Pixies - "Gigantic"
Pixies - "Gigantic" - Surfer Rosa
I have seen this performed live on, um, three occasions, I think.
Only one time was I fortunate enough to see Kim Deal sing and play this sexiest of sexy ditties. It's very voyeuristic, this song.
You see, it's about watching two people, you know, do it. Specifically, a black man and a white chick. I'm left wondering if this was Kid Rock's inspiration for the seminal closing track from Devil Without a Cause, "Black Chick, White Guy."
Kim Deal just sounds super hot, purring over the steady bassline, and the jammy guitar bits toward the end are spectacularly huge in sound.
My favorite part, instrument-wise, is the guitar bridge, with the single notes. Damn that's funky.
Oh, back to the part about seeing this song. I saw it once a long time ago, and for the life of me cannot recall which band did it. Accoriding to wikipedia, Reel Big Fish covered this for a tribute album, so there's a good chance they covered the song one of the times I saw them. That's why I think I've seen it three times.
The second was when The Frames, opening for Damien Rice, covered it at the Commodore Ballroom in Vacouver, British Columbia. I was with Jenne and Joel. We learned from a sign in Vancouver that it is a "Nuclear Weapons Free Zone." I wonder if that's talking about the city as a whole, or just the park by which we saw the sign. Always nice to see a fusion-free swingset. Anyway, good times, fun trip.
The last time I saw it was at the 2004 Coachella Music & Arts Festival. Ryan was there, and we made sure to get to the main stage early in order to have prime viewing for the Pixies/Radiohead back-to-back sets. We ended up with our backs against the sound booth, dead center, leaning over a railing. On the other side of the railing? Nothing, just a long walkway directly to the stage that afforded us a perfect view of the entire event. Fucking. A.
I thought my head was going to explode when I heard it. Seriously. Kim still sounds great.
Anway, I dropped her name yesterday in the Mon Frere post, so I thought I could probably see my way to posting something featuring the ever-lovely Kim Deal.
And, yes, I know she has a kid and is married and is a little older than me, but I still totally have a crush on her. Maybe I'll leave this one up for a while in the hopes that a Cease & Desist order would bear her phone number...
Love,
Hoffie
I have seen this performed live on, um, three occasions, I think.
Only one time was I fortunate enough to see Kim Deal sing and play this sexiest of sexy ditties. It's very voyeuristic, this song.
You see, it's about watching two people, you know, do it. Specifically, a black man and a white chick. I'm left wondering if this was Kid Rock's inspiration for the seminal closing track from Devil Without a Cause, "Black Chick, White Guy."
Kim Deal just sounds super hot, purring over the steady bassline, and the jammy guitar bits toward the end are spectacularly huge in sound.
My favorite part, instrument-wise, is the guitar bridge, with the single notes. Damn that's funky.
Oh, back to the part about seeing this song. I saw it once a long time ago, and for the life of me cannot recall which band did it. Accoriding to wikipedia, Reel Big Fish covered this for a tribute album, so there's a good chance they covered the song one of the times I saw them. That's why I think I've seen it three times.
The second was when The Frames, opening for Damien Rice, covered it at the Commodore Ballroom in Vacouver, British Columbia. I was with Jenne and Joel. We learned from a sign in Vancouver that it is a "Nuclear Weapons Free Zone." I wonder if that's talking about the city as a whole, or just the park by which we saw the sign. Always nice to see a fusion-free swingset. Anyway, good times, fun trip.
The last time I saw it was at the 2004 Coachella Music & Arts Festival. Ryan was there, and we made sure to get to the main stage early in order to have prime viewing for the Pixies/Radiohead back-to-back sets. We ended up with our backs against the sound booth, dead center, leaning over a railing. On the other side of the railing? Nothing, just a long walkway directly to the stage that afforded us a perfect view of the entire event. Fucking. A.
I thought my head was going to explode when I heard it. Seriously. Kim still sounds great.
Anway, I dropped her name yesterday in the Mon Frere post, so I thought I could probably see my way to posting something featuring the ever-lovely Kim Deal.
And, yes, I know she has a kid and is married and is a little older than me, but I still totally have a crush on her. Maybe I'll leave this one up for a while in the hopes that a Cease & Desist order would bear her phone number...
Love,
Hoffie
