Pixies, The - 1997 - Death to The Pixies [TQMP]

____________________________________________________________________________ | | | Pixies, The - 1997 - Death to the Pixies [1987 to 1991] |:: | |:: | Ripped w/EAC v1.0b2 (Secure) :: Encoded w/FLAC v1.2.1 |:: |____________________________________________________________________________|:: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: +--------------+ +------+ Pack / Files +--------------------------------------------------------+ | +--------------+ | | No. of Files / Size _____ 30 files / 359.2MB (376,650,774 bytes) | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +--------------+ +------+ Audio Source +--------------------------------------------------------+ | +--------------+ | | Type / Quantity _________ CD (Compact Disc) (* 1) | | Date Released ___________ October 6th, 1997 | | User Rating _____________ A- (from review below) | | Genre(s) ________________ Alternative / Rock | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +--------+ +------+ Review +--------------------------------------------------------------+ | +--------+ | | Kurt Cobain did not hide his love for the Pixies in any way. Had it not | | been for this band, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" may never have been | | recorded. Another college rock favorite, Bob Mould, made a deliberate | | Pixies rip off song with "A Good Idea," off of his watershedding Copper | | Blue CD. | | | | For as influential as the Pixies were, they never really had an album | | that fully realized their talents. They came close with Doolittle, but | | there wasn't a classic album in their collection, like Daydream Nation | | or New Day Rising. | | | | Thank god for "greatest hits" collections. Sure they can be cheap ways | | to pour a little more dough into a band's band accounts, but in the | | Pixies case, it's also the perfect starter for anyone who was facinated | | by the influence that the Pixies had on other bands, but were not old | | enough to catch the band live or hear them on college radio stations. | | | | Death To The Pixies his you square in the face with the first song, | | "Cecilia Ann." Between Joey Santiago's dynamic guitar skills and Black | | Francis' (formerly Charles Thompson, now Frank Black) backup guitar | | attack, it's fair to say that the Pixies were not content with remaining | | a cult band. Their sound was big, and they had the songs to make it | | big. | | | | The furious assault of each of the musicians were matched by the stern | | sense of melody. As pulverizing as "Planet Of Sound" is, the bass line | | by Kim Deal throbs clear as a Beatles bass line. If there was a perfect | | "Pixies" song, it would have to be "Wave Of Mutilation"; in under three | | minutes, you get a towering guitar intro and a chorus that's practically | | impossible to shun off after the first listen. | | | | After the breathless "Wave," a pretty spring-like song, "Dig For Fire" | | comes on. It's a nice contrast that shows the strong songwriting skills | | of the band. And it also marks a turning point in Death To The Pixies. | | From then on, the songs grow more experimental, to the point of where | | you can tell what songs were Kim Deal-influenced and what songs were all | | about Black Francis. | | | | That's not to say that the earlier songs had their creative warzones. | | Thankfully, Death To The Pixies does not follow a strict chronological | | order. The second has many of the songs on the first disc, but instead | | the live versions of the songs are performed. The live versions of some | | of the songs are radically different than the studio recordings, not so | | much as the sound quality, but the tangents the band hit when they were | | playing these songs took them on different roads. | | | | With such a talented lineup, it was inevitable that each member wanted | | to go their seperate directions. Unfortunately, each of the artists made | | that one great solo album or solo project album and then either faded | | into obscurity (Breeders anyone?) or were in bands that basically let | | the musician have their own say(Frank Black). And as history shows, it's | | usually nice to have a Keith Richards or John Lennon to keep the Mick | | Jagger and Paul McCartney's of the world in check and vice versa. | | | | For anyone who is interested in how college rock evolved into what is | | was in the early '90s, there is no closer necessity than Death To The | | Pixies to purchase. Find out what songs you like the best and pick up | | the album that has most of those songs on them. Be cautioned however, | | you'll never look at Nirvana in the same light again. [Sean McCarthy, | | The Daily Vault] | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +------------+ +------+ Track List +----------------------------------------------------------+ | +------------+ | | No. | Title | Duration | | ----+--------------------------------------------------------+---------- | | 001 | Cecilia Ann .......................................... | 00h02m06s | | 002 | Planet of Sound ...................................... | 00h02m06s | | 003 | Tame ................................................. | 00h01m56s | | 004 | Here Comes Your Man .................................. | 00h03m21s | | 005 | Debaser .............................................. | 00h02m52s | | 006 | Wave of Mutilation ................................... | 00h02m04s | | 007 | Dig for Fire ......................................... | 00h03m02s | | 008 | Caribou .............................................. | 00h03m14s | | 009 | Holiday Song ......................................... | 00h02m14s | | 010 | Nimrod's Son ......................................... | 00h02m17s | | 011 | U-Mass ............................................... | 00h03m01s | | 012 | Bone Machine ......................................... | 00h03m06s | | 013 | Gigantic ............................................. | 00h03m08s | | 014 | Where is My Mind ..................................... | 00h03m52s | | 015 | Velouria ............................................. | 00h03m40s | | 016 | Gouge Away ........................................... | 00h02m44s | | 017 | Monkey Gone to Heaven ................................ | 00h02m57s | | ----+--------------------------------------------------------+---------- | | | | Total Length ____________ 00h47m40s | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------+ +------+ Audio Rip +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | +-----------+ | | Ripped with _____________ EAC v1.0b2 [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de] | | Encoded with ____________ FLAC v1.2.1 [http://flac.sourceforge.net] | | Encoding Stats __________ 1411kbps / 44.1kHz / CBR / 16-bit / Stereo | | Tag(s) __________________ Vorbis | | Includes Artwork? _______ Yes | | Includes Rip .LOG? ______ Yes | | Includes Rip .CUE? ______ Yes | | Includes Playlist? ______ Yes | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ rainfo v0.2 [2011/06/23 @ 15:31:11]

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wdc1 (2012-08-29)

good sound but gigantic is trimmed