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Stuart
- The Clopser -
China
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 Posted - 12/21/2002 : 16:59:41
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Does anyone know if there are any Pixies demo's of new songs that never got knocked out onto an album, and which hasn't been released on any of the sessions albums to date?? Ive got a song on a bootleg called 'Born in Chicago' which has never been released.... but I was wondering if there were anymore as I'd love to hear them. I guess towards the end of the Pixies, Frank might have used unfinished Pixies songs and changed them for the first FB album.
I would love to see another Pixies live album released, but one encompassing Trompe and not just Bossanova, Doolittle and Surfer.... There are a few Trompe songs that I would love to hear live! |
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mdisanto
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1140 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2002 : 17:22:24
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which trompe songs, i have a bootleg with several.
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Itchload
= Cult of Ray =
USA
891 Posts |
Posted - 12/21/2002 : 22:40:06
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There's one more that I know of, "Boom Chica Boom", which was recorded before Come on Pilgrim. Great song, except for the lyric..uh "boom chica rocka chica rocka chicka boom". Other than that it's awesome. It even has some keyboards in it, which the Pixies wouldn't later use until Bossa/Trompe era.
Then there's supposedly one more song from the Purple Tape that hasn't been released (not Rocka My Soul).
Do you have the Pixies version of Hang on To Your Ego? I don't think that was released either, and its easily just as good (maybe better) than FB's version (pretty different). |
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Stuart
- The Clopser -
China
2291 Posts |
Posted - 12/22/2002 : 04:21:08
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Pixies version of Hang On is better than the Frank Black as you've got Joey giving the trademark Pixies riffage throughout the song....
Mdisanto..... Any trompe songs would do, or all of them.... especially Planet of Sound.... |
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JamesM
= Cult of Ray =
308 Posts |
Posted - 12/22/2002 : 09:02:46
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That wasn't a keyboard in Boom Chica Boom, was it? I always thought it was a guitar that sounded like a keyboard because the tape's speed was fucked up.
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El Barto
= Song DB Master =
USA
4020 Posts |
Posted - 12/22/2002 : 10:00:57
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Boom Chica Boom is from a radio show in 86, and the tape speed was fucked up. Hang On To Your Ego, I believe, wasn't a full Pixies band version. I don't know who all played on it, but it was at least FB and a drum machine (it's a personal demo he recorded along with Is She Weird? which appears on "At The BBC").
There's a bootleg called "B-Sides (3rd Edition)" that has *all* the B-Sides, more than the official "b-sides" CD. Theme From Narc, Born In Chicago, they're all there. I don't think Boom Chica Boom is on there tho. |
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Stuart
- The Clopser -
China
2291 Posts |
Posted - 12/23/2002 : 12:17:32
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El Barto, have you got a version of BBC with Hang Onto Your Ego???? I have never seen that one around. My version is from Rough Diamonds, which also has Rock a my Soul, Born In Chicago and I can't Forget....
Is it just England, or are Pixies bootlegs pretty hard to come by???? |
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peter radiator
= Cult of Ray =
USA
653 Posts |
Posted - 12/23/2002 : 17:15:31
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Originally posted by Stuart
Does anyone know if there are any Pixies demo's of new songs that never got knocked out onto an album, and which hasn't been released on any of the sessions albums to date?? Ive got a song on a bootleg called 'Born in Chicago' which has never been released....
Born In Chicago was released. It was part of a fairly ambitious 2-CD set called Rubiyat, that was designed as a tribute to Elektra Record which was at that time the home of the Pixies in the USA. Lenny kaye of the Patti Smith Group (and the original producer/compiler of the timeless Nuggets series of garage band tracks), organized it, and got two handfuls of modern-day Elektra acts to record cover versions of cool songs that had originally been released by older artists on the Elektra label back in the 1960s - 1970s.
Born In Chicago is a cover of an old Paul Butterfield Blues Band song. It was never intended as a demo or B-side, it was always specifically for this project.
Since I've never had the pleasure of hearing the Boom Chicka Boom broadcast, i don't know if it is also a cover of the ultra-rare lost soul/funk single of the same name by the Pazant Brothers, an infamous cult horn band from Harlem in the late 1960s - early 1970s. I wouldn't put it past Frank and the others to try to tackle tht one much like they did Cecilia Ann.
Any ideas, fellow readers?
~ Peter Radiator
"Real music is out there and real people are making it." ~ Webb Wilder |
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Robert Onion
- FB Fan -
USA
61 Posts |
Posted - 12/24/2002 : 02:41:02
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'Watch What You're Doing'
Believed to be the 18th song on The Purple Tape but the song was never released.
"We did three days in a row, working twenty-four hours a day to save money. We recorded seventeen songs (eighteen if one counts the secret one I have stashed away!)" - Gary Smith in Rock A My Soul #1
The song was taken from a 1977 album by Larry Norman, a Christian folk singer who Charles (Black Francis) saw perform at summer camp when he was 13.
Also there is a clip of the Pixies version of Brackish Boy from the Trompe Le Monde sessions.
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El Barto
= Song DB Master =
USA
4020 Posts |
Posted - 12/24/2002 : 12:18:53
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I would guess Boom Chicka Boom is original, due to the lyrical content which is very pixie-esque. "Janine my dike" "Joan my clerk" "Jane my trick"
I'm sorry, my wording on that post wasn't very clear. I was stating that the version of "Is She Weird?" on "At The BBC" came from the same session as "Hang On To Your Ego." I have Rough Diamonds as well, that's where I got it from. I wish the quality were better tho :\ The version of "Motorway to Roswell" is killer. |
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Aarjan Snoek
- FB Fan -
South Africa
59 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 01:44:02
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i dig the way charles goes "boom chica rocka chica rocka chica boom"
his voice sounds younger doesn't it
"sumus semper in excreta, sed actum varians" |
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 01/03/2003 : 07:32:16
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| "boom chica rocka chica rocka chica boom" (obviously not all of the song, just that line) was a routine that the cheerleaders use to do at my high school back in the mid-80s. So, it's not all original and I obviously don't know if the cheer came from the Pazant Brothers song or vice versa. |
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El Barto
= Song DB Master =
USA
4020 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2003 : 13:53:05
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| I have heard it before, yes. How about Kim's backing vocals in "Down To The Well" on "At The BBC"? Notice anything there? |
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