Album of the day (#2404): Trompe Le Monde by Pixies - Music

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Trompe Le Monde by Pixies (View album | Buy this album)

Year: 1991.
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Overall rank: 630
Average rating: 78/100 (from 384 votes).

Tracks:
1. Trompe Le Monde
2. Planet Of Sound
3. Alec Eiffel
4. Sad Punk
5. Head On
6. U-Mass
7. Palace Of The Brine
8. Letter To Memphis
9. Bird Dream Of The Olympus Mons
10. Space (I Believe In)
11. Subbacultcha
12. Distance Equals Rate Times Time
13. Lovely Day
14. Motorway To Roswell
15. Navajo Know

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jackbrown8786

I listen to Doolittle more often than any other 80's album but I've still never really gotten into this one. I actually had an opportunity to buy a brand new one on vinyl and passed. I haven't seen it since and sort of regret passing up on it but I know I'd pretty much never listen to it anyway.

There's this crazy, fierce "something" on Doolittle and to a bit lesser extent on Surfer Rosa that's missing here. There was also a mysterious quality, like something is going on that is never directly said. The lyrics themselves aren't too morbid or profane or crazy but somehow it's like the relatively more mundane things that the criminally insane would say anyway. If Bob Dylan was a homicidal maniac and filled pages of a diary with run on sentences and sentence fragments after waking up from bizarre dreams, I'd expect to find similar passages to these lyrics.

It's like this: they'll suddenly, spontaneously start to have a distinctly Spanish influence musically while he just screeches something in Spanish and it's just creepy/mystical/violent/"something". The phrases are often desperately, feverishly shouted, encouraging you to read into the most wicked implications possible and connecting dots that aren't even necessarily there. The riffs, beats, tone of the guitars and vocals are all incredibly dirty and create a really dark and unique atmosphere. It manages to be a fun, wild headbanger throughout at the same time. There's nothing like it, not even close and this just isn't present on Trompe Le Monde or even Bossanova. Those are just generic in comparison.

I know Trompe Le Monde is a big deal to a lot of ppl. I've heard that it's perfect. I really don't get it but want very much to appreciate it. Maybe I just need to hear it more. Please correct me.

Daydreamer

I think that their cover of Head On is million times better than the original. So much energy in that track.
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bobbyb5

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Location: New York

Idk why, but i like this one better than every one of their other ones. But nobody else seems to.

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BeA Sunflower

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bobbyb5 wrote:

Idk why, but i like this one better than every one of their other ones. But nobody else seems to.

not true. There's been many years where I consider this my favorite. They've all been my "favorite" at one time or another except for Bossanova which i still love.

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BeA Sunflower

Location: Forest Park

jackbrown8786 wrote:

I listen to Doolittle more often than any other 80's album but I've still never really gotten into this one. I actually had an opportunity to buy a brand new one on vinyl and passed. I haven't seen it since and sort of regret passing up on it but I know I'd pretty much never listen to it anyway.

There's this crazy, fierce "something" on Doolittle and to a bit lesser extent on Surfer Rosa that's missing here. There was also a mysterious quality, like something is going on that is never directly said. The lyrics themselves aren't too morbid or profane or crazy but somehow it's like the relatively more mundane things that the criminally insane would say anyway. If Bob Dylan was a homicidal maniac and filled pages of a diary with run on sentences and sentence fragments after waking up from bizarre dreams, I'd expect to find similar passages to these lyrics.

It's like this: they'll suddenly, spontaneously start to have a distinctly Spanish influence musically while he just screeches something in Spanish and it's just creepy/mystical/violent/"something". The phrases are often desperately, feverishly shouted, encouraging you to read into the most wicked implications possible and connecting dots that aren't even necessarily there. The riffs, beats, tone of the guitars and vocals are all incredibly dirty and create a really dark and unique atmosphere. It manages to be a fun, wild headbanger throughout at the same time. There's nothing like it, not even close and this just isn't present on Trompe Le Monde or even Bossanova. Those are just generic in comparison.

I know Trompe Le Monde is a big deal to a lot of ppl. I've heard that it's perfect. I really don't get it but want very much to appreciate it. Maybe I just need to hear it more. Please correct me.

"Did you listen to my screams!" - Black Francis

But, yeah. I LOVED when he would sing in Spanish. That first EP - Come on Pilgrim is really thew at their rawest and if I was forced to choose just one that's what I'd grab. Peace!