Welcome to this week's Friday On The Turntable feature! For those of you that follow my blog on Facebook, you'll recall that each Friday I post a featured record that I'm currently enjoying. To enhance the experience, I've been filming short videos - discussing a brief history of the record, my favorite tracks and what it means to me. The video is embedded below - and don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel here.
This week's featured discussion is the band Pixies - and their final album - Trompe Le Monde. Check out the video below where I chat about the album's history, singles, favorite tracks, a recommended band biography (purchase link below video) and some other excellent albums released in the same year - 1991. Please share your thoughts / comments below. Thank you for watching and subscribing.
As mentioned in the video, here is a link to my list for The 20 Best Pixies Songs. Please enjoy.
traces their entire career, album by album, all the way through their 2004 reunion. While reading, I listened along to the entire Pixies' catalog, assembling their 20 Best Songs. This was tough to rank - so many good songs had to be eliminated to make room for my 20 favorites. I'm curious to see which ones you thought should've made the cut, so please leave your comments below. If you'd like to listen to this list, scroll to the bottom for a Spotify playlist.
. The initial Pixies version was on the band's demo known as The Purple Tape
- though I am partial to the live take that was released as one of the b-sides to the Gigantic
single. By the way, have you heard the Bauhaus version
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(1990)
(1989)
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that appeared in the movie Pump Up the Volume - both are great.