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Your top 10 Pixies songs?

posted 16 years ago by dfle3
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I got into this band a few weeks back after watching the docu "Gouge". Bought Surfer Rosa bundled with Come On Pilgrim. Liked that. Bought Doolittle. Liked that too. The only studio album I don't have is Trompe.

Have seen a compilation around but, having listened to some of the albums, I'm staggered at some of the omissions from the compilation.

Here's my top 10 Pixies songs, sort of in order:

Monkey gone to heaven
The happening
I bleed
River Euphrates
Where is my mind?
Bone machine
Gigantic
I've been tired
Tame
Down to the well [BBC version]

Do you think I'd like anything off of Trompe?

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Cheers.

[–] curleymd 16 years ago

Lots and lots of great stuff on Trompe le Monde.

U-Mass
Planet of Sound
Subbacultcha
Head On (remake of a Jesus & Mary Chain song)

some of my favorite songs in their catalog. Give it a go!

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[–] JelloBeans 16 years ago

Surfer Rosa is in my Top 10 of all time and i have like 700 CDs, Doolittle and Come On Pilgrim are great to but I don't like anything after Doolittle.

Top 10 Songs:
Bone Machine
Break My Body
Broken Face
Caribou
Gigantic
Hey
Holiday Song
No. 13 Baby
Vamos (Surfer Rosa Version)
Where Is My Mind?

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[–] JelloBeans 16 years ago

I like monkeys but i actually think the second half of Doolittle is the best part (songs 8-15), I don't have a top 10, but i have a top 8...:

(in alphabetical order):
*Against Me! - Acoustic EP & Crime as Forgiven By... EP (2001) (these are both just 6 song EPs and were released in the same year and i put them on one CD so I only count them as 1)
*Catch 22 - Keasbey Nights (1998)
*Choking Victim - No Gods, No Managers (1999)
*Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (1968)
*Operation Ivy - Energy (1989)
*Pixies - Surfer Rosa (1988)
*The Stooges - Raw Power (1973)
*Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb (2003)

I like a lot of punk and ska type stuff, rawer, faster stuff...yeah. If you're really bored you can see my whole collection here - http://rateyourmusic.com/~PrisonBound - and if you're a music fan you should join that site, its gotten me into a lot of great music i probably never would have heard of otherwise. yeah.

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[–] AStreetwalkingCheetah 14 years ago

I don't have a ten best,it shifts all the time,but what sums the band up for me is my laptop and mp3 got broken recently and I've been listening to 3 Pixies albums constantly for the last few weeks,ansd instead of getting bored,I just like other songs better,Hang wire especially,the harsh vocal with the slightest smoothing by Kim in the back at the end...There is a Pixies song for every emotion,i reckon,no matter how disturbed,or mundane,and the guitars still give me chills,as does the contrast between Frank and Kims vocals.And get yourself a copy of "Trompe" as soon as possible,it's brilliant,Subbacultcha and Alec especially.palace always sounded like a Femmes song to me though...HEY!but they were good too!

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[–] Room_On_Fire 14 years ago

10. Gouge Away
9. Here Comes Your Man
8. Alison
7. Broken Face
6. Nimrod's Son
5. Dig for Fire
4. Vamos
3. U-Mass
2. Holiday Song
1. Hey

"I'm gonna get nice and drunk; play some video games until my eyes bleed."

[–] Senoj_Returns 14 years ago

1 Number 13 Baby
2 Where is my Mind?
3 Caribou
4 Hey
5 Monkey's Gone To Heaven
6 Velouria
7 Ed is Dead
8 Cactus
9 Gouge Away
10 Hang Wire

Dont make fun of the crazy person, you dont know what they'll do

[–] Riotboy-1 14 years ago

(In no particular order)

La La Love You
No. 13 Baby
Hey
U-Mass
Bone Machine
Gigantic
Hey
Here Comes Your Man
Monkey's Gone To Heaven
Where Is My Mind

10/10

Look at the night sky, where does it end?
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[–] bubblegum3091 13 years ago

1 Hey
2 Bone Machine
3 Debaser
4 Where is My Mind?
5 Monkey Gone To Heaven
6 Gigantic
7 I've Been Tired
8 Isla de Encanta
9 Here Comes Your Mind
10 La La Love You (maybe)

not really in order, it gets pretty hazy. It's hard to choose when they are all more or less the same level of great