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pixie punk
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 Posted - 04/14/2004 : 13:20:07
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| Have you people seen the MTV review? They have excellent photos including one of the setlist which lists some songs that weren't played last night. |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
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Posted - 04/14/2004 : 13:35:40
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here's the link
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1486354/20040414/story.jhtml
that's pretty funny that he's wearing a flannel shirt. i wonder if that's some kind of inside joke. i don't think i've seen him wearing a flannel like that since the Pixies days. |
Edited by - floop on 04/14/2004 13:38:22 |
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pixie punk
> Teenager of the Year <
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Posted - 04/14/2004 : 13:49:04
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| Thank you very much Floop!!! YOU ROCK!!!!! |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
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Posted - 04/14/2004 : 14:56:06
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The article -
MINNEAPOLIS — Eleven years after disintegrating amidst bad feelings — and almost 12 years to the day after their last show together — the Pixies took the stage on Tuesday for the kickoff date of an unlikely but finally realized reunion tour.
Looking older, thicker and, in the instances of guitarist Joey Santiago and singer Black Francis (Charles Thompson a.k.a. Frank Black), balder, the quartet came out to raucous applause from 800 fans at the Fine Line Music Café. Bassist Kim Deal uttered a simple "hey" as the group picked up its instruments and soaked up a minute-long ovation from the crowd.
Drummer David Lovering, wearing a cowboy shirt and a black leather newsboy cap, thundered out the opening beats of "Bone Machine" to launch the group's 27-song set. Any notion that the band's elusive chemistry had eroded in the decade-plus since its last tour was quickly dispelled as the four musicians tore into their post-punk pop ditties with rocking energy and surprisingly excellent timing.
As Santiago described to MTV News two weeks ago (see "Pixies Guitarist Says Reunion Not Embarrassing So Far; Martinis Ready To Roll"), the Pixies seemed very much at ease playing together after a such a long layoff and acrimonious breakup. They had been practicing in Los Angeles for the last two months and spent last weekend rehearsing in Minneapolis.
They concentrated mostly on songs from Come on Pilgrim, their 1987 debut EP, and two subsequent albums, Surfer Rosa and Doolittle. To mix things up, the group played a handful of rarities as well. "We never played this next song much, but we're playing it now," Deal told the audience before duetting with Francis on the group's folksy reading of Neil Young's "Winterlong."
"It's starting to feel like our first gig," Francis admitted to the crowd before the noise-jam "Vamos." "What do you want to play, Kim?" he asked, realizing he didn't know what the next song was. "I already f---ed up the first set."
Deal got a loud reception during the three songs on which she sang lead: the sexually charged "Gigantic," the B-side "Into the White," and "In Heaven," which was usually sung by Francis when the group played the song in its early days. Dressed all in black, and noticeably heftier than in years past, Deal had a smile plastered on her face through most of the performance.
Even though the Pixies never achieved notable commercial success, their legacy and influence has thrived through the years: Bands like Nirvana and Radiohead have regularly cited them as a key influence. The group's melodic, often harmonized pop alternates between colloquially sung verses and explosive bursts of screams and noise. On songs like "Tame" and "Broken Face" it's evident the band created a template for pop-punk music that lives on today.
The Pixies finished with a seven-song encore, slapping hands with fans as they left the stage. After the show, hundreds of fans loitered upstairs at the venue to await the arrival of recordings of the night's performance. Using on-the-spot recording and duplication technology, the New York-based company Disclive is producing limited-edition CDs of each night's performance, available 20 minutes post-wrap (1,000 copies of each show will be pressed, although 2,000 copies of the group's set at the Coachella festival will be available).
The company sold 500 copies of the Minneapolis show's recording through its Web site (www.disclive.com), and approximately another 450 were sold at the venue.
The band will now continue its warm-up tour, playing 13 shows in 11 small-market cities including Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and Davis, California. The group will play a headlining slot at Coachella May 1, then head to Europe for a summer filled with festival dates. It returns for a more thorough tour of North America in the fall that will hit major cities on the East Coast and Midwest. Currently, the band has no plans to record new material.
Complete set list:
"Bone Machine"
"Wave of Mutilation"
"U-Mass"
"Levitate Me"
"Broken Face"
"Monkey Gone to Heaven"
"The Holiday Song"
"Winterlong"
"Nimrod's Son"
"La La Love You"
"Ed Is Dead"
"Here Comes Your Man"
"Vamos"
"Debaser"
"Dead"
"No. 13 Baby"
"Tame"
"Gigantic"
"Gouge Away"
"Caribou"
Encore:
"Isla de Encanta"
"Something Against You"
"Velouria"
"In Heaven"
"Wave of Mutilation" (reprise)
"Where Is My Mind?"
"Into the White" |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
3988 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 14:56:46
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| PS. Why do they have to harp on how fat everyone is? Who fucking cares. |
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bumblebeeboy2
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/14/2004 : 14:59:15
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that's cool! on the setlist there are 2 songs i can't make out... so let me see if i've got this right...
bone
wave
u-mass
levitate
broken
monkey
holiday
winterlong
nimrod
la la
ed
man
vamos
debaser
dead
no.13
tame
gigantic
gouge
caribou
where
cactus
isla
planet
white
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??????
weird
velouria
head
bleed
wave
in heaven
The Shrine of the Sea Monkey!
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brickisred
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Posted - 04/14/2004 : 15:08:24
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| Subba(cultcha) and Blown (Away) |
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bumblebeeboy2
> Teenager of the Year <
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/14/2004 : 15:12:37
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Originally posted by brickisred
Subba(cultcha) and Blown (Away)
ahhh! cool. it's good to see they've rehearsed more songs than they actually needed to play... so hopefully some variation in set lists...
The Shrine of the Sea Monkey!
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darwin
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
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Posted - 04/14/2004 : 15:36:56
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Originally posted by ramona
PS. Why do they have to harp on how fat everyone is? Who fucking cares.
"noticeably heftier" What an asshole. She looked great a couple of weeks ago. |
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floop
= Wannabe Volunteer =
Mexico
15297 Posts |
Posted - 04/14/2004 : 16:45:25
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i didn't want to be an asshole and mention anything, and it doesn't matter at all. but i also thought she had put on since i last saw her a year and 1/2 ago.
but that's lame journalism. |
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Johnny Yen
= Cult of Ray =
USA
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Posted - 04/14/2004 : 19:18:27
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| Yeah, but they're all pushin 40, ain't they? Elvis was still tryin to be a sexpot when he was in the mid-40s and it was embarassing. They all look fine. That last mtv pic has a nice profile of Kim's booty. I'd hit that in 2 seconds. |
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DeBased
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USA
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Posted - 04/14/2004 : 22:33:38
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Awesome article and pix. I don't care what they look like either. Busy people can't hang around the gym all day.
the method...of stop tap spin, no talkin'... |
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PsychicTwin
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
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Posted - 04/15/2004 : 08:28:50
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Originally posted by ramona
PS. Why do they have to harp on how fat everyone is? Who fucking cares.
No one really...other than the shallow, image-obsessed fucks at MTV. |
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ramona
"FB Quote Mistress"
USA
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Posted - 04/15/2004 : 10:07:16
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Originally posted by floop
i didn't want to be an asshole and mention anything, and it doesn't matter at all. but i also thought she had put on since i last saw her a year and 1/2 ago.
but that's lame journalism.
Yeah, and the difference is you DIDN'T mention it. Since it is a reunion show of a LOVED band, there is obviously much material they could cover, other than sheer body mass. I am waiting for the headline "The Pixies Reunion Tour! Now with less hair! And more fat!" |
Edited by - ramona on 04/15/2004 10:07:52 |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04/15/2004 : 14:49:15
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Yeah who cares. The industry is too image conscious anyway. It's good to see a band that never relied on that, and still don't.
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!! |
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PixiesDeal
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USA
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Posted - 04/17/2004 : 01:45:07
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MTV is corporate; the Pixies are NOT that.
I am glad that they stuck w/their roots though. They don't fuckin' care how they look like. For crying outloud, Kim even said that one of the guys' mothers told her that she should dress more like Madonna, back when they first started to get more crowds. Kim said that she would not conform to that b/c that was not her.
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"When people ask me what band I'm in and I say The Pixies, they say, 'Oh, it's an all-girl group, right?' I guess the name is pretty wimpy"-Kim Deal |
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