Yeah, I know it’s sideways, and no, I wasn’t drunk. I scanned it dumb.
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Uh yeah…Kim Deal is proving herself to be a flash in the pan more and more. Where are the Francis tunes?
UGH. Probably on the last half-dozen solo albums he’s released in the past two months.
I don’t think she’s a flash-in-the-pan—hell, the “Gigantic”—”Cannonball”—”Divine Hammer” hat trick is amazing. But I am surprised that they allowed that to be the first song.
It IS very much a Pixies song, though; seemingly nonsensical with a basis in absurdist fact. I’d say it bodes well for the stability of the (new) group that her tune is the first, given Franky’s massive ego & her (non) output the first time out.
it does sound like a pixies song. like a pixies song you’d skip over to get to the next really good pixies song on the record.
are they playing other new songs on the reunion tour? i checked out the setlists for the first couple of shows. but there was nothing new. they did pull out “winterlong,” though.
in other music nerd news: pitchfork’s top 100 albums of the 70s contained not one single black sabbath record or even “highway to hell”. plus “saturday night fever” beat the clash s/t by several entries. what a bunch of dillweeds.
I had no idea that it wasn’t a JBA song.
I’m still in mourning for Robert Quine.
I’m a sucker for Matthew Sweet. Yo.
Yo.
Oh, and Ziggy Stardust was 81 or something, but David Bowie’s Low was #1. Listen…I like the Berlin trilogy as much as the next guy, but fuck…when I’m sitting around wanting to listen to something classic, do you think I grab Low over Ziggy or Hunky Dory?
I do agree with London Calling being #2. Oh, and besides Tago Mago, the Can records they chose are pretty mediocre. And where was Genesis? Capt. Beefheart? ELO? Big Star’s 1st and 2nd records? Listen…those guys are all pretentious assholes who write mildly funny news stories, have a few good reviewers on staff, and pretty much suck at everything else. Pitchfork likes to fool you into thinking that they get a lot done, but pretty much they’re rewriting press releases and reviewing three or four records a day. And look at the records they review?! Sometimes that shit is months old. And they miss huge records as well. Bastards.
And Bam Thwok sounds like a Pixies song? Maybe…I just don’t consider a Kim Deal song sounding like a Pixies song with, of course, two notable exceptions. It sounds like a track off the miserable Title TK to me. Well, not that bad, except that Bam Thwok shit goes on forever.
Ugh. And how the fuck could Lollapalooza—with the best lineup in years—get cancelled. Maybe because everybody like me waited to buy tickets. Hell, I didn’t know if I was going to get off work.
At least I’m seeing Hall and Oates on Monday.
Two more things…sorry…Winterlong is one of my favorite Neil Young songs (I can play it on the piano which is saying something for me), but I love the Pixies version as well. Glad to see they’re playing it…
And I still think that Kim had one or two pretty good records with a few stellar songs in her. I didn’t care for the Amps and, well, we know what happened after that. Flash in the pan may have been too harsh. Let’s say that she lacks consistency.
i like title tk. not at first really, but after a few listens, it really grew on me. it’s just a little repititious, that’s all. and i don’t think the new song is such a horror. maybe they’re paying more attention to kim deal’s stuff this go round because she’s been the most successful solo pixie. and the amps aren’t that bad, either. they were a lot better than listening to frank black make out with a synthesizer for ten years.
what the hell are you talking about BG? #1? #2? are you reading some countdown i can’t see?
oh, he’s talking about pitchfork’s ire-inducing “top albums of the 70’s.” all you need to know about how this robot dj feels about it is: there are no springsteen records. Brent DiCrescenzo + what credibility you had – Springsteen = SPIN magazine.
Is that before or after the Beasties debacle?
what was the deal with the slanderous beasties review? i just saw the retraction.
and big gray, i gotta stand up for can’s “ege bamyasi”. it’s the bizwax.
there was a year or two where pitchfork was really on top of things. but i can’t remember the last time they tipped me off to some hot shit record. did they lose some key reviewers? or have they just gotten side-tracked by german blip house. the sarcastic subheads, still make me chuckle, though.
Oh, no…I like Ege Bamyasi, but I don’t like Future Days and would prefer Soon Over Babaluma to that. But if we’re talking prog, where was Fragile? Where were the Silver Apples? Where was Country Life by Roxy Music (not prog, I know)? What about Larks’ Tongues in Aspic? What about Paul McCartney’s Ram? Not cool enough? What about MF-ing Springsteen? Tom Waits’ Closing Time? Arrgh…
I’m talking post-retraction, Bulb. And BG’s right—what kind of canon are they looking at? By invoking certain “mainstream” records, they seem to include “all” rock. Joni Mitchell’s Blue, Led Zep’s Houses of the Holy ,Rumours, the first Van Halen record, Paul Simon—bastards, you want to tell me Cosmo’s Factory by CCR IS BETTER THAN SPRINGSTEEN??
They’re completely full of shit and picked the cool records people tell them are cool & shit they liked as kids. And because they didn’t like Springsteen I offer you, as a per se rule, that they are soulless dorx doomed to die alone.
what happened with the beasties?