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song oracle
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 Posted - 12/08/2004 : 05:43:14
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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
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freakin phreak
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 06:55:02
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| 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
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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
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| i wish i could scream like franky does. CRACK CRACK! |
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 08:18:15
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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
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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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USA
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 09:28:08
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| "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
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 09:34:44
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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
> Teenager of the Year <
Spain
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 11:11:34
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It was me who had to say that, Denis.
Caminar sobre las hojas del otoño es romántico y resbaladizo |
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Douglas
= Cult of Ray =
Sweden
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 11:16:01
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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
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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...
i've never done good things
i've never done bad things
i never did anything out of the blue
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velvety
= Cult of Ray =
Portugal
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Posted - 12/08/2004 : 16:38:04
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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
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| 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
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| 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
> Teenager of the Year <
Spain
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 01:28:20
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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 |
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vilainde
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Niue
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 02:27:06
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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
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| 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
> Teenager of the Year <
Spain
2873 Posts |
Posted - 12/09/2004 : 03:42:17
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Now I can't impress the girls. Thanks, Denis. Thanks a lot.
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 11:34:49
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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
> Teenager of the Year <
Spain
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Posted - 12/09/2004 : 12:04:32
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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
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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
> Teenager of the Year <
Spain
2873 Posts |
Posted - 12/10/2004 : 01:11:04
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Nothing involving Cyndi. I'm not that weird!
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Posted - 12/10/2004 : 01:42:44
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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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Spain
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Posted - 12/10/2004 : 01:45:44
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No, I don't.
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Posted - 12/10/2004 : 01:59:26
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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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Spain
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Posted - 12/10/2004 : 02:26:12
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Too tired to guess.
Our technical support is fixing my e-mail template. I'll mail you this afternoon.
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Posted - 12/10/2004 : 02:38:04
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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
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| 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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USA
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Posted - 12/10/2004 : 11:25:43
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I don't like this song. It makes my head hurt. Along the lines of "Tony's Theme" for me.
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"...love don't make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren't here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are here to ruin ourselves and to break our hearts and love the wrong people and die. The storybooks are bullshit."
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gboy
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 12/15/2004 : 15:45:30
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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
514 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2004 : 16:32:08
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| 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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Song of the Day: Crackity Jones
