Little Eiffel stands in the archway
Jul. 17th, 2004 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vovatI sometimes wish I could just put all of my CDs on my hard drive and play the songs randomly, but I really don't have enough disk space for that. I guess that's why I need to get an iPod.
Anyway, I watched the Pixies DVD today. It was pretty cool. It's made up of a concert from 1988, all of the band's music videos, an "On the Road" segment, and the Gouge documentary.
Probably the weirdest thing about that early concert was seeing Frank Black (or, more accurately, Black Francis) with hair. I also noticed that Joey Santiago seems to shake fairly often.
The videos are mostly minimalistic, and usually not that great. I guess I prefer videos where there's a lot of stuff happening, and that certainly wasn't the case with the ones the Pixies did. For instance, the "Velouria" video is just the band running on a rocky landscape in slow motion, without even acknowledging the music that it's accompanying. My favorite was probably "Alec Eiffel," which had the band playing the song in a wind tunnel, with stuff that looked like pages from a physics textbook occasionally showing up on the screen. I liked the look of the "Here Comes Your Man" video (the only one I've ever seen on actual TV), with the brightly-colored clothes and the flowers, but the gimmick of Frank and Kim Deal just holding their mouths open instead of lip-synching got old pretty fast.
The "On the Road" segment was interesting, although the bad sound quality was kind of annoying. I guess that really couldn't have been avoided, since it seemed to be largely made up of home-movie-style footage, but it was often kind of hard to hear what people were saying. There was a lot of Kim in that segment, but she wasn't interviewed at all for the Gouge documentary. I've heard that was because she was busy when they were making it. Frank was driving during most of his interview clips, which strikes me as a pretty accurate representation of the man, or at least of how he presents himself. I thought they covered some interesting topics in the documentary, although I was kind of annoyed at the anti-last-two-albums stance that it seemed to take. So many of the people interviewed weren't that fond of Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde. Bossanova is actually my favorite Pixies album, and, while I'm not sure Trompe is my second favorite, it's really good. I mean, how can it not be, with songs like "Alec Eiffel" and "Motorway To Roswell"? The whole DVD struck me as being somewhat biased toward the Pixies' earlier work. The concert was pretty much all pre-Doolittle songs, aside from "Hey." It might have been nice if they had included clips from later concerts, but maybe they didn't have the footage, or didn't have permission to use it. I don't know.
Anyway, I watched the Pixies DVD today. It was pretty cool. It's made up of a concert from 1988, all of the band's music videos, an "On the Road" segment, and the Gouge documentary.
Probably the weirdest thing about that early concert was seeing Frank Black (or, more accurately, Black Francis) with hair. I also noticed that Joey Santiago seems to shake fairly often.
The videos are mostly minimalistic, and usually not that great. I guess I prefer videos where there's a lot of stuff happening, and that certainly wasn't the case with the ones the Pixies did. For instance, the "Velouria" video is just the band running on a rocky landscape in slow motion, without even acknowledging the music that it's accompanying. My favorite was probably "Alec Eiffel," which had the band playing the song in a wind tunnel, with stuff that looked like pages from a physics textbook occasionally showing up on the screen. I liked the look of the "Here Comes Your Man" video (the only one I've ever seen on actual TV), with the brightly-colored clothes and the flowers, but the gimmick of Frank and Kim Deal just holding their mouths open instead of lip-synching got old pretty fast.
The "On the Road" segment was interesting, although the bad sound quality was kind of annoying. I guess that really couldn't have been avoided, since it seemed to be largely made up of home-movie-style footage, but it was often kind of hard to hear what people were saying. There was a lot of Kim in that segment, but she wasn't interviewed at all for the Gouge documentary. I've heard that was because she was busy when they were making it. Frank was driving during most of his interview clips, which strikes me as a pretty accurate representation of the man, or at least of how he presents himself. I thought they covered some interesting topics in the documentary, although I was kind of annoyed at the anti-last-two-albums stance that it seemed to take. So many of the people interviewed weren't that fond of Bossanova and Trompe Le Monde. Bossanova is actually my favorite Pixies album, and, while I'm not sure Trompe is my second favorite, it's really good. I mean, how can it not be, with songs like "Alec Eiffel" and "Motorway To Roswell"? The whole DVD struck me as being somewhat biased toward the Pixies' earlier work. The concert was pretty much all pre-Doolittle songs, aside from "Hey." It might have been nice if they had included clips from later concerts, but maybe they didn't have the footage, or didn't have permission to use it. I don't know.
