the advantage of living in a different time-zone.....

...is that whilst you lot are still struggling through the final moments of the week, I have just taken my shoes off, put a bottle of champagne in the fridge, and inserted Doolittle by The Pixies into the player. Ahhhhhhhhh..............

 

i bet if you step outside your ****** will freeze though

 

But

we now have more of the weekend yet to waste

 

very true, as....

....I'll be trekking through snow on Monday morning on the way to the Metro when you'll all still be in bed! Actually a balmy -5 here at the minute. Last week was -22 and thought my face was going to fall off.

 

RE: very true, as....

how much snow have you got over there?

couldnt believe it when i saw NY had a metre of the stuff. Wish i was there.

 

RE: very true, as....

Not loads. Just a thin covering which has turned to ice, but didn't get any in Petersburg until after the New Year, which was an economic disaster for some of the ski-ing resorts. OK as long as it stays below zero, otherwise the metre of snow turns into a metre of slush, which is horrendous.....

 

One of the greatest pieces of music ever produced:

Pixies
Doolittle '2003

1. Debaser

got me a movie
i want you to know
slicing up eyeballs
i want you to know
girlie so groovy
i want you to know
don't know about you
but i am un chien andalusia
wanna grow
up to be
be a 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

debaser


2. Tame

got hips like cinderella
must be having a good shame
talking 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
lying there like you're tame

uh huh huh

tame


3. Wave Of Mutilation

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 nino
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


4. Bleed

as loud as hell
a ringing bell
behind my smile
it shakes my teeth
and all the while
as vampires feed
i bleed

prithee, my dear,
why are we here
nobody knows
we go to sleep
as breathing flows
my mind secedes
i bleed

there's a place
in the buried west
in a cave
with a house in it
in the clay
the holes of hands
you can place
a hand in hand
in bleed


5. Here Comes Your Man

outside there's a box car waiting
outside the family stew
out by the fire breathing
outside we wait 'til face turns blue
i know the nervous walking
i know the dirty beard hangs
out by the box car waiting
take me away to nowhere plains
there is a wait so long
here comes your man

big shake on the box car moving
big shake to the land that's falling down
is a wind makes a palm stop blowing
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
there is a wait so long
you'll never wait so long
here comes your man


6. Dead

you crazy baby bathsheba, i wancha
you're suffocating you need a good shed
i'm tired of living, shebe, so gimme
dead

we're apin' rapin' tapin' catharsis
you get torn down and get erected
my blood is working but my, my heart is
dead

hey
whaddyah know?
you're lovely
tan belly
is starting to grow

uriah hit the crapper, the crapper
uriah hit the crapper, the crapper
uriah hit the crapper, the crapper
dead


7. Monkey Gone To Heaven

there was a guy
an under water guy who controlled the sea
got killed by ten million pounds of sludge
from new york and new jersey
this monkey's gone to heaven

the creature in the sky
got sucked in ahole
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 haven

rock me joe!

if man is 5 [3x]
then the devil is 6 [5x]
then god is 7 [3x]
this monkey's gone to heaven


8. Mr. Grieves

hope everything is alright hope everything is alright
what's that floating in the water
oh neptune's only daughter
i believe
in mr. grieves
pray for a man in the middle
one that talks like doolittle
i believe
in mr. grieves
do you have another opinion
do you have another opinion
la la la la la la la la
la la la la la la la la
got bombed got frozen
got finally off to a finally dozing
i believe
in mr. grieves
do you have another opinion
opinion
do you have another opinion
do you have another opinion
you can cry you can mope
but can you swing from a good rope
oh i believe
in mr. grieves
hope everything is alright
hope everything is alright


9. Crackity Jones

jose jones
told me alone
his story
he got friends
like paco picopiedra
la muneca
he receives on his set
crack crack crackity jones

please forgive me
jose jones
you need these walls
for your own
i'm moving out of this hopedaje
i'm afraid you'll cut me boy

thirty miles by
hundred miles by
stinking island
por goofiar
en crushing automovil
chasing voices
he receives in his head
crack crack crackity jones


10. La La Love You

[whistle] yeah
i love you
i do
i love you
all i'm saying pretty baby
la la love you don't mean maybe
all i'm saying pretty baby
first base
second base
third base
home run
[whistle] yeah
i love you
i do
i love you
all i'm saying pretty baby
la la love you, don't mean maybe
all i'm saying pretty baby


11. Number 13 Baby

got hair in a girl
that flows to her bones
and a comb in her pocket
if the winds get blown
stripes on her eyes when she walks slow
but her face falls down
when she go, go, go
black tear falling on my lazy queen
gotta tattooed tit say number 13

viva
don't want no blue eyes
la loma
i want brown eyes
rica
i'm in a state

choir in the yard
in the house next door
where a grandma brought
some songs from the shore
six foot girl gonna
sweat when she dig
stand close to the fire
when they light the pig
standing in her chinos shirt pulled off clean
gotta tattooed tit say number 13

viva
don't want no blue eyes
la loma
i want brown eyes
rica
i'm in a state


12. There Goes My Gun

yoo hoo [3x]
there goes my gun [4x]
looka me [3x]
there goes my gun [4x]
friendsa foe [3x]
there goes my gun [4x]


13. Hey

hey
been trying to meet you
hey
must be a devil between us
or whores in my head
whores at my door
whores in my bed
but hey
where
have you
been if you go i will surely die
we're chained

uh said the man to the lady
uh said the lady to the man she adored
and the whores like a choir
go uh all night
and mary ain't you tired of this
uh
is
the
sound
that the mother makes when the baby breaks
we're chained


14. Gouge Away

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 3-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


15. Silver

in this land of strangers
there are dangers
there are sorrows
i can't see this lady
it is shady
i am leaving tomorrow
tomorrow
tomorrow

even there's a reason
it's silver
it's gone
in this land of strangers
there are dangers
there are sorrows
sorrows
sorrows
sorrows

 

Can't disagree

Genius
And one of the best live bands ever
Queens Hall, Edinburgh - Spring 1988
On their final tour - FANTASTIC

 

Aye.

Went to 3 of the European '87 tour dates.
Found myself in Holland with therteh six pence in my pocket.

Brilliant, brilliant band.
Possibly only bettered by Kool & the Gang.

 

RE: Aye.

Thought you were a Billy Ocean fan?

 

The top 5 bands / artistes of all time:

(1) Kool & the Gang
(2) The Pixies
(3) Billy Ocean
(4) Nirvana
(5) Kate Bush

I'm sure you'll agree.

What did Airey choose when he was on Oakwell 90210 AM?
I bet it wasn't as good as Caribbean Queen.

 

RE: The top 5 bands / artistes of all time:

He didn't choose anything.</p>

Apart from the fact that we didn't have much time due to him being dragged off for the usual photo obligations and autograph signing sessions, I think he may have been a tad embarrassed by his selections, which were kept completely under wraps!</p>

 

RE: The top 5 bands / artistes of all time:

Did he choose Black Lace again?
He's a disgrace.

You could double your listener figures (to 14 people) by starting every show with the following musical mix:

(1) Too Hot - Kool & the Gang
(2) Debaser - The Pixies
(3) Caribbean Queen - Billy Ocean
(4) Lithium - Nirvana
(5) Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

You'd have them dancing in the stands.

 

RE: The top 5 bands / artistes of all time:

I chose The Rubettes - anything from the &quot;Wear It's At&quot; Album. Did you see Andy's record collection on those Ikea shelves in the corner? The Kool&amp; The Gang 8 track cartridge case was empty ... saying nowt me.

 

8-track cartirdges

forgive me my ignorance, but what was the point of them? I head a rumour that truckers in the US used them but I still haven't figured out why......

 

RE: 8-track cartirdges

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-track_cartridge
Developed before compact cassettes and I think for a while there were problems manufacturing cassette players that would function ok in a moving vehicle.
I remember my older brother having one in his car and having a cartridge that allowed an ordinary cassette to be played in the machine!