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Got this in the mail yesterday.
Disc One is acoustic reference demos FBF sang into a walkman the day before the Pixies went in to record Come On Pilgrim in 1987.
Disc Two is reconceived Pixies classics by FBF and two Dave Thomas (Pere Ubu) wonky-jazz collaborators.

Demos are really neat. I'd never heard a Loudon Wainwright III influence before (and maybe there is none, just a coincidental nasality, and certain other influences are made a little more obvious. "And this is where I scream."

Disc Two is pretty cool, very different versions, though sometimes a little obtuse.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this a bootleg or an advance copy?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Advance copy.
It's released in Canada Oct. 12 on Sonic Unyon.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 October 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Cooking Vinyl in the USA or UK.

http://www.cookingvinyl.com/frankblackfrancis/images/cookcd291.jpg

― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

He looks sorta like Casuistry.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

but werent they already playing the songs out in clubs though? disc one sounds good.

― kephm, Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:14 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean weren't the Pixies already playing the songs on Disc One before they recorded Come On Pilgrim (and the Purple Tape)? Yeah, probably.

Disc one is good. Really raw, and the phone rings during one song...it shocked me. "Oh yeah, that's what phones sounded like in 1987."

― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 October 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, they=pixies

it's just that the whole "songs frank sang into a walkman.." seems a little misleading.

― kephm, Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks for the heads up, i will have to (scrape my change together) & pick this one up

― kephm, Thursday, 7 October 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was in Japan last year, Tower Shinjuku had an endcap display (!!!) of a Brazilian boot called "The Purple Tape 2" which were a bunch of demos from around the time the Purple Tape was released.

The label is Fonografica and it sold for about 3000 yen. EAR/Rational has it in their catalog for $18.25.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Interesting, though cursory review here:

http://abegrand.pitas.com/

― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 October 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone else heard this yet?

― Huk-L, Friday, 15 October 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Listening to 'Black' right now. I absolutely think its's GRBT!
After years of being a Pixies fan, I came to the point of saying 'I'm shit-bored of the Pixies. Seeing them at Bumbershoot was very underwhelming.
But this album has reignited my love for all those old songs. The new songs are bombastic, silly, fun and daring -- everything I think the Pixies were, when they were brilliant.
This is not quite 'messing with the Gospel' as Black puts it, but brave. For now, I like the new versions even better than the old ones. I don't think they are just novelties. They are really enjoyable re-does, re-imaginations.
Haven't listened to the demos much. I'll probably find them less interesting.
Got a feeling a lot of ILM'ers would hate the redos. But they're wonderful. So there!

― The TAO that can be Posted is not the TAO! (The Tao that can be Posted is), Thursday, 21 October 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the "treated" dics better too.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

M3 T00.

The demos are, as Frank says in the notes, not really worth releasing on their own. But the second CD is wonderful - I expected it to be tossed-off will-this-do vocals, but Frank sounds really energetic and it's good to hear him with unusual musical accompaniment (hell, anything's better than the pub-rock bands he's had recently).

― Andrew Norman, Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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