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Ai concerti di Frank Black (aka Black Francis) si può ancora incontrare qualcuno con una t-shirt nera slavata con su scritto "Death to the Pixies", epitaffio autoironico della band di Boston.
I Pixies sono stati la band più influente degli ultimi 15 anni; ricordiamo che Cobain a proposito di "Smells Like Teen Spirit" disse che i Nirvana volevano scrivere una canzone alla maniera dei Pixies e che era uscita "Teen Spirit".
I Pixies hanno "inventato" le canzoni piene di staccati, costruite sulla parte lenta, caratterizzata dal basso e la parte veloce, che esplode in un urlo catartico. Questa raccolta postuma è imperdibile per chiunque non abbia ancora in casa i dischi dei Pixies e, per chi come noi li ha tutti, ha valore soprattutto per il cd dal vivo allegato, che cattura l'energia assassina e isterica dei Pixies.
Dal vivo incredibile è "Where Is My Mind" col pubblico che urla il 'yuhuuuuuu' dell'introduzione. Noi siamo riusciti a sentirla dal vivo solo all'ultimo tour di Frank Black che del tutto legittimamente aveva finalmente deciso di risuonare le sue (di Frank Black) canzoni, e garantiamo che la versione sul cd live è molto vicina, da brividi.
Per il resto che dire... "Monkey Gone To Heaven": "If man is five, than the devil is six, and if the devil is six, then God is seven" come esempio dei testi ermetici/incomprensibili/cabalistici che hanno sempre caraterizzato il songwriting di Frank Black/Black Francis. E che dire delle copertine dei dischi, incomprensibili? Gli occhi di pecora su "Trompe Le monde"? Poi "Wave of Mutilation", "Debaser" con la citazione del cortometraggio 'Un Chien Andalou', "Dig for Fire", "Bone Machine", "Gigantic" cantata da Kim Deal (sui crediti Mrs John Murphy???) una delle canzoni più sexy mai scritte, "U-mass"... tutti capolavori.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
02 Planet of Sound (02:06)
one fine day in my odd past
i picked me up a transmission
i turned the fission ignition
went looking for the broadcaster
and when i first touched some ground
they simply told me leave
was kind of hard to believe
'cause there was not one around
this ain't the planet sound
this ain't the planet sound
this ain't the planet sound
this ain't the planet sound
i had a talented wine
that land o' classical gas
and on the planet of glass
they sent me skipping through time
i got to somewhere renowned
for it's canals and color of red
and lots of guys who shook their heads
rhythmically to resound
this ain't the planet of sound
this ain't the planet of sound
this ain't the planet of sound
this ain't the planet of sound
this ain't no rock and roll town
this ain't no fuckin' around
this ain't no planet of sound
i met a guy in a rover
he said its one more over
its just there where your bound
this ain't the planet of sound
this ain't the planet of sound
this ain't the planet of sound
this ain't the planet of sound
03 Tame (01:56)
Got hips like Cinderella
Must have been having a good shame
Talkin' sweet about nothing
Cookie I think you're tame
I'm making good friends with you
When you're shaking your good frame
Fall on your face in those bad shoes
Lyin' there like you're tame
04 Here Comes Your Man (03:21)
Outside there's a boxcar waitin'
Outside the family stew
Out by the fire breathin'
Outside we wait 'til face turns blue
I know the nervous walkin'
I know the dirty beard hangs
Out by the boxcar waitin'
Take me away to nowhere plains
There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man (x3)
Big shake on the boxcar movin'
Big shake to the land that's falling down
Is a wind makes a palm stop blowin'
A big, big stone fall and break my crown
There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man (x4)
There is a wait so long
You'll never wait so long
Here comes your man (x4)
05 Debaser (02:51)
Got me a movie
I want you to know
Slicing up eyeballs
I want you to know
Girlie so groovie
I want you to know
Don't know about you
But I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
Wanna grow
Up to be
Be a debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
Got me a movie
Ha ha ha ho
Slicing up eyeballs
Ha ha ha ho
Girlie so groovie
Ha ha ha ho
Don't know about you
But I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
I am un chien andalusia
Debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
Debaser, debaser
06 Wave of Mutilation (02:04)
Cease to resist, giving my goodbye
Drive my car into the ocean
You'll think I'm dead, but I sail away
On a wave of mutilation
A wave
Wave
I've kissed mermaids, rode the El Niño
Walked the sand with the crustaceans
Could find my way to Mariana
On a wave of mutilation,
Wave of mutilation
Wave of mutilation
Wave
Wave of mutilation
Wave
07 Dig for Fire (03:02)
there is this old woman,
she lives down the road,
you can'm often find her...
..kneeling inside of her hole
and I often ask her
"are you looking for the mother lode?"
huh?
no.
no my child, this is not my desire
and then she said
I'm digging for fire (x4)
there is this old man...
...who spent so much of his life sleeping...
...that he is able to keep awake for the rest of his years
he resides
on a beach
in a town
where I am going to live
and I often ask him
"are you looking for the mother lode?"
huh?
no.
no my child, this is not my desire
and then he said...
...
...
I'm digging for fire (x4)
08 Caribou (03:14)
I live cement
I hate this street
Give dirt to me
I bite lament
This human form
Where I was born
I now repent
Caribou
Caribou
Caribou
Ooh
Repent
Repent
Give me white
Ground to run
And foregone
Let's me knife
Knife me lets
I will get
What I like
Caribou
Caribou
Caribou
Ooh
Repent
Repent
10 Nimrod's Son (02:17)
One night upon my motorcycle through the desert sped
And smashed my body so bad, all my friends thought I was dead
My sister held me close and whispered to my bleeding head
"You are the son of a motherfucker"
One, two, three, four
I shook all night and held her hand
Choke the people well I'll be damned
Land of plenty, land of fun
To find out I'm Nimrod's son
Oh bury me, far away please bury me
Ahhh! The joke is come upon me
In my motorcycle mirror I think about the life I've led
And how my soul's been leaking, all the holes where I have bled
My image spoke to me, yes to me and often said
"You are the son of incestuous union"
One, two, three
Now my head is clear
My roof has walls
My daughter's pure
My son is tall
Land of plenty, land of fun
To find out I'm Nimrod's son
Oh bury me, far away please bury me
Ahhh! Ahhh! Ahhh! The joke is come upon me
11 U-Mass (03:00)
in the sleepy west of the woody east
is a valley full, full o' pioneer
we're not just kids, to say the least
we got ideas to us that's dear
like capitalist, like communist
like lots of things you've heard about
and redneckers they get us pissed
and stupid stuff it makes us shout
oh dance with me oh don't be shy
oh kiss me cunt and kiss me cock
oh kiss the world oh kiss the sky
oh kiss my ass oh let it rock
of the april birds and the may bee
oh baby
university
of massachusetts, please
and here's the last five
it's educational
it's educational
it's educational
it's educational
it's educational
12 Bone Machine (03:00)
This is a song for Carol
You're into Japanese fast food
And I drop you off with your japanese lover
And you're going to the beach all day
You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me
You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me
Oh you're looking like you got some sun
Your blistered lips have got a kiss
The days are lit like everyone
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh
Your bone's got a little machine
You're the bone machine
I was talking to preachy preach about kissy kiss
He bought me a soda
He bought me a soda
He bought me a soda and he tried to molest me in the parking lot
Yep, yep, yep, yep!
I make you break
You make me hard
Your Irish skin looks Mexican
Our love is rice and beans and horse's lard
Your bone's got a little machine
You're the bone machine
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh
Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh
Your bone's got a little machine
13 Gigantic (03:13)
and this I know
his teeth as white as snow
what a gas it was to see him
walk her every day
into a shady place
with her lips she said
she said
hey paul, hey paul, hey paul, let's have a ball [3x]
gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
a big big love
gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
a big big love
lovely legs there are
what a big black mask
what a hunk of love
walk her every day into a shady place
he's like the dark, but I'd want him
hey paul, hey paul, hey paul, let's have a ball [3x]
gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
a big big love
gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
a big big love
gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
a big big love
gigantic, gigantic, gigantic
a big big love
14 Where Is My Mind? (03:51)
(Ooooh)
Stop!
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, (yeah!) yeah!
Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself:
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Way out in the water
See it swimming?
I was swimming in the Caribbean
Animals were hiding behind the rocks
Except for little fish
But they told me east was west, trying to talk to me coy koi
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Way out in the water
See it swimming?
With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah!
Your head will collapse if there's nothing in it
And you'll ask yourself:
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Way out in the water
See it swimming?
(With your feet on the air and your head on the ground
Try this trick and spin it, yeah!)
(Ooooh)
15 Velouria (03:40)
hold my head
we'll trampoline
finally through the roof
on to somewhere near
and far in time
velouria
her covering
travelling career
she can really move
oh velveteen!
my velouria, my velouria
even i'll adore you
my velouria
say to me
where have you been
finally through the roof
and how does lemur skin
reflect the sea?
we will wade in the shine of the ever
we will wade in the shine of the ever
we will wade in the tides of the summer
every summer
every summer
every
my velouria
my velouria
forevergreen
i know she's here
in california
i can see the tears
of shastasheen
my velouria, my velouria
even i'll adore your
my velouria
16 Gouge Away (02:44)
Gouge away, you can gouge away
Stay all day if you want to
Missy aggravation, some sacred questions
You stroke my locks, some marijuana if you got some
Gouge away, you can gouge away
Stay all day if you want to
Sleeping on your belly
You break my arms, you spoon my eyes
Been rubbing a bad charm with holy fingers
Gouge away, you can gouge away
Stay all day if you want to
Chained to the pillars, a three-day party
I break the walls and kill us all with holy fingers
Gouge away, you can gouge away
Stay all day if you want to
17 Monkey Gone to Heaven (02:56)
There was a guy, an underwater guy who controlled all the sea,
Got killed by ten million pounds of sludge from New York and New Jersey.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
The creature in the sky got sucked in a hole,
Now there's a hole in the sky.
And the ground's not cold, and if the ground's not cold,
Everything is gonna burn, we'll all take turns.
I'll get mine, too.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
Rock me, Joe...
If man is five,
If man is five,
If man is five,
Then the devil is six,
Then the devil is six,
Then the devil is six,
Then the devil is six,
And if the devil is six,
Then god is seven,
Then god is seven,
Then god is seven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
This monkey's gone to heaven.
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