Free Live Pixies Doolittle EP!
November 7th, 2009
I’m still deciding whether I want to spend a ridiculous amount of time “previewing” the upcoming Pixies concerts at the Paramount next week. I mean, what hasn’t been said? What youtube videos haven’t you already watched? What Black Francis lyrics haven’t you already dissected? I’m stoked, ok? Got it? Anyway, it’s all very personal and confusing—I hold this band in higher esteem than any other (!). I really could expend all sorts of energy waxing and waning flax golden tales of blistery, bizarro, Bostonian punk rock and its unprecedented impact on my musical and cultural psyche. But that takes A LOT of time (have you blogged before??), and I’m not sure I’ll have it. Who knows, maybe I will; or maybe I’ll just relay, post-coital, the Pixie-gasm I plan to have at the show next Friday. I can pretty much guarantee I won’t find anything wrong with their performance (sorry in advance).
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As luck would have it, however, there is one thing that I might be able to add to our little SSS community here. The band has released a free live EP of 4 Doolittle songs (ok, one’s a B-side to the “Monkey Gone To Heaven” single, but who cares). I know, right?! Download it now, you giddy little schoolboy. “Dancing the Manta Ray”, “Monkey Gone to Heaven”, “Crackity Jones”, and “Gouge Away”.
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Additional note: can I take the opportunity here to purge a Pixies-related pet peeve? Thanks. Please, whatever you do, omit the preceding “the” in any and all correspondence of the band’s name. It’s not there, it doesn’t exist. Check your LPs, or CDs or whatever you have. Do this in the name of conformity, that oft-maligned quality which can in fact provide something positive once in a while.
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