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Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <
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 Posted - 12/31/2024 : 07:26:49
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It looks like 2025 will begin with no mercy
Happy New Year everyone
Gone:
I Hear You Mary
Johnny Good Man
Hypnotised
You’re So Impatient
Earnest Evans
Chicken
The Vegas Suite
Oyster Beds
Kings of the Prairie
Mercy Me
Still Surviving:
Primrose
Jane The Night the Zombies Came
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Troubles A Foot
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1003 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2024 : 07:56:56
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Brank_Flack
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
1043 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2024 : 10:06:44
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Jane
I believe up until now Primrose and Motoroller haven't received a single vote! |
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Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <
3202 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2024 : 12:23:24
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I think you’re right
They’re basically the co-champions of the album in that sense
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Skatealex1
* Dog in the Sand *
1688 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2024 : 18:45:03
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Mad Lucas
- FB Fan -
Australia
168 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2025 : 02:52:24
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The Holiday Son
= Quote Accumulator =
France
2018 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2025 : 05:40:14
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Sprite
* Dog in the Sand *
1349 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2025 : 08:59:37
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moonruler
- FB Fan -
USA
217 Posts |
Posted - 01/02/2025 : 14:02:01
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Jane
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Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <
3202 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2025 : 10:14:44
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Goodbye Jane
Last round starts now
Primrose versus Motoroller
Who will be the champion of The Night The Zombies Came? |
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Skatealex1
* Dog in the Sand *
1688 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2025 : 12:28:30
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| Will vote Motoroller. Even though it's maybe a little more exciting than Primrose- Primrose feels like one of the more unique modern Pixies songs to me and I think it has has a nice flow and structure to it. |
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The Holiday Son
= Quote Accumulator =
France
2018 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2025 : 12:55:11
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| Motoroller. It's a good song but not as good as Pimrose. |
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billgoodman
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Netherlands
6247 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2025 : 14:34:13
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Motoroller
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BF: Mag ik Engels spreken? |
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Troubles A Foot
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1003 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2025 : 21:04:35
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Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <
3202 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2025 : 09:39:48
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I'll vote Motoroller
Primrose takes the crown for me just because it's so magical
Just to be clear to everybody, I'm taking who you voted for as who you wanted to leave the island, not who you wanted to win
Love both these songs and the whole album |
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The Maharal
* Dog in the Sand *
1007 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2025 : 11:17:50
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| Primrose. It's a good song but at the moment I can barely remember a single line from it, whereas Motoroller is propulsive and catchy (I have gripes with some of the lyrics but they're fairly minor). |
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moonruler
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USA
217 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2025 : 11:53:07
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Motoroller
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Sprite
* Dog in the Sand *
1349 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2025 : 14:46:43
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| Close run thing but will have to go with Primrose. Motoroller gives me proper Pixies shivers. |
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Active Duck
~ Abstract Brain ~
United Kingdom
444 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2025 : 23:52:15
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Brank_Flack
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
1043 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2025 : 06:26:23
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| I'm voting Motoroller off. Both great songs, but Primrose taps into a deeper well. |
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Troubles A Foot
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1003 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2025 : 07:09:29
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Does it? Why?
Primrose needs a chorus. It feels unfinished. Motoroller is so catchy, and single handedly the reason I played the album a second time after a very disappointed first listen. It's the only song that got in my head and felt like it had some sort of urgency and emotion in it. It's the only song I played for my wife because I knew she wouldn't like basically any other song on the album, and I was right. Later I played her the whole album during a car ride and Motoroller was the only one where she said "this song seems good."
Primrose is kind of nice. That's about all I can say for it. |
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Brank_Flack
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
1043 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2025 : 09:47:48
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I think the song reaches a certain level of mystery and enchantment by drawing on the Irish legends of the goddess Brigid and the Christian Saint Brigid as primordial Irish representations of the feminine. I disagree that it needs a chorus: it's written within the tradition of the Irish-British murder ballad which tends to be based on verses alone. I admire in particular how it culminates in an unsettling melodic descent (now-the-bleeting-grows) that never quite resolves, thus ratcheting up the tension as each new cycle begins, and keeping the listener in an out-of-joint liminal space that reflects the lyric's exploration of a mystical space between life and death, reality and phantom, free will and fate, earth and water, mortals and divinities, and so on. I would suggest then that if it feels unfinished, this would be more a result of a conscious decision to deny a tidy resolution (hence the abrupt ending and the initial question "Is it even real, who knows?").
I may also have a certain fondness of the song because of my love for a local Irish bar in a church basement (turned Irish cultural centre) Bridig's Well! |
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Mad Lucas
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Australia
168 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2025 : 14:27:38
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Mad Lucas
- FB Fan -
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168 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2025 : 20:00:29
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quote:
Originally posted by Troubles A Foot
Does it? Why?
Primrose needs a chorus. It feels unfinished. Motoroller is so catchy, and single handedly the reason I played the album a second time after a very disappointed first listen. It's the only song that got in my head and felt like it had some sort of urgency and emotion in it. It's the only song I played for my wife because I knew she wouldn't like basically any other song on the album, and I was right. Later I played her the whole album during a car ride and Motoroller was the only one where she said "this song seems good."
Primrose is kind of nice. That's about all I can say for it.
I understand this is a forum and thus a place for discussion, but is this the approach you usually take to matters of subjective opinion? |
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Troubles A Foot
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1003 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2025 : 20:30:47
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Originally posted by Mad Lucas
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Originally posted by Troubles A Foot
Does it? Why?
Primrose needs a chorus. It feels unfinished. Motoroller is so catchy, and single handedly the reason I played the album a second time after a very disappointed first listen. It's the only song that got in my head and felt like it had some sort of urgency and emotion in it. It's the only song I played for my wife because I knew she wouldn't like basically any other song on the album, and I was right. Later I played her the whole album during a car ride and Motoroller was the only one where she said "this song seems good."
Primrose is kind of nice. That's about all I can say for it.
I understand this is a forum and thus a place for discussion, but is this the approach you usually take to matters of subjective opinion?
I don't understand the question. What do you mean? I'm saying my opinion, others are saying their opinions. I'm also asking someone else for their opinion. Like you said, it's a place for discussion.
What specifically in my comment is a problem for you? |
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Troubles A Foot
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1003 Posts |
Posted - 01/06/2025 : 20:31:43
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Originally posted by Brank_Flack
I think the song reaches a certain level of mystery and enchantment by drawing on the Irish legends of the goddess Brigid and the Christian Saint Brigid as primordial Irish representations of the feminine. I disagree that it needs a chorus: it's written within the tradition of the Irish-British murder ballad which tends to be based on verses alone. I admire in particular how it culminates in an unsettling melodic descent (now-the-bleeting-grows) that never quite resolves, thus ratcheting up the tension as each new cycle begins, and keeping the listener in an out-of-joint liminal space that reflects the lyric's exploration of a mystical space between life and death, reality and phantom, free will and fate, earth and water, mortals and divinities, and so on. I would suggest then that if it feels unfinished, this would be more a result of a conscious decision to deny a tidy resolution (hence the abrupt ending and the initial question "Is it even real, who knows?").
Yeah but Motoroller rocks |
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Discoking
* Dog in the Sand *
Belgium
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Posted - 01/07/2025 : 01:25:55
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quote:
Originally posted by Troubles A Foot
I don't understand the question. What do you mean? I'm saying my opinion, others are saying their opinions. I'm also asking someone else for their opinion. Like you said, it's a place for discussion.
What specifically in my comment is a problem for you?
i might be wrong, but i'm reading it as a joke/jab.
maybe he's just wondering if you always check with your wife if you want to know your own opinion on something?
something along those lines?
 it's educational |
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Bedbug
> Teenager of the Year <
3202 Posts |
Posted - 01/07/2025 : 03:31:18
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Looks like Primrose will be the champion if iI’m right
What a fantastic album to work through
Thank you everyone for playing |
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Brank_Flack
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
1043 Posts |
Posted - 01/07/2025 : 06:33:35
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quote:
Originally posted by Troubles A Foot
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Originally posted by Brank_Flack
I think the song reaches a certain level of mystery and enchantment by drawing on the Irish legends of the goddess Brigid and the Christian Saint Brigid as primordial Irish representations of the feminine. I disagree that it needs a chorus: it's written within the tradition of the Irish-British murder ballad which tends to be based on verses alone. I admire in particular how it culminates in an unsettling melodic descent (now-the-bleeting-grows) that never quite resolves, thus ratcheting up the tension as each new cycle begins, and keeping the listener in an out-of-joint liminal space that reflects the lyric's exploration of a mystical space between life and death, reality and phantom, free will and fate, earth and water, mortals and divinities, and so on. I would suggest then that if it feels unfinished, this would be more a result of a conscious decision to deny a tidy resolution (hence the abrupt ending and the initial question "Is it even real, who knows?").
Yeah but Motoroller rocks
Haha, agreed! |
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Sprite
* Dog in the Sand *
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Posted - 01/16/2025 : 00:17:58
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| Well the forum was down for a bunch of days so I was not sure if the vote was finished. So I obvioulsy missed that Primirose won. Well done. Have not listended to the album in 2025 yet. Been busy with TOTY. Can believe the London show is already just a few weeks away. |
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