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| Weezer – Troublemaker Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Hi everone,I made a Troublemaker Video with clips from The Simpsons. The first verse describes Bart, The second verse is about Homer. What do you tink?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCe18fK1NSE |
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| Pixies – Allison Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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know pixies is proabably the most original band ever but this sound like a faster verison of "the holiday song" dont you think |
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| Pixies – Alec Eiffel Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song is incredible. The comparisons with the Pixies to Eiffel are also incredibly accurate. Though, I don't think they ever anticipated fame or the rapid cult following. One thing I'm surprised people haven't brought up is the video for this. Holy shit, it's awesome! The wind tunnel, the bright flashy clothes, and Joey's face getting wrapped around in smoke? Amazing. The whole thing looks like a 90s issue of X-Men or Generation X. |
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| Pixies – Allison Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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i know pixies is proabably the most original band ever but this sound like a faster verison of "the holiday song" dont you think |
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| Pixies – Motorway To Roswell Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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one of the most underrated pixies song ever, i mean which pixies song isn't . it's the most frank black like song in the pixies catalog |
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| Pixies – Motorway To Roswell Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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one of the most underrated pixies song ever, i mean which pixies song isn't . it's the most frank black like song in the pixies catalog |
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| Pixies – All Over The World Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This by far the most spacey pixies song I've heard, I think Bossnova is the best Pixies album because it's different from all their other album.
at 5;27 this is the longest pixies song |
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| Pixies – Bone Machine Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I have listened to this song so many times and never even thought about the lyrics. In some songs the words are unimportant, as long as the music is really good. How do you know they are meant to make sense. They could just be there to confuse us. |
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| Pixies – River Euphrates Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Dang it, I think darkthundah's right. Especially since the region between the Tigris and Euphrates is known as the Fertile Crescent. |
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| Pixies – Alec Eiffel Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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One my favorite pixies song ever, could ever make out what they are saying in this song til this day |
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| Pixies – Velouria Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I don't have the transcript in front of me, but around the time of the release of Devil's Workshop/Black Letter Days, I interviewed Frank, and we spoke about the remake of "Velvety," which had originally been released as an instrumental on a Pixies b-side and now sported lyrics.
I recall that he said he always liked the riff of the song, which was originally named as a nod to the fact that it sounded a lot like The Velvet Underground (and in my opinion, quite obviously the instrumental run-through of "Guess I'm Falling In Love" from the mid-'80s outtakes compilation Another View).
He was tempted to let it remain an instrumental, but because he had titled the first one "instrumental version," on a whim, he felt compelled to match words to it. He then said that although he did not set out to, at some point he realized that he had actually wound up re-telling the narrative of "Velouria."
It seems to me that he is using a very Dylanesque lyrical conceit, in that he's created a fictional alien dreamgirl with some sort of implied link to the legend of Lemuria, but then made the grammatical leap of transposing the attributes and animus of the alien onto a known species of animal: the Lemur – which is not indigenous to the area he's speaking of (California).
The woman/alien/Lemur beckons to him during a car/motorcycle trip through the desert, and subsequently entrances him. In the end, it is ambiguous whether or not the creature also references (or in some way represents) an actual romantic interest of his in real life, but tempting nonetheless to look for such cryptic references, as they seem to crop up from time to time in a handful of his other songs.
~ Peter Radiator |
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| Pixies – Velouria Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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VELOURIA
"A space girl who could come from Bowie's world, a friend of Ziggy Stardust. "Velours" with an "a" at the end sounds like "Victoria"" (reference to the song by The Kinks) (BF)
"At a Black Francis solo gig at McCabe's circa '91, he introduced "Velouria" by saying it was about a woman who lived in a mountain (or something similar). Mt. Shasta is located in Northern California ("I know she's here / in California / I can see the tears / of Shasta sheen"). "Shasta sheen" could be how the mountain looks in the sunlight when it is covered in snow. Or when it's covered in Velouria's tears." (reported by Ryan E. Vincent)
"That was My Victoria, pretty good, but The Kinks song...I don't know it's gotta be a good song to get away with it. But when I found "Velouria", it sounded great." (Black Francis in a Q article)
"I had to rewrite that lyric several times. It was just too cryptic. Too 'Dungeons & Dragons'. I guess it's harking back to Billy Goodman (cf. The Happening). In California, there's this thing about the Lemurians, the sister people to the Atlanteans, whose civilisation sank and they all took off in boats and went to live in Mount Shasta in California. I just thought it was great. Velouria; the sci-fi girl. A love song about time travel." (BF in NME)
"Kind of a love song, but a lot of the content comes from the Rosicrucians. They believe in a lost continent called Lemuria. That sank and now the inhabitants are meant to live below Mount Shasta in California." (Frank Black in SELECT, October 1997) |
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| Pixies – Velouria Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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VELOURIA
"A space girl who could come from Bowie's world, a friend of Ziggy Stardust. "Velours" with an "a" at the end sounds like "Victoria"" (reference to the song by The Kinks) (BF)
"At a Black Francis solo gig at McCabe's circa '91, he introduced "Velouria" by saying it was about a woman who lived in a mountain (or something similar). Mt. Shasta is located in Northern California ("I know she's here / in California / I can see the tears / of Shasta sheen"). "Shasta sheen" could be how the mountain looks in the sunlight when it is covered in snow. Or when it's covered in Velouria's tears." (reported by Ryan E. Vincent)
"That was My Victoria, pretty good, but The Kinks song...I don't know it's gotta be a good song to get away with it. But when I found "Velouria", it sounded great." (Black Francis in a Q article)
"I had to rewrite that lyric several times. It was just too cryptic. Too 'Dungeons & Dragons'. I guess it's harking back to Billy Goodman (cf. The Happening). In California, there's this thing about the Lemurians, the sister people to the Atlanteans, whose civilisation sank and they all took off in boats and went to live in Mount Shasta in California. I just thought it was great. Velouria; the sci-fi girl. A love song about time travel." (BF in NME)
"Kind of a love song, but a lot of the content comes from the Rosicrucians. They believe in a lost continent called Lemuria. That sank and now the inhabitants are meant to live below Mount Shasta in California." (Frank Black in SELECT, October 1997) |
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| Pixies – Where Is My Mind? Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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2nd
I believe this song is about suicide, that's indicated in the first verse, the chorus is about the moment of regret, and the second verse is about the afterlife |
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| Pixies – Where Is My Mind? Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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first of all Fight club is the most overrated movie ever, this song made the movie whether you believe it or not |
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| Pixies – Gigantic Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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when I first heard this song 13 years ago I thought it was about Frank Black's weight problem |
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| Pixies – Brick Is Red Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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A white moon's hot, the other side's not. (He says this again in All Over the World....any connection?) |
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| Pixies – Dead Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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anyone know what is said at the beginning?
Sound like:
"what do you think enough is?"
"reminds me of a nursery rhyme..." |
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| Pixies – The Navajo Know Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It's about the indians who worked on skyscrapers in the early part of the century. They had an amazing skill for balance
"About mohicans who work on construction sites. They are amazing. 'Navajo' is here for the rhyme only" - Frank Black |
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| Pixies – Hey Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Beautiful and minimalistic - gripping and passionate- everything is perfect - the drums - the solo - and the singing. Regarding Black's playing - could it be that the bass marks the chord "change" and that he plays the same sequence over and over again (except for the F#). Looks that way when you see him play it. |
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| Pixies – Hey Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Beautiful and minimalistic - gripping and passionate- everything is perfect - the drums - the solo - and the singing. Regarding Black's playing - could it be that the bass marks the chord "change" and that he plays the same sequence over and over again (except for the F#). Looks that way when you see him play it. |
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| Pixies – Hey Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Beautiful and minimalistic - gripping and passionate- everything is perfect - the drums - the solo - and the singing. Regarding Black's playing - could it be that the bass marks the chord "change" and that he plays the same sequence over and over again (except for the F#). Looks that way when you see him play it. |
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| Pixies – Stormy Weather Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I can see how this is your least favoirite Pixies songs. I dig it a lot. It can be appreciated only in context if you already know what the pixies are usually capable of doing. this minimalist song is like hearing the unspoken potentials hidden in songs like their 'wild honeypie' cover.
most important factor: it rocks. |
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| Pixies – Ana Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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this is such a beauty.
musically enchanting.
eleven high are some big waves, atleast where i'm from...
"She's, like, this naked surfer girl on a board on top of an 11-foot wave, y'know cruising in never-never land. Never-never ocean." (Black Francis in a Q article) |
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| Pixies – The Happening Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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The lyric to the last part of the song is about a radio show hosted by a guy named Bill Goodman ("Then I heard the voices on a broadcast from up on the bird-They were getting interviewed by some Goodman whose name was Bill") Frank said that in a quote that's on the Alec Eiffel site, I believe. That's what he described Bill Goodman's show as - a happening. |
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| Pixies – The Happening Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Beautiful music, great lyrics, beautiful singing by Frank, Joey's guitar is cool, and really captures the "surf" element that they created on "Bossanova". |
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| Toadies – Heel Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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"Where is My Mind" isn't the only song toadies stolen from the Pixies, the structure and lyric of this song is a complete knockoff of "tame"
http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=43076 |
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| Our Lady Peace – Is Anybody Home? Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I'm suprised no one had noticed this yet, the part after "Who thought we'd ever get this far", (which they repeat through out the song) is a rip off of the end of Undone - the sweater song what do you think |
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