct Napster.
Strummer-man
I had me a vision!
I bid a good-day to you sir! |
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