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April 17, 2012
Free Coachella ’04 Download
We have a special treat for you...
This week, finding ourselves between two consecutive weekends of COACHELLA for the first time ever, we thought it fitting to rifle through the PIXIES vault in search of an apt celebration.
So, we're very pleased to bring you a completely free download of 4 tracks from PIXIES memorable '04 Coachella performance.
The free tracks are : 1) U - Mass 2) Monkey Gone To Heaven 3) Hey 4) Caribou
With this being the first major PIXIES performance since the reformation, this show signified the successful return of PIXIES.
I wouldn't have known about this was it not for the excellent Exile On Moan Street blog - cheers Mona- enjoy the Cup Final...
In March 1987 Pixies recorded an 18 track demo which became known as The Purple Tape. Eight of the tracks from these sessions were released in 1987 as the band's debut, Come On Pilgrim , one (a cover of Larry Norman's Watch What You're Doing) remained unused, but the remaining nine were put together for this 2002 release. Some of the tracks had been re recorded and used in the interim.
I've always had a thing about cover versions. Not in the Wedding Party Band sense, but in the way in which covers show that rock music is, at it's pure unadulterated heart, essentially about fandom, populism and the do it yourself ethos.
In putting together this compilation my aim was to include songs of quality covered by decent artists with a degree of originality.
1. Debaser- originally by Pixies- covered by Mother Universe.
2. Bonnie and Clyde- originally by- Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot- covered by Luna & Lætitia Sadier
3. A Song From Under The Floorboards- originally by- Magazine -covered by Morrissey
4. Sad Dark Eyes- originally by The Loved Ones- covered by Mick Harvey
5. Head On- originally by The Jesus and Mary Chain- covered by Pixies
6. Make Me Smile- originally by Steve Harley’s Cockney Rebel- covered by The Wedding Present
7. Bigmouth Strikes Again- originally by The Smiths- covered by Placebo
8. Just Like Heaven- originally by The Cure- covered by Dinosaur Jr.
9. Ceremony- originally by New Order- covered by Galaxie 500
10. You Sexy Thing- originally by Hot Chocolate- covered by Cud
11. Leave Me Alone- originally by New Order- covered by Chappaquiddick Skyline
12. Pastime Paradise- originally by Stevie Wonder- covered by Patti Smith
13. Flowers In The Rain- originally by The Move- covered by Kaiser Chiefs
14. Hounds Of Love- originally by Kate Bush- covered by The Futureheads
15. Telegram Sam- originally by Marc Bolan & T Rex- covered by Bauhaus
This has been knocked together from many sources, so the bitrate is variable (fact)- the music is good (opinion).
ALAS! for the time being , at least, the link is dead and I never kept the songs all in one file...
Black Francis - guitar, vocals
David Lovering - drums
Mrs John Murphy (Kim Deal) - bass, vocals
Joey Santiago- guitar
Pixies were the alternative band of the late 80’s. This is their first session for John Peel.
Come on pilgrim, you know He loves you…Christian rock singer Larry Norman. Come On Pilgrim was the Pixies’ debut, released on the 4AD label in September 1987.
In 1997 Gary Smith, who produced the EP commented on the band's influence on alternative rock and their legacy : I've heard it said about The Velvet Underground that while not a lot of people bought their albums, everyone who did started a band. I think this is largely true about the Pixies as well. ... It became a kind of new pop formula and, within a short while, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was charging up the charts and even the members of Nirvana said later that it sounded for all the world like a Pixies song.
Kurt Cobain:
I was trying to write the ultimate pop song. I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies. I have to admit it ... When I heard the Pixies for the first time, I connected with that band so heavily I should have been in that band - or at least in a Pixies cover band. We used their sense of dynamics, being soft and quiet and then loud and hard.
The songs, with their dark references to incest, sex, religion and mutilation read like the footnotes to a David Lynch text. The music can be mellow at times but is threaded with seismic and breathtaking burts of spleen.
Line up:
• Black Francis – vocals, guitars
• David Lovering – drums
• Mrs. John Murphy* – bass, vocals
• Joey Santiago – lead guitars
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