Late Night Music Club with The Pixies
By driftglass Wednesday Sep 17, 2008 10:00pm
The YouToobes commentary tells me that this is from the "Pixies Sell Out Reunion Tour 2004". Eurockéennes Festival, Belfort, France.
I have no compelling reason to doubt it.
Pixies -- "Where is My Mind?"
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Love the Pixies! "Wave of Mutilation" "Velouria" and "Debaser" my top 3 Pixies tracks.
big shake to the land that's falling down
is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
a big, big stone fall and break my crown
I became a Pixies fan after the fact, but OMFG (and I use this sparingly) the show I caught at the Music Midtown Festival in Atlanta was fantasmagoric!!!
I gotta say, I love The Pixies. I have no idea what the hell their songs are about, but it's great ear candy that doesn't sound like anything else.
Nice, new to me. Thanks.
Milford Loudermilk @ 3:
What year was that? Like '01 or '02? I went to a couple of the MMF in Atlanta. I loved every minute of them.
Frank Black is the man!
Kim Deal is the girl!
where the f$ck is john mccain's mind?
are ho chi minh's blood kin storing it on a USB stick for future usage?!
I saw Kim Deal and The Breeders warm up for Nirvana a few months before Cobain left us all too soon.
I saw them several times in the early days including during the Surfer Rosa tour at a little place in Ann Arbor, called Rick's American Cafe. Then me and the hubby took our teenage kids to the reunion tour. Still one of my all-time faves.
Dig for Fire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KizhSRp85W4&feature=PlayList&p=627BE67266...
Holiday Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_yMyWtAtpY&feature=PlayList&p=627BE67266...
I must confess I've never heard of The Pixies but I enjoyed that very much.
driftglass, the music club excels this evening under your tutelage.
The Pixies are the shizz, but the "reunion" stuff is embarrassing.
Pixies are great and Frank Black's (Black Francis') solo stuff is also outstanding!
Is this when the top financial institutions that hold the world's credit get blowed up?
Shit- wasn't supposed to talk about that...
kim deal @ skippy: cannonball by the breeders
i heart the breeders! (pixies, too!) i heart kim deal!
sooth Hussein sayer @ 13:
I think we are all programmed to think this sort of thing, but as someone who loved the Pixies from Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim days, I think they remain anything but embarrassing. These guys laid it down yesterday and they sound like tomorrow today. So. Goddamn.
Portishead's gone a step further, reemerging both with their old cool and inventing something super-tomorrow. I hope the Pixies make something new, other than the little joyous novelty Bam Thwok.
Cariboooooooooooooooooooooo
"The Pixies Sell Out," I believe, was in fact the official name of the reunion tour. A play on words, as it was an obvious effort to belatedly cash in on the fame that had arisen primarily after they had disbanded, but also a tour that happened to, entirely justifiably, sell out. And I agree with the above poster that this was far from embarrassing -- I have recordings of a few of the reunion shows and they were every bit as tight as they were 15 years earlier. Maybe more so.
Anyway, fans (and others) should check out LoudQuietLoud, a DVD from the tour. While featuring many concert clips (full songs, not just snippets like many tour documentaries), it also captures the drudgery of a band on the road, the tension among the members, their various issues (family separation, drugs, illness, death in the family). It's both bleak and joyous. (There was a very similar documentary of Luna's farewell tour a couple years ago as well, which likewise captured some great clips while making touring look like hell on earth.)
Great song but I'll take "Debaser' or "Caribou" any day!
Well both Kim and Charles said it was embarrassing, but I'm sure you guys know better. Peace out!
Actually their reunion tour was awesome. I saw them in Bend, OR and it was fantastic. In this clip I must mention Frank Blacks voice is really fried. He was barely singing it. Good thing the crowd were hard core fans.
WTF? What's the deal with this song? Sober blatherings smack of slurred-psychotic speech impediment.
skycypher @ 23:
Yeah, they fucking rock, don't they?
hey drifty, i love your blog and your taste in music. i saw frank black earlier this year in switzerland when he was touring on the release of his new album. i was a little disappointed he didn't play any of his old pixies stuff, but it was still a solid show. when i last played a live concert with my own band, we covered "broken face", great fun.
TheDecemberist @ 6:
It was 2005, the last year Atlanta put on the MMF. Went to several and they were well worth the admission!!
aaah the pixies, what can i say. they meant so much for so long, i finally got to catch 'em live on this tour and it was worth the ten year wait.
It's strange that this almost became their signature song 7 years after they broke up because of the influence of its use in "Fight Club." I seem to remember that the one with the most MTV airplay back in the day was "Here Comes Your Man."
Saw them at Austin City Limits Festival '04 and they were great; saw the Breeders (with both Kelley and Kim) just last spring at SXSW... not sure how many original members there are apart from the twins... but they sounded great and have a new album out.
And of course, Cobain said "I should have been in that band" and that his Smells Like Teen Spirit was "basically trying to rip off the Pixies".
This song makes me want to blow up the credit companies. With the debt record erased, everybody goes back to zero!
I could never afford Music Midtown, and by the time I got back to ATL, MMF was gone...
Pixies are AMAZING!
I have seen them five times in concert and it was soooooo good EVERY TIME!
LoudQuietLoud was a sad documentary however.
Kurt Cobain even said Nirvana was basically "ripping off the pixies"
Fav CD is doolittle, can listen to that thing front to back ! :o)
I love channeling my inner Tyler Durden while listening to this song on the upper decks of the Staten Island Ferry because I can literally watch The Collapse of Financial History outside the boat's windows as we pull up to the dock, just like in the movie.
Life imitates Art, who knew?
Now all I've got to do is find Marla.
~Nyc
I saw the Pixies in Atlanta around 1989 I think. They were so boring after 30 minutes most of the crowd left. Only the diehards, really drunk people and friends of the band remained. Many of us asked for our money back but they laughed at us. I saw The Tragically Hip the next month at the same venue. The place was packed to the rafters. Best show ever.
These lyrics need to be reworked to reflect the times more specifically, particularly public apathy and gullibility.
Also add stupid Wallstreet greed and deregulatory nonsense.
I saw the Pixies and they SUCKED. The mix was so bass heavy you couldn't understand a single thing and the vocals we washed out and almost non-existent.
I like the Pixies but the one time I did see them in concert it was very disappointing.
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