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song oracle
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 Posted - 10/07/2004 : 05:33:29
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Today's random song of the day is Here Comes Your Man.
What do you think of it?
lyrics
Outside there's a boxcar waiting
Outside the family stew
Out by the fire breathing
Outside we wait 'til face turns blue
I know the nervous walking
I know the dirty beard hangs
Out by the boxcar waiting
Take me away to nowhere plains
There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man
Big shake on the boxcar moving
Big shake to the land that's falling down
Is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
A big, big stone fall and break my crown
There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man
There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man
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Jettison
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 05:44:59
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"This is a pre-Pixies song that I wrote when I was about 15. It's about wino's and hobos travelling on the trains who dies in the California Earthquake. Before earthquakes everything gets very calm, animals stop talking and birds stop chirping and there's no wind. It's very ominous. I've been through a few earthquakes actually 'cos I grew up in California. I was only in one big one in 1971. I was very young and I slept through it. I've been awake through lots of small ones at school and at home. It's very exciting actually, a very comical thing. It's like the earth is shaking, and what can you do? Nothing." (Black Francis in the NME, April 1989)
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The Holiday Son
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France
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 07:07:08
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I've always thought it was about a child talking about his mother and stepfather... (now read the lyrics in that way... hey I -could- have been right!)
The best part of the song is the end with the fantastic vocals. |
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Thomas
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 09:11:32
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My boy love it, which makes me smile. Just not one of my personal favorites.
"Our Love is Rice and Beans and Horses Lard" |
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the tolerant
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 10:35:12
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what can i say...well, here i try.
this to me is one of the songs i'd give to a stranger who has never heard of the band along with debaser, bone machine, tame and a few others.
Frank can sure write some damn catchy tunes...verse chorus verse at its best.
i've always wondered, what is a boxcar? |
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Adam
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 11:08:23
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A boxcar is a train car, but everytime I hear this song in reminds me of some kids in a soapbox derby.
Free the Heel! |
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the tolerant
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 11:17:48
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| thanks adam. a 10 year mystery to me has now been solved. |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 11:45:46
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Its kind of Beatles-y in places I think. The chord right at the start is very similar to that in A Hard Days Night, for example.
People always say, oh, its about Lou Reed, but I can only get one connection: I'm Waiting For The Man -> Here Comes Your Man
"You ever seen a man say goodbye to a shoe?"
"Yes, once..." |
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Surfer Rosa
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 11:51:21
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| It's one of the few Pixies songs I'm officially allowed to play at work - it's the one that got most people (here at least) hooked for starters. |
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Black_francis_
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 13:04:27
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BLT
> Teenager of the Year <
South Sandwich Islands
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 13:24:18
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| I used to really like it, but I have heard it too many times. It's been quite a long time since I actually enjoyed hearing it. |
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TameReg
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 14:32:13
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| Their "nice" song. It's a catchy pop tune, but not among my very favorites. |
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Antoinette
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 14:57:37
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I think it's beautiful. If it catches me at the right time it makes me shudder.
I got Doolittle for Christmas many years ago and this was the only song I liked off the bat. Everything else sounded awful to me at first. Little did I know... |
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 10/07/2004 : 16:38:30
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This song is just amazingly catchy. An early favorite of mine, and I still enjoy listening to it.
"Signature quotes are so lame." --Nathan |
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lalalala
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Spain
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Posted - 10/08/2004 : 00:01:27
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Great classic !
I just think I have listened to it too many times... |
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cassandra is
> Teenager of the Year <
France
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Posted - 10/08/2004 : 07:07:46
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Not my favourite one but like said lalalala, it's a classic. I think it's like Monkey: I heard this one too much, but I still love it. I really like the video of this one.
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lalalala
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Posted - 10/09/2004 : 03:08:52
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| Yeah, the video is also great (er, maybe not great but way better than the other videos of the Pixies...), love Joey cheesy glances during the bridge :D |
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bukminster
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USA
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Posted - 10/09/2004 : 06:59:13
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| I agree --classic song -- actually THE song that introduced me to the Pixies back when Doolittle came out. I still enjoy it, but, as many have said, not amongst my current favorites. I was very surprized years later to discover that a version of this tune was on the original Purple tape. To me, it just sounds so different from the Surfer Rosa/Come on Pilgrim tracks, that it's hard to believe many of them were written at the same time -- which is why it never made it onto those albums, I guess. |
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Song of the Day: Here Comes Your Man
