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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)
taken from the pixies site:" 'Bossanova' : Everyone knows 'Bossanova' is the greatest record the Beach Boys never made. The Pixies even had the grace to be the first band to use a theramin since 'Good Vibrations', and they had the shirts to match, too. So embroiled in surf lore had Black Francis become that one song 'Ana' was a rare instance of a rock 'n' roll acrostic, wherein the first letters of it's six lines spelt a word: SURFER. Really clever bastard."
I think that Ana is a reference to Santa Ana winds that blow from the sea over Southern California. They're supposed to create really great waves for the surfers. Or so I've heard.
Could be, but Santa Ana winds blow from the desert OFFSHORE and they do make waves better if there is swell that day.. when there are santa ana winds in the winter.. its warm by the beach from all the hot desert air being blown offshore.
Could be, but Santa Ana winds blow from the desert OFFSHORE and they do make waves better if there is swell that day.. when there are santa ana winds in the winter.. its warm by the beach from all the hot desert air being blown offshore.
the record is stupidly underrated. This is my first tiime hearing it, and it's already my second favorite (just behind Surfer Rosa, a very close race though)
Definately my all-time favourite Pixies track. Bossanova is by far the best Pixies album.
Okay, controversial bit over. Black sure liked messing about with poems in his lyrics in Bossanova, didn't he? Ana is an acrostic poem, Hangwire was written in Haiku...
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S U R F E R
acrostic poem
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)
taken from the pixies site:" 'Bossanova' : Everyone knows 'Bossanova' is the greatest record the Beach Boys never made. The Pixies even had the grace to be the first band to use a theramin since 'Good Vibrations', and they had the shirts to match, too. So embroiled in surf lore had Black Francis become that one song 'Ana' was a rare instance of a rock 'n' roll acrostic, wherein the first letters of it's six lines spelt a word: SURFER. Really clever bastard."
@vendetta hbb its not the pixies its pixies pls respect the band or else die and go fuck yourself stupid fuck tnx
@vendetta hbb its not the pixies its pixies pls respect the band or else die and go fuck yourself stupid fuck tnx
Pixies > Zeppelin.
And i'm a massive fan of both so there.
An anagram is a word made bye changing the order of the letters of another word. Just like "veil" and "evil".
What you're talking about GCNgamer128 is called a palindrome. "Ana" is a palindrome.
I think that Ana is a reference to Santa Ana winds that blow from the sea over Southern California. They're supposed to create really great waves for the surfers. Or so I've heard.
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Could be, but Santa Ana winds blow from the desert OFFSHORE and they do make waves better if there is swell that day.. when there are santa ana winds in the winter.. its warm by the beach from all the hot desert air being blown offshore.
Could be, but Santa Ana winds blow from the desert OFFSHORE and they do make waves better if there is swell that day.. when there are santa ana winds in the winter.. its warm by the beach from all the hot desert air being blown offshore.
Love this song <3. Found it not looking for it, but when I heard it I was amazed :) Love the title - Ana :) prob don't have to tell why;)
the record is stupidly underrated. This is my first tiime hearing it, and it's already my second favorite (just behind Surfer Rosa, a very close race though)
Definately my all-time favourite Pixies track. Bossanova is by far the best Pixies album.
Okay, controversial bit over. Black sure liked messing about with poems in his lyrics in Bossanova, didn't he? Ana is an acrostic poem, Hangwire was written in Haiku...
Ana is a nickname for anorexia...so that's what I'm guessing this song is about.