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Homers_pet_monkey
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 01/01/2004 : 14:34:16
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Originally posted by bug
I read a review of Come On Pilgrim when it came out that said they sounded like a cross between Violent Femmes and Talking Heads.
I liked both bands so I had to give it a try - I got a copy (had to travel to Manchester to find one) and fell in love instantly.
And of course it sounded fuck all like a cross between Violent Femmes and Talking Heads!
Thankfully.
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 01/01/2004 : 14:43:01
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My mother used to sing (scream) Tame to me when I was a baby. I've never cried so much in all my life. Years later I decided to track the song down to try and overcome my fear of it. I played it so much that not only did it help me overcome my fear, but it also made me fall in love with the band. Aren't mums the greatest?
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Matteo_son
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Australia
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Posted - 01/02/2004 : 05:17:15
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i was watching television one night and on SBS there was a Documentary on some stupid band called the pixies (well i thaught they were stupid at the time) and anyway i watched it. i was really interested in how strange and bizare their music was.. after the documentary the song "levatiate me" really appealed to me and so i downloaded it.. a few months later i bought surfa rosa and then slowly i brought them all.. now i love them
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begeegs
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/11/2004 : 06:48:19
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I was just getting out of high school and thus the ole classic rock that had been playing from my speakers for some time (Who, Stones, Etc). My friend had always been into indie bands and had loads of records that I didn't understand. But this time, I started cracking into Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde. I loved the lyrics and how they were never literal (usually) or describing things from a different perspective.
My early faves from Mr. Black were Planet of Sound and Rock Music. Brilliant.
I went to go see the Pixies on the Zoo TV Tour as they were passing through, but unfortunately for me - they were off the bleeding tour by then and I got to see PRIMUSSSSSS!!! For F**** Sake!!! I was sooo disappointed, but I just got tix to Brixton and seen him live a few times, so I know he can still holler with the best of em (lets be real here, he is still the best screamer. Everyone else needs 50 vocal tracks to match his 1 track). |
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Falula
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/11/2004 : 07:43:06
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| I was 18 and I was at a party in 1990, not long after Bossanova came out and they had it on the stereo. I was instantly hooked and knew I'd found my new favourite band. |
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gavredmaxx
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United Kingdom
127 Posts |
Posted - 02/11/2004 : 11:08:09
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When Bossanova came out, a very good friend of mine saw 'em on the Jonathon Ross show and was hooked. After telling me time after time about the wonders of the Pixies, when Trompe Le Monde came out he bought me it for my birthday - and I've grown more and more obsessed ever since.
Sadly, despite seeing various members in different bands, neither of us got to see them the first time round. Today I bought him a ticket for Brixton on the 6th. The wheel has come full circle!!!!!
Gav
"If this were really happening… what would you think? "
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STFRANCIS DAMDISASTER FAN
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USA
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Posted - 02/11/2004 : 13:21:37
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| It was the late 80's I think, and this movie had the uk surf version of Wave of Mutilation. My skateboard buddy looked high and low for it but only found the Doolittle version. But when I first heard Doolittle I was blown away. Loved em ever since. |
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EdBudd
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Posted - 02/12/2004 : 18:28:18
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| Walked into a record store in 92' they were playing Planet of Sound. I was instantly hooked. |
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kottke
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USA
121 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2004 : 18:44:45
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Bowie turned me on to them a number of years ago. He talks about them often. (Also you might want to check out the Legendary Stardust Cowboy. He is different in style from Pixies but similar in honest, raw energy. Another "American treasure" as Bowie says.)
"jugando en la playa" |
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chrischob
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Canada
110 Posts |
Posted - 02/12/2004 : 21:53:14
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I saw the Alec Eiffel video on MuchMusic and an interview with the band. I took a chance and bought the Trompe tape and loved it. The next album I bought was Frank Black's first solo album. Then I borrowed a tape from my friend that had Doolittle on one side of it and I went out and bought all the other Pixies cds that I could.
It was so awesome to see Frank Black play here in Winnipeg last year. I really hope I can get tickets to the Pixies show here in Winnipeg.
Chris Choboter
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Angry Elvis
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USA
68 Posts |
Posted - 02/13/2004 : 07:53:52
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in the late 80s wnyu from new york university had some djs whose taste in music was surprisingly excellent
i heard baileys walk first, i said to myself"who are these crazy bastards- i really like what they are doing to the music"
i went out in search of other stuff by this very unique band called the pixies and have been listening to them and all the solo projects ever since
they are still one of my all time favorite bands and i think charles t v4.0 is amazing and a musical genius in all of his incarnations
i also think all the pixies members are true music fans in their own right and would like to know what music they find exciting |
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offerw
* Dog in the Sand *
South Africa
1264 Posts |
Posted - 02/13/2004 : 10:30:58
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| I first listened to Doolittle in a record store around '89/'90. Couldn't afford the pricey import copy though. Then bought vinyl Trompe in a Hillbrow records closing down sale. Hillbrow used to be a bohemian area in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa before it became probably the most dangerous place on earth. A month after Trompe I got Surfer and that album realy blew me away. I doubt if any album will ever shake me up like that again. Now, 12 years later I might see my fave band perform live! |
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puckhead56
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USA
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Posted - 02/13/2004 : 11:21:50
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| Come on Pilgrim was on rotation and "I've been tired" was a fave track when I was at my college radio station in the late 80s. It really wasn't until Surfer Rosa that I fell in love with the Pixies. Being a horny late teen, I couldn't keep my eyes of those breasts on the SR cover. After that it was songs like "Bone Machine" and Kim's vocals on "Gigantic" that would change me forever. Saw the band play for the first time in Nov '89 in Vancouver with Bob Mould opening. I was about to see the Pixies play at a local record store earlier that afternoon but had to miss out because a close friend of mine had a serious injury accident. Of course, I didn't miss out on the show that evening... |
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fumanbru
* Dog in the Sand *
Canada
1462 Posts |
Posted - 02/13/2004 : 13:21:11
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great thread.
i was backpacking in europe with a bunch of friends. one of my buddy's, who was a huge buthole surfers fan at the time, had a great mix tape and wave of mutilation was on it. i was like who are these guys? (he was able to see them play live with u2 a year or so before). so when i was back in canada i picked up the pump up the volume soundtrack that had wave of mutilation on it. the shitty record store didn't have any pixies cd's in stock. so then shortly after i was watching much music and the buthole surfers came on. the next video was los angeles and was fuckin blown away. amazing video, amazing song. so the next day i picked up frank's cd. then i started buying all the pixies cd's. then i would wait anxiously for a new release by frank.
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tigana
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Posted - 02/13/2004 : 17:30:30
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| it must have been 97.i was 13 and discovering the wonders of satellite television.so there i was a pubescent boy searching for german porn and this ugly band were on this chanel playing in some shithole. this guy was screaming "gigantic, gigantic a big big love"it was gigantic and i fell in love .i didnt masturbate in the end. |
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Domestiques
= Cult of Ray =
United Kingdom
503 Posts |
Posted - 02/14/2004 : 23:55:25
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my friend alex poulson, played me a song called caribou, and then I didnt know of any other song like that song, I was mesmerised and then he said wait, it gets better than that, and then he played me the holiday song. I recall at the time, I was 18 and the only band that I loved at that time was the wedding present, I had no time for the smiths and there was only a handful of other bands that held my attention. The pixies at that time became the greatest band to ever stroll the planet, I remember picking up doolittle from this small record shop in skegness and playing it and playing it, disgusted at how great, perfect? they were. I would like to say that c'mon pilgrim was an epifany (???) but it wasnt it was surfer rosa and house tornado, them 2 records changed my life more than anything since.
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Picapiedra
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Posted - 02/15/2004 : 00:32:42
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I feel I've been missing the Pixies my whole life...
I remember hearing of them on the radio or TV as a teen around `87 or `88. But I never listened to them. I think that I confused "Black Francis" with "Black Sabath" and never even gave them a chance since I was into New Wave and of course crappy mainstream rock. Ironically. I later even liked "Black Sabath" after giving them a chance.
So in `91 U2 pretty much eclipsed any other music that I listened too. Saw them in concert 3 times. The 1st of which the Pixies opened. But I didn't even listen to the Pixies in concert since we were too busy to trying to swizzle a deal to sneak from our crap seats down to the floor of the autitorium before U2 started. I can still kick myself in the ass for that day. All I can remeber is they must have been playing Sad Punk, and I just thought to myself that I couldn't even think straight with all that racket. 2nd Irony, now Sad Punk is one of my favorite songs.
Later in college I remember liking Headache, but never exploring the artist. Last Splash became one of my favoite CD's after Connonball exploded. The whole thing was just ingenious. But I never checked if Breeders had made previous albums.
In '98 my girlfriend's and I were going through some hard times (we're hapily maried now). We were kind of on the outs for a while but her stuff was still at my place. One lonely night while I was getting ready to go out, I grabbed some of her CDs and threw them in my CD changer. I heard several Pixies songs that caught my attention in a way that I couldn't quite put my finger on. But between being mixed in with other music that I didn't like and the hardtimes we were going through, I forgot the Pixies as quickly as I discovered them.
3rd Irony. I feel that I was just numbly cruising through my life until I rented Fight Club in 2001. That film was just an awesome experience for me. Blew me away. Then on top of that, when Where Is My Mind kicks in in the end, it sounds strangely familiar to me. But I can't quite explain why. So I do a Google search the next day to see what this song is all about. When I see the name PIXIES, I vaguly remember that my wife had an old CD like that. But it doesn't register when I ask her about it. Turns out she had bought the SR/COP CD just because Cactus was on a mix tape that her friend had given her. She never really even listened to the thing.
When I finally put it all together, there was no going back. Pandora was out of the box. I must have listened to COP/SR 50 time straight through the next 3 days. I was on the internet and knew everything that there was to know about the Pixies. Which was just painful to realize how close to discovering them I was all of these years. It was just like I had an awakening, just like the guy in Fight Club. Had I been keeping myself from them all of these years? I was crushed to find they had broken up rigfht after I had blown them off in concert. I went back and bought Pod. I got all the Pixies CDs. I started exploring Frank Black's solo career. I saw both Frank & the C's and The Breeders in concert, plus the David L science show. I always meant to check out the Martini's too. I was so happy to see that Kim & Frank still rocked. I was so intrigued to learn that bands that I loved such as Nirvana & Toadies had been so heavily influenced by the Pixies. Even though I had no hope of ever seeing them perform, it felt that my life was finally complete in 2001.
It just seems unbelieveable that I just bought a Coachella ticket today to see the Pixies perform live together. And that there's a chance to see them in even smaller venues before that. It's just awesome.
-roger.
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jonathan
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 02/15/2004 : 01:26:34
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the Thom Yorke/Kurt Cobain combination... finally tracked down this band they kept on mentioning in interviews, bought everything by them, had a listen, thought it was all okay, a few really good bits, listened to everything for a week or so, bought all the frank black and breeders stuff listened to all that, was forever since disappointed that no new music sounds anything like as good as those kids did.
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 02/15/2004 : 18:45:35
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When I finally put it all together, there was no going back. Pandora was out of the box.
Just to nitpick, Pandora OPENED the box. She was never IN it. Or did you realize that, and you were just playing with the metaphor?
-Nathan
And how does lemur's skin reflect the sea?
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Picapiedra
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Posted - 02/15/2004 : 18:56:44
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Originally posted by VoVat
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Just to nitpick, Pandora OPENED the box. She was never IN it. Or did you realize that, and you were just playing with the metaphor?
-Nathan
And how does lemur's skin reflect the sea?
http://vovat.blogspot.com/
Uhhm.. Yeah sure! I was playing with the metaphor. Hah! I might as well have writen that George Kastanza was out of Pandora's box. I can't believe that I wrote that. Guess I could blame it on lack of sleep. But it really comes down to not proof reading my logsome story. Thanks for the tip, Nathan. But I think that it's funny enough to not edit.
-roger.
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i_bleed
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Posted - 02/15/2004 : 19:03:58
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I stumbled upon The Pixies in 1988 when a skater chic let me borrow The Pixies "Surfer Rosa" and Sonic Youth "Evol". They've been two of my most favorite bands every since. The Pixies only get better to me as time goes on. I can and yet in the same since can't believe their going to tour again. I've literally been waiting years for this since I didn't get the chance to see them back in the day...
"when you look at the sky in a poetic kind of way..." |
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Newo
~ Abstract Brain ~
Spain
2674 Posts |
Posted - 02/15/2004 : 19:19:16
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I was at a summer language college when I was 15 and we were in the process of wearing out a Stone Roses album and a fellow from the next room, Barry, terrific bloke, came in with a copied cassette of Surfer Rosa (no Pilgrim, Debaser and Monkey live on the end) and said 'I think you need to listen to this.' Bless 'im.
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"You one of those right wing nut outfits?" inquired the diplomatic Metzger.
Fallopian twinkled. "They accuse us of being paranoids."
"They?" inquired Metzger, twinkling also.
"Us?" asked Oedipa.
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The Calistanian
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1342 Posts |
Posted - 02/19/2004 : 08:08:20
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My friend's older brother brought a copy of Surfer Rosa home, and I was blown away! That was the first CD of theirs he bought.
That was about 1990, I was only 14 at the time, but apparently old enough to realize the greatest band in history. |
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boom_cheek_aroon
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USA
34 Posts |
Posted - 02/29/2004 : 14:21:29
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i was painting my stupid brother's house in arizona in 2000. i guess he isn't that stupid because he put on disc 2 from death to and i didn't pay much attention to it as i was still in my heavy metal phase. but monkey gone to heaven caught my ear. it was the dueling vocals on the chorus and then that fantastic shriek at the bridge. a few weeks later i noticed a friend of mine had doolittle and i put it on. debaser offically hooked me and remains in my top three best songs ever.
but fuck me for getting into them so late.
or maybe that is a good thing considering i always felt they would get back together so in the long run it was only a four year wait for the show to end all shows.
56 days... 56 days... 56 days...
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Perk
- FB Fan -
USA
210 Posts |
Posted - 02/29/2004 : 21:15:15
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I was lost and alone
I had nowhere to go and nothing do
Then I found the Pixies
Now I have nowhere to go but something to do !
Don't sweat the petty things
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ccuadros
* Dog in the Sand *
Chile
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Posted - 03/01/2004 : 06:29:56
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Hi,
In 1993 I lend a cassette of Violent Femmes (The Blind Leading in the Naked) to my friend. Sadly, he lost the cassette and to repair that lost he gave a CD with strange cover..the CD says "Come on Pilgrim" and for me was weird to see a guy with a lot of hair like a monkey.....I didn't have cd player so I had to go to a friend's house, and the firt time that I heard Caribou I thought that there was a Girl singing, it was a big surprise when I've realized that there's no girl....and was a man singing. I enjoyed so much that album...so I HAD to buy a CD player to listen all the day that album...and that's how I started...
Saludos de Chile
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tert
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Posted - 03/01/2004 : 16:29:55
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| In the spring of '89, as a 9th grader, I stayed up late watching MTV's 120 minutes. Dave Kendall announced the next video by some band I'd never heard of and up popped "Monkey Gone to Heaven." The next week I bought Doolittle the day it came out and have since never let the Pixies out of my listening rotation. I have just about everything they put out (looking for a copy of the Gigantic EP by the way) and remain a fave in a collection of nearly 500 albums. The only show I saw in Lawrence, KS in December '91 stills reigns the best ever in my concert experience! Can't wait till April! |
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yarbles
= Cult of Ray =
USA
635 Posts |
Posted - 03/02/2004 : 18:23:23
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| I would always sneek into my brothers room when he wasn't around to "borrow" some of his cd's. Doolittle was the first Pixies disc I listened to, and the rest was history... |
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loudlarf
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United Kingdom
59 Posts |
Posted - 03/04/2004 : 01:09:45
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| I bought an indie compilation album called Product 2378 in 1990 which had Monkey on it. It also had Counting Backwards by the Throwing Muses, and I was going to buy their CD, but couldn't find it, so I bought Doolittle instead. Love at first listen. Saw them live in Portsmouth in 1990 and at Brixton Academy in 1991. Going back to see them there on the 5th June. Hope its as good as last time. |
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whoreatthedoor
> Teenager of the Year <
Spain
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Posted - 03/04/2004 : 03:21:45
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I was watching TV really, really stoned at 3:00 a.m. 6 months ago and I get really excited when I saw "Gouge". I don't even know this four guys until I saw it. I'm a little embarassed for it but, you know, nobody in Spain knows who the hell Frank Black is, and nobody can remember the name of at least three Pixies songs.
Now I have reborned, and try to convert other people in Pixicism. I'm spreading their word worldwide. |
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TameReg
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USA
110 Posts |
Posted - 03/04/2004 : 21:17:56
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| My story starts just like tert's. I saw them on 120 minutes in 1989. Bought Doolittle soon after and was hooked. I usually get sick of albums pretty quickly, but I played that one every day for months. I still have the old album somewhere,although I've long ago replaced it with a CD. Despite trying to push them on my friends, none of my friends ever got into the Pixies. (The fools!) I saw them play live in 89, opening for Love & Rockets. It was great but too short. They played in Pittsburgh a couple of years later at CMU. The problem was, I didn't hear about it until after the fact. I'm still not sure I'm over that one. Anyway, fast forward to about 2001 or 2002. I'm at home, and my wife comes in and tells me she just heard the most amazing song on the radio. She says it gave her chill bumps it was so good. She didn't get the name of the band or the song, but she did hear the DJ say it's played at the end of "Fight Club". I didn't know at the time what the song was, but I'm sure most everyone reading this does. Well we rented the movie later, I found out it was "Where is my Mind", and informed my wife that this was the band I had been telling her about. She has since confiscated all of the CDs, and now is as big a Pixies/Frank Black fan as I am. See, some stories do have happy endings. |
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joshuajohn
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Posted - 03/05/2004 : 07:21:21
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well,
although i opwned bossonova it never had much of an effect, then......
we were playing at some shitty place and before we went on they played 'caribou', then after that i asked the dj what he played he said.... pixies and the next day i went out and brought come on pilgrim, and now i own all their albums, some of their singles but sadly none of their tickets. never mind. |
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thething
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USA
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Posted - 03/05/2004 : 13:40:49
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I didn't get into them until Doolittle, like a lot of people. I had heard of them from Surfer Rosa, but never really heard anything until the Doolittle songs got airplay. For those of you who don't recall, us early thirty-somethings didn't always have the internet to scour the world for new music to hear. It sure would've made things easier in the late eighties for a music fan. But after hearing Here Comes Your Man and Gouge Away I was hooked and still am to this day. Pixies or Frank Black...I love 'em both.
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Stevio10
* Dog in the Sand *
United Kingdom
1117 Posts |
Posted - 03/05/2004 : 20:49:06
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| Well...It was 7 years ago (this is a true story) and it was a frrday night i went to bed. I had a dream that night that I was in my local record store and I was looking through some cd's. I was in the "P" section and I noticed this band called the Pixies. I looked at the cd for a while and decided "they sound cool, i'll buy this later on" so i put the cd back and continued browisng. Later on in my dream I decided to buy this Pixies cd, but alas, it had gone! All sold out! When i awoke on the Saturday morning I remember this dream and I remembered the Pixies. I got dressed, went down to my very same local record store and bought this Pixies cd. When Cecilia Ann came on...i thought to myself "this is strange...I recognise this..." then when Is She Weird came on, Im sure I was having a deja vu...so i asked my brother about the Pixies, turned out hed seen them in 1991 and played them non stop when i was a kid, so in a sense theyve been ingrained into my subconscious, and ever since Charles (also my brothers name) has been ingrained in my life! Im a Pixies dreamer :) |
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unmelodicgenius
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 03/07/2004 : 10:25:08
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| the first time i heard them must have been on mtv2 about three years ago i think....and i didn't think much of them, until about two years ago-when i joined the weezer.com forum, and everyone raved on about them there, so i bought doolittle and surfer rosa. again, i still wasn't mightily impressed...and after that the moment i decided they were gods gift is rather blurred. i think it was about 6 months since i heard surfer rosa for the first time, when i put it in my cd player once more, and was just like "is this the same band that i disliked six months ago?" i'm not sure if i'd learned to accept different bands more, or my eyes were just opened to what a great band they were. since then, they have been my favourite band ever since. (this "hating a band then deciding they were god's gift" isn't uncommon to me. i have done the same with most of my favourite bands-the beatles being a prime example.) |
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