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song oracle
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  05:43:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Today's random song of the day is Crackity Jones.

What do you think of it?

lyrics
Jose Jones
Told me alone
His story
He has friends
Like Paco Picopiedra
La muneca
He receives on his set

Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack
Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack
Crack crack crackity Jones

Please forgive me
Jose Jones
You need these walls
For your own
I'm moving out of this hospedaje
I'm afraid you'll cut me boy

Thirty miles by
Hundred miles by
Stinking island
Por goofiar
En crushing automovil
Chasing voices
He receives in his head

Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack
Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack
Crack crack crackity Jones
Crack crack
Crack crack crackity Jones

freakin phreak
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  06:55:02  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
this song is awesome live, especially when they play it back to back with broken face. the way they blend together is really amazing.
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Triakel
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  07:14:21  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I like the picture it paints. It's easy to visualize this schizophrenic man, unstable, volatile, alternately ingratiating and hostile, perhaps armed, smelling of old sweat, living in a boarding house with cracking plaster, driving a beat up car and talking to the air, receiving and imparting secrets. Or something.

Wasn't this one taken from/inspired by Frank's true-life adventures in Puerto Rico?
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Black_francis_
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  07:29:33  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
i wish i could scream like franky does. CRACK CRACK!
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  08:18:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I always think I don't like this song until I hear it again, I got the album on repeat today while I'm working on this essay and find myself squealing 'I'm afraid you'll cut me boy' along with it.



Frank Black ate my hamster
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JustJeff
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  08:30:21  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
it's dramatic. burning chord opening.
desperate, manic vocal.

Sounds like some old movie where
a trusted messenger busts into the room,
bloody, out of breath, dehydrated.
collapses in front of everyone.
They lift up his head and pour water to his
lips. gulp, gasp.
the words....
jose jones told me alone his story.

then the song explodes
like an oppresivly hot and
crumbling mexican village-town.

you can almost smell the sweat stained wife beater.

chasing voices

i think i got wiplash from this song played live.
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Jettison
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  09:28:08  Show Profile  Visit Jettison's Homepage  Reply with Quote
"Jose Jones is a roommate I had in Puerto Rico. I lived in this men's dorm that was half homosexual and I had this really crazy drug addict psycho weirdo guy to share with and this is all about him. I would be speaking to him in Spanish so everything would be a little vague to me and he kept talking on and on about Paco Picopiedra and La Muneca. I couldn't work out what he was talking about and it was Fred Flinstone!" (Black Francis in the NME, April 1989)

Edited by - Jettison on 12/08/2004 09:28:31
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vilainde
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  09:34:44  Show Profile  Visit vilainde's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Don't know if you're aware of the fact that Fred Flintstone isn't actually called Paco Picopiedra. His name in spanish is Pedro Picapiedra.


Denis

"I believe in your perfect face..."
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whoreatthedoor
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Spain
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  11:11:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It was me who had to say that, Denis.


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Douglas
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Sweden
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  11:16:01  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Tre

I always think I don't like this song until I hear it again,


yeah, me too. love the energy
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  15:29:55  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I love this song, it makes me jump a lot, but it also makes me remember how I was almost smashed/killed in the Pixies show in Portugal, everybody went crazy when they played! It´s one of the most powerful songs that I know, and I love to listen Frank singing in spanish...


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i've never done bad things
i never did anything out of the blue

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velvety
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  16:38:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Ah, the same thing happened to me, rita. When I heard 'Jose Jones...', I thought "I'm in big trouble...".
One of my favourites from Doolittle.
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Flashing_Eyes
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  18:53:25  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I love the way the gutar starts with the song plus the lyrics are great and really match the feel/energy of the song.
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LowFatAlbob
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Posted - 12/08/2004 :  19:41:57  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
one of my favorites, everytime i hear it, whether its the doolittle version or many live versions i have, I get a surge of energy, its like 90 something seconds of heaven...
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whoreatthedoor
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Spain
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Posted - 12/09/2004 :  01:28:20  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by velvety

Ah, the same thing happened to me, rita. When I heard 'Jose Jones...', I thought "I'm in big trouble...".
One of my favourites from Doolittle.


When Frank started singing 'Let's ride a tire' I thought: "I'm gonna be killed"

Back to topic, like Tre said, I always think I don't like this song ...until I hear it again.


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vilainde
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Niue
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Posted - 12/09/2004 :  02:27:06  Show Profile  Visit vilainde's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by whoreatthedoor

It was me who had to say that, Denis.



You were too busy kissing and groping under the mistletoe, so I thought I'd brag about my Spanish meanwhile.


Denis

"I believe in your perfect face..."
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Levitated
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Chile
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Posted - 12/09/2004 :  03:01:28  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Love to play it on guitar and sing along, then mixing it with Something Against You/Broken Face/Isla de Encanta
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whoreatthedoor
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Spain
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Posted - 12/09/2004 :  03:42:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Now I can't impress the girls. Thanks, Denis. Thanks a lot.


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Posted - 12/09/2004 :  11:34:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by whoreatthedoor

quote:
Originally posted by velvety

Ah, the same thing happened to me, rita. When I heard 'Jose Jones...', I thought "I'm in big trouble...".
One of my favourites from Doolittle.


When Frank started singing 'Let's ride a tire' I thought: "I'm gonna be killed"

Back to topic, like Tre said, I always think I don't like this song ...until I hear it again.


Caminar sobre las hojas del otoño es romántico y resbaladizo



One of the good thing about it was that I could die in peace...
What a death, during a Pixies concert!


i've never done good things
i've never done bad things
i never did anything out of the blue

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whoreatthedoor
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Spain
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Posted - 12/09/2004 :  12:04:32  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I wasn't worried at all. I can't think on a better way to die.

Mmmmm... I lied, I can imagine one better way.


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Posted - 12/09/2004 :  12:23:36  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I´m sure you can...but don´t tell me please, I don´t want to know about it, you weird boy!


i've never done good things
i've never done bad things
i never did anything out of the blue

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whoreatthedoor
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Posted - 12/10/2004 :  01:11:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Nothing involving Cyndi. I'm not that weird!


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Posted - 12/10/2004 :  01:42:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I didn´t think of Cindy, when I say weird...you know what I mean, don´t you? rapaz espanhol!


i've never done good things
i've never done bad things
i never did anything out of the blue

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whoreatthedoor
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Posted - 12/10/2004 :  01:45:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
No, I don't.


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Posted - 12/10/2004 :  01:59:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
This conversation is getting weird, so, I´m not going to explain, and we´re going out of topic again...you can guess if you want!


i've never done good things
i've never done bad things
i never did anything out of the blue

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whoreatthedoor
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Posted - 12/10/2004 :  02:26:12  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Too tired to guess.

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Posted - 12/10/2004 :  02:38:04  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I´ll be wating, and don't work too hard...


i've never done good things
i've never done bad things
i never did anything out of the blue

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pixie punk
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Posted - 12/10/2004 :  09:08:45  Show Profile  Visit pixie punk's Homepage  Reply with Quote
The old male dorm where Charles lived down here in Puerto Rico still exists but it's been co-ed for a few years now.
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ramona
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Posted - 12/10/2004 :  11:25:43  Show Profile  Visit ramona's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I don't like this song. It makes my head hurt. Along the lines of "Tony's Theme" for me.

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gboy
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Posted - 12/15/2004 :  15:45:30  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
i dont like tonys theme that much but i love crackity jones, the live version off of the Death to the Pixies second disk is amazing, it the way Joey enters the song on that whale of a note and it all crashes in and goes crazy. its pure energy.

or sumthing like that!
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Sam
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Ireland
511 Posts

Posted - 12/15/2004 :  16:32:08  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Great song,i brought my old Pixie loving/FB not knowing friend to FB in Camden, where it was a solo show. He was not that keen until Frank belted out this song on acoustic and barked the screamy parts (crack, crack, crackity jones). Awesome gig, awesome song. Captures the schizo feel of his roomate.
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