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  • From: bendy <bendy AT duke.edu>
  • To: RTP-area local music and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: this happens from time to time, but
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:12:54 -0400

Ha ha, I trump you all: the only time I saw them was just before Pilgrim came out. I had no idea who they were. The Boston crowd was wild for them, but the set seemed a little long for an opening act. I thought they kept using the same fast-snare-march beat. Kim Deal was some new kind of rock chick hot, though. They actually got called for an encore, and I recognized the Eraserhead song, and thought to myself, *these guys might be on to something*.

I like Surfer the best, specifically, the song Broken Face. Bossanova really broke the spell for me, though I thought the song Silver was very Fleetwood Macish. Even more than Here Comes Your Man.

Hmm. Pixies could do a killer version of "Not That Funny"

Dig For Fire is a horrible, horrible song. I can tell that it doesn't mean anything. But Is She Weird is great. Trompe Le Monde works for me, from start to finish, almost as much as Surfer. But it wouldn't work if the other albums didn't exist. But then, neither would The Lyre of Orpheus or Check Your Head.

Since I wasn't here at the time: was Metal Flake Mother as good live as their album? The very finest Pixies-ish band short of the Pixies, I think.

Bendy

Chris Calloway wrote:
--- Brendan Love <brendan.love AT mac.com> wrote:

I have always thought that the Pixies completely
suck.


having seen them in the day (surfa rosa), not only do
i love them, but the maligned trompe le monde is my
fave.

i like bossanova a lot, too. either will get me to
turn up the volume. so shoot me.

doolittle i find embarrassingly wretched, however.

i think tim ross should rule on the matter and i will
accept the verdict.

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